#1 - Klein Zone at our St. Patrick's Day p-day party
#2 - Sister Bonner and me at the temple
Hey y'all! :)
I feel like time keeps speeding up - I swear it was just a couple of
weeks ago that Sister Bonner joined me here in Memorial Springs... but
it's been a whole 6 weeks already! 6 weeks full of fun and adventure! :)
And Sister Bonner and I are staying in Memorial Springs, so we're
preparing for another awesome 6 weeks!
This week has been pretty great. We were able to meet with Coy
and Betsy again - Coy works all the time, so we don't usually get to see him,
but we decided to stop by after dinner on Monday and Betsy let us in, and Coy
got home a few minutes later. Perfect timing! So we were able to
teach both of them, and Betsy said she's been struggling with figuring out how
to parent her two teenage sons, so we used the stories in the Book of Mormon to
help her, and invited her to read and find more inspiration herself. It's
amazing how the scriptures really can help everyone in their own struggles - I
love it! We also talked about the youth program and invited her boys to
mutual, and them to church, but they didn't come this week... next week though.
:)
We were finally able to meet with Maria again - she's been hard to
get a hold of recently. ...I don't know what to do with her. She
knows it's true, and she's ready to be baptized, except for the fact that she
wont keep any of her commitments. We invite her to read the Book of
Mormon, and come to church... but she never comes, and she never reads on her
own... She loves having us over, but there's only so much we can do for her...
:( I think we might have to drop her until she decides she's willing to
act on what she knows.
Tuesday night we went to a Relief Society activity, because a few of
the less actives in the ward were going to be there (and they were, and they
had a great time and made new friends, which was great. :) ) It was kind of a
"get to know you" / Birthday party type activity, and it was a lot of
fun to get to know some of the sisters in the ward better. For one of the
activities we had a gift exchange, but the gift that you brought was supposed
to describe you in some way... so Sister Bonner wrapped a Book of Mormon, and I
did a stack of pass along cards. :) I think those items pretty much
describe who I am right now - I never leave home without them! It was a
really fun activity, and, like I said before, a great way to get to know the
sisters in the ward.
On Wednesday we were able to go to the Temple - I love the Temple so
much, and the spirit there is amazing. While there I said a huge prayer
of gratitude to my Heavenly Father, for everything that He has given me.
I am so blessed to have the opportunity to serve Him here in Houston!
I don't know if I've said this enough... I love being a
missionary!!!
Sunday evening the missionaries serving in the YSA ward put on a
huge "Why I Believe" fireside - it was AMAZING!! A few recent
converts spoke, there were a few musical numbers, and then President Pingree
spoke - so good. :) Basically, the church is true. Unfortunately, none of
our investigators were able to make it... :( and Robert had to work, so he
couldn't come either. (side note - even though Robert couldn't come to church
because of work, Melanie was there! Yay! And Robert is working on getting
Sundays off, and we're meeting with him this week to start the new member
discussions. He's still awesome and on fire with the gospel. :) )
But the fireside was still really good. And there were a lot of
investigators of other missionaries there, which was awesome.
I love y'all so much, and I hope you have a great week!
Sister Ririe
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