This week was awesome! This church is so true it's unreal! Haha this week was full of tracting and street ontacting in downtown Medina! The member missionary work in our ward is nothing, so we do a lot of finding activities. So if there's any ideas for finding activities in a small town... please email them to me!!!
Monday was P-Day and Elder Verdine and I and the other set of missionaries in our ward drove up to Niagara Falls! While we were driving it started to pour.... haha our luck! But we didn't let it stop us from going, we went and walked around and realized we were getting drenched so we ran back to the car and drove over to the
outlet mall. We walked around there and talked with people and had a good time! After all that we went to Buffalo Wild Wings! Elder Peterson from Utah did the blazin challenge and won a shirt! Then we drove home and went out to do some street finding, we walked around all of Medina and everyone was rejecting our message. It was super
sad. On our way home we ran into Johnnie who is a potential and we talked with him for a little bit till we got rained out, it poured and we still had like 2 miles back to the apartment! We were soaked by the time got home!
Tuesday was a super slow day, a lot of walking around knocking on doors. With no luck all day long. We were walking back to the apartment after a lesson had fallen through and a lady was walking towards us, I built up that 15 seconds of confidence and started a conversation! I asked her how her day was and she said lovely, with a
lot of sarcasm! So I said really? What's wrong? And she was like, oh not much I'm just going to get arrested! Right after she said this a cop pulled up and called her over to his car and Elder Verdine and I looked at each other and said have a nice night and walked off. Haha weird street contacting experience!
Wednesday we taught a lady that has been a potential for a very long time and she doesn't want to be quiet while we try and teach her, she is a talker. We started the restoration and got to the principle of the gospel blesses families. Which is only the second principle. We were there for 2 hours. At the end she admitted to her talking and
said she will be quiet next time so we are keeping our fingers crossed about that! Her name is Jackie Pletcher. She will make an amazing member.
Thursday we drove out to Middleport, which is about 10 minutes west of Medina and we did some finding there. We went and tried to contact people out of the area book but had no luck so we went and knocked doors. Elder Verdine told me it was my turn to take charge, so I chose the street, and did pretty much everything. We tracted out Park Ave, and only handed out one Book of Mormon, and I got my first door slams!
Haha it's pretty interesting to see how many people reject hearing a message about Jesus Christ. It's pretty sad. After tracting in Middleport we went down to Lockport and had dinner with some members who own a candle business! They let us make some candles free of charge! It was a lot of fun! After dinner we headed back to Medina and taught the word of wisdom to Susan and Cordel! They said they are committed and that they are setting their mind to it. Everyone in western New York smokes, every where we go and everyone we teach
there's always a smoker.
Friday was a slow day we had weekly planning and district meeting took up all day! District meeting was way awesome, we had training on Teach when you find, find when you teach! And that's been something
I've been struggling on this whole time here! So it was very helpful for me!
Saturday and Sunday we watched general conference with the Pace family! The stake presidents family! That was a lot of fun! Conference was so awesome! I loved the Saturday morning session and how it was on
prayer, it answered a lot of questions that I had and I hope it did the same for all of you!
I want all of you to know that I know Joseph Smith is the true prophet of the restoration, he is a prophet of god. I know that he saw god the father and his son Jesus Christ in the sacred grove. I know this church is true without a doubt in my mind. I know that Heavenly Father answers prayers. And I know that prayer is a very powerful thing.
Prayer is the passport to peace, it brings miracles. The Book of Mormon is the greatest book upon this earth, I have read it and I know it. The Book of Mormon is what brings true conversion to all people. So if you have not read it, I invite you to! You won't regret it! I love being a missionary, I love being a representative of my savior.
It the greatest blessing. I hope all of you have a great week! God speed.
Love,
Elder Judy
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