Another week down! It was crazy busy for
multiple reasons. For one, we picked up 4 new investigators! The power
of fasting and prayer is real. Our district dedicated a full day to
finding new people to teach and it was a success for everyone! We've
been going around chalking sidewalks and parks with
mormon.org links and #hallelujah for the Easter Initiative, so even if we don't talk to everyone there, they'll for sure see it!
So,
my companion is very intense. She has mad drive for missionary work
(which is awesome). Such drive, that we went to the podiatrist
on Friday
and found out she's been walking around on a broken foot for 7
months...7 months!! She finally took the time to get it checked out and
is now donning crutches and a scooter. You'd think an injury like that
would slow someone down, but she's going twice as fast now that she has a
scooter to zip around on. Not to mention the handicapped parking permit
we got #score. Pray for me that I can keep up with her now!
Saturday
we got to go to a temple sealing! I love love love sealings in the
temple and knowing that you can be together for time and all eternity,
not till death do you part! Afterwards we went to the reception, which
was a blast. They played lots of good music, but I had to pretend I
wasn't paying attention, cuz you know, we're supposed to be professional
and all that. But it was still so much fun! I felt like a real person
again for a while :)
Last night we went to Mission
President's Fireside, which is where all the missionaries in the mission
can bring their investigators and have a testimony meeting about the
gospel. It's AWESOME. It was so exciting to see all the missionaries
from my last area. I was catching up with a sister from my old zone when
the spirit told me to go talk to a woman who was coming out of the
bathroom. I didn't really want to because I wanted to stay and chat with
the other missionaries before they left, but I went ahead and went over
to her. It turns out she's from Alabama and was born in Mississippi!
Her name is Little Fawn, and she opened up her whole life story and we
talked for nearly 30 minutes. She fell into the same problems a lot of
girls in the south do, and got pregnant when she was 15. She's 27 and
has 5 kids, and is pregnant with her sixth. She was deciding on the
names Thelma or LuAnne...I told her I liked Thelma and she agreed that
was the better fit, so I can say I help named a baby on my mission! She
is the sweetest person I've ever met, and I couldn't help but want to
give her the biggest hug and tell her I loved her. She couldn't stop
crying during most of our conversation, and hormones definitely could
have something to do with it, but I think she really felt the spirit
after the fireside. She lives an hour outside of our area, but she said
she was saving up for a car and that she would drive down and make us
grits and cornbread. After she walked away I talked to her elders and
they said they hadn't asked her to be baptized yet...I told them to GET
ON IT. She's so ready and so needs the gospel! Just like we all do, even
if we don't realize it.
Well, that's kind of all the super
eventful stuff, and there's a zip-line calling my name at a member's
house, so....until next week! -Sister Brett
"And now, O my
son, this was the ministry unto which ye were called, to declare these
glad tidings unto this people, to prepare their minds; or rather that
salvation might come unto them, that they may prepare the minds of their
children to hear the word at the time of his coming." -Alma
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