The highlight of the week was that we got to preview the new Meet the Mormons movie! On Thursday we met as a zone with President Bennion and the assistants and we watched the movie. It's really good! Granted, it's been 13 months since I've watched a real movie, but still, I felt the Spirit. It's perfect because it's not too preachy, so it's nonthreatening and it's centered on Jesus Christ and families and how He has blessed the people's lives. It gives a fresh look on what members of the church are really like and it truly touches the heart, though that may sound chessy it's true. One of my favorite stories was the one about the Candy Bomber, I thought of Jared the whole time, I know it would be one of his favorites. I didn't even realize the candy bomber was Mormon. Anyway, I almost cried a couple times but didn't shed a tear. I was close though. It has a missionary saying goodbye to his family. Man, that was hard to watch for a second. Anyway, GO SEE IT! Invite your friends! Especially if they have questions or they've heard strange things about the church because this glosses over those concerns and says: "They're all misconceptions!" basically. Once the movie was over there was silence amongst us missionaries and it felt so peaceful. Like the world couldn't come in. The Spirit was powerful.
Last week we had a lot of awesome tracting miracles, but such is life as a missionary and most of the people we met we haven't been able to get back in with. Again, such is life, and it just takes a while to truly find the elect whom God has prepared. I heard a missionary say once that missionary life would be easy if the only thing we were out here to do is to find the elect and baptize them; we are also here to learn. I liked that. Though our purpose is to invite others to come unto Christ, we are also learning skills and attributes that wouldn't be learned quite as quickly otherwise.
We did to a lot of role playing with members and that's been fun. I thought that most members would find it awkward, and some do, but the moms seem to really get into it! And the dads seem to always try to perfect the role play like, "Maybe instead of saying this we could say that," etc. It's kind of funny. But it's cool to do it and feel the Spirit and see how it's supposed to work. It's fun too because we've been letting the members practice inviting their friends to see "Meet the Mormons" and that has gotten hysterical and spiritual all at the same time. We met with this older couple that served a senior mission in Houston and role played with them. It was hilarious because the husband kept going out of character and would say, "Now I just love that! Wow. Good job." Then he would go on to another story about their mission. It was so funny.
Then we just tract in between meeting members and try to find the people. I feel like it will start to pick up with investigators and stuff within this transfer and many miracles will happen. I'm excited and I love this new area I'm in. I feel extremely comfortable here and we have some stellar members to work with.
Love y'all,
Sister Smith
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