One of my favorite
quotes this week: "There are some days I feel like I was born to be a
missionary, and then there are days when I feel like I will die like one".
HAHA!!! SO TRUE!
Hello dear family and
friends!! I hope you are doing well! So much has happened since the last P-day!
One of the coolest
things that happened this week was we met a girl named Leanza Curtiss who is
22. Leanza is friends some of the members of the branch (primarily the Nelson
family). She spent the last week out in Utah with the Nelson family touring
Temple Square and BYU Campus. She was given a BOM a few years ago and has read
it twice. She is planning on attending BYU in a year after finishing her associates
here in Michigan. When we met her, she said, "So...what is this whole
thing with baptism?" She is SO prepared! We honestly just sit and watch
her answer her own questions! It's awesome! Her problem is that she was in the
foster care system and was adopted as an older child-to a family of pastors.
She really wants to join the church, but she is afraid she will lose her family
over it. Any advice? We know Satan is working hard on her-especially because
she will make such a strong member and cute provo mom :)
Also, while we were door
knocking for a long hot day this week, we met a BRIT AND A FRENCHIE!!! AHH!!! I
freaked out. Thanks Heavenly Father.
We also had a
HILARIOUS experience when a member came door knocking with us! Haha!! I had
never had a member come with me before (because honestly, why would people want
be involved with the door knocking part of missionary work? The fun part is
teaching the lessons.) I still don't know what to think of the experience, but
the mission is DEFINATELY teaching me how to work with all sorts of people.
Ha...
We had quite a few
lessons cancel on us this week, and so we have tried to use our time to the
best of our ability by seeing less actives that we haven't met yet. We stopped
by a less active named Manuela who is blind. When we came in, she said,
"Oh sisters. How did you know I was just praying for some help when you
came here. God is real". Yes ma'am He is. It was actually a pretty neat
experience.
Also while out
proselyting this week, we met a man named Jim-Jim is the son in law to one of
the members in the Petoskey branch. Before we introduced ourselves, he said,
"You're Mormon's, aren't you?" It was a reminder that we are placed
exactly where the Lord needs us to go. We were also able to see one of my favorite
members who is struggling with a brain tumor. Later in the week, we were
walking and Sister Fletcher said, "We need to go down this alley". As
we did, we met another less active who has been hiding from the church for
years. HAHA joke on him-can't hide from the spirit! Overall, it was a great
week.
I have been studying
the last books in the Book of Mormon and will finish the Book in the next
little bit. One of my favorite quotes from Brigham Young says,
"Do you read the scriptures as though you wrote them 5,000 years ago? Do
you read them as though you stood in the place of those men who wrote them? It
is your privilege to do so that you may be as familiar with the Spirit and
meaning of the written word of God as your are with your daily walk and conversation".
I have tried to imagine what it would be like to be Moroni-to watch all but 23
other men be killed, and then to be the literal last one standing. He roams
around and finishes the record as he waits to die. Isn't that so sad? Image if
that were you! Image what it would feel like, and how much the scriptures would
mean to you then.
I truly have come to
love being a missionary. It is one of the most unique experiences I think
anyone cold ever experience. I honestly love it though. I am so grateful to get
to serve Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ in fulfilling their work and glory in
bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of men.
The Book of Blue-the
church is true!
Love you!!
Xoxo
Sister Ensign
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