20 Feb 2013
Dear Family,
I
am really confused about where this last week went. It just flew by,
but then again last Monday seems like it was ages ago. I do not
understand. This week was pretty busy, which was fantastic! We had four
investigator lessons, which I believe is the most I have had in a
week. We are hoping one will get baptized soonish- but he and his
girlfriend need to get married. They want to stick with their original
wedding date of June. And we need him to gain his own testimony. He
has told missionaries that he is just doing it for his girlfriend. Our
lesson with Sam was alright. We had been planning to have it on
Wednesday, but his day off got switched so we had a quick lesson with
him on Tuesday. Apparently he believes in the trinity and there is a
bigger language barrier than we anticipated. At least when it comes to
talking about the gospel. Hopefully we can get him to church on Sunday
and get him to read from the Book of Mormon. Wednesday was great fun
because we had to go on splits. Not because we hate each other, because
we had too many teaching appointments for the evening! Woot woot! I went
with a return sister missionary and Sister Little went with a less
active sister that is coming back to church. Annelisa and I taught
Barb, and she had read from the Book of Mormon! We went over Chapters 1
and 2 of 1 Nephi and read Chapter 3 with her. Barb liked 1 Nephi 3:7
and she wants to do a self evaluation of the Ten Commandments to see
what she need to work on. We talked a little bit about the Sabbath Day
and she told us that she is having a mini rebellion against God right
now. She is really trying to accept His will, but is having a hard time
with it. She has been very religious her entire life, so going to
church is very familiar with her. She is very excited to meet with us
again. I am praying that she has an incredible experience with the Book
of Mormon and she will just feast upon it! We had a quick lesson with
Sharon and she is feeding us tonight. Her ex-husband is a member and
Sister Little started teaching her when she was in the other ward (right
next to our ward). Due to the ward boundary changes we now have Sharon
in our ward, yeah! Sister Little bought up a really interesting point.
She was convinced that she would be leaving this transfer and when she
didn't she told me, "Oh, yeah. We were suppose to be together during the
temple open house, so we would have served two transfers together.
Also, we must need to teach someone in Arbour Lake area because Arbour
Lake was a part of Royal Oak, which we would have been together for."
Interesting how God works things.
Friday was my year mark. Yikes. I don't want to talk
about it- but the sister I went on splits with sent me a very nice
text. It was Zone Conference and it was amazing! I just love being
spiritual fed. I was reminded about when I get a prompting, just follow
it. "Revelation is pouring down like rain, are we open to receiving
it." I have decided that I need to refocus my thoughts and recommit
myself to the Lord. Not that I have been doing bad, but after a
reevaluation, that's what I came to a conclusion of. President Nicholas
asked each of us, what are we still willing to sacrifice for the Lord.
So I have been thinking a lot about that lately.
Sunday was a little crazy. We have to try to figure
how to attend two wards that start at the same time that are in two
separate buildings (they are about 10 minutes away from each other). We
had the chance to teach Young Women's, which was fun. It was
interesting seeing the new curriculum. Good stuff.
Any who we have another busy week ahead of us. Hopefully we can get our investigators to progress and come to church!
Love you all lots!!
-Sister Douglass
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