Dearest family and friends,
Wisconsin was rather gray this week with all the clouds and light rain. But that did not dampen our spirits...much at least. How was your week? It was such a busy week for us! I feel like we have so many people we want to visit in our ward and who have taken the missionary discussions before that we have no time to visit them all. But we do our best. Hopefully our best will improve this week as we try to be better at time management.
Funny story of the week! We visited Spring and her girls again this week. But for our lesson we did a readers theater version of Alma 17--complete with a plastic knife, a burger king crown, a frying pan (again, so useful), and elbow noodles for props. So they all acted out the story of Ammon serving the Lamanite king by chopping off the arms of the robbers. It was a sight to see! Our King kept saying off with his head every 2-3 minutes and Ammon and the robber could stop fighting each other....but we made it to the end of the story! So, success!
Wednesday we met a man named Bob. He is a very deep thinker so we started calling him our philosopher haha. It was neat to see his progression from the moment we started talking to him to when we left. At first he told us he was very skeptical about religion and faith because none of it can be proven and stuff. But as we talked to him he slowly started to ask us questions about our beliefs. I think we noticed our beliefs are unique. So he agreed to meet with us again! It is just a beginning, but it was neat to see how basic teaching and testifying piqued his interest.
We had zone conference
on Thursday. Basically we got trained by all the leaders in our zone. It was really good. I felt like I actually got to see what missionaries are supposed to do haha. President Williams spoke at the end--bless him! The theme was repenting. But he presented it in a way that changed my perspective of repentance. We need to repent so we can
become like Christ. When we make Him our focus we will gradually become like Him--and repentance is a gradual process of baby steps.
Friday we had exchanges with the STLs. I went to Brookfield (just 20 or so minutes away)
Thursday night with Sister Naughton. She is on her last transfer and is an amazing missionary. SO it was rather intimidating to be companions with her--not that Sister Wright isn't an amazing missionary, I just feel more comfortable with her that's all. She reminds me a little of you Kristen...so it was fun. We basically tracted and street contacted people since most of their appointments fell through. But I learned from Sister Naughton how to just go up to people and start talking to them about our church. So for all of you who are intimidated by doing that...you just have to do it. There's no way around it...as far as I know. Which is not much right now haha!
Can we just take a moment to realize how amazing Conference was?? I loved it. I loved how hopeful all the talks were and how they related everything back to God's Plan for us--it's funny how being a missionary I can see that more readily. I especially loved the talk about Light in the first session
on Saturday. If we do our best to turn toward the light of the Gospel and the positive things around us, we will be filled with light and love for those around us. And I loved how everything
on Sunday seemed to come back to doing the simple daily habits of scripture study, prayer, and church attendance. So yeah, I loved conference. What did you all like?? Everyone should share something they loved with someone...it could just change their lives.
So that was my week! Sorry for the novel. Bless whoever reads it all!! I hope you all have a wonderful week!
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