Monday was a pretty chill Pday. We didn't have any plans and just hung
out at our tiny church building all day and emailed. After Pday ended
we went to the Owens house down in the lake and had dinner and FHE
with them! We had a lesson with Tyrone, he's on date for august 5th!
He's doing well! We read the Book of Mormon with him to help him
understand it.
Tuesday was one of the best days of my mission, it was transfer day
and all missionaries met in palmyra and we switched around the
luggage, got Elder Shorts stuff then we went into the building and
took a picture with President Uchtdorf and his wife, then we got to
shake his hand! President uchtdorf also spoke to us, he talked about
having passion, persistences, and grit for life and work. The spirit
was so strong and it was such a privilege to be able to listen,
basically one on one with a special witness of Jesus Christ. I have
been able to here from 2 members of the first presidency while being
in my mission. Hopefully president monson can make it to the NRYM then
I'd have the whole first presidency!😂 after our meeting we got our
sack lunches then hit the road and made the 2 hour journey back to
arcade, we had dinner with the cooper family. We are helping brother
cooper build a picnic table. There so awesome, hopefully they will
start to come back to church. We took Elder Short around to a couple
people to introduce him to them. Then we went grocery shopping. Elder
Short is from San Diego, California he's been out on his mission for
20 months. He's super cool! It's been a good time so far. It's was a
pretty good 4th of July.
Wednesday we had lots of lessons, we had our weekly scripture lesson
with Dennis! We saw a couple less actives and the littles, there
investigators that are also pastors of there own church.. the husband
is retiring soon and wants to have a congregation for afterwards so we
have been teaching them! We ended the day with Jesse sexton and carol,
they are so awesome. Jesse has stage 4 COPD and had a stroke on
Sunday, he has no toes. He's a pretty bear up man. We gave him a
blessing last week and he said ever since we gave it to him he's just
felt peace and knew everything was going to be okay, then he had the
stroke but he was comforted as he had it.... god is good all the time.
Thursday we had our apartment inspected by my favorite senior couple,
the Jeffries! There from Idaho as well! But we got an A! Mom you would
be proud of me!:) we had district meeting in gowanda and I had planned
a training to give and I started it off how I planned and the spirit
took over and did a whole other thing with drawings on the board,
scriptures, and testimony. It was pretty cool to look back and think
of what happened. So last week Elder Shaw and I Tracted into this lady
named Rebecca, she's a young mom of 2 kids and we had our appointment
with her today, she let us right in and we got to know her, she's in
the air force and she has been wanting to get her children and herself
back involved with religion and that's the reason why she invited us
back. We taught her the restoration and she believed that there could
be a prophet again on the earth, we invited her to church and she
invited us this Tuesday for dinner and a lesson! She's so cool. We had
dinner at the Owens again. We had a couple lessons in delevan that
fell through so we did some walking around contacting people, we
contacted Thomas, and he's the guy who pulled over in the side of the
road and asked for a Book of Mormon, well we dropped by today and
taught him the restoration, throughout the whole lesson he was saying
"that's amazing" when we told him about President Monson he said "wow,
there is someone lead by Christ that cares for me? Maybe this is the
religion that I have been looking for my whole life, the missing
peace." It was a super spiritual lesson. We ended our night with the
buziak family, we taught them about building our foundation in Christ.
Friday we had a super good weekly planning session, best one in a
while! We did lots of contacting peeps in Sardinia, a little tiny tiny
town about 5 minutes away. We cleaned that place up so it is ready for
tracting in the next little while again. We had a lesson with Donna
Eccles we taught her the plan if salvation and we put her in date for
September 2nd. She's so funny, she's believes in the church and knows
it's the true Church of Christ but is hesitant to be baptized because
she doesn't think she will be prepared. She's an older lady as well.
The Gonzalez family fed us dinner, there the coolest. We had our one
appointment for the night cancel.... so we spent the night in delevan
walking and talking, tracting, and hanging up pageant fliers. Oh yeah
that starts this week! This weekend and next week, can't wait to go!
Hopefully we can get there.
Saturday we had branch correlation in the morning then we finished up
studies and had a lesson with Tyrone then we went to Sandusky and
tracted some, went to farmersville station and tracted some, no luck
today. Handed out a couple Book of Mormons but no return appointments
which is kinda sad. We tracted for about 2 hours, we had dinner the
Dahill family, there super cool and were less active for 10 years and
just came back about a year ago! There super strong. After dinner we
did some less active contacting on the way up to arcade, we dropped by
the earls and they let us in and we got have a really spiritual lesson
with them. We had a lesson with Russel Pritchard, he's a in actives
husband. He taught him about the Book of Mormon and how and why it's
important for our lives, we also invited him to read it daily, he said
he will give it a shot.
Sunday we had branch council in morning and after getting out of that
we walked in to the sacrament meeting room and saw Katie and her 2
year old son, Donna, and Rebecca with her 2 kids. It was so awesome! 4
at sacrament meeting. After church Rebecca invited us over for a 4th
of July party so we went over and had some lunch then did our studies
and cruised up to bliss and had a lesson with jack leffler, a recent
converts son who is now also on date for august 27th! We called some
members to set up appointments, no one answered. We had a lesson with
Becky and she finally read the Book of Mormon, I had a mini copy of
the Book of Mormon that I had studied and I was sharing scriptures
from it and she asked to she it, I gave it to her and she loved it! So
I just told her to keep it. Then we got home and I asked my companions
if I really just gave away a Book of Mormon that I had studied and
used a lot for teaching... they said yes. Oh well. She can use it more
than me. And happy birthday to my sister Ashley!😊
The past couple of weeks I have been studying about how I can become a
consecrated servant of the lord, I have read conference talks,
different stories in the scripture stories about consecrated
missionaries, Alma, Ammon, nephi, all of these people would do
anything for there god. And the meeting that we had with president
Utchdorf topped it off for me, the lords knows my desires of my heart.
I know that for a fact. I know he knows us by name, he knows us and
loves us. My favorite scripture is 1 Nephi 21: 15-16 it talks about
how a women, or person could forget there sucking child, then the lord
says I will never forget thee, I have written your name upon the palms
of my hands, he will never forsake us either, the lord is loving and
it forgetting. I love my savior Jesus Christ and would do anything for
him. I love all of you! And hope you have a fantastic week!
Love,
Elder Judy
Getty ready for the President Uchtdorf pic
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