Last week... It was good. I can hardly remember it by now!
Tuesday
was really cool. District Meeting really pumped Sister Burgess and I
and we went tracting afterward. We did exactly our two hours and it went
by faster than normal. We had extremely meaningful contacts and
lessons with people and got five new investigators. That's the standard
for the whole week and we got it in two hours! That was really cool.
There are two less active ladies who just started
coming back to church. We asked if they want us to start teaching them
the missionary lessons so they can get their feet wet and feel
comfortable with the basic doctrine. Both of them said yes and they live
in a city that's 30 miles away from us, so naturally we normally don't
find ourselves in that city. But we've been teaching them and I truly
love them. They're both so ready to come back to church and they're
doing all of the assignments we give them and they're learning so much
from their studies. And they're better missionaries than most active
members are! They're both planning on inviting friends to be taught the
gospel and to come to church! I'm so excited for them. I feel like there
is going to be a lot of miracles from teaching them.
Thursday I had real Cajun food. There's a lady from
Louisiana in the ward and she fed us lunch. It was really delicious!
Then we had a lesson that night with two girls we met while tracting. We
thought they were friends or sisters by adoption or something. They're
actually dating. The lesson we had was SO spiritual and they truly felt
it. We discussed it with our district and one of the Elders suggested
that we remind them of who they are and their potential. If we remind
them that they are daughters of God and he has a plan for them, and we
teach them the "why" of the gospel, hopefully the Spirit will make a
change. It's taking a LOT of faith, but it will be an amazing experience
if it al works out. If not, then at least they have felt the Spirit and
they know that God loves them. We talked a lot about that for the
lesson and focused on Joseph Smith and the Restoration.
Church was really awesome. All the missionaries were
assigned to speak, but an Area Seventy came so we all had to shorten
our talks. But his talk was really good and he touched on the Atonement
and Grace and it was really inspiring. I have such a strong testimony of
the enabling power of the atonement. I love Elder Bednar's talk about
that.
Monday we had dinner and a lesson that was so
spiritual! There's an older lady who's husband just passed away and her
daughter from Colorado just moved in with her permanently. We invited
the lady, who's a member, to have us teach her the lessons. Turns out,
her daughter's not a member and she would like to take them too! So
Monday was the first lesson we had with them. We felt prompted to teach
the Plan of Salvation instead of the Restoration. Also, they read their
assignment, Alma 32 and to make this faith cycle thing. During the
lesson, we got to the Atonement and focused all of our lesson on that
basically. We talked about how the atonement can effect ALL aspects of
our lives. It is something that can strengthen us daily. Well the mother
had never thought of the atonement like that before. We read Alma 7 and
discussed how the Atonement can help us even in times of suffering and
heartache. We asked if they felt the Spirit and both of them did. We
felt prompted to end the lesson there and we'll pick up next time. I
keep reflecting on the power in that lesson and it's truly beautiful to
know that God is watching over us. He cares about our struggles. I love
it!
Yesterday was great. Many, many appointments. The
day went by REALLY fast! I love it. I love being a missionary. Sometimes
I think about the day I'll speak at my homecoming and I think about all
the feelings I have toward my mission and they're all very positive. I
love that Christ's gospel has changed me so much.
Love you all!
Sister Smith
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