This week went by so fast, it's crazy. So many good things are happening within our area and in our zone, thanks to Elder Bennett in teaching us how to be exactly obedient.
Tuesday was a great p-day! We got all the necessities done, and had a district p-day, Elder Griener and Harvey came up here to Canandaigua and we got some lunch and hung out, it was fun! When p-day ended we went out
to Bloomfield to do some finding and met with a less active family. We found Matt, we've taught him multiple times since then, he's great! We had a great visit with the Rougex family as well.
Wednesday was another day spent with Elder Bennett, all the zone leaders and sister training leaders got to have MLC with him. It was great! He basically told us what our mission needs to improve on... we are obedient just not all the way there yet, people are reading the white handbook to loosely. He said to read as if your companion is President Monson! So lots of changes are coming soon! So excited for the miracles we are going to see from it! We got to go to the Hill Cumorah and President invited us all to choose a chapter in the Book of Mormon and to go read it on the hill and look for ways that it will help this mission. I read 1 Nephi 3. We had a lesson with
Sue, but she was sick.... we had a lesson with Colleen, and then we gave Kristy a church tour!
Thursday was our first full day of work.. haha we got to help out a member of our church clean his living room in the morning. Then we went and had a lesson Kristen a nice lady we met a couple weeks ago. We had a couple other lessons then went up to Farmington and had dinner with Sister Allgood and her grandson Blake. They are super fun! Blake is a returning member, we've been working with him a little bit. We ended the night teaching Chris, we taught the law of chastity and the baptismal interview questions! She's almost there!
Friday was a long day... we met Erin out by the lake we sat down and taught her the whole restoration and she loved it and wants to learn more. We did some door knocking and had dinner, then went to Bloomfield again and had a lesson with Matt. In our first contact with him I promised him he would feel something he's never felt before, and he said that after he read the pamphlet he couldn't take the smile off his face. I thought that was really cool. God provides! And this is the Miracle Mission... we had a lesson with Colleen one of our most progressing investigators. We walked in and she had a friend there, we thought ok cool. Well turns out this lady, Sheena had spoken with Brother Potter earlier that day. He's a bus driver for the city of Canandaigua and he bore his testimony to her and she wanted to learn more so she came along with Colleen. We taught her the restoration and she asked for a priesthood blessing. It was crazy. God is just providing as we are striving to be exactly obedient.
Saturday we didn't have a single lesson.... it was a really long day but god is good and we found a ton of new people to teach. We knocked into Cherokee, she's a young mother with 2 kids that invited us back. Roger Peterson is also in that same neighborhood and he invited us back! That night we ran into Bailey, she's a younger lady who had lots of really good questions and we gave her a Book of Mormon and she accepted a return appointment. Then while walking to a formers house we walked by this dude and just asked "you wanna hear a message about Jesus Christ?" And he said ya why not so we set up a time. He's name is Jeff. For how long of a day it was we saw lots of success. Oh and also this dude named Rex just walked up to us on Main Street and gave us his address and said come over tomorrow... haha super cool!
Sunday was a really good day! We had all of our return appointments today! But most importantly it was sacrament meeting! Kristy came to church! She was really nervous and only stayed for the first hour. Chris also came! She's so awesome. After church we had a lesson with Kristen, she still hasn't read... so we are giving her one more
chance. We had personal study and then went to see Jeff and had our follow up lesson, he invited us right in and we asked why he invited us back and he said oh, just because I've seen you around and I'm curious. Haha we taught the full Restoration and he loved it and invited us back. We had another lesson with Matt. He's doing great! We had dinner with the Langan family, their house is crazy with 3 kids all in a row and 2 of them are twins. Haha we did some stop bys in Bloomfield then went and had our lesson with Rex. He basically taught us the restoration and he believes this is the true church. It's nuts, blew us away. Haha we had a lesson with Kristy but here's the catch to this one... she texted us earlier and said that she doesn't want to continue to go further... we texted back and said can we still come by tonight? Ended up going and we taught her and found out she has really bad social anxiety. She has a therapy dog so we solved the problem, she's going to come to church with her dog!
This week I've been studying hope out of preach my gospel and one scripture that I loved is 2 Nephi 31:20 it tells us to have faith, HOPE, and charity but I love the way it says it. Having a perfect brightness of hope. Hope and faith are connected and related attributes, and they help us obtain the perfect love of Christ for everyone around us. I love this gospel and I LOVE being a missionary.
Love,
Elder Judy
Sorry no pictures this week.... still love ya tho!❤️
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