This week was so crazy and so interesting!
We had a lot of people to teach and luckily kind of just
went from lesson to lesson all week. It is pretty exhausting but awesome at the
same time. This week we had a lesson with a family who is the cousin of our
ward mission leader. The family seems really interested and they have two
little girls- one who is 9 and can be baptized and the other who is 7 so she
will have to wait but the best thing is that when we were teaching the mom,
Rayna was just listening so intently and like she just had this spark in her
eye and she made it feel like the message was so important- like she was
hanging onto every word. It was really awesome. Funny thing #1 is that we
brought their cousins son and they all didnt know eachother so we basically
hosted a family reunion! Pretty funny. And funny thing #2 is when we were
saying the closing prayer I just opened my eyes just a peek (i know, bad
missionary) but all four of them were looking RIGHT at me and so then I closed
my eyes really fast and was trying so hard not to laugh but i hardly knew what
to do!
Let's see, what else? A member gave us a referall- her son
is a less active who is married to a non-member and she told us to go ahead and
stop by. So we went to his house and we pretended like we had no idea anything
about him (haha) and then we asked him if he had ever talked to missionaries
before and that kind of stuff but he basically just said that he only had for a
few minutes and that he wasn't interested so we were like oh OK. And left. Well
the next day we were eating dinner at his Aunt's house and he walked in the
door and we all made eye contact and just were like uhhhh hey! hahah talk about
the greatest awkward moment in the world but geez it was so funny. I think
Hermana Villalobos and I both wanted to kinda disappear.
Saturday was pretty brutal- 8 appointments canceled and
so we literally ran around getting rained on begging people to let us in to
their house. Keeps us humble, its good for us haha. Sometimes Missionary Work
is as hard as nailing jello to a tree. (stole that from mom)
Something that I definitely learned this week is that we
have to teach people and not just lessons. It is sometimes hard to imagine what
learning about our religion would be like if we had never heard anything about
it before but it can sound kinda crazy. Joseph Smith himself said that maybe if
someone else had told him and he hadn't experienced it himself, he might not
even believe it. But he had experienced it, and he could not deny it. Well we
had the opportunity to be reconnected with two different investigators last
week who had chosen to stop the lessons. In both cases when we began to talk to
them again they struggled with the Book of Mormon. And now looking back on the
first time that we had taught them we just taught the Restoration and we get to
the part of the First Vision the feeling is so strong- I get warm from the
inside out- and so we assume that the lesson was awesome but sometimes that one
good feeling doesnt soothe all the questions and concerns and doubts. I believe
that we have these two investigators back because the Lord is super merciful
and like in Ether even though we are weak in words those that are truly meek
will see around that to the truth - and I couldn't be more grateful. I
hope that they can be directed a little better to answers this time (which only
comes through personal prayer and reading, for reals.)
Well I guess that's about it. You're the best. Loves!
Hermana J
