Hello Ya'll!
I hope everything is going swell with all that you are up to!
This week has been great. I'm starting to feel like an actual missionary.
haha For real though, I'm getting more comfortable teaching and opening my mouth
to people on the streets. My bum is slowly getting used to being on a bike all
day. Seriously, life is great. A word about the biking, I realized how ineffective it is. The most effective thing we can do is have members come out
with us and drive us. That is our goal for this week, have more members come
with us. This past week especially I have noticed that with our investigators
and less actives, the thing that they need the most is fellowship. Friends from
the ward. So I hope everyone back home is fellowingshipping too! It helps so
much you don't even know.
But in our area there are a lot of less actives that
we go and visit because there are technically like 700 people in our ward but
probably just over 100 show up, and the majority of those people are over 50
years old haha. It's so great though, my ward is awesome! Everyone is so nice
and willing to help us out. A lot of the people we go and visit have little
spanish kids running around and it is SO hard for me not to just pick them up
and start playing with them! And this week was my first time getting chased by
dogs haha they were just little chiuauas so its was funny. And one day we were
riding our bikes and we got ice thrown at us a couple times, we were like Samuel
the Lamanite though and nothing could hit us. Another thing that is funny is
seeing the ice cream truck ALL the time every day. I was like what the? In
Oregon you see them like twice a year. haha so one day when we didn't have a
dinner appointment we got ice cream. it was sweet.
Tuesday was a super awesome day. My first district meeting was solid. it
was cool because we role-played how to introduce the BOM and teach about it.
(which, by the way, the Restoration lesson is split in 2 now. You teach all the
way up past Joseph Smith then you stop and say that tomorrow we have a gift to
bring you, then you bring the BOM. and have a lesson just about it. It's so much
more powerful because the BOM, combined with the Spirit, is the most powerful
tool in conversion. And if people aren't reading it everyday then they won't
progress, or not nearly as fast as if they were) My testimony of the BOM has
grown so much these past 2 weeks and will continue to grow as I read it, study,
apply it and then help my investigators do the same. so that day we went to
teach this lady that is hopefully going to get baptized soon if she can get work
off on sunday's and we taught her about the BOM and she was actually excited to
read it! Then that night we had a recent convert come to a lesson with us to an
investigator who is working towards baptism and the recent convert was so
powerful as she testified about her baptism and the change it made in her life!
It was so cool. that night after dinner I had really bad acid reflex reaction
from eating wendy's for lunch and pizza for dinner... it was the worst i've ever
had and the next morning I threw up because of it. But it's okay, I prayed for
strength, and i'm doing great now! haha
2 things real quick: 1) we are teaching this man in his 50's who is an
alcholic but is super sweet and sincere and humble. And we had 3 lessons this
week and he is just progessing so much! Every lesson is so powerful, the spirit
is always there, and when he prays I can tell he is literally having a
conversation with Heavenly Father. It is an example to me. We commited him to be
baptized February 15th! and yesterday committed him to live the Word of Wisdom!
I'm so pumped. 2) we visited a referral yesterday who is golden. He is in his
30's and used to be in jail and an alcoholic and says that he is ready to make a
change in his life. He is also sincere and said that everytime he has had this
opportunity to change he turns it away, but he finally feels ready. We taught
him the Restoration yesterday and the Spirit was defintiely there. I have
complete faith in him that he will get baptized. He just needs to internally
make that commitment. In our ward when we get excited about something we say
"GAME TIME" our ward mission leader came up with it. So with These 2 people we
are teaching, GAME TIME!
Well Arizona is treating me well so far. We got mini ipad's the first day
we got here to do our area book, teaching records, and planning in. They are so
nice. There are palm trees everywhere!!! so it feels like vacation in mexico-the
litter on the streets take away the vaccation feeling. haha but it was 85 on
tuesday and has been pretty hot this week. I hope all is well! Keep sharing the
gospel and fellowshipping!
love you all!
Sister Dewey
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