Monday, we had the Labor Day picnic with the ward at the Ontario County Park. A beautiful park that is high on the mountain top with a sweet view! We had good conversations with ward members and were able to build a little relationship. We had a night full of appointments that canceled. We did a little bit of finding and ended the night with
a half active family doing family home evening! It was a good kick start to the week.
Tuesday we had a really solid lesson with Deongella. She was telling us how she didn't know if this was right for her and all these things... and described a sense of following the world, so I was able to use my favorite New Testament story of Jesus Christ walking on water, and Peter wanting to walk with him and sinking from being
distracted from the winds and waves. I was able to compare that to her in the situations she is going through and she loved it, to the point she is now preparing for October 14th as her baptismal date. So awesome! Her closing prayer was the most sincere heart-felt prayers I have ever heard. It was great! That night walking to the church building there was a dude in the cemetery that we started talking to. His name is Parker and we had a good conversation about life. We brought in the gospel and taught him the restoration and testified of the Book of
Mormon and the power within it's pages and he was hooked. He kept eye contact the whole time and loved it. We got his contact info and will see him later in the week!
Wednesday was a great day! We taught John, a recent convert about the sacrament and how to make it meaningful and more of a personal experience. We had district meeting! It was great! We had a couple
lessons and did some finding before dinner. After dinner we did some more finding and got caught in a massive rain storm... We had a lesson with Natalie, Gorge, and Alana. We taught them the law of chastity, they aren't married but we really supported them in knowing that they could do it before the 30th of this month. It'll be hard but
we know they can do it. We had Brother and Sister Fallentine come along. It was great!
Thursday morning we had a lesson with Brother Schwab, a return member. He's such a good guy! We've met lots of good guys who are now interested in the gospel. God has been blessing us so much! It's awesome. We found 7 new this week! We had another lesson with Deongella and we taught her the plan of salvation. As we were talking about the Atonement she stopped us and asked if we felt that... and began to cry and said she has never felt this much peace in any other church. That was another witness to me the truth of what we have. It was cool. Very
humbling. Be grateful for what you know and feel to be true.
Friday we did some planning for the week and had a few lessons. It was a slow day. Didn't see much but we gave it our all and knew god was proud as I laid my head down to rest.
Saturday was a day chuck full of lessons. It was gnarly. Some of them fell through but we were able to follow the spirit of god to lead us to some more prepared souls. It was a good day!
Sunday Deongella came to church and loved it! It was her second time and she loved and was telling everyone about her baptism on the 14th of October. It was so awesome, she's so prepared and ready for the gospel. She even went to a self-reliance fireside that night. She has been taking notes while at church and while we teach her. It has been cool to see her change. We had dinner with the Watkins family, defiantly the coolest family I've met here! They are super cool, we had a good time with them. God is blessing us so much. Pays off to work hard and be obedient.
This week I have really been thinking of ways to make the sacrament more meaningful, and through lots of prayer and thinking the thought of reading The Living Christ came to mind. I did it this past week and man did it work. I would invite all of you to think of ways to make that hour of one-on-one time with your savior more meaningful and
experience you want to look forward to each week. God is good. It's all true.
Love,
Elder Judy
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