It's been a pretty good week here in Wyoming! We've kind of been all over the place this last week and we've done a ton of driving, but we've seen little miracles throughout!
1. We had a Zone Conference on the west side of the state this week, we're in the east side so we had quite a drive to get out there. We went through the mountains and it was really pretty - fall has certainly fell in the Big Horns. A lot of the trees are turning colors, and you can certainly feel that fall is coming in the wind. We had a really uplifting Zone Conference. We talked a lot about the blessings of obedience and about how to find people to teach. It was much needed I think for all the missionaries there, the whole mission is struggling with finding and it was fun to get to throw ideas around each other and council on how we can be not just effective teachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but how we can be more effective finders of those who want to learn.
2. We went to a place called Sanfords with some members this week, it's a junkyard themed restaurant. Super fun! Anyways, it was real good so we decided to go back for lunch one day and while we were there the manager came up to us and started talking to us - turns out he's an inactive member but that his mom is serving a mission at the family history center in Salt Lake! We talked to him a bit about going to church and it was really cool, he was just saying that he thought it was a sign from God that he met us there. We gave him a pass along card with our number, and we're hoping to see him at church. If we don't.. we know where he's at so we can go invite him again! ;) He works the bar.. we aren't 21 but we can get a root beer.. right?
3. There's a really sweet inactive family living here that we just love. They for years have basically refused to come to church, but they love the missionaries. So missionaries have, for years, been visiting them and trying to help them come back to church - but it's never worked out! Yesterday we went over and shared a 10 minute Restoration lesson with them. It started out a little crazy, but by the end they were all listening to us and Ken (the husband) even started talking about how he knows for himself that the Book of Mormon is true and about how he knows that God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are 3 different personages with the same purpose. This sweet family really does have a testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but for different reasons don't live it. I felt the Spirit prompt me to invite them to church... again. But I did it anyways, and Ken pinky promised me that he'd be there! We left feeling so so happy... now we just have to see on Sunday if he comes!! (And hopefully brings his family with him!)
Well, I love you all! The mosquitoes are out in full force around here.. especially around dusk which seems to be when we're having most of our front porch conversations. So my companion and are COVERED in bug bites. But it's fine haha. It just means we're super sweet ;)
Have a great week!!
--Sister Black
No comments:
Post a Comment