It's amazing to me that
discouragement still comes even when we're seeing so much success. I'm not sure
why but there were a couple of times the last week that I felt a little
hopeless. Maybe it was something to do with the rain. Whatever it was, I'm glad
that I have Sister Mizell! She's a gem. Great at keeping my spirits up!
Well, here are a few
things we saw this week -
Jb. headed to the Gambia
last night, but not before we'd had daily contact with him last week, plus
several lessons, and given him a Book of Mormon and some mormon.org cards to give away, plus an "Endurance Box" with
enough quotes, scriptures, and Mormon Messages for him to watch or read every
day that he's there. We talked about it last night and we both feel that he's
going to be okay. He'll be keeping in contact with us weekly through text! It's
so neat to see how excited he gets about the gospel. Even sometimes about
random things. He asked us about polygamy last week and said that it didn't
matter to him what the answer was, he was 50-50 on the subject. Hahaha. We love
him! Excited for him to get back and enter the gate of baptism!
Sl. has made INCREDIBLE
progress in the last week. The first appointment we had with him, he said he
didn't want to read the Book of Mormon. Eventually he promised to read the
Introduction. Last Friday, a week after that first appointment, we asked him if
he had been praying to know if it was true. He said no, he didn't feel that he
needed to, because he's already got testimony that it's true! Super neat. He's
just so excited to learn more! We're just trying to figure out how he can come
to church... Because he wants to be baptized on the 29th of March but he
generally trains for soccer on Sundays. We're teaching the Sabbath day
tomorrow. And praying hard! :)
We got an incredible
referral on Thursday, her name is Jc. She's been looking for the truth for 13
years! We had an amazing first lesson. She can't meet until the 14th of March
but we're going to stop by and give her a thank you card and such. Speaking of
thank you cards, they work! We got dropped by an investigator, then dropped by
a thank you card, then she called us and said that we could still come! Buah!
It was super neat.
We're worried about Is.
and Rl... We haven't seen Rl. since he was confirmed. He cancels all of our
appointments and hasn't been to church... Really worried. Is. promises he'll
come but then ends up being sick or busy or something and I'm just worried
because they NEED the sacrament. They NEED that nourishment of the word of
God... I'm just praying really hard and we're trying to keep as much contact
with both of them as possible and the branch council is also doing tons.
Also, studying knowledge
was great. I really started to connect faith and knowledge in my head. And I
realized that you have to truly trust the Lord for Him to give knowledge! We
have to expect answers to prayers, and expect to learn things from experiences
and study. Otherwise... He won't give them!
Random list!
-Sister Mizell keeps
telling everyone that I'm starving her. That's not true, we're just really busy
sometimes! Haha. Also, she taught me how to play Egyptian Rat Slap. Woot!
-I heard from Sister
Clement! It made me so happy. :)
-This adorable kitten
followed us to correlation. See picture.
-We wore pink on
Wednesday. Against bullying. See picture.
-Rg's church is a
possible split from our church... They teach that the LDS Church was God's
church until like the 80's...
-A. S. is still
disappeared. :(
-Ma. is our cute old
neighbor who's getting baptized in Apri!
I'm just really feeling
like the Lord trusts me a lot right now. I'm here in Turnhout with all of these
amazing people, and an amazing branch, and an amazing companion, and just...
Wow. I am ridiculously blessed.
Love you so much!
Zuster Anjewierden
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