Dear Family,
I feel that this week was a little crazy - but
overall pretty good. Tuesday was Sister Spencer's birthday - which was
really fun to celebrate. She's the big 22! Oh boy do I feel old hahaha just
kidding! I love that our birthdays are exactly a month a part - wait - crazy
that my birthday is in less than a month! Ahh! I'm on the verge of an Old Maid
in Mormon standards haha. We celebrated with the Krawchuk's and
you may have seen the pictures that she posted on facebook. Good
times.
Wednesday we picked up a new investigator!!!!
Rebekkah Zaugg - I think I talked about her last week. She's
our ward mission leader's granddaughter. Her younger brother sat in for
part of the lesson. He didn't really want to listen, but I know the
spirit touched him a few times during the lesson. Rebekkah accepted
everything and wants to learn more. I had a really neat experience
- definitely teaching by the spirit. I was talking about how
the gospel blesses families and I never know what scripture to
share. Helaman 5:12 came into my mind as Sister Zaugg was
sharing how the gospel has blessed her family. It was really
cool! We set up another appointment with her on Saturday so we were able
to teach her twice. Our second appointment was a little rough. We
could tell that something was a little off as we were teaching the lesson, but
I wasn't sure what it was. She started crying when we talked about the
Celestial Kingdom - and then the concern came out. We invited her to pray
about being baptized on August 31st and she isn't ready. We kept trying
to reassure her that we are not mad or disappointed with her for not wanting to
be baptized that day. We both felt that she almost wanted to drop us, but
she is still willing to meet with us. We're going to take it a little
slower and just read the Book of Mormon with her and break the lessons up
into smaller principles.
Dinner was with a very sweet Filipino family-
the Aquino's. I was a little nervous because they said they were going to
feed us Filipino food - but it ended up being normal food. :) So I was able to
handle it. We got Brother Aquino to sing for us and oh my, he is
incredible!!!!! My jaw just dropped as soon as he started to sing and both
Sister Spencer and I looked at each other with a "can you believe
this" look. They told us that their eldest daughter is struggling
with her testimony. When it came time to give the thought I really didn't
know what to share - so I flipped open my scriptures to Omni 1:26 (I
think) and I shared it with them and promised them that no effort goes un-wasted
and that the Lord knows their hearts. Again totally lead by the spirit.
We both felt that we needed to stop by Terry
and Solomon since they didn't come to church. We got offered
non-alcoholic wine...okay it was only 0.05% alcohol. I love them. Sister
Spencer and I cannot remember the question she asked it was totally inspired
and she was lead by the spirit but it helped them to open up and tell us what
some of their concerns are. They think that we worship Joseph Smith so we
tried to resolve that concern and we told them that they will understand our
doctrine a lot better if they will allow us to teach them. They were
super hesitant, but they finally agreed! We will be teaching them tomorrow!!
Now for the moment you have been waiting for -
exchanges. I was nervous about going to the East Side of Calgary with
Sister Gonzolaz but I knew things would be okay. As I was
driving to Sister Gonzolaz's apartment she told me that they have
heard gunshots for the past three nights. Great- little white, blond
Sister Douglass serving in Sketchtown Calgary. haha -
thankfully Calgary's ghetto is nothing like the states. We were going
back to our apartment at the end of the night and....the lock is stuck.
We were trying not to panic, but I wasn't sure what to do. We silently
prayed and their neighbor came out and tried to help us unlock our door to no
avail. Perfect - it's getting dark outside and two young women and locked
outside of their apartment in the hood of Calgary. Do not hit the panic
button. We prayed and we felt that it would be alright to head back to my
place and have a sleepover with our companions. And that's just what we
did. I think it's dangerous when I leave my area - something always seems
to happen. We both felt that Heavenly Father didn't want us
there that evening. We were expecting bullet holes in our apartment - but
no we were able to get in the next day and nothing was damaged. Good times.
Don't worry - I was never in any danger. It was really fun serving with
Sister Gonzolaz - she is amazing! I bet she will be a Sister Training
Leader some day.
We had a Bocce tournament this
week. Sister Spencer and I almost won the trophy - sort of. We lost
our first game - but it was close 10-9! It was a great activity and Heavenly
Father heard our prayers to have nice weather and a good turnout!
Love you all a lot!!!! I'm going to have an
amazing last full week this week! Don't worry - I'm always in the middle. :)
-Sister Douglass
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