This week has been all kinds of crazy. (In a good
way). Our district went to the temple, which was great. I love that we
have a temple in our mission boundaries and are able to go as often as
we do. It's a wonderful time for personal revelation for your life.
After that we went to the zoo! I haven't been to an actual zoo in ages,
so it was a lot of fun. Also...DEON IS GETTING BAPTIZED! A little
background on him in case I haven't mentioned anything in a while. Deon
is (well, now was!) Hindu, but his brother joined the church and he had
the desire to learn what he believed. He's so intelligent, and LOVES the
Book of Mormon. He's date-set for May 28th. Woohoo!
We
had another lesson with Tony. We watched the Restoration movie with him
and a young couple from the ward. The spirit was so strong, especially
when Joseph Smith was martyred. Afterwards when we asked him what he
felt, you could tell he was pretty emotional and really felt the spirit.
Tony never verbalizes how he feels, and it's usually a constant
guessing game. But his emotions made it clear that he knew what he saw
really happened, and that Joseph Smith was truly a prophet of God. Tony
has come leaps and bounds, and for him to tell us he would finally, with
real intent, pray about it, is huge.
Our other investigators
are good, but I wouldn't really call them progressing. You can
definitely tell who has the desire to learn, and who just wants to use
the missionaries as therapists or for slave labor haha. Which isn't bad,
because we love to help people with their problems, and we love to do
service- but there's a difference between wanting to learn about the
gospel and just wanting people to talk to. We fasted yesterday for some
solid people desiring to come closer to Christ, and I know our prayers
will be answered in God's perfect timing!
So if you thought
winter was over for us up north, you thought wrong- we had a massive
white-out the other day. I mean, humongous. Luckily we weren't out
driving around in it this time, but in a matter of 2 minutes the parking
lot outside our window went from nothing to BAM! a foot of snow. It's
getting ridiculous, I am soooo ready for spring!! Your girl ain't cut
out for the Eskimo life. On the bright side, it was good we got snowed
in, because our toilet decided to EXPLODE. Our whole bathroom got
flooded- it was pretty nasty. Coming from a girl who's never even held a
plunger before, it was gross. But yay for missions teaching you how to
be self-reliant, and we figured out how to make the flooding go down.
It's always an adventure!
This time next week transfers
will have been announced, so this might be my last week in Eden Prairie.
I am so grateful for the gospel and for all the ways it's blessed my
family. The church is true! Love, Sister Brett
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