I hope you all had a great week! It was great week for us in the Fairport area! One of the busiest weeks I've had while serving in this area!
Monday was great, p-day is always a blessed day. We went out to Palmyra and hung out and walked through the grove. We had a lesson set up with Jennifer (changed her tire a couple weeks ago.) and she had to cancel because of work.... so we ended up going to Brother and Sister Holohan's and sharing a message and they gave us a referral and are inviting them over for dinner Saturday!
Tuesday was a great day, we had zone conference! It was so awesome! We got trained in how to implement the Book of Mormon and Bible more into our teachings. It was awesome. Now for when we teach an investigator or less active we have a piece of paper that says:
Read: 2 Nephi 31
Ponder: What do I need to do to follow Jesus Christ?
Pray: Is the Book of Mormon the word of God?
And we give them specific things and questions to ponder while they read so they can have the Book of Mormon rooted deep within their soul. I love the idea of it cause it'll help the person keep the commitment, and keeping commitments means repentance and that's what we want!😊 We also had car inspections today, and who ever has the cleanest car in the zone gets the "golden plates" and we got em'! I've gotten them everytime! We ended the night with a less active: Sister Vaisey, we taught her the restoration. She's recently lost her faith and hasn't been to church so we are starting with the basics and getting faith rekindled.
Wednesday was our service day! We were at Saint's Place! Elder Falter and I went out on the delivery truck into downtown Rochester! We didn't have any weird experiences this time but it was still fun to hang out with Micheal! After Saint's Place we did studies then went and saw Lar'a Anderson. He's telling everyone about the spiritual
experience he had last time! So that's cool! He's an interesting fellow. We had dinner the Farar family! They are awesome! Our last appointment of the night canceled so we went up to Fairport and street contacted and ran into Sara, she's really cool and wants to learn more about forgiveness! She seems solid! We will see where it goes! We have a return appointment with her this Tuesday!
Thursday we did some more service, this time it was for a less active. Sister Priest. Her backyard needed to be racked and cleaned up a little bit so we took our morning and racked leaves for her! She is so awesome! Sweetest old lady ever. After service we came back up to the apartment had lunch then did more service for another less active. We picked up some garbage around his yard and sticks. It only took about 30 minutes. Then we changed into whites and went out tracting in the pouring rain... not such luck. We had a lesson with Lela! It was really spiritual and awesome. She actually stayed in a spiritual tangent this time! Haha love Lela! Afterwards we went out and finished the street we were tracting and we knocked on Gloria's door, she opened up and let us right in! We shared a couple scriptures from the Book of Mormon with her and tried giving her a copy.... she wouldn't even touch it. But after bearing testimony and reading more from it, her heart was softened to the point that she took and said she would read Moroni 7 and we got a return appointment for next Tuesday!
Friday was great! It was my birthday... I think, haha didn't feel like any special day. Thanks for all the birthday wishes. It was good to get emails from people who love me! Today instead of weekly planning we went to the mission office and they took our care to go get a hitch receiver and an oil change and we worked on bikes. It was
great! We had a lesson with Pam Sinkler! She's so awesome and has really grown the past couple weeks. We got our car back and had a bike rack and bikes! So it'll help us be more efficient and effective in this area! We parked the car and got the bikes and rode down to Jeff Ornts, that was a mistake. There are two huge hills just outside of
Fairport and we had to climb both on the way there and on the way back... didn't think I was this out of shape... haha😂 we had a good lesson with Jeff. He's a homie. Brian, the dope Utah member who we met a couple weeks ago took us out for my birthday dinner. He brought a couple of he's friends and we had a good time! It was a great
birthday!
Saturday we did weekly planning in the morning and I was under the weather so I practically slept the whole time... I took a 45 minute nap before our service and it didn't help much. For our service we helped a hoarder organize all his stuff in his garage... a ton of books and picture frames... it was ridiculous. But his heart was softened. That's all that matters, is that people get the good vibe about Mormons in this area. After service we went out and tracted a
little bit then had our dinner with the Holohan's! But the referral family didn't show up.... it was kinda depressing. But it's all good. We had a good time with them! Afterwards we went out on the bikes and did more finding. Talked to a cool lady at a gas station. We had FHE with the Crockers! On our way back to the car we were riding our bikes
and then all of the sudden my pedal fell off! So I had to walk my bike the rest of the way... haha great way to end the night.
Sunday was a great Sabbath day! Bishop's daughter just got home from her mission in Brazil so she gave her homecoming talk! We didn't have any investigators today... we are trying hard tho! After church we had dinner with then studies the. Went out finding! We met some really good people and even a guy named mike who is going to take us fishing before the transfer ends! He's interested in the gospel as well! So sick! Other than that not a whole lot happened today.
I hope all of you have follow the direction of the prophet and have read the Book of Mormon each day. Something President Evans stressed at zone conference was how do we get the Book of Mormon deep within our soul? And that's why he has encouraged us to do this read, ponder, pray. He said as we do this ourselves and with our investigators that we will be able to see the difference as the Book of Mormon becomes rooted into their and our souls. Don't just read the Book of Mormon... ponder it in your hearts and let it into your soul! That's the only way it will impact your life! And that's the whole purpose of it, to help us prepare to meet god. I know that it's the true word of god and it has truly blessed my life more than I can explain. Love all of you! Hope you have a great week to come!
Love,
Elder Judy
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