Happy
Mothers Day to all you wonderful mothers out there! Special shout-out
goes out to my mother and grandmothers who are all so fabulous and have
been such great examples to me! They have nourished me in the gospel and
have loved me more than I could ever comprehend! They have helped me so
much in my life and showed me the kind of mother that I would like to
be one day!
This week marked 9 months for me
as a missionary! It is beyond crazy how fast the time has flown! What
better way to celebrate than with Cinco De Majo horchattas, sájt(cheese)
night, and oh yeah, SKYPING HOME! It was so great to be able to talk to
my family, and to see my little Parkie! It was my grandmother's 90th
Birthday, so I was able to talk to her too! She is still going strong,
in fact she got a new bicycle for her birthday! She is definitely my
idol!
This week was another great week for
Sister Grogan and I! We have been working really hard on getting more
member presents and helping our investigators to build relationships
with the members in the branch here in Békéscsaba, and so far it has
been working really well, and we were able to get a huge improvement! I
have also been trying to do more focusing on the area book this
transfer, making sure it is updated, and also using the previous records
to find those people who were once taught and for various reasons lost
connection with the missionaries, and we have been able to pick up 3
investigators this transfer that missionaries just stopped talking to
for no apparent reason, and now 2 of them are progressing, so it has
been quite a success thus far in my eyes!
Yesterday
for Mother's day we had exactly an hour after lunch to go tracting
before it was time to Skype, and to be honest, my companion and I were
both feeling pretty lazy. We asked each other if we would be fine just
not going, and technically we had already gotten our 6 days tracting
this week so we thought that we could just go streeting and settle for 6
days instead of the 7 days we had planned for. We told ourselves that
would be fine, but deep down i just knew that we were settling, and had a
feeling that we should just go tracting like we had planned. So we
decided to hurry and run out to our tracting area and do our hour.
Initially I wasn't feeling too enthusiastic to be tracting, I was just
doing it more for a number. We knocked on a few doors and they slammed
it shut in our face. As we finished our hour, i mentioned to Sister
Grogan that we should just do one more door before we leave!
We rang the
bell and no one answered for quite awhile. We waited about 3 minutes
and a lady finally came! We told her that we were talking to people
about the Book of Mormon today and we bore her our testimonies of how it
can help us to grow closer to our father in heaven. She has her own
religion and she said she practices every week, but for some reason she
said she would like to know more about the book! We were able to give
her a book and set up a time to come back and explain the whole
restoration and where the book came from! There truly are blessings that
come when we are diligent in doing the things we know we are supposed
to! I am so thankful that we went tracting like we knew we were supposed
to and were able to meet her!
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