Discovery Park

Hello all!

This week has been so great! I talked about the new ward that Sister Lemmon and I gained, the Discovery Park ward, and this week was us trying to figure everything out in the new ward and driving around like chickens with our heads cut off. Basically :) But it's been good! It's been a miracle this week that about 90% of the doors we've gone to have opened to us!! Usually you get a lot of people not being home or just not answering, but this week most everyone answered and talked to us :) (this is for knocking on doors knowing who they are and
trying to contact them, not knocking door to door, Tracting :))

The Discovery Park Ward consists of a retirement community called Sun City, so we have a lot of older people in our ward. And it's so great!! It's so fun talking to them and getting to know them and hearing their stories and things :) we met this Less-active/recent convert 85ish old women and she is the absolute cutest! She let us
right in her home and said, "My name is Thelma, but they call me Dub. Like rub-a-dub-dub, 3 men in a tub." Then she proceeded to tell us how she was playing basketball last weekend and the adults were tossing it
to her like she was a toddler, but the young boys know that they need to chest pass it hard to her. SHe was just the cutest ever! She told us to come back this week to teach her how to use her ipad (which a member told us that he's taught her 3 times already :) and we should come at 3:00, because that's when she starts getting bored. Haha I love her!

So in our Area book we looked for the people that the elders previously were teaching, and made an appointment with one of them. His name is Jeremiah. Because the Elders left a note saying that they
needed to give him the faith/scripture reading lesson, we prepared a lesson about reading the scriptures and how that relates to faith. But when we got there, we started asking questions to get to know him and what he knows and likes from what the Elders had been teaching him. Well he started talking about how he knew that the Book of Mormon was a holy book and that meant that he knew that Joseph Smith was a prophet called of God. So every though we weren't planning on it, right then and there we committed him to be baptized on February 11th! It was such a wonderful experience :) after that, we then gave him the lesson that we originally planned on and then he came to church on Sunday! Miracles happening everywhere :)

Well other than that and just walking around in the cold rain and trying to visit other members, we've just had a great week! Here's a scripture that I've tried to share with everyone that we visit:
Romans 8:38&39 "38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." God loves you so much, and nothing can or will ever stop that. No power. No mistake you've made. No bully. No nothing. Can EVER separate
you from the love that God has for you, which is made possible because of Christ's atonement. Anything that ever makes you think otherwise, is from Satan. Because he is the father of all lies.

Next week, stay tuned for an update on the meeting that all the missionaries are going to have with Elder Bednar!! I am super pumped and will definitely tell you about it next week :)

Love you!!

Sister Brown :)