Wow another week zooming by- how crazy is that!?!?!?!? Well let me tell you this week we actually had a lot of planned lessons and things fall through but nonetheless, it was the best week I've had here. We didn't teach very much but it was a fantastic week anyway!!!! Sounds like this week has been another week preparing for the wedding. I'm still very upset!!!!! It's funny I don't even think about it until Pday when you tell me about it. I'm so excited to hear how it goes and to see pictures of the bride and groom! Kyle will be there. I'll be the only one not there AGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I might just act like I'm sick and have them send me home for medical and then make a miraculous recovery and come back out. Would you let me do that!?!?!? Jk Good job Austi for getting your Eagle Project done. I guess you have to if you want to get your license!!!
Hahaha No mom we didn't eat with the Js this past week but we are going to eat with them this Thursday! I love that family soooo much!!!!! Also, did her pictures work that she took!?! I hope they worked- remember I want everyone to take selfies with me! Hahahaha!!!!! I'm still reading in the New Testament. I'm in Luke Chapter 13. I've gotten far but my studies have been harder because I have to prepare for district meeting too as well as prepare lessons for our investigators. I don't get to my own studies as often but I like being a District Leader. Speaking of District Leader, I feel like I did a good job with my training during the District Meeting. The things I didn't do very well at the first time I felt I improved upon. So I feel I'm getting better and that's good! For the District training meeting we had the Zone Leaders there. This week's training was on our purpose as missionaries. I loved talking about our purpose. The ZLs had a good training too. It was how to include members in missionary work. We also went on exchanges this week. I went with Elder Masina and
it went well. We did a lot of personal contacting because all the appointments fell through. We handed out 3 B.O.M.s to 3 different people!!!!!!!! They weren't too interested; however, it was still good to hand thm out. We did get one person who was interested. His name was Garrett and he had a family. I've never started talking about temples when I have met people for the first time but this time I did. Once I told him how we can be sealed to our families forever (even after we die) and live with them forever, he became more willing to listen just a tad more!!! We asked if we could come back he said yes. After Garrett we continued to contact. As we were heading back to our car we passed this lady and said hi. As I got in I had the impression I was to talk to her. Nothing big like YOU NEED TO TALK TO HER but just a little, "Hey. Go talk to her." I was like okay. We left her with our number and an LDS.org website card. We said bye and that was it. It wasn't this huge impression but we just showed her something she could read and come to know if he Gospel was true for herself. I was happy! Now the highlight of this week was our investigator Balaziah!!!!!!!!!!!!
BALAZIAH!!!!!!!
So Balaziah is our new investigator that we picked up this last week! She is so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Some background on her: she is a Headquarters referral that we received. She had requested a Book of Mormon. She is from Ghana and has only been living here for about 3 years. It is just her and her daughter L who is about 2 years old. She came in contact with the Church through her Brother who lives in Michigan and
her other Brother who lives in Ohio! Her Brother in Michigan was taught and baptized by the missionaries about a year ago. And her other Brother in Ohio is taking the discussions right now!!!!!!!!!!!! Balaziah has previously been taking the Discussions from the Jehovah's Witnesses. She felt confused when talking with them and didn't believe their doctrine about how only a certain number of people make it into heaven. Well we show up to give her a Book of Mormon. We were planning on stopping by and teaching a short lesson on the Book of Mormon for like 10 minutes, introducing the Restoration and then setting up another appointment to teach her more. Well, that obviously was not what Heavenly Father had planned for us! We went to her house member, Brother S. Well she was prepared for us to come over! She cooked us dinner! Haha So we had a surprise dinner appointment!! Haha Brother S was pretty excited about being able to eat a free dinner that night as well! During dinner we talked to her about how she came in contact with the church and what she already knew about what we believed. She said that the missionaries in Ohio that were teaching her brother taught her a little bit and gave her a Restoration Pamphlet when she was visiting him. So we decided that we needed teach the Restoration to her! So we did just that and she soaked up every word! We explained the first vision to her. She thought that was so cool. Then we explained that Joseph Smith received the Priesthood from Peter, James and John. Again she thought that was just the coolest thing! Then we began to explain that the angel Moroni came and visited Joseph Smith and led him to the plates which he translated which became The Book of Mormon. She was so excited she wanted to begin reading the Book of
Mormon right away!! At the end of the lesson she had asked us "How many people make it into heaven?" So we told her we would talk about that in more depth in our next lesson. We gave her a Plan of Salvation Pamphlet for her to read. On Thursday we returned for another lesson. At that lesson we taught about the Plan of Salvation! She was ecstatic!! We asked her if she had read the pamphlet yet and she said that she read the WHOLE THING!!! She said before when she was taught about heaven, she was so confused... But then she said that when she read our Plan of Salvation pamphlet, she was just super excited. She said that everything that she read was truth and that she felt that after reading it, she "woke up." She then began to tell us that we needed to go and share this pamphlet with as many people that we could because this is the coolest thing she had ever heard!!! Hahaha Don't worry. We informed her that we spend 24/7 teaching about those pamphlets!! Haha
So on our first visit with Balaziah, we invited her to Church. She was so excited to come to church that in our second visit on Thursday, she asked about church again. Well, we got her a ride all set up and got her to Church. This week for Church it was a little different because it was Stake Conference!! Hahaha So Balaziah's first week of Church was Stake Conference. We asked her afterwards what she thought of it and she was so happy! She kept saying over and over again that it was so beautiful!! That she loved all of it and that it was just such a beautiful service!! Haha She also said that she loved all of our hymns. The last hymn that we sang was, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again." haha When we called her on Sunday night she was still singing it she liked it so much!! So I will keep you updated on her progress. I just know she is going to improve and progress soooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love her and her daughter L. I'm so excited for them!
Hahaha No mom we didn't eat with the Js this past week but we are going to eat with them this Thursday! I love that family soooo much!!!!! Also, did her pictures work that she took!?! I hope they worked- remember I want everyone to take selfies with me! Hahahaha!!!!! I'm still reading in the New Testament. I'm in Luke Chapter 13. I've gotten far but my studies have been harder because I have to prepare for district meeting too as well as prepare lessons for our investigators. I don't get to my own studies as often but I like being a District Leader. Speaking of District Leader, I feel like I did a good job with my training during the District Meeting. The things I didn't do very well at the first time I felt I improved upon. So I feel I'm getting better and that's good! For the District training meeting we had the Zone Leaders there. This week's training was on our purpose as missionaries. I loved talking about our purpose. The ZLs had a good training too. It was how to include members in missionary work. We also went on exchanges this week. I went with Elder Masina and
it went well. We did a lot of personal contacting because all the appointments fell through. We handed out 3 B.O.M.s to 3 different people!!!!!!!! They weren't too interested; however, it was still good to hand thm out. We did get one person who was interested. His name was Garrett and he had a family. I've never started talking about temples when I have met people for the first time but this time I did. Once I told him how we can be sealed to our families forever (even after we die) and live with them forever, he became more willing to listen just a tad more!!! We asked if we could come back he said yes. After Garrett we continued to contact. As we were heading back to our car we passed this lady and said hi. As I got in I had the impression I was to talk to her. Nothing big like YOU NEED TO TALK TO HER but just a little, "Hey. Go talk to her." I was like okay. We left her with our number and an LDS.org website card. We said bye and that was it. It wasn't this huge impression but we just showed her something she could read and come to know if he Gospel was true for herself. I was happy! Now the highlight of this week was our investigator Balaziah!!!!!!!!!!!!
BALAZIAH!!!!!!!
So Balaziah is our new investigator that we picked up this last week! She is so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Some background on her: she is a Headquarters referral that we received. She had requested a Book of Mormon. She is from Ghana and has only been living here for about 3 years. It is just her and her daughter L who is about 2 years old. She came in contact with the Church through her Brother who lives in Michigan and
her other Brother who lives in Ohio! Her Brother in Michigan was taught and baptized by the missionaries about a year ago. And her other Brother in Ohio is taking the discussions right now!!!!!!!!!!!! Balaziah has previously been taking the Discussions from the Jehovah's Witnesses. She felt confused when talking with them and didn't believe their doctrine about how only a certain number of people make it into heaven. Well we show up to give her a Book of Mormon. We were planning on stopping by and teaching a short lesson on the Book of Mormon for like 10 minutes, introducing the Restoration and then setting up another appointment to teach her more. Well, that obviously was not what Heavenly Father had planned for us! We went to her house member, Brother S. Well she was prepared for us to come over! She cooked us dinner! Haha So we had a surprise dinner appointment!! Haha Brother S was pretty excited about being able to eat a free dinner that night as well! During dinner we talked to her about how she came in contact with the church and what she already knew about what we believed. She said that the missionaries in Ohio that were teaching her brother taught her a little bit and gave her a Restoration Pamphlet when she was visiting him. So we decided that we needed teach the Restoration to her! So we did just that and she soaked up every word! We explained the first vision to her. She thought that was so cool. Then we explained that Joseph Smith received the Priesthood from Peter, James and John. Again she thought that was just the coolest thing! Then we began to explain that the angel Moroni came and visited Joseph Smith and led him to the plates which he translated which became The Book of Mormon. She was so excited she wanted to begin reading the Book of
Mormon right away!! At the end of the lesson she had asked us "How many people make it into heaven?" So we told her we would talk about that in more depth in our next lesson. We gave her a Plan of Salvation Pamphlet for her to read. On Thursday we returned for another lesson. At that lesson we taught about the Plan of Salvation! She was ecstatic!! We asked her if she had read the pamphlet yet and she said that she read the WHOLE THING!!! She said before when she was taught about heaven, she was so confused... But then she said that when she read our Plan of Salvation pamphlet, she was just super excited. She said that everything that she read was truth and that she felt that after reading it, she "woke up." She then began to tell us that we needed to go and share this pamphlet with as many people that we could because this is the coolest thing she had ever heard!!! Hahaha Don't worry. We informed her that we spend 24/7 teaching about those pamphlets!! Haha
So on our first visit with Balaziah, we invited her to Church. She was so excited to come to church that in our second visit on Thursday, she asked about church again. Well, we got her a ride all set up and got her to Church. This week for Church it was a little different because it was Stake Conference!! Hahaha So Balaziah's first week of Church was Stake Conference. We asked her afterwards what she thought of it and she was so happy! She kept saying over and over again that it was so beautiful!! That she loved all of it and that it was just such a beautiful service!! Haha She also said that she loved all of our hymns. The last hymn that we sang was, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again." haha When we called her on Sunday night she was still singing it she liked it so much!! So I will keep you updated on her progress. I just know she is going to improve and progress soooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love her and her daughter L. I'm so excited for them!
Well that's pretty much it this week. Take care. Bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
My new nickname in this area
Elder C-hoon
Elder Cahoon the Baboon
My new nickname in this area
Elder C-hoon
Elder Cahoon the Baboon
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