So, I'm sorry, but I'm going to keep this short...
Monday was fun. We had a sisters P-Day at the stake center with 10 sisters. That was pretty fun, we played volleyball and ate food and listened to missionary approved music.
Tuesday was really long. We had a few lessons and checked on a lot of potentials without much success. One nice thing about Tuesday was that we got to go to Olive Garden for dinner and somehow (maybe with faith?) we were able to get there, eat dinner, have a quality discussion with the member we were eating with, finish, pay and leave within the hour so we were on time to knocking. Which almost never happens, ESPECIALLY when we eat at a restaurant.
Wednesday we had some really awesome lessons with a few investigators and also had our district meeting. Which was about teaching people not lessons. I find missionary work is a lot more fun and fulfilling when I focus on the people that I am teaching and what they need and what I can do to help them. Rather than just trying to teach as many lessons as possible. One person we are teaching is not making it easy for us to teach him the lessons, but we have really good discussions and we are definitely seeing improvement. Right now he is trying to give up alcohol, and that is what we are focusing on for now. We tried to get him to go to church and to want to be baptized, but he won't understand that until he feels confident in the first step.
Thursday was park day. It was also weekly planning. So we planned and then we walked to all of our appointments. I think we walked about 7 miles total. I ate some blackberries along the way though. Some people were really nice to us while we were knocking doors though. One lady invited us in to eat dinner with her family even though she wasn't interested, and we told her we couldn't stay for dinner, because we had to continue knocking, so she gave us some fresh rainier cherries instead. Then we talked to some people and asked if there was anything we could do for them and they said no, but called out to us and offered us some fresh plums off of their tree. We also were able to teach one of our investigators and had a really good lesson with him. He set August 29th as his goal date for baptism. He still needs to learn and pray about it, but he came to church this Sunday so he is progressing. (If you can pray for him that would be awesome!)
Friday we did SIX straight hours of service. We helped one family organize their upstairs. That was fun. Then we went and helped someone else spread mushroom compost all over their gardens. That smelled REAL nice. haha not really. Also, that evening we had dinner with someone who had invited us to dinner a few weeks before while we were knocking. It was really interesting. They were all "Catholic" but not practicing haha but they weren't interested in learning a message either, they just invited us to dinner. It was really nice of them.
Nothing tooo exciting happened on Saturday or Sunday, but we did have one investigator come to church which has only happened 2 other times so far on my mission! That was really exciting! :) I think he enjoyed it.
Well, I'm sorry my emails are not as interesting lately. But hopefully you are still getting a good idea of what missionary work is like and how I'm doing. Transfer calls are this Saturday so I'll find out if I'm staying another six weeks or going somewhere new next week!
Spiritual Thought:
Alma 62:41 I actually learned this at BYU but I reread it this week so I'll share it. :)
"But behold, because of the exceedingly great length of the war between the Nephites and the Lamanites many had become hardened, because of the exceedingly great length of the war; and many were softened because of the afflictions, insomuch that they did humble themselves before God, even in the depth of humility."
I think this is interesting because it says that many had become hardened because of the war, but others had become softened because of the war. They all went through the same war. That war was definitely not easy for anyone. But SOME were hardened and some were softened. All of us have come to this earth. All of us have had lives. They aren't the same lives, but they aren't easy lives. So, why is it that some people come out of life hardened and others come out softened?
I think it has to do with our attitudes and what we do with what we've been given. We can turn to God and take what happens and learn from it and make ourselves better. We can also CHOOSE that no matter what happens we can look for the good and be happy. OR we can decide that life stinks and it will never get better. And CHOOSE to be unhappy. So, it's up to us to become hardened or to become softened from life. and it will definitely be better if we choose to be happy. :) So there's my two cents.
Have a great week! I love you all!
Sister Warburton
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| This is from the Sisters P-day. It was Sister Bishop's birthday! |
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