This week was another great week in the Freedom Branch! This place is awesome! I hope you all had a wonderful week and are a super Sabbath Day, the most important part of our week.
Monday was a great day! We had Zone Pday. We went up to Orchard Park and our zone met there and we hung out and played some basketball and lacrosse. It was a lot of fun! It's good to be with other people and in civilization for a wee bit. Haha after Pday ended the Gowanda elders came to Freedom and we blitzed our area. Elder Jones and I were together! He's a stud! We spent most of our night in Delevan! We saw lots of miracles. We found Heather while tracting and got in contact with a former investigator family!! Super awesome! It was a great day!
Tuesday, Elder Jones and I were still together and we had a solid day planned we had lots of finding time! Haha we actually ended up finding 2 more people to start teaching! We spent most of our day in the Franklinville area. The most south part of our area! We tracted Pine Street, that's where we found Melvin and Carey Ann! We did a little
bit of former contacting and got in contact with Shirley Miller, she's a member's niece and she said she would love to start over again! So we will see what fruits come from that! We had a lesson with Jessie Sexton, he sang us a song that he wrote about Christ. It was legit. I'll send the video. After our lesson with Jessie we did a little more
finding then headed back up to Arcade for the day. It was a good time with Elder Jones, his a stud of a missionary!
Wednesday was a great day! We had services with Sister Sansone to start off the morning, we helped her plant some flowers and make a new flower bed in the side of her house! Then Elder Short had his exit interview. We had our weekly scripture study with Dennis Raines, he's the nicest guy you'll ever meet. We had our studies, in personal study lately I've been studying the Book of Mormon, and also Elder Holland conference talks... I recommend "Safety for the Soul. My favorite! After our studies we went to Machias for some lessons, our first one
was with Bob Mossier and he canceled because he wasn't feeling well at all. So we drove across the highway and started tracting Hazelmere for 45 minutes or so. Then had a lesson with the Bain's. On the way back to Arcade we did a little bit of less active contacting but had no luck. During dinner a member called and said her mother was in the Springville hospital and needed a blessing. After our dinner hour we headed over to Springville. We gave her a blessing then shared a message about trials and facing them with faith and patience. We spent the rest of the night in Springville. We walked over to the trailer park to contact a man that Elder Shaw and I found our first day in the
area. He was home but was busy. His name is Don Weight. We ended up finishing the trailer park out. We tracted into Irene. She is from Austria and has a super thick German accent. It was awesome. Couldn't really understand, but she took a Book of Mormon and she asked if we could get her a German one and wants to learn more!
Thursday we had district meeting right after studies. It was over in Gowanda this week. I trained on using our area book for finding, and also how to set goals. I used the scripture 1 Nephi 5:5. I invite you to read it and see how that applies to goal setting. After district meeting we had service with the Owens, they have a friend who is 84 years old and keeps falling while walking up their stairs. They wanted to do it before transfers just in case if I got transferred cause I'm the only one who knows what to do with construction stuff. We got there and I expected to start building a hand rail, but they hadn't even bought material yet. So I had measure it all out and drew it up and figured what we would need. Then they took us to Lowes with them to buy the material. Hah it was just weird. Didn't start the hand rail today. The Owens fed us dinner. We had a lesson with Tyrone. He's getting frustrating to teach. We did some contacting in the village of Arcade then walked home for the night!
Friday was a good day, planning in the morning and canceled appointments in the afternoon giving us the opportunity to go out and find people! I was very strongly prompted to talk to a man on his porch, I started talking to him and he accepted a Book of Mormon. We got to talking a little more and he started to express how he didn't
know if there was a Christ and different things like that. Good thing that's our job is to invite people to come into Him! :) We have a return appointment with him! We went and started and finished the hand rail as well! They are grateful that they don't have to continue risking their lives going up and down stairs now! They fed us dinner
as well. After dinner we had a lesson with Becky. We had a really good spirit filled lesson with her! We taught her more about the plan of salvation, she has so many questions about it! She is super confused about all this stuff tho, I feel really bad for her. One of the crazier experiences of my mission happened tonight as well. We felt very
strongly that we need to go see Sister Mason. We went down there and she was home and we got to talk with her a little but the whole time I could sense something was wrong. She started losing her breath and couldn't get it back and started having chest pains. We gave her a blessing and called 911 and she was hauled away in an ambulance.
Saturday was a pretty good day! We had branch correlation in the morning then a lesson with Sister Scales, we do a scripture study with her as well! Then we had lunch with the Coopers and they wanted us to help them build a picnic table, so we stayed a little longer and helped them. Oh and super cool, the Coopers are now preparing for the temple and for their 8 year old daughter, Vera to be baptized! We then contacted some less actives around the Cooper family. We had dinner at our apartment then went to Delevan to have a lesson with the lady, Heather that Elder Jones and I tracted into. She was home but was walking out the door as we were walking up.... she is still
interested! But she forgot about our appointment. We contacted some other people that we have been teaching but haven't seen in awhile. Same as less actives! We finally got in touch with Sister Mason's daughters family. We are going to help them with remodeling their house next week!
Sunday was a great Sabbath Day, the Coopers were at church! They had to leave a little earlier because Stephanie had to work. Right after church we had a lesson with Sister Buziak. She's not active but wants to prepare for the temple and things like that. We had a good talk about what she needs to do to get herself there. We had our studies then had dinner with the Leffler family. Since Elder Short is leaving he has to do a program called "My Plan". It's where you set a bunch of goals for when you get home and it takes 6 weeks to do. But he had to
do it 2 weeks, so after dinner we went to the church so that he would be able to finish the program. And while we were at the church we got a text from President Evans asking me to call him.... I gave him a call and he told me the lord has called me to be a zone leader! I guess we will see how this goes. Haha I'm excited. We haven't found
out what area yet, we will soon. We had a lesson with Rebecca, said goodbyes and taught her about the godhead.
Something I have learned this week about the godhead is that we have to involve all 3 in our lives somehow. To be able to receive those blessings we need to have personal relationships with each member of the godhead.
Father: to have a personal relationship with the father we must pray to him in the name of the son, that is the only way that we will be able communicate with him.
Jesus Christ: to have a personal relationship with the son we must
read his words, the scriptures! In John 1:1 Christ is referred to as the word. By reading the scriptures it gives Christ the opportunity to talk to use and enlighten us.
Holy Ghost: to have a relationship with the Holy Ghost we must keep the commandments, that is the only way he can remain with us constantly is if we are following the commandments and rules of god.
I invite all of you to have a personal relationship with each member of the godhead, pray daily, read the scriptures daily, and try your best to keep the commandments of god, as we do what the lord says he is bound, but if we do not what he says we have no promise.
read his words, the scriptures! In John 1:1 Christ is referred to as the word. By reading the scriptures it gives Christ the opportunity to talk to use and enlighten us.
Holy Ghost: to have a relationship with the Holy Ghost we must keep the commandments, that is the only way he can remain with us constantly is if we are following the commandments and rules of god.
I invite all of you to have a personal relationship with each member of the godhead, pray daily, read the scriptures daily, and try your best to keep the commandments of god, as we do what the lord says he is bound, but if we do not what he says we have no promise.
I love you all!
Love,
Elder Judy
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