#1 - Me and my new companion, Sister Walker
#2 - Either this shows how short my new companion, or the "everything's bigger in Texas" (even the mailboxes) mentality... maybe both. ;)
#3 & 4 - Skypeing with Sister Ririe on Mother's Day - she is seriously so happy!!
Hey y'all!
This week has been great! Of course the highlight was getting
to talk to the family yesterday - happy mother's day mom! It was great to
see your faces and talk to you for a bit. :) I love y'all so much! But
now- back to the beginning of the week...
The week started off with transfers, where Sister Bonner was moved
to College Station and Sister Walker came to join me here in Memorial Springs!
Sister Walker is great - she's from Billings Montana (my first companion
not from Utah!), she has been out for almost 9 months, and she's a super hard
worker, loves being a missionary, and has a gorgeous voice. I love her
already, and I'm excited to get to know her better!
Most of the week was spent helping Sister Walker get to know the
area - she was in a full car area right before this (probably one of the
largest areas in the mission) and now she's in one of the smallest areas and on
foot all the time. And it's hard, because we're getting into the hot and
humid summer... but it will be great. :)
We did a lot of tracting this week, and actually had an awesome
miracle. We were planning the night before, and were trying to decide
where we should be for an hour where we had nothing to do. So I looked at
the map and a certain cul-de-sac stood out to me, so I suggested that we tract
there. The next day, when we got there, there was a woman standing on the
opposite corner, and Sister Walker told me later that she had the strongest
impression that we needed to talk to her at some point. But she walked
away before we could cross the street and talk to her then. We continued
tracting, without much success, until we got to a house at the end of the
cul-de-sac, and I swear it was the exact spot that had caught my eye the night
before. The woman that had been standing on the corner answered the door,
and we were able to teach her a bit about the Book of Mormon and share a
scripture with her. We asked if we could come back to teach her some
more, and she said yes. We set up a time that we could meet with her and
her sister-in-law - she told us that they (their names are Karen and Candy, by
the way) are searching for a church right now. So we have an appointment
with them tomorrow morning, and it's going to be great. :) I know
that the Lord led us there because they are ready to hear the restored gospel!
I'm so excited to see how their story unfolds!
We had another cool experience this week - we got a text referral
from Church Headquarters - someone had referred themselves on mormon.org.
His name is Joshua, and he's a Baptist Seminary Student and wanted a Book
of Mormon so he could write his paper, giving us good evidence for our faith or
something like that. (this was all information that we got through him
putting it in mormon.org)
We called him and set up a time to drop it by, and this Thursday we were
able to drop it off. We were planning on teaching him about the
restoration briefly and pointing out Moroni's promise, but he kind of just took
the Book of Mormnon, saying "oh, you brought it? Thanks!" and then
started to shut the door. We did manage to give him a card with our
number, telling him to call us if he has any questions. I wish we had
been able to talk to him longer... oh well. At least he's researching the
actual book and not just the anti-mormon websites. Hopefully he's not
looking at them at all. We hope he has questions and gives us a call. :)
Unfortunately we were not able to meet with Jo and Lesa yesterday
for mother's day - Jo is in the hospital, and Lesa was really sick too when we
stopped by on Saturday. :( I hope they get better soon so we can visit them
again and have a belated Mother's day celebration. :)
The big event of the week was the ward split! After hearing
all the different member's theories all week long, we finally learned how our
ward and the wards in the surrounding areas will look moving forward. We
lost a neighborhood that is highly concentrated with members, and half of
another, more wealthy neighborhood. And we gained a neighborhood - Sister
Walker and I are excited to explore and meet the members that are now in the
ward and all their neighbors. :) The neighborhood that we lost that is
highly concentrated with members also had most of the ward council in it... so
it will be interesting to see who the new leaders of the ward will be. :)
Our bishopric was called yesterday, but it won't be until next week that
the rest of the ward council is organized. Like I said, it will be
interesting, and exciting too. New, fresh blood for us missionaries to
work with. ;)
Well, that's pretty much how the week went. I love y'all so much,
and I hope that all you mothers out there had a wonderful Mother's day. :)
And to my mom - I love you so much! I hope y'all have a great week!
Sister Ririe
Alma 56:48
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