Transfers are on Tuesday!! Hermana buys and I aren't goin
anywhere... We still got work to do here :) Everyone else in our district/ward
is staying. Elder Ray and elder Alger are going to trio train a greenie.
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I don't know if I mentioned her last week, but we taught a
girl named Maggie last week. It went so well! But she texted us this week and
told her that God had hardened her heart towards this message and she took that
as her answer about the Book of Mormon.... It made us so sad. Because who
hardens hearts? Not God.... We asked if she had been reading the Book of
Mormon. She sAid no. We invited her again to read it and told her how it would
help her in her life and stuff. I think we lost her.
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| Chilling while bowling on P-Day |
It's so sad!! It just kills me- they have the very answer to
all of their questions in their hands, the end of their search for "what
path does God want for me?" And they don't even try or read it or ask God.
Blehhhh. We really are fighting to save souls here. It really is an incredible
work but also sometimes it's just so sad. But you have to do the best you can
and move on- maybe now isn't the time for her. But we keep trying and keep
finding and keep moving forward with faith.
We are teaching a girl named Yesenia who is so awesome! She
seems to come from kind of a rough background, but she really wants to learn
and come closer to her father in heaven. And all the questions that she
asks us are answered in one of the three first lessons! It's awesome :) we went
back for an appointment to see her this week and asked if she had read the Book
of Mormon. She was like, "oh yeah, didn't get very far, but I
tried...." (That's usually code for, I maybe looked at one of the pages
once this week). When we asked how far she'd read, she said she had read the
first 6 chapters in 1st Nephi! Whaaaaat. And she had questions about it. That
was awesome :) she's doing so great and we are praying so so hard for it
Side note yesterday, we realized that if we aren't praying
for our investigators by name, were pretty sure no one else is... I don't know
of a lot of people that really pray out here, and on top of that, I don't know
of a lot of people that pray by name for others. So that kind of made me
think/realize how important it is as a missionary to pray daily for every
single person you work with, because it's pretty safe to say that your prayers
are the only ones being said just for them. And hermana buys and I see and feel
everyday just how badly they need those extra blessings.
I struggle with contacting people. I can do it on a doorstep
when were looking for people, but I have a hard time walking up to people on
the street. This was something I was working on in midway and it's something
I'm working on again here. About half of the time, I get in these funny "I
don't care, I'm gonna preach the gospel anyway" kind of moods (I'm trying
to be I those more often).
This week, we were on the bus, and we only had like 4 stops
to go. There weren't very many people on. We got on and sat down. At the next
stop, an older man got on and kind of lingered around us. There were a ton of
open seats, but he stood in the aisle near us and did the whole "trying to
look at us and our name tag without looking like you are" thing (people
think they're so clever sometimes...) he looked like he had questions or
something but was too nervous to ask and I couldn't really tell and we got off
at the next stop. He went at sat down at the front of the bus. The bus stopped
at our stop. As I walked to the doors to exit, I smiled at him, said hi, got
out a card and put it on the seat next to him, then walked out of the bus. As
the bus pulled away, I saw him looking at it.
Was it a perfect contact? No. I keep reliving it and
thinking of things I could've done better. But it was a pretty good one. And a
step in the right direction to being better at contacting :)
There's a sweet less active we've met with a couple times.
She's pretty old and can't read and can't come to church cause she's really at
struggling health-wise. We talked to her for a little bit and shared our little
thought about the first vision. After talking to her for a bit longer, I don't
know what she said, but I got the impression that she really needed the
scriptures. So I asked if We could read her a chapter. It was so cute- no one
read the scriptures to her and she couldn't read so she was just really
scripture-dehydrated. Sweet thing :) then afterwards, she bore her testimony to
us about god and Jesus and Joseph smith. Oh and also about how la virgen
answers prayers. ....ha well work on that one... But it was super cool :)
We contacted a really solid white English speker in our are
who just moved here. He's pretty solid! We gave him a Book of Mormon and passed
his info along to the English elders
That same day I got brutally denied by an old grandma in a
halo head brace thing. Ha super pitiful for me. Poor lady was having a rough go
of it.
The past couple days, I've had a very interesting and
terrible thing happen. After daily planning we have about 45 mins to get ready
for bed and go to sleep. During daily planning, I get cold so I sit in front of
the heater. After daily planning, I'm tired and still cold. So I fall asleep in
front of the heater until hermana buys wakes me up at like 10:15 and tells me
to get in bed. Ha awkward.
Gosh I love that heater so much :)
As far as more spiritual stuff goes, I finished up about
Abinadai and Alma and Alma the Younger and Amulek and stuff this week. Oh man,
some of the missionary 'greats'. They speak with such power and authority and
you see the hand of The Lord. That's literally the point of why the Book of
Mormon was written... So we could receive the fullness of the gospel, yeah. But
to also show us the hand of The Lord- to prove that he lives and visits his
people in their afflictions and stuff. It's awesome. I have so much respect for
Abinidi, the Alma's, and especially Amulek. And Zeezrom. Good stuff.
I just love that book it's the best :)
Well I think this is all for me! Love you :) have a great
and safe and happy week!
Love
Hermana Walton
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