This week was absolutely fantastic!!!
So I have very little time, and really so much to say, so this is going to be a struggle. But so many miracles happened this week! It's been an amazing time to be a missionary :)
Soooooo because I am seriously completely out of time, I just sorta copied my email that I sent to my mission president, because it's at least something about my week instead of nothing. So, sorry if I said
anything really directed to him, but I want you to hear something...
"We tracted into Melvin, which I'm sure Sister Walker talked to you about :) She was such an answer to our prayers that night! We were searching and searching for another Female to attend our lesson and we're having no luck. So instead of having to cancel, Sister Walker made it possible for us to teach him! He was very talkative and loved talking to us about his family and God, and we were able to put a few points of the restoration in there and Sister Walker was a big help with trying to refocus our lesson on the lesson :) We are having a lot of trouble with that and a lot of our investigators, which is getting off topic and not actually talking about he lessons because the investigator just talks and talks and talks! It's good because we get to know them better, but not really because we really aren't doing anything and most of them don't end up progressing at all because we can never really teach them... But Melvin came to church yesterday!! It was really awesome and he seemed to enjoy it, so we can't wait to go back and meet with him to see what he thought about it.
We tracted into this man named Greg on Friday and he told us to come back on Sunday, so we did and we pulled up at the same time he did at his house. Perfect timing! We chatted and got to know him and we found out he works with a Bishop in one of our wards! Not his Ward, but the other Ward we're over. So we taught him he restoration and it was so awesome! It was a wonderful lesson with him participating and asking questions, but not too much that we weren't able to teach hi, it was a
nice change :) but when we got to Joseph Smith he stopped adding to the lesson and just listened and read things we asked him to read. At the end after committing him to pray if Joseph Smith was truly called as a prophet by God, we asked him if he'd be baptized if he found out that that was true. He said he would!!! Sister Campos and I were honestly speechless. We didn't know what to do after that! I've never had that happen before!! It was seriously and amazing lesson and we cannot wait to go back and teach him more and see if he has recieved an answer and to set him with a date :) It is amazing to see how God put him in our path and how he has been prepared by him through friends and church throughout his life. I love being a missionary!!
We also went and saw someone we tracted into a while ago and haven't been able to meet with, but we met his wife when we've only ever talked to the husband, Matt. Matt is a young pastor of a baptist
church and said that he would love to hear our beliefs, but he's always busy. So we met his wife, Erin, for the first time and we can tell that she is very passionate about her church. She did a lot of
teaching to us, and also asked us questions about why we believe certain things, especially about the godhead. I felt horrible, because she spouted out her information and bible verses and then asked us
specific questions that made sense and I knew that we believed them, but I didn't know how to explain them. I felt like she was thinking that we didn't know anything, like she had stumped us. So she told us to study and come back and we'll chat. I don't want to be confrontational when we go back, but I wonder if she'll even be receptive to our message at all, and that's if she'll even let us give
it. I wonder how we can let her know what we believe without arguing with her and just being nice. Like, there's a possibility that she'll listen I guess, but because this couple is so envolved and active in
their lot her church, is it a good idea to even teach her? Part of me believes that when we go back, all she is going to want to do is prove us wrong.
Genet, the one before who was struggling with the concept of the priesthood, is still not grasping it. We taught her the plan of salvation this week and she absolutely loved it! She understood it and
believed it and is just soaking up all the information about the gospel and just loves it. So we asked her to be baptized again, but she said she doesn't see the point. Even though we talked about the
priesthood authority many times, she says that she doesn't see the point in being baptized again and doesn't see the difference in her baptism and our baptism. So I've been studying about the priesthood,
really trying to find a way to help her understand."
So, a lot, but not everything! But I seriously am out. It's so sad.
But I love you all and can't wait to hear from you!
Sister Brown :)
So I have very little time, and really so much to say, so this is going to be a struggle. But so many miracles happened this week! It's been an amazing time to be a missionary :)
Soooooo because I am seriously completely out of time, I just sorta copied my email that I sent to my mission president, because it's at least something about my week instead of nothing. So, sorry if I said
anything really directed to him, but I want you to hear something...
"We tracted into Melvin, which I'm sure Sister Walker talked to you about :) She was such an answer to our prayers that night! We were searching and searching for another Female to attend our lesson and we're having no luck. So instead of having to cancel, Sister Walker made it possible for us to teach him! He was very talkative and loved talking to us about his family and God, and we were able to put a few points of the restoration in there and Sister Walker was a big help with trying to refocus our lesson on the lesson :) We are having a lot of trouble with that and a lot of our investigators, which is getting off topic and not actually talking about he lessons because the investigator just talks and talks and talks! It's good because we get to know them better, but not really because we really aren't doing anything and most of them don't end up progressing at all because we can never really teach them... But Melvin came to church yesterday!! It was really awesome and he seemed to enjoy it, so we can't wait to go back and meet with him to see what he thought about it.
We tracted into this man named Greg on Friday and he told us to come back on Sunday, so we did and we pulled up at the same time he did at his house. Perfect timing! We chatted and got to know him and we found out he works with a Bishop in one of our wards! Not his Ward, but the other Ward we're over. So we taught him he restoration and it was so awesome! It was a wonderful lesson with him participating and asking questions, but not too much that we weren't able to teach hi, it was a
nice change :) but when we got to Joseph Smith he stopped adding to the lesson and just listened and read things we asked him to read. At the end after committing him to pray if Joseph Smith was truly called as a prophet by God, we asked him if he'd be baptized if he found out that that was true. He said he would!!! Sister Campos and I were honestly speechless. We didn't know what to do after that! I've never had that happen before!! It was seriously and amazing lesson and we cannot wait to go back and teach him more and see if he has recieved an answer and to set him with a date :) It is amazing to see how God put him in our path and how he has been prepared by him through friends and church throughout his life. I love being a missionary!!
We also went and saw someone we tracted into a while ago and haven't been able to meet with, but we met his wife when we've only ever talked to the husband, Matt. Matt is a young pastor of a baptist
church and said that he would love to hear our beliefs, but he's always busy. So we met his wife, Erin, for the first time and we can tell that she is very passionate about her church. She did a lot of
teaching to us, and also asked us questions about why we believe certain things, especially about the godhead. I felt horrible, because she spouted out her information and bible verses and then asked us
specific questions that made sense and I knew that we believed them, but I didn't know how to explain them. I felt like she was thinking that we didn't know anything, like she had stumped us. So she told us to study and come back and we'll chat. I don't want to be confrontational when we go back, but I wonder if she'll even be receptive to our message at all, and that's if she'll even let us give
it. I wonder how we can let her know what we believe without arguing with her and just being nice. Like, there's a possibility that she'll listen I guess, but because this couple is so envolved and active in
their lot her church, is it a good idea to even teach her? Part of me believes that when we go back, all she is going to want to do is prove us wrong.
Genet, the one before who was struggling with the concept of the priesthood, is still not grasping it. We taught her the plan of salvation this week and she absolutely loved it! She understood it and
believed it and is just soaking up all the information about the gospel and just loves it. So we asked her to be baptized again, but she said she doesn't see the point. Even though we talked about the
priesthood authority many times, she says that she doesn't see the point in being baptized again and doesn't see the difference in her baptism and our baptism. So I've been studying about the priesthood,
really trying to find a way to help her understand."
So, a lot, but not everything! But I seriously am out. It's so sad.
But I love you all and can't wait to hear from you!
Sister Brown :)
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