This week was gnarly! Lots of door knocking in 90 degree and 50 degree weather... New York is super weird right now. It can't choose a season!
Monday was transfer email day! The sister's area is being flushed by us.. so now we cover the whole ward! So we spent a good amount of the day with the sisters correlating area books and phones to get ready for the week! After p-day ended it was ridiculously nice so we went and walked the path at the lake and talked to people! Everyone and their dog was out there tonight. It was crazy! Haha we had a lesson with Chris, she's going to be baptized in the 28th! So excited for her! We had a couple appointments fall through and so we did lots of contacting people we found last week trying to set stuff up for this week!
Tuesday was a rough day, we spent lots of time on the streets. Ever since school started here finding has been a tough stretch but we manage to get through it! We had another lesson with Chris, we brought John Mishock along. During prime time, 6-9pm we did as much finding as possible, we tracted some really nice town homes and met lots of good people just not ready to commit. Pretty much the theme of this week...
Wednesday we had a lesson with Kristy, a new investigator. She's awesome! We left behind Alma 32 for her to read and she said it couldn't have been more of a perfect chapter to start on because she could apply to so much! God is good! We talked a lot about faith and how we receive our witness after the trial of it. Had district meeting! Elder Griener is my district leader! Good to be back with him! We met with Colleen, she's eating up the gospel. It's great!
Thursday we saw Brother Schwab and did some finding because our appointment fell through after him, did 4 hours straight of finding. Not too much luck. Saw the Barrie's for dinner, talked with a lady about how the Book of Mormon wasn't written by Joseph Smith... ticks me off when people say that! Haha then we did more finding because our appointment with a former investigator fell through... we went to the church for scripture study with Chris and her daughter Sam!
Friday was a good planning day, we saw Deongela. Just keeping tabs on her so she can get baptized soon. Did some finding, saw Colleen! She's loving it, she's on date for October 28th. After dinner we met with Tera! It's been a very long time since we met with her, she's so awesome and ready to commit hopefully. And we met with the Rougex family in Bloomfield. It was a great Friday!
Saturday was great. Conference is the best thing ever as a missionary and I wish I had more left! I learned so much! In between sessions we did some finding and had a couple appointments. My favorite talk was Elder Nelson's talk about the Book of Mormon, what would you rather have? Rubys and diamonds or the gift of the Book of Mormon? *BOOM* Elder Oaks talk was also very needed. Oh, and also in our apartment complex someone was killed and set in fire, hit the title of the email. Haha it was pretty weird, we didn't find out until Sunday while we were
tracting and found a news paper. We spent the conference with the Simpson family! They are awesome!
Sunday was another solid conference day, met with bishop and Brother Stine our ward mission leader. Made a game plan for us and the ward! It's going to be good! Crazy to think conference went by so fast, back to the real world. It was sad to not see the prophet.. but I'm glad for the words and things I learned! God loves us all and will continue to call a prophet to lead us and defend us from the adversary.
One thing that stuck out to me at conference was M. Russel Ballard's talk when he said "there is no blessing anyone can share that's greater than the blessing of the restoration." I would invite all of you to share the greatest blessing of all, the restored gospel with all your friends and family! Because it has been restored, we have more! The Book of Mormon, temples, and Prophets. God loves us all and the restoration is meant for all.
Love,
Elder Judy
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