First off, I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY, AND I LOVE THIS CHURCH, AND IT SNOWED A LOT!!!
That basically sums up our week. It was, to say the least,
awesome! We started off a little slow, but exploded in the end! Being a
missionary for the Lord's true church is the only way to spend the
remainder of your teenage years. It is way more fun, busy, and exciting
than i thought it would be! So here was our week.
Monday: We had our P-day as usual. We cleaned the WHOLE house!
Your could have eaten anywhere, and on any surface. It was that clean.
Later that night, we had an appointment at a members house at 8. We
arrived 30 minutes early, so we decided to tract around. One house had
their lights set up to a song. So obviously we had to tract it! That didn't turn out very well so went and had that meeting
with the members. We have been meeting with them frequently to get them
to give us a referral. They are inviting 2 people to church this
Sunday, and then the first week of January they are going to have us
meet them!!!
Tuesday: We went and taught the guy who lives down the
street from us. We answered all his questions, His mom was there and She kept asking us why we were there, and that her house was not a
house for Bible study. We started to talk to her, and her heart
instantly softened. She was describing a way she wishes church's were,
and she totally described ours! We didn't end up having time to teach
them though:( Next we taught one of our investigators, We talked
about how much our Heavenly Father loves us, and he really liked that. Sister Mcclendon
was there as well. She is so powerful, and she
bore her testimony so many times.
Wednesday: We had zone conference that took pretty much the whole
day. That was really fun! President Topham is the coolest person
ever! Ah i love him. I'm so sad him and his wife are being released at
the end of June :( That night we had Book of Mormon class, and after
taught the Plan of Salvation. We are teaching the new
member discussions, which is teaching lesson 1-5 in Preach My Gospel
again.
Thursday: This is when the week really got awesome! We went to
teach one of our investigators and have lunch/dinner with her. Her daughter was
there, and she isn't a member. She told the last missionaries that she
wanted to wait until she was 14 to get baptized. She sat in the first little bit of the
lesson, but then someone called and she went to talk to them in the
other room. I felt the strongest feeling that we needed her in the
lesson. I asked her if her daughter was going to be joining us, and she had her come back and listen to the lesson. Then at the end of the
lesson, Elder Johnson asked the daughter what we need to do to get to heaven.
She said: "Pray, Church, and Baptism." I was so happy! I immediately
invited her to be baptized, and she said yes!!! Later that night we
went to teach a guy who is less active. We went over, and his dad
(who is active) let us teach him. Right at the beginning though he
came down and sat in the lesson as well! It was so great! We taught
him about the atonement.
Friday: We went to go teach this lady who is less-active, and
actually got baptized into the Baptist church >:( We showed up right
when she had gotten home. As we were teaching her, she asked what
Joseph Smith did. We didn't have time to really teach her, so we gave
her a little over view and we are going back this Friday to teach her
more!
Saturday: The sisters had a baptism! The girl who got baptized 2
weeks ago, it was her mom. It was really really nice! I love
baptisms. It also snowed ALL day! I was so happy, it was unreal. I
pray for snow pretty much every week. Driving in the snow is a nightmare, but i love looking at it!
Sunday: ONE OF OUR INVESTIGATORS CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!! Finally. It was SO nice
to see her there! She really liked it as well. Later that night we
went to the stake Christmas devotional in Cranberry. It was really
good! That's all we did on Sunday though. It was sad not to be able to
teach anyone.
The mission has been so much fun thus far! I feel like i have grown so much! Thanks for all you guys do! Love ya!
Elder Birrell
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