Just to clarify to everyone because I had Brannon confused, in the title where it says the number of transfers, I am not saying how many times I have been transferred but I am saying the number of transfers I have been out here. So this week is my fourth transfer which means I have been out here for 18 weeks (each transfer is 6 weeks), or in other words I have been out here for just shy of five months. I am still in my first area.
Talking to everyone yesterday was great! I loved hearing from everyone and talking to each of you. I think my favorite was when I Miranda gave the phone to Whitney and she was trying to ask me if I sang the same song as she did at church, and then she told me that she was going to put me in the oven(referring to the telephone). I was like "nooo Whitney! give the phone back to mommy! That's when Cameron came back on line lol.
Everything here is going great. We had an amazing day yesterday at church. One of our investigators (Ellda) came to church. It was so great the spirit there was so strong. She was referred to us by a member in the YSA branch, and so it was really cool. I love seeing examples of members participating in the missionary work. That member is really awesome. Even though she isn't in this ward she is referring her friends to missionaries all the time and then she even came down here and went to church with her for the first couple hours before she had to go to her own ward to give a talk. It was just really cool and a testimony builder on doing missionary work outside of missions.
One of our other investigators (Mike) I really wanted to talk about last week but forgot. He is super cool. His girlfriend (Lisa) is a member, and they have been together for four years. Even have a kid, but are working on getting married. I love seeing him progress and the spririt work in his life. About two weeks ago they went up to the sacred grove and did some church touring. Lisa expressed that she thought he was going to be super bored the whole time and uninterested but the change that he experienced since being back is amazing. He started taking his scriptures with him to work and has been reading and we were really nervous about teaching him the law of tithing and fast, but it happened to be just what he needed. I told him about different things that he could fast for and gave an example of how when I was younger I remembered the whole family participating in a fast for Uncle Kent when he was sick. Mike ended up coming to church on fast Sunday without Lisa (because she had to work) which was amazing, and then he told me that he fasted for his grandpa who was sick. He said it was something he had never done before, and it was difficult because he usually eats a lot, but he could feel how it was special.
I love seeing the change in people. I can just see it in their eyes when they feel the spirit and they begin to recognize how it is important. Which is why the mission is so important. I have been reading the bom again but trying to always apply the situation to my investigators and what we are teaching them. I want to share the most recent one with you. It was in 1 Nephi 11. The role play was with our investigator Dean who we are trying to help him understand because he always says how cool it is that we know these things but he doesn't understand. Everyone pull out your scriptures now so you can follow along. Read vs 1-3
Now changing it to Dean it goes a little something like this. "I Dean had desired to know the things which the missionaries knew, and believing that the Lord was able to make them known unto me, I sat pondering in my heart and I started to feel the spirit. As I was pondering I felt the spirit whisper to me 'what do you want to know Dean?' And I said, 'I want to know what the missionaries know.'"
pretty cool right
but now if you continue reading Nephi is shown everything and has the opportunity to see it all. So if and when Dean is taught specific things we read in vs 21 the spirit ask Dean again what it is that the missionaries know. vs 22 the response is "it is the love of God!"
This is what we know. This is what I experience everyday in my life. And this is what I look forward to sharing with others.
Love you all. Hope you have a good week. Look to the scriptures and try and apply them in your life as well.
Sister Brightly Beames
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