This week has been incredible:: here are a few highlights from each day!
Tuesday we had 3 lessons. One was with this less active family. We talked about the importance of Sacrament meeting. The wife said "When people like us who are 'attendance challenged' don't go to sacrament meeting, we miss that feeling. You don't have that constant reminder all the time of where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going. And that's what the sacrament has always reminded me. I know Our spirits are weak right now. But Heavenly Father has never forgotten us. I want my grand kids to grow up knowing about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I will commit to coming on June 1st!" The lesson just went so well and bro berkhimer shared his testimony and it was powerful. He said that the first thing to do is to start coming back to church. They agreed and said they would come! It was such a powerful lesson and the spirit was there. We also taught a lesson on Facebook. This is how the Facebook lessons work: we find people (mostly random! or we get referrals). You know how you randomly might get friend requests from people from other countries that you didn't have mutual friends with? Well, we add them and message them about the gospel: teaching principles, extending commitments, and leaving something behind! It's really exciting. The goal of online teaching is to be able to pass these investigators over to missionaries in the residing area of the investigators and have them finish teaching and be able to baptize them. Another sister here is awesome with Facebook finding. She would find random people in America and other countries and just ask if they wanted to learn more about Jesus Christ and in the last few months she has been able to take someone with no knowledge of the gospel, teach them, and pass them to missionaries in their area, and they have gotten baptized! I think her Facebook baptism count is at least 6 or 7! The online work is hastening!
Wednesday:
We started off the day doing service for sister wells. We spread 11,000 sq feet of an area with cow compost stuff (cow poop) because they are getting ready to lay sod. I taught a lesson on Facebook! I went to the tomnod search page and messaged everyone that looked like they weren't members and one of the ladies replied! We discussed the articles of faith and started talking about the restoration. Then we also taught Alisha, our recovering addict, and invited her to be baptized on July 5th! We also did more service for the WML's wife who has been ill. Then we taught another new investigator named Christina. Her sister died like 8 months ago but Memorial Day is today so she was emotional thinking about how sad she was going to be today. We reassured her that death wasn't the end and that she will be able to see her sister again. We found some awesome potential investigators that we are going to teach next week as well!
Thursday:
We taught on Facebook and then headed for a lesson with sis vandellar, our regular Thursday appointment:) she just found out that she has skin cancer and has to go in for foot and shoulder therapy for her weak body. She requested a blessing so we went and found some elders to do that for her. We met another lady and had a doorstep lesson. She has "read stuff" online and is confused about the story of Joseph Smith so hopefully we'll get to return soon and teach her about the restoration! Then we went out and got our 20 and went to another less active lesson except they weren't home. Then Judy frendo texted us and said she had ice cream and ginger ale for us. So Of course we went! We read from 1 nephi with her and talked about the scriptures with her.
Friday:
Weekly planning! And we got our 20 contacts in just THIRTY MINUTES! (Record). Then we helped this lady in our ward pack up her house to move. We were suppose to have a Sleepover with the other 4 sisters but then sis alba sent out a text to the whole vacaville zone everyone saying it wasn't allowed. Oops. Ha. But we found out transfer doctrine!!!!!! I am staying in vacaville and I am getting 2 new companions. Sister Beach and Sister Clawson! I'll be in a trio! Sis Clawson will be STL. I am Sad SIster agura is leaving me. She is headed down to Santa Rosa and will be in the same ward with the mission president and his wife.
Saturday:
After personal study we went to get donuts and then met up with the district leaders at the church for companionship study. Then from there we went to the Alamo building for Blitz for the 1st ward area Then after blitz sis agura and I sped over to mcdonalds for a lesson with bob. Bro Rayfield came and the lesson was great. Bob had some really good questions and we shared the restoration with Him. Bro Rayfield is a convert and joined at 17 (I didn't know that before hand) and he was a perfect fellowshipper for bob and was able to explain and testify about the restoration and invited bob to sit by his family at church! Then we went to see Shirley and trish. Shirley told me that Trish was like selling all sorts of random things and I told Shirley that the clock on the wall was really cute and she told me that Trish would probably sell it to me. So Shirley asked Trish when she woke up and Trish took it off the wall and said I could have it for free! Score! Ask and he shall receive. Then we went to Judy frendo's for the night and helped install her printer and then shared Alma 8 with her.
Sunday:
Judy attended sacrament meeting. It was a very low key Sunday. Running around getting pictures because sis agura is leaving Wednesday. Bob didn't come to church. That was disappointing, but he said on June 8th he will:)
We have some great investigators, we just need them all to be home so we can teach them!!! I love you all! Have a great Memorial Day!! <3
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