Dear all,
So Wisconsin went through a hot flash this week...it was pretty hot and humid for a couple of days. But now the rain is back, so who knows what we will have tomorrow! I still think that I like dry heat better, I'm not into this stifling humidity stuff. But anyways, this week was really good! We are actually finding people to teach, so that is super exciting. Highlights:
-Fun fact about Sister Kowallis, she hates the rain...a lot. So Monday when it started pouring...she wasn't a happy camper. And we were planning on tracting after dinner. Thankfully the rain subsided after dinner--tender mercies from the Lord!
-So this week we decided to get to know everyone in the ward...and there are a lot of people we don't know. SO we ran around kingdom come trying to meet a ton of people. A lot didn't answer their phones or weren't home. But we did meet some pretty awesome people. While contacting people on Tuesday we ran into several people walking by and taught them about the Book of Mormon. It was neat to see how the Lord can plant people in our path that are ready or willing to listen to our message.
-Wednesday we stopped by Alyssa's apartment. She is a lady that seemed interested but hadn't gotten a set appointment with yet. We met her fiancé and talked to him about the first vision and the Book of Mormon. It was amazing how strong the Spirit was when we testified of that Joseph Smith was a prophet and the Book of Mormon is true. Later this week she said she wasn't interested in learning more...but her fiancé does have a Book of Mormon, so...
-Thursday we had mission tour! We got to listen to Elder Wilford W. Anderson of the seventy and his wife, along with President and sister Williams. It was amazing. The primary subject was faith, and I learned a lot about what faith is and how we can strengthen our faith. To strengthen our faith, we need to center it on Christ, align our will with God's will, and get to work. I am learning about how faith is a deep abiding trust in Christ. This trust and love should lead and motivate us to follow Him.
-We had an awesome lesson with a wonderful less active member named Scott. He is a talker, but he was focused when we talked to him about the temple. He was baptized when he was young and hasn't really had any contact with the church other than that. So he is learning a lot. He agreed that he wanted to work towards going to the temple and said he would talk to his non-member wife about coming to church. It was so neat to see him desire something and commit to act on it.
-We ran into one of the Elders' investigators Saturday! He is really into history, and basically gave us a history lesson on the early church. Then he proceeded to explain how our church is established on a nonsense. That didn't go down well with sister Kowallis. But she politely explained it otherwise and talked to him about how he could experiment on the word (Alma 32:28). He actually liked that, which was saying something because he is almost atheist.
-So in our quest to get to know our ward, we invited a less active family to church on Saturday. The girl we talked to actually showed up at church with her non-member friend! We don't know if she has been baptized (we don't have her records), so we are so excited to start teach her.
I felt like I saw a lot of miracles this week. We are starting to find people to teach and get to know other people in the ward. I realized that desire is everything. We are commanded to seek the Kingdom of God first and then (and only then) will the things we seek be added unto us (3 Nephi 13:33). We need to desire this and then God will bless us. Just something that I've been thinking about this past week.
Anyways, I hope you all have a great week! Find something to laugh about. :)
Love you!!
Sister Johns
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