February 20, 2017
If your wondering how I'm doing here in the CFM...check out the attached photo.....
fun fact: once I watched a talk by Elder Holland in the MTC called missions are forever....and he says something along the lines of....."for two years and eighteen months you are completely united with God the Eternal Father in bringing to pass His work and His glory. For eighteen months His work becomes your work. CAN YOU GET PUMPED UP ABOUT THAT?"
and then I replied to Elder Holland by internally shouting...and it was only internal because I was trying not to interrupt the Holy Ghost speaking to other missionaries: "YES ELDER HOLLAND I CAN GET PUMPED UP ABOUT THAT"
and I did get pumped up about that because the day that I watched that talk was the day that I decided missions are too short to not sleep in your name-tag.
literally missions are so fantastic...I love them.
So here's the point where I share real-life stories and assure my mother that no missionaries were harmed in the making of them....
We've been trying to visit some less-actives and last night we were trying to visit this 'member' who actually answered the door and it turns out we actually knocked on the door of this very Indian family dressed in very traditional Indian clothes...when we explained who we are and who we were looking for...instead of being lame and sending us away they invited us into their birthday party....and obviously I see this as a great opportunity to invite a whole family to come unto Christ so I got real excited and of course accept this woman's invitation...all was well in the world until we sit down among all these women in their birthday-party best (which included lot's of bright colors and lots of tassels and lots of sparkles) and realized they only really spoke enough English to invite us into the party and offer us something to drink. but my goodness I can not imagine anyone but a missionary having a chance like that again....so crazy. So we stayed long enough to sit down and testify of Christ and then we laughed about for the rest of the night. However you should know that this was actually quite refreshing because last time we got invited to a surprise birthday party it was at a senior center with lot's of residences witnessing a recent-convert telling us she was prepared to be a less-active member....so shout-out to birthday parties for bringing us the high's and the low's.....
Also the Elder's in our ward had a baptism this weekend and that was actually a great experience and that story actually begins last week....
So last week Sister Kelly and I were on the computers at the church building and then all of a sudden there are a lot of Elders at the church bringing a lot of energy....due to the fact that one of their investigators was going to be baptized and he definitely was 100% missing 20 minutes before his baptism....(we found out later he was being held hostage by his family.....but all is well now) well Elder Flores....also serving in the King's Canyon Ward..is very passionate to say the least and HATED to see a baptismal font filled up in vain...and therefore was determined to find someone to baptize. So we watched this Elder call just about all the part-member families in the ward and when that didn't work out he figured he'd just speed up an investigators baptism....so all of a sudden last minute every missionary in the district was prepared to have a baptism on the fly, the investigator was prepared too....however his grandma wasn't...so for her benefit we went ahead and waited another week for the baptism and Sister Kelly and I were able to help out there with sharing a message..
ALSO We had a meeting with all the new missionaries and their trainers this week and when the trainers came together with Sister Clark she asked to share a miracle that had happened with our new missionary...which just made me think about the BAJILLIONS of miracles that have happened since we have been together.
Seriously I knew right away that Sister Kelly had to be one of the most prepared missionaries ever when we went home right after meeting to drop off her stuff....we knelt to say a prayer right before we were ready to plan and this man KNOCKED ON OUR DOOR....at first it was just someone going door to door trying to sell us stuff but of course we used the opportunity to help him become a little bit more familiar with the restored gospel...and all of a sudden his friend that was hanging out in the back is asking us for a Book of Mormon and talking about how he's been looking for something more.....what. Sometimes we find the prepared...and sometimes the prepared find us. So cool....but then he didn't live in our area....
we also had an incredible miracle with this woman named April...we had contacted her husband on the street a couple of weeks ago...and wrote his name and address as a potential investigator...so when we were in his area again we went back to see him and he immediately introduced us to his wife...who actually is just a super less-active member the ward didn't know about....and (buckle in your seat belts)....had said the day before we met her husband...'maybe I should get back to church....I think the kid's should learn what I learned....I wonder if I could find a way to call the missionaries......'
well good news April OUR GOD IS A GOD OF MIRACLES. So we've taught her family once and we are going back tonight.......which we are of course pumped about.
We also are teaching a cute lady named Jenny who is seriously the most prepared person ever. After we taught her about pre-earth life and testified that we came from living with our Heavenly Father she stopped us and said..."Where does it say that in the bible?"......and maybe it's because I'm jaded but I definitely thought she was going to freak out and deny this doctrine that was new to her but after we showed a few scriptures she just told us about how she had always felt that was true but had never known why because her church didn't teach that....by the end of the lesson she was hugging the plan of salvation pamphlet and telling us that she literally thought that it had been made for her. I LOVE THE PREPARED.
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