Dear family,
How are you this week? I hope really good. This week has
been really good, a lot of miracles!
So this week and last week we have been having some heart
crushers because all of our investigators flaked on us and that was terribly
frustrating. And now only one of them is still meeting with us, so we were way
bummed about that. It is so crazy how people take the gospel so lightly in
their lives and how they feel that there is no need to follow Jesus Christ,
they can just do whatever, CRAZY. What is even weirder is when we are in a
lesson and we are reading from the scriptures and they are like " ya
ya amen that is true, praise Jesus" or whatever and then they continue on
doing whatever their fancy is. It really blows my mind sometimes. But
anyways that is pretty much the attitude of the people we are teaching and no
wonder we aren't seeing them that much, we are inviting them to follow Christ
so that it will improve their lives and bring them happiness and they just
don't have the time.... ahhhhh. Ok ok but anyways so this
week, Sister Baker and I did a lot of tracting and contacting, which is
good, we were blessed with being able to teach full lessons to a lot of people
at the door step, and that is great because that never happens. Sister Baker
and I also tried a new tactic at these door lessons that a Elder Walker a
general authority told us that the 1st Presidency and 12 want us to do and that
is to just loan Copies of the Book of Mormon. So we did just that, at our
lessons we were able to teach about the Book of Mormon and then loan it to the
person we taught and we told them that we would be coming back to discus what
they had read and to talk more about the gospel, when I first head this idea I
was like no way, that doesn't work and so far it has! Most of the people we did
that with agreed and we had been able to set up teaching appointments with some
new potentials so that was great!
We also have been able to start teaching Kaitlyn,( she is
the daughter of the less active man we found Tony) Tony is not
interested in anything that is church related and has told us that he does not
want to come to church, but what is interesting is that when we were there
talking to them and asking Kaitlyn if we could visit her and bring her to
church and get her involved in YW's and such she said that she'd like too, but
Tony her dad was like yes she needs to do this and have experience in church.
He then went on to tell us that when he was a youth that coming to church
served a great purpose for him and now he want's his daughter to experience
that, which doesn't make sense because he totally doesn't want to come now, but
he is all for her doing that, so that is cool that she has the support.
Hopefully as we go over and teach her and get her involved, we can start to
spark Tony's interest again.
This week we also were able to finally contact some of the less
active sisters in the ward that Sister Gomez the RS president had asked to see,
which was such a blessing because we have been trying for a few weeks now and I
am so glad that we finally met them. We were able to teach them and get
to know them so hopefully now as we can go back and visit now that they know us
we can help them come back to church!
Haha ok ok so this week as we were tracting there was little old
Indian man outside water his lawn and we were walking by and started to talk to
his wife and she was like "no thank you I'm Muslim" and so we
walked on and by the time we were coming back to go back to the car about 45
minutes later we passed by the house and the old man was still outside and he
came scurrying over to us with his hose on and he was yelling "
You church peoples, you God peoples, you church God Peoples you come here"
and we were like uggghh great haha and he started talking to us and we could
hardly understand him his accent was so so strong, but he said that he was
a Christian and he started to pull money out of his pocket and we told him
that we couldn't accept money and so he just started telling us stories about
God and himself and I seriously don't know what he was saying but it was
hilarious because he kept smiling and laughing and we had no idea why and he
said something about how this world is going cray-cray and God is going to
destroy wicked people and this and that, and some other odd stuff, but it was
fun. Maybe it doesn't sound that funny, haha I wish you could have heard his accent
it was so thick and he spoke so so fast and it was all mumbles haha anyways we
just about busted up laughing haha
We also were able to teach a referral that we received from the
YSA elders, it is a young mother and her daughter (Sherry and Kiera). We went
over on a Wednesday night for the first time to see them and when Sherry(the
mother) answered the door she said "I am so excited that you are here, I
have been waiting for you!" We of course were way happy to hear that, so
that night we were able to get to know her and her daughter better and start
teaching them. Sherry and Kiera live in a really not so good area and you can
tell that they have had some major struggles in their lives, and it was nice
that we were able to bring the spirit to their home. When we were there
we felt that we should teach them about prayer and the importance of praying to
our Heavenly Father and how that is how we communicate with Him. It really
brought the spirit and we were able to explain that we have a loving Heavenly
Father and that He is so invested in our lives and wants to help and bless us
continually and how we can always talk with Him whenever we want, and how it is
important that we talk him Him always. They really liked that and are
excited for us to come back on Wednesday, we are very excited too. They
are such a blessing for Sister Baker and I to have the opportunity to teach!
The last awesome thing that happened this week was Sister Baker
and I invited soo many people to church and zero of them showed(that wasn't
cool) but what was cool is that Heavenly Father still blessed us for our
efforts anyways, seriously. We were at church and their was this man
there named Barice and he had met Brother Tucker the 1st counselor in the
bishopric and had become sort of friends with him and really liked him, and
Brother Tucker invited him to church and Barice said that he would love to come
because he was looking for a church to go to and while he was at our church he
really enjoyed himself, and I was able to sit next to him in gospel principles
and get to know him better and I was able to set up an appointment with him so
that we could teach him and that's going to be on Thursday, way cool. I know
even though many of our plans these past couple of weeks and investigators have
been falling through, that Heavenly Father is very aware of our concerted
effort to fulfill our purpose as missionaries, He is always blessing us with
people to teach and lives we can bless. It really is so hard when you are
teaching someone that you love and they just drop off the face of the earth or
become flakey or whatever the situation. It is hard because you can see their
potential and how this gospel can absolutely bless their lives and because of
decisions they make or things they let get in their way, they miss out on
blessings that will impact the rest of their lives. People don't realize
that it is not about religion, it is not about saying "I'm Mormon, or I'm
Baptist or Catholic" It is about the truth and about our divine potential
as Heavenly Fathers children. We have it so clear and simple the way that we
need to live to return to live with our Father in Heaven and to receive lasting
happiness with our families and too many people don't take it seriously, they
think they can do whatever they want and that it doesn't matter, well it
does matter! It is sad because I have seen on my mission clear as day how
people are putting things and live styles and attitudes, wants and you
name it before their eternal happiness, it is so crazy it blows my mind
everyday what people put as their priorities. I hope so bad that some
of these people I have gotten the chance to meet will be able to accept the
gospel one day, they need it!!!!! I hope all of you are doing you're
best to come closer to the Savior, always striving to become better,
we cannot afford not too! I love you all, in the name of Jesus Christ AMEN!!!!
-Sister
Jamison
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