Hope it was a good week back home! This week was great! met lots of new people and saw so many miracles. God is good. I can truly say... if you want more faith, be more obedient.
Monday was a great p-day! We spent lots of time cleaning up our apartment and rearranging the furniture and making it more comfortable. We had dinner with the Gulick family, they are super awesome. Monday night we went to this little village south of Canandaigua called Cheshire. We met Julie there! We were able to share a message with her and helped her understand the importance of the Book of Mormon, it was awesome to see her face light up when we taught her about the restored gospel. We ended the night doing some finding in the city of Canandaigua.
Monday was a great p-day! We spent lots of time cleaning up our apartment and rearranging the furniture and making it more comfortable. We had dinner with the Gulick family, they are super awesome. Monday night we went to this little village south of Canandaigua called Cheshire. We met Julie there! We were able to share a message with her and helped her understand the importance of the Book of Mormon, it was awesome to see her face light up when we taught her about the restored gospel. We ended the night doing some finding in the city of Canandaigua.
Tuesday was such a good day! We had so much success, the spirit was within our planning session that day! Haha we met lots of new people and found 7 people to begin teaching! It was awesome! We did lots of street contacting at the lake and tracting later in the day when people were home. It was a good day! We had dinner with President and Sister Pitts. They're the greatest! We did some finding on some old country roads, and ended the night with Chris and teaching her!
Wednesday we had district meeting, it's always good to see the Penn Yan Elders. Elder Griener gave a great training! We did lots of tracting and finding. Our lessons during the day fell through... it was good tho! We tracted Ontario Street and met Jeremiah, he has lots of really good questions about who god is and the role he has in our
lives. So we set up a time to meet with him! We had dinner back at the apartment and then went and did some more finding. We ended the night teaching Colleen, she's so great! GOLDEN. We had President Pitts come
along and we taught her the word of wisdom. It was great! She accepted and is going to start working on not drinking coffee and she's already began to quit smoking! She had no problem with it what so ever! She's
great! We had a lesson fall through right at 8 o'clock, so we said a prayer and followed the guidance of the spirit and god lead us to Thisn Street and the first door we knocked on, Dave opens the door and I said "Hello! We are the local Mormon missionaries..." he looks at me right in the eyes, "Oh! Come on in..." We were able to comfort Dave in times of death in his family and shared a powerful message with him.
lives. So we set up a time to meet with him! We had dinner back at the apartment and then went and did some more finding. We ended the night teaching Colleen, she's so great! GOLDEN. We had President Pitts come
along and we taught her the word of wisdom. It was great! She accepted and is going to start working on not drinking coffee and she's already began to quit smoking! She had no problem with it what so ever! She's
great! We had a lesson fall through right at 8 o'clock, so we said a prayer and followed the guidance of the spirit and god lead us to Thisn Street and the first door we knocked on, Dave opens the door and I said "Hello! We are the local Mormon missionaries..." he looks at me right in the eyes, "Oh! Come on in..." We were able to comfort Dave in times of death in his family and shared a powerful message with him.
Thursday we went to the Fayette district meeting and got to have it at the Peter Whitmer Farm. Pretty cool. Then we went on exchanges, I was in Geneva with the elders there. Elder Emry and Elder Kelley. I had the opportunity to serve with them for the day! Elder Emry is close to going home and this is Elder Kelley's first transfer. We had
a good time talking to everyone and setting up lots of return appointments! Geneva is a cool little town (we went to the pizza place we went to while we were here for pageant as a family!! How cool is That?! Haha) I was able to give a baptismal interview to one of their investigators who's preparing for the 11th of November. It's always
humbling to interview someone for this sacred ordinance. It was a good day in G-town.
Friday I came back to Canandaigua and helped the senior couple Elder & Sister Jeffries move the sister's apartment. The Jeffries leave this week... they are going to be missed. The new couple, Elder & Sister
O'brian are from Driggs, ID so that's super cool! They are awesome. We got to help them move furniture for the morning then we did some weekly planning and then went out and pounded the pavement for a little bit. Knocked some doors. Got flipped off by a 87 year old man... it was hilarous. Haha Friday night we had lessons with Chris and Colleen.
Saturday was a great day! Met some new good people! Met a weather man in Syracuse, who is interested in learning more! We did lots of tracting today. Love it! We had dinner with the Meadows family. Then we had a
lesson, and did a little more finding before our lesson with Matt. We taught Matt the plan of salvation. He ate it up! He's loving all the things we teach him and is excited to be baptized at the end of November.
Sunday was a great day, I gave a talk in sacrament meeting. The youth speaker took about 30 seconds.... and Sister Johnson took about 7-8 minutes... so I was left with about 30 minutes to fill all by myself... haha I basically just chucked the plans I had and said a prayer and stood up and talked about ways of showing faith and what faith is. I filled 28 minutes. Good enough right? Haha it was ridiculous! Matt came to church in his sweet bright baby blue suit! It was awesome. All It rained all day and we had no lessons planned... so it was one of those days. But we were expecting miracles. After dinner we decided we would tract in this certain neighborhood. After about 40 minutes of rejection, we knocked on Ken's door and immediately he let us right in and we taught him the restoration. He's so interested it's a miracle! God is good! And later that night we met JP and he also let us in and we were able to share the restoration and give him a Book of Mormon! It was such a good night!
Monday was freezing. Haha no more sunshine for a long while. Here in New York it's overcast 98% of the winter. Yay. But it doesn't stop us from pounding the pavement! We met Dieter, we tracted into him and we were able to share the message of the restoration with him! It was awesome! We did a little bit of tracting. Did some service for a
member, Sister Record. She's the relief society president. Had Chinese dinner. Had a lesson with a family that was former investigators and want to get back into it! We also dropped by Ryan McNeal, he's a guy that I taught when I first got to the area and he's still really interested in the gospel! So we are going to start teaching him and his wife again! It was a successful day! We did some tracting in an old apartment building and we were talking to this guy and this young lady walked behind us and around the corner to her apartment and I went and talked to her and it turns out she is searching for what she needs to believe in. She was looking stuff up about higher powers an
hour before I talked to her. I was able to teach her the restoration and gave her a Book of Mormon and she set up a time for us to come teach her more! Success!
This week I started a challenge of reading the Book of Mormon in 10 days! I'm 4 days in and ahead of the schedule! It's so cool to see how the stories go right along and how much more I've learned as I read it like a book and reading it for that reason.
Showing faith in being obedient to the commandments of god is the single most important thing we can do in this life to help us prepare to meet our god again. Being more obedient brings unwavering faith in your savior Jesus Christ. Just over the course of 2 weeks I've seen huge changes in the way I pray, in the way I act, and how I study the words of Christ. It's a beautiful thing. I LOVE my savior Jesus Christ with all my heart.
Love,
Elder Judy
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