Week 3 - February 4, 2013

To my loved ones,

This week was pretty exciting. I feel like I am learning so much each day as i try to better myself and think about how I can help my investigators.

Some of the experiences we had were with some of the people we had tracted into the first week I was here. I had been talking to my companion about how I was a little bit frustrated because I felt like we were just tracting streets but not going back to the people we have run into that looked like they were interested. And she was trying to explain to me that we have a different perception of time because this is what we do all day so if we don't go back to them for a week or two it wouldn't be likely that they would forget us. But I expressed I felt it was like job hunting where you contact them several times and bug them to make sure they know that you are really interested. And it was kind of funny cuz we had actually called one of the numbers we had received and they ended up just hanging up the phone on us. My companion took this as an indication of them not be interested. But I told her that when we first knocked on the door she was the one that had an impression to remember their house number. I said God does not do that just for fun, so I asked if we could go back again. And as we did we had an opportunity of meeting the wife this time and were able to set up an appointment to come back. I am looking forward to it, and hopefully this can be the family we are looking for. I really do feel like i have been able to see miracles every day. When the scriptures say that with great faith comes great miracles i really do believe that as we plan for specific streets to tract that God will have prepared someone on each street for us to find. And maybe sometimes this won't always work and we might have to tract 500 houses until we find someone but I am going to give it my all and I really have been able to see miracles each and every day.

On sunday we were able to have our two investigators Lacey and Derek come to church. They are super awesome. We had watched Finding Faith in Christ with them the night before and it was such a shock to me realizing that there are people out there who had never even heard of Christ performing miracles. They loved the movie but thought it was super sad that someone had to die. They really have no idea how great the price that was paid. But they love meeting with us and they said they had a great time at church and would definately like to go back. I am looking forward to seeing them progress.

Well there is a short preview of some of the things that happened. Hope all is well and that you guys are all in good health.

Keep it real.

Love,

Sister Beames