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The weather has taken a turn for the better here! We've been enjoying 70's and 80's this whole week and it has been splendid!
The work is going splendid as well. :]
We had dinner with an 80 something year old lady on Monday evening. Old people are so funny. Sis. Stroud was a hoot. She knows where Deep Run is too! In fact, she's related to people out there. We shared a message on the Atonement with her after dinner. She piped up at the end of our conversation, "you girls must really have to tone your beauty down when you become missionaries." Then she said something about how our hair wasn't very flattering. Sister Asay just had this blank stare of "What did you just say?" on her face. It took me a few seconds to process. I was about to bust up laughing, but just smiled and nodded. I think we'll just assume that it was because she didn't have her glasses on. :]
We went to teach miss Daisy afterwards. We had a great lesson with her on the restoration and used the cups to teach her about priesthood authority. We invited her to be baptized and the spirit was SO strong! She wants to, but doesn't feel ready and her parents aren't so sure that she is ready to make that big of a commitment quite yet. She is a scripture reading fanatic and is up to 1 Nephi 10. She is amazing.
We had a crazy situation on Tuesday. One of the sisters in the mission, Sister Baldy has been really sick so she came to stay with us on Tuesday until her flight the next day. She has fibromyalgia or something like that and was really struggling. I think Heavenly Father knew that and all of our appointments for the evening cancelled so we were able to have dinner with the Hubers who talked our ears off and then we went home and did area book stuff. Sister Baldy is a trooper. She is so sweet and really knows how to trust the Lord. I'm glad we got to serve together for 24 hours. :)
Wednesday I got up early and ran on the Clay's treadmill while Sis. Baldy and Sis. Asay took showers. It felt good to push myself. We went to the mission home at 8 am. Traffic in Raleigh pre-8am is INSANE. I am glad we don't normally drive at that time of day. We had breakfast with the Bernhisels, the Assistants, and another elder who was going home for medical leave. One of the elders who was there had served in Raleigh before so he gave us a bunch of referrals! Yes! After breakfast we went to district meeting which was on all about prayer. My favorite scripture that everyone probably knows is Alma 37:36-37. It's a great one for receiving some personal revelation. This talk is also really great for learning more about prayer: http://www.lds.org/general-
When Elder Holland came he told us, "Prayer helps us to see the dimensions of our soul." I have been pondering quite a bit about how prayer can help us to see these other dimensions and what we need to do to see all the dimensions of our soul. When I figure it out, I'll let you know. :D
We had a good lesson with Sis. Donaldson in the afternoon. We read Enos with her and we wanted to ask her about how she knew that the Book of Mormon was true. It was like she read our mind or something because before we even got to that she brought her journal out and read to us her experience of when she received a witness that the Book of Mormon was true. It was so good. She definitely has a rock solid testimony of the Book of Mormon. We then had dinner with the 2nd ward Bishop and his family. It was divine! They are a very sweet family. Afterwards we went to visit less active Sis. Huber. We had a pretty good lesson with her about how the Lord will strengthen us in our hard times and then it somehow shifted to forgiveness. It was something she really needed though. So, I guess that's all that matters!
We went on exchanges with Sister Bernhisel on Thursday! It was a lot of fun. We went to see less active Sis. Falco and had a super great lesson on tithing and faith and Sister Bernhisel was able to bear her testimony about tithing. Sis. Falco fell down the stairs, but still came to church! She is such a cute and diligent little lady.
We also went to see our investigator, Dale..whose name is actually Cham. (the one who told us he could be his own prophet and that his whole life is a prayer and therefore, he doesn't need to pray out loud.) We had an amazing lesson with him and we were able to teach a lot of the restoration and focused a lot on him learning for himself to know whether or not the Book of Mormon is true. It went incredibly well. He even prayed at the end! We're making progress! We had dinner at a really yummy italian restaurant with sister Evans and she talked our ears off about how she joined the church. It was a great story. She went through a lot to be where she is today.
We have discovered that 2/3 of our investigators have alias names. We met with "Michelle" on friday. We discovered at church on Sunday that her name is actually Reshell and she just didn't correct us because everyone gets her name wrong. lol. We had a great lesson with her on Friday and she invited her friend, Amy to sit in on the lesson as well. Sis. Wade came with us. I love love love Sis. Wade. She is amazing. We talked to them about doing missionary work a few weeks ago and miracles are happening all over the place now! Sis. Wade talked to her friend across the street about getting together and when they swapped numbers her friend noticed that she had a Utah number. Sis. Wade was surprised she knew the area code and as it turns out, Sis. Wade's neighbor's best friend is from Ogden UT. Raised in the church, but not active. So, Sis. Wade is going to try to get all three of them together to have lunch or something. I am so excited for her!
We went and did some service for recent convert, Shaunti on Saturday. We cleaned out a closet for her and in the process found 4 baptism jumpers. Shaunti response, "Oh yeah. I wondered where those ended up." She is a funny woman. The Swift family had a miracle in doing missionary work as well. They had been looking for a missionary opportunity and as it turned out, their neighbor came and asked them what church they went to because she saw them go to church every week. Bro. Swift told her a little about the church and invited her to have us come over and share more. We went and met her daughter who is really excited to come to church and is looking forward to meeting with us this week.
Church was good. Reshell was able to come for gospel principles and relief society. The ward swarmed her with welcomes and love and everything else you could ever hope a ward would do. We finally were able to do weekly planning on Sunday. (It was the only day we didn't have appointments going all day). We had dinner with the Clays and it was a good way to end the week.
I can't believe September is already half over. (AH!) It is insane how fast time flies.
I hope you all have a wonderful week. The church is true. It has God's authority.
Love,
Sister J
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