Well, I am leaving Casa Grande. I am really sad about it. I was really
excited to hopefully spend Christmas here and I love my companion to
death so I was hoping for one more. Plus, I say this every time, but I hate
packing. Anyway it will be interesting to see where I go. Maybe I'll go
back to a biking area so I can lose some weight. Although I never lost
weight when I was in a biking area before either. Guess we will find out on
Thursday!
So this week has been alright. We've had quite a few things fall through so
that was a bummer deal. But we also had a super awesome day where we found
quite a few potential investigators! That was a testimony to me that God
always knows what he is doing. Our newly wed convert had to cancel her appointment with us, so we
had nothing to do that day. I had a terrible headache the night before,
which caused me to feel sick. So I had left Sister R to plan by
herself. So we had a lot of random people put in besides the ones we had
put in during weekly planning. So we had put a bunch of people in the
boonies in to visit since that is where our appointment lived. We decided to go out there
anyway even though she cancelled so we could see a bunch of the other
people! Well, we ended up being in places that I have never been before and
we had a lot of success! We found this neighborhood way out there that we
had never been to before. However, the people we were looking for weren't
home so we called another guy that was supposed to live out that way too,
and he was actually on his way to the Mesa Temple to see the lights! So
that was cool :) He told us to call him at the beginning of next year to
see him. Then we drove to another part of the boonies to find some part
member families and share the "He is the Gift" video with them. We knocked on
one of the doors thinking it was this one family...well it was actually a
different lady. Apparently the family we were looking for lived across the street. However, this family turned out to be a part member
family too! We shared the video with this lady and she said she has studied
with Baptists, Jehovah Witness, and Catholics and had been searching for
the truth but didn't feel like her husband knew all the answers. So we
asked her if she would like to take the lessons so she would know for
herself what we believed. She said yes and that she would prefer to come
into town to do the lessons! So we get to have our lessons at a church
building :) So that was exciting in and of itself but then she went on to
tell us that she had been in a car wreck earlier that week and it had made
her start thinking about what is really important in life, "and then you
showed up." She then said that the only reason we were even able to catch
her at that time was because of the car wreck. Her car had been totaled. So
she normally would never have been home at that time. Miracles! I love
being able to see God guide us. But usually we don't get to hear of those
things and we think we are just running through the motions or making it up
:) But God knows what he is doing! So that was awesome.
After that we only had a few more minutes before we started to head back,
but we wanted to try one more. So Sister R just picked a "random"
house and we knocked. There was a guy who recently moved down here and he
didn't really want to listen, but I softened him up ;) haha but it turns
out that he is YSA age! So that was so awesome because it is terribly hard
to find new YSA investigators here! He was super nice and seemed interested
by the end so it was just a really awesome day :)
We also had a few other random lessons that people said we can start coming
by regularly in the New Year. One of them was a cute lady that had a full
table of food set for us when we got there. She had tea (herbal) and tons
of snacks and she wanted to hear about what we believe in while we ate. She
is a historian and we ended up giving her a Book of Mormon. It was really
good! She was so nice!
We had another good lesson this week too! He is awesome. We talked
about the Book of Mormon with him as well and were able to go over some of
the questions he had and address some of his concerns. He seems really
solid though. He talked about how he might have to redo his work schedule
and how it will really be stinky hours and such but he might be able to do
that so he can come to church. :) If he takes all of the things we ask him
to do, into his life and really ponders it, I know that he will be baptized
someday :)
Also, our mother investigator bought us a Christmas tree! She loves Christmas and was so sad
when she heard we didn't have a Christmas tree. She said she was trying to
figure out how to make it a surprise, but couldn't, so she just told us and
we went to pick it out at a Christmas tree lot together. She had ornaments
and lights for us too. It's so cute! I felt so bad because it was a real
tree! Expensive! But she was so excited :) I love her so much. I have grown
really close to her. I'm really sad that I am leaving because she is
getting baptized this weekend. Hopefully I can come back for it though. Who
knows.
This week we also sang in the YSA. They put together a Christmas program
and we were one of the lucky ducks who got asked to sing. So Sister
R and I sang "Angels We Have Heard On High." I always get so
nervous. I'm tired of singing haha. Which is funny because we were told
that if any of us wanted to do a musical number for the Christmas
conference that we needed to get it together and tell Sister T. I
suggested we do something as a zone. So the zone leaders jokingly delegated
that responsibility to me. Well jokes on them because I did it. We asked
ladies in our ward for music and one of the ladies actually had a piece
that her mom put together! It is "What Child Is This (lullaby)." So it has
a girl part that is different from the regular song, then the boys sing the
regular song, and then we sing our separate parts at the same time. Then
there is chorus that we all sing together. It is super cool, so i am really
excited! We are just going to sing as our zone now so that will be kind of
awkward at the conference when I walk up and I'm not in the zone anymore
but oh well :) So we are going to practice it today. The whole zone agreed
to do it so we will see how it sounds today! It will be our first out of
two practices sooooo wish us luck ;) haha I'm excited though. Hopefully it
works out. It's really cool because no one will have heard this version
before :)
Anyway I'm out of time for the day, but I just wanted to share a little
thought. I have been reading the Book of Mormon and today I read about Alma
and Amulek preaching in the city of Amonihah. This is the time when Zeezrom
tries to discount what they say and make them cross their own words and in
the end Alma and Amulek are thrown in prison. However, because of their
faith they are able to break the bonds and the prison ends up falling and
killing all those who had opposed them. Then after that, they travel to
Sidom and those people who had listened to their words in Amonihah had fled
there and so they were willing to listen to Alma and Amulek. Well Zeezrom
was also there and he had become super sick because he felt so guilty about
all that he had done. Long story short, he ends up calling for Alma and
Amulek to come heal him. They didn't even hesitate, but immediately went to
him! Although he had done some wicked things and had caused Alma and Amulek
much grief and persecution, they instantly forgave him. Then through
Zeezrom's faith, he was healed and immediately baptized after. It then says
that he preached the gospel.
I think there are so many things we can learn from that story! Faith,
Repentance, Forgiveness. That just really stood out to me this morning as I
was reading that when we have faith, it doesn't matter what happens in our
lives, that we can get through it because God knows best. So even though I
am sad, I am ready and willing to go wherever God has me go. If I trust in
him, then it will all work out :)
Anyway love you all! Thanks for all your support and help that you give me.
P.S. I'm so behind on letters right now, so if you have written me, I will
write back I promise, but it might be around Christmas. I have to pack and
have a lot to do today! So sorry!
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