Not sure where Megan is, but she is up there somewhere singing with the missionary choir at the Mission President's fireside. If you want to see a video of the choir singing, check it out on the Texas Houston mission blog - texashoustonmission.blogspot.com. They sound amazing! And her mission president's description of the fireside sounds pretty awesome, too. :)
Hey y'all!
It has been a rainy week here in Texas. We were caught biking in the rain three times, and were blessed to be inside for the other storms. Sister Funk and I now carry emergency ponchos with us wherever we go. ;)
We've been busy as always, and have seen quite a few miracles. We found a new investigator this week! Her name is Alice, and she's an older lady from Germany and she's a sweetheart. :) We tracted into her a few weeks ago and were able to follow up and teach the Restoration this past Tuesday. She accepted the message so readily, and even started tearing up when we were testifying because she felt the Holy Ghost so strongly. And she came with us to Stake Conference yesterday, and loved it even though it was a broadcast to our building from the stake center and the quality wasn't very good and she's hard of hearing... but she still felt the spirit and was impressed by the people around her, and that's what counts. She's excited to come next week. :) She also invited us out to lunch after the meeting... so we had to explain about keeping the Sabbath day holy and all that... but it's alright, she said it makes sense. :) We'll probably have lunch with her tomorrow and teach her about the plan of salvation. It'll be great. :)
Another miracle - we actually met with our whole ward mission this week! We have 10 or so ward missionaries, plus our ward mission leader and the assistant ward mission leader... and I'd barely even met any of them yet, and I've been here in Fairfield for 2 months already! We should be meeting on a weekly basis, but... I don't know, somehow in this ward we kind of struggle with that. And so many ward missionaries have been called and released in those 2 months that it has been hard to get everyone together... but anyway, we're fixing the problem. :) Now we know everyone, because we had a meeting this past Thursday to present an idea that I brought from one of my past areas and now we're going to implement it here - family mission plans. The idea is to have each family in the ward create their own mission plan, with each member of the family setting goals and making plans to accomplish those goals. And then we'll follow up each month or so to see how things are going and what we can do to help. All the ward missionaries loved it, and they are SO excited to get involved and start fulfilling their calling. And we are SO excited to work more closely with them. :)
We've been getting more training with family history, and we're starting to use it every day, no matter what we're doing. So one kind of discouraging day when everything seemed to fall through we decided to do some contacting using a family history approach. Of course it was the last person that we talked to that was really interested in our message, but it was worth it. :) Her name is Karon, and when we came up and talked to her about her family and ancestors and stuff like that she lit up. She was SO excited to learn more! So we exchanged contact information, and we're planning on seeing her this week to help her get started. When we were leaving, she said, "It's funny that y'all would stop by and tell me this now... but my dad and I were just talking about finding out more about our family!" There are no coincidences - we were meant to talk to her! The spirit of Elijah has definitely worked on her!
The highlight of the week was last night at the Mission President's Fireside - President Mortensen is planning on having these firesides on a monthly basis - full of music, testimonies from recent converts, mormon messages, and such. Basically a great way to bring others and feel the spirit. There was a missionary choir too - I LOVE singing SO much! There was quite the crowd there, which was awesome. :) And the spirit was SO strong. Definitely a success. :) There were a few non-members from our area that were there, which was good. They aren't really investigating the church, but we see them every once in a while and they are always friendly to missionaries. Anyway, we invited them, and they came, and it was great. :) I got to see a few people from my last area too, and my last companion Sister Walker - I love her so much. :) It was definitely a good way to end the week. :)
I love y'all so much! Thanks for the prayers and the support! Have a great week!
Sister Ririe
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