Secret Combinations

My New....NEW Companion from the Empty Sea (MTC)....

Hello from.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raleigh! Yes. Raleigh. The assistants got confused somewhere along the line and I was misinformed and thus it came to pass that I am now in Raleigh. There are a lot of cars here. It kind of freaks me out sometimes. I am used to seeing like 50 cars total everyday. Now there are 50 cars always on my tail! lol.

 

My companion is amazing! Her name is Sister Asay. She is from Taylorsville, UT and likes to sing. She is really bubbly, likes music, has red hair, and is just a great missionary. It is pretty amazing she is on a mission. She grew up in a less active family. Her family is still not active. They are supportive of her going on a mission though. She grew up going to church with her neighbors and just decided one day that she wanted to serve a mission. She has an incredible testimony. I feel like she has been out for much longer than 26 days or whatever it is now.

 

We had a crazy week. When we got transferred to Raleigh we had zero information on the area. The assistants forgot to bring the maps of our area, our phone was brand new which=no phone numbers, and the other elders didn't bring the area book....so, we were very lost and confused. Thankfully, we live the Clay family (who actually live a ways out of our area in the Falls Lake ward. They are wonderful. Bro. Clay is the high council person over missionary work in the Raleigh Stake and he was able to at least get us the names of the bishop and the ward mission leaders so we could at least do something semi-productive. The Clays are a funny older couple. They have a daughter that is still living at home too. I love living with them.

 

Wednesday we had district meeting. We were able to get our maps and our area book (huzzah!) Elder Brown and Elder Garrett from Deep Run are in my district again. It should be a fun district. We had a good lesson on charity. Charity is not so much about the act of doing something good for someone else; it is the motive behind doing it. It is what compels you to do something good for someone else. We met with a less active lady named Lisa that night. She is blind and LOVES to talk your ear off. We had a nice lesson from Enos and mixed the prodigal son in there as well. She came to church this sunday...so that is good!

 

We were also able to contact a recent convert who has gone less active named Shanti. She is amazing! She is so excited to have sister missionaries! We are going to meet with her on Thursday. She also came to church on Sunday and is probably one of the sweetest people I've met.

 

We spent most of our weekly planning going through all of the former investigators and the potentials. I hope there will be some fruit to reap from all of the time we put into going through the zillion former teaching records. The wards are amazing here. They are excited to do missionary work. The youth are on fire with missionary work. A 14 year old girl named Taylor told us that she had invited her friend Daisy to listen to the missionary lessons. She also gave her friend a Book of Mormon.

 

We tried tracting a few times this week. It was not productive at all.

 

We had the priviledge of going to zone leader/district leader council on friday. That was really neat! I wish I could be an elder sometimes. Since we are in Raleigh, we get to go to things like that now. Raleigh has perks! I learned SO much from that. It is amazing. There is so much revelation that comes from that meeting.

 

Sunday was crazy. We were running to and fro. I miss having just one ward to worry about. We went to sacrament in 1st ward, part of gospel principles, then we ran to 2nd ward sacrament, 1st ward ward council right after, and then to relief society in 2nd ward after that. Whew. I am thankful ward council is only twice a month. Bro. Henderson is our ward mission leader in the 1st ward. He is the best ward mission leader EVER. We went to his house for coordination and we went in through the back door...which I though was odd. Then, it was dark when we first went in. He cut on the lights and all of his kids and the elders and the ward missionaries shot us with nerf guns! Ahh! It was hilarious. I am so excited to serve here.

 

The Book of Mormon is true. I know that without any doubt. I was pondering this week about all the blessings of the priesthood and I am thankful for the restoration of the priesthood and that through that power we can be sealed with our loved ones for time and all eternity.

 

Have a wonderful week!

 

Love,

Sister J