It's October 8th and this has been an amazing week!
We had our mission tour yesterday! All the missionaries in the south part of the mission were gathered together to hear a general authority come and teach us. It was Elder Yamashita and his wife. He spoke in general conference this October about...missionaries! haha. We learned a lot from them and from President and Sister Black. It was a greaaaattt meeting and I'm thankful we were able to have it!
His wife was SOOOO cute. She doesn't speak English as well and she was adorable in speaking to us. She made us commit to write 100 good things about our companions. Everyone was like 100?! haha. She made us say a lot of stuff out loud as a group and she was suuuper enthusiastic. When she spoke at another time, she had us read D&C 33:8-10 and then made us repeat as a group, "open your mouth" as we did this she told us to get louder and louder...and then she brought out a big origami mouth and made it open and close as we said open your mouth. hahahaha.....and thennnn, she had the AP's pass out origami paper and she taught us all how to make origami mouths from the pulpit. It was hilarious!!
We have an awesome story about how we met our newest investigator. At church 2 weeks ago we went out to get something from the car in between meetings. This woman drove up and asked what denomination the church was! We invited her in but she didn't feel dressed to come in. So we set up a time to visit her. We taught her on Friday and she came to church this Sunday! She's so solid too! She really wants to LEARN! Of allllll the people that could've been out in the parking lot, it was us. And the timing was juuuust right. Heavenly Father is DIRECTING THIS WORK!!
AND GUESS WHAAAAAAAAT......We have four, yes fouuuuur, baptisms on the 19th!!!! We have 3 little kiddos and then another person that's totally separate. The parents of the kids are getting baptized later cuz they're getting married first and they're planning their wedding. Um....amazing? I THINK YES! I'll have had 6 baptisms in my first 3 months. whooo!! This area is unusually busy and I love it!! Especially right now. It seems like the work has picked up again. It didn't ever die down but it wasn't as crazy there for a weeks. We're super busy!!!!! And everyone's way more solid than before. I'm so blessed to be experiencing all this!! I LOVE THE PEOPLE I'M SERVING!!! I've had the opportunity to get close to them and be their messenger of the happy happy gospel of Jesus Christ!
We had our mission tour yesterday! All the missionaries in the south part of the mission were gathered together to hear a general authority come and teach us. It was Elder Yamashita and his wife. He spoke in general conference this October about...missionaries! haha. We learned a lot from them and from President and Sister Black. It was a greaaaattt meeting and I'm thankful we were able to have it!
His wife was SOOOO cute. She doesn't speak English as well and she was adorable in speaking to us. She made us commit to write 100 good things about our companions. Everyone was like 100?! haha. She made us say a lot of stuff out loud as a group and she was suuuper enthusiastic. When she spoke at another time, she had us read D&C 33:8-10 and then made us repeat as a group, "open your mouth" as we did this she told us to get louder and louder...and then she brought out a big origami mouth and made it open and close as we said open your mouth. hahahaha.....and thennnn, she had the AP's pass out origami paper and she taught us all how to make origami mouths from the pulpit. It was hilarious!!
We have an awesome story about how we met our newest investigator. At church 2 weeks ago we went out to get something from the car in between meetings. This woman drove up and asked what denomination the church was! We invited her in but she didn't feel dressed to come in. So we set up a time to visit her. We taught her on Friday and she came to church this Sunday! She's so solid too! She really wants to LEARN! Of allllll the people that could've been out in the parking lot, it was us. And the timing was juuuust right. Heavenly Father is DIRECTING THIS WORK!!
AND GUESS WHAAAAAAAAT......We have four, yes fouuuuur, baptisms on the 19th!!!! We have 3 little kiddos and then another person that's totally separate. The parents of the kids are getting baptized later cuz they're getting married first and they're planning their wedding. Um....amazing? I THINK YES! I'll have had 6 baptisms in my first 3 months. whooo!! This area is unusually busy and I love it!! Especially right now. It seems like the work has picked up again. It didn't ever die down but it wasn't as crazy there for a weeks. We're super busy!!!!! And everyone's way more solid than before. I'm so blessed to be experiencing all this!! I LOVE THE PEOPLE I'M SERVING!!! I've had the opportunity to get close to them and be their messenger of the happy happy gospel of Jesus Christ!
Lovely, lovely people who read my blog and have the restored gospel, SHARE THIS GREAT MESSAGE! I've imagined what it'll be like after we leave this mortal life. Will I be excited to see my friends only to find them sorely disappointed in me? Will they look at me and ask, "You knew this?! You had this truth? You knew how blessed my life could be and you kept this to yourself? I love you, why didn't you show your love for me?" I DO NOT want this to happen. I'm NOT okay with that. I want to give this great gift that will change everything if people will only accept it. Think about your friends, your family, people that you know, show your love for them by giving them the gospel. Let them know what it means to you!!! have missionary work in your heart because you have love in your heart. Keep doing awesome things and being awesome people!!! I love you all!!!
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