Hey y'all!
First off, I'm staying in Medina. And I will be in a trio with Elder Verdine... and Elder Hahne! Elder Verdine goes home the 17th so we will on be in trio for 10 days. Hope you all had a great week and life is treating you well!
Monday was like any other p-day! It was so nice to talk with people back home! We had a crepe eating contest at bishops house again, except we were on exchanges so Elder Shaw was with me! It was a lot of fun! We had a really good time together!
Tuesday Elder Shaw and I had a super solid day. We walked every where cause we were short in miles so that was the only down side. We taught a couple lessons but we taught a lesson to a recent convert, Daniel
Zimmerman! The first question I asked him is if he has been reading and praying. He said "nope" that was depressing. So we kinda tried to give him a pep talk. We read 2 nephi 29 with and showed him a Mormon
message about prayer. 2 nephi 29 is the chapter that has changed my view of the Book of Mormon 180 degrees. It's an awesome chapter. And some how we ended up talking about general conference and we showed
him the most recent conference talk by president thomas S. Monson! He said he had chills and shivers down his spin while watching so we immediately testified of that he was feeling the Holy Ghost. I can't stress the importance of daily prayer and scripture study in our lives. It's so important. Wednesday we met with sister Gardner! She is an original member of the Medina branch! So awesome! She gave us a ton of referrals! She is the sweetest old lady ever. We went to another false churches bible study! it was fun! The gateway to heaven. I'm just waiting for them to allow us a little time to preach at the end of the Bible study! I have the faith one day they'll let us! Thursday we had a really good lesson with Jeremiah! He's a guy we met street contacting in the ghetto of Medina! We taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ at Levi paces house! Turns out they were friends in high school! Pretty cool! Haha Jeremiah is still studying with JW's we are trying to tell him nicely tell him to stop... haha he's on date for the 17th but most likely we will push him into January.
Friday we did weekly planning, we deleted 12 week from our days... we have so much open space. It was so hard to fill that extra hour with things to do! I'm just saying we have to tract a lot more now... haha didn't ever think I would be doing that a year and half a ago. We have a goal to tract an hour a day. And I have a feeling we might have to extend that to more than an hour. Haha we were walking to go see a potential investigator and we walked past this house and a guy comes out and asked us if we were Mormons we told him yes! And he said that
his masonry group has been wanting Mormons to speak at there meetings! So we set up a time to go talk to him this coming week! We tracted into his fiancé a little bit ago, so we will start teaching them! Saturday was mainly a service day we helped an old couple in the ward move across town from Lockport to new fane. It was a big disaster. Haha
Thursday I was super ready for change within my companionship.Elder Verdine only talks about home and nothing else. Even in our lessons. My best lessons this week were on exchanges cause me and Shaw are pretty new still and home is way to far to even think about but Verdine talks about going home with investigators. It's really
frustrating. Happy I'll be in a trio. Haha should be good!
Sunday we had church of course! Scott smith, my first baptism! He received the Aaronic priesthood!!!! So proud of that kid. It's literally the best. Such a great example to me. But fast sundays are different in Medina! Why? Because we get to go to the Medina branch! They have sacramenting and Scott got to pass the sacrament for the first time! and gospel principles and then a big pot luck at the end of the day! It's so much fun! Absolutely loving my mission.
Just want y'all to know how grateful I am for this gospel in my life. I'm grateful for "goodly parents" that raised me in this gospel. I love having the knowledge that death has no sting and life does not end at the grave. We are so blessed. The Book of Mormon is the most correct book of any book upon this earth. That is so true. I've read
the Book of Mormon and took the promise at the end that Moroni gives to all men. I prayed and the feelings and emotions I had I can not deny that the Book of Mormon is a another testament of Jesus Christ. Prayer is our only communication to our Heavenly Father... why wouldn't we talk with him everyday or countless times a day? Prayer is the passport to peace. If we want anything and we have the faith we can get it, all we need to do is pray and ask, miracles are brought through prayer. I've been in the sacred grove multiple of times... the feeling that is there and the experience I had there in the past has convinced me that god the father and Jesus Christ did appear to Joseph Smith and they did restore the gospel of Jesus Christ back onto the earth through him. This church is so true, and I love being a representative of my savior Jesus Christ.
Love all of you! Know that I miss you tons! Have a great week! God speed.
Love,
Elder Judy
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