Hey y'all!
It's been a pretty normal week here in the Memorial Springs ward.
But it was good to have a little bit of normal before the next few weeks
hit - we'll be getting a new mission president at the beginning of July, so
we're getting everything ready for the Pingrees to leave (I will miss them SO
MUCH!) and the Mortensens to get here. We have an extra special
specialized training tomorrow - I'm so excited for it, and I'll let you know
the details next week. :) And the week after that we have a mission
conference so we can meet President and Sister Mortensen and their families,
and the week after that we'll have another specialized training and interviews.
So this week was a little slow and uneventful in terms of meetings, but
the next few weeks sure will be busy!
Sister Walker and I have been doing a lot of finding recently, and
we have really been focusing on talking to EVERYONE that we see. So far
it has been paying off - we don't have any new investigators yet but I'm sure
they'll come. There was one street that we tracted that we shared
messages at 2 doorsteps, got in to teach part of the Restoration with one woman
named Cinnamon (yes, that is her given name), and gave away 3 copies of the
Book of Mormon. And when you don't have a car to store supplies in, you
travel light... so we had only brought 3 copies with us that day. Luckily
a member was able to give us a few so we still had some to give out in the
evening. :)
Some funny tracting stories from the week: We were walking up
a driveway, and a car pulls in behind us. We think, "perfect, we're
right on time!" and step off to the side and wave, expecting to talk to
them when they get out of their car. Well... it didn't go exactly as
planned... they pulled into their garage, and closed the garage door before
getting out of the car so we didn't even get the chance to say hello.
Awkward. And they didn't answer the door when we knocked. I
guess they REALLY didn't want to talk to us or something... oh well.
Later in the week, we tracted into a man in a more wealthy part of
our area. Normally people in this neighborhood politely tell us to go
away, but this man opened his door and when, after talking to him for a bit, we
asked if we could share a message, he said "of course!" We
shared a little bit about the Book of Mormon, and asked if he and his family
would like to learn more, and he said not really and explained why he had let
us share a message - his daughter was in Louisiana for the week serving a
mission for their church - teaching people about Christ and doing service and
the like. He said that they weren't able to contact her in a whole week,
and were excited for her to get home, even though they were proud of what she
was doing. Needless to say he was really impressed when we told him we do
this for a year and a half, only emailing our families once a week. Not impressed enough to say we could come back, but at least when we left he was
feeling positive about the church.
Crystal, a less active in the ward that we've been working with, is
SO CLOSE to coming back to church. She just needs to get out the door in
the morning. Her boyfriend is currently being taught by the Spanish
Elders in our area, so hopefully things will improve. She wants to come
back, and knows she needs to come back, but it's hard. She actually told
us that she really liked one of my previous companions because she was the one
to give her tough love and really make her feel motivated to come to church.
... I guess that's something I can work on.
There's another less active that we've been working with - Sister
Tann. She recently moved here from the Champions ward (which is in the
same stake as Memorial Springs), and said that one of the reasons she felt
really good about moving to this ward is because there are sister missionaries
here (as opposed to Elders) and she feels like we'll be able to help her
husband in ways that the Elders couldn't. When we ended our visit on
Saturday, she told us that she'd definitely be at church on Sunday. But
she didn't come. :( We'll have to meet with her again and help her
realize that in order for her husband to be active in the church she needs to
be a positive example.
Well, this week was a little slow... but things are going to pick up
again, I can feel it. :) I still love being a missionary, and I'm pretty
sure that will never change! Memorial Springs is an area full of miracles
- it's up to us to find them. :) I love y'all so much, and hope you have
a great week!
Sister Ririe
D&C 76:5-10
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