Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2019, at 1:22 PM
Hi everyone! I hope you all had an awesome week!
Members are great here! They are so willing to help the missionaries that they created this list with people’s names and days of the week when they are available to come to lessons with us. So sweet. Also, they think missionaries, especially the Sisters, are always hungry throughout the day. There’s this old couple who gives us individual bags with cherry juice, an apple, and some crackers after dinner with them and Fast Sundays. They are amazing! I get so well fed here that I need to start watching how much I eat at the member’s houses.
Fun fact: I LOVE CORN! There’s corn everywhere and simply love it!
We had Zone Conference this week. Zone Conference is when missionaries from different areas come together to listen to devotionals, share thoughts with other missionaries, and mingle. It was great! The missionaries are awesome. Funny story. I met Elder Cox who used to live in Lexington and went to the Arlington Ward, my ward, about 5 years ago. Small world Haha. Anyways. By the end of Zone Conference, the missionaries that are about to go home bear their testimonies and something that stood out to me was what this one sister said. “There is no growth in our comfort zone”. It’s so true and I hope I remember that for the next 18 months.
We met this awesome guy named Chris. The elders found him but he’s in our area so we went to his house for a lesson. He had a health episode in his life where he died and came back when many people don’t get this chance. He had a few questions about why did God spare his life in particular. We explained to him that Heavenly Father has individual plans for us here on Earth and introduced him to the Book of Mormon. He said he’d read it after talking to his wife about it. Such a nice guy. Very open to hearing our beliefs. We’ll try and set an appointment with him for another lesson this week.
Fun story. We found this crazy lady while tracking on Friday. She has multiple signs of “come in if you need a prayer” in her front yard along with a board of the sepulcher where christ was put after he died with the doorway opened. That one was hanging on the tree. Also, her door has these crosses made with thick wood. We knocked and she told us to come in. She was super nice to us. She gave us cold water, turned her fan to face us, and even offered dinner. She said she is a pastor at this church up in Pennsylvania. It seems, she found Jesus when she was working as a nurse in the military in Boston until they found out she was selling drugs to the crew. Oh well. She’s nice tho. We answered a couple of questions she had about what we believe Heaven is gonna be like, and then, to our surprise, she says that she had a vision about it. Of course, we started bracing ourselves for it.
In her vision, heaven has a museum where you can go and watch what happened at any moment in history on this holy TV screen or something. I will love it if that’s true but for now, I’m skeptical about it.
I love the crazy people out there. They make this work so much fun! I also love being a missionary. It’s great to have a name tag close to my heart letting all people know I’m a representative of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Some people smile and look away before we try stopping them and others smile and are nice about it. I also love it when we find random members of the church on the street or the supermarket. People know who I am and who I represent. I love everything about being a missionary. I get to love this saving gospel and trust more in what my Heavenly Father wants me to do and to become. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Hope you enjoy this week’s random pictures!
