I hope you all had a fantastic week! It was another great week of serving my Lord!
Monday was a good p-day, we cleaned the apartment and car. Feels so nice to have everything spotless. Haha we hung out at the church for a little bit and emailed and shot hoops. We spent Monday night in finding mode for the first hour. Then we had a lesson with Colleen and Sheena! We taught more about the Book of Mormon and gave Sheena her copy. It was awesome! They are great! We had President Pitts come along, he's the pageant president!
Tuesday we had another zone conference, it was a follow up to the mission tour of Elder Bennett. And president is emphasizing the white handbook and how it's the way to miracles! So we have some new rules, we can only email for 1.5 hours on p-day, also the dress code, had to get rid of some ties and pants! It's okay tho! Doing it for the lord,
sacrifice is worth it. Specially for the miracles that have been happening in this mission, and it's only the beginning. After the meeting we had some finding and dinner. We also had another lesson with Sheena and Colleen, Sheena wasn't feeling good but came and sat in at the end. She had read up to 1 Nephi 12 and did the quiz of the plan of salvation on the back of the pamphlet! She's golden! We had a lesson with Chris. We are preparing her for her baptismal interview!
Wednesday we did some service in the morning for a former investigator. They had us bury this 6 foot deep hole in their yard dug by a tractor.... so it was huge and they had us using our hands and shovels to bury it. Haha it was ridiculous. We had a lesson with Kristy, then saw Kenny Eib. He's a recent convert to the ward, was baptized in February! Then we headed off to Gates/Chili to blitz the assistants area. I was with Elder Davis, he's from Kansas! Just outside of Kansas City. He's a great man! He came out in the same group I did. Lots of the people I came out with are in leadership. It's awesome. We spent our time that evening in the nicer part of their area and we did some tracting. We met some really great people and got them some more people to teach!
Thursday I was still with Elder Davis! Today we spent all of our time in the ghetto of Rochester. It was awesome. Haha talked to tons of people and even met a prophet... ha Job Smith. He's a great guy! Thursday evening we spent back here in Canandaigua we did some tracting and then we had a lesson with Rex. He's a great guy!
Friday was a good day of planning and was an all around really good day, super nice weather so we went to the lake to talk to people and we found a ton of new people to teach! One lady named Allie was a huge miracle on how the contact happened. Elder Hardy was talking to people on a swing and I saw Allie walking away from us so I took off after her and stopped her. I asked her if she's ever heard of the Book of Mormon and began to testify of its truthfulness. Then I pulled out a scripture that I wrote on a note card that morning, Mosiah 24:14 and that just hit home for her and she took a copy and we are going to teach her now! God is good! I love the Book of Mormon. ❤️ We had dinner with Chris, she fed us steak! We had a lesson in Bloomfield with Matt, he is the man! He's my homie! I love this guy! He's had really cool experiences with the Book of Mormon changing his bad moods into good when he reads it in the morning! So awesome! We also had another lesson with Colleen, she told us right before our appointment Sheena had gotten arrested.... there goes our golden investigator... Colleen is an awesome missionary tho and brought along another one of her friends that we are going to start teaching now!
Saturday was a really good day! Spent a lot of time running the streets of Canandaigua. We spent time at the lake again. Not too much luck. It's hit or miss there. Had a church tour with Colleen! She loved it and is preparing for baptism on November 11th. We had dinner with the Simpson family! They are so awesome, their son Ammon is 8 and has been dieing to have a dart war with us so we had a little nerf war before dinner. Haha Saturday night was spent knocking doors until 8:30 cool story: knocked on this guy's house and he let us in, not interested just wanted to show off his car in his garage. Haha let us sit in his lambo! Crazy! then we went to see Chris and did one last run through of the questions for baptism!
Sunday was a great Sabbath day! Chris and her daughter Sam came to church! After church we hit the ground running, had a lesson with a kid we met at the lake, named Mahommad. Speaks no English... so that was hilarous. Downloaded gospel library and got it in Abric for him. Haha our 4 o'clock appointment fell through so we got to do some more finding. What a blessing! We had dinner with the Weidner family. They bought us Subway... haha it was a crazy day for them. We did some tracting in this neighborhood in Farmington and we didn't even get to get one word out before every door was slammed in our face. Haha until the last door this little old man comes out and talked with us he's a very nice man, but catholic. Ha! It was a really good day! Chris was interviewed by President Evans, because she's on probation she has to get approved by first presidency. Sad, but it'll be so good for her!
The greatest saying in the world: "I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me... when the light rested upon me I saw two personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other — this is my beloved son. Hear him!"
What joy this brings to my heart. God lives. He loves us all. I know Joseph Smith was and is a prophet of God. And the Book of Mormon is the convincing evidence of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
Love,
Elder Judy
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