just letting y'all know, Pdays will be on TUESDAYS instead of Monday starting next week. so you'll be hearing from me then. :)
Every
investigator lesson fell through besides Peggy, who ended up dropping
us. She doesn't think she's ready, but she said she'll call us when she
is.
We taught Dipa, an 87 year old Hindu
woman we met on the street. She is probably the sweetest thing in the
whole world, but she can't read because she can't exactly see....and she
is really hard of hearing. :) the lesson was definitely a gong show.
We forgot to turn our phone on silent and our Sister Training Leaders
called us. Sister Moser thought she rejected the call in her pocket,
but she actually answered it....and all of a sudden we hear, "hello?
uhhh....sisters?" hahahh...ha...ha..man. Dipa completely rejected the
baptismal invitation. But she said we could come back. Soooo....we'll
see where this goes.
Something is going on with Mary's family, so she's out of town for a while.
By Thursday,
things were still looking really dismal for the week, we hadn't seen
very many people and we really had no idea what to do. We had a lesson
set up with a family in the ward Thursday
night, and we were trying to see what we could do beforehand (because
our other lessons fell through). There is a less active I hadn't met
yet that we have been trying for AGES and it turns out that she lives
near where we were going to be! So we ran (literally) over to her house
(we had no time to lose) and we knocked on her door! We only had 5
minutes to share a message, and she was all over it! We showed her a
video and she told us that she has been exploring a lot of different
things, but she has decided that Jesus Christ really is the way. And
she started praying again! She's ready to come back, we're so
excited!!!
also....Friday,
some more appointments fell through, and so once again, we thought we'd
go see Janet, the escaped refugee from Africa who can't come to church
because of Health problems. She's so wonderful. We had the thought
that we should get her some hot chocolate from Tim Hortons, (and sister
moser hadn't experience the beauty of Timmy's yet...) so we got her a
hot chocolate and a muffin and headed over to see her. I have a
testimony that ANGELS ENCIRCLE US CONSTANTLY!!! We have to walk through
a pretty sketchy part of town full of homeless people (unfortunately,
the percentage of homeless in edmonton is HUGE). here we were, holding a
hot cocoa and a muffin walking by all these people, and I so badly
wanted to give them some food, but this was for Janet and we NEEDED to
get it to her, we weren't sure why we felt so strongly about it at the
time. As we walked through, not one person came up to us or cat called
us or anything (and let me tell you it happens every time we go). We
got through and I felt the spirit so strongly in my heart. I could feel
God's protection. We got to Janet's finally, and read the Book of
Mormon with her. She told us that she knows that God answers prayers,
because when she woke up in the morning, she felt really exhausted and
hungry. She said a prayer that God would send someone to bring her food that day.
my heart just filled with love. It was such a humbling experience to
see, firsthand, that God used us to answer someone's prayer. We were
instruments in his hands. HOW COOL IS THAT?? man. it's such a
wonderful work, isn't it?
We had Stake Conference, and one of the biggest things that stood out to me was this quote:
"Many of the things you can count do not count; while many of the things you cannot count DO COUNT."
It's
easy for us to get caught up in to do lists and the tasks we need to
get done, but the real joy comes in doing the things that really do
count. I don't think that Heavenly Father has checklists at all. I
think he finds the most joy when He can work through us to the blessing
of others. No, I won't be able to put these experiences into the
numbers we put in every week for the mission, but I will be able to keep
them written on my heart forever.
"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike." [Horace Mann]
I just love this gospel and this work, there is nothing in this universe that I would rather be doing.
Onward, ever onward.
Sister Jones
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