I'll bet you've never seen a Book of Mormon bigger
than you! Muahaha! And now all
of you are super curious as to if or where I saw a Book of Mormon bigger than
me...hehehe! You'll have to just keep reading to find out, but for now I'll tell you about the super stellar week we had.
Haha - actually we taught practically no one this week...being an STL has
perks and also its blah parts...I feel like I say this every week, but man SOOO
MANY MEETINGS! It's a good thing, but at the same time I kind of miss having
those days where you are just out in the heat sweating and teaching people all
day. I haven't had that in so long! I guess now it's my turn to help build the
mission up in a different way. But hey, if it's what God wants, it's cool
with me:)
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| Quality time on exchange with Sis Wells |
So on Wednesday I went on an
exchange with Sister
Wells, and we had the coolest experience! The day before we had our zone
conference where we talked about how we literally are accountable for everyone's
salvation. Ahhh! No pressure right?? So
like when we see a lady getting out of her car and we choose not to talk to
her, we are personally responsible for that. Not gonna lie, that thought
kind of puts a pretty big weight on your shoulders....I wasn't feeling too bad
until we drove past a big construction site and I saw all the dozens of sweaty workers
(those are the people I'm accountable to as well.) Wow. If they never find the
gospel, it could be MY fault!
So long story short, Sister Wells and I decided that
on our morning run we were going to load up on pass-a-long cards and talk to
every single person we saw. We honestly didn't even know if we would see
anyone, cuz it is 6am, but we were gonna run till we found someone! Soooo
cool! We ended up giving out 7 cards and even teaching a lesson! We found Terry that had been living in Utah
and has read the whole Book of Mormon and wants to come to church. Talk
about THE BEST start to your day! Even though the majority of the people just
kinda looked at us like we were weirdoes (nothing new there), I hope at least
one of them will one day remember the day they were semi attacked by 2 super
sweaty Mormon missionaries and think "wow they really care about what they
believe...I want to know why."
Other than that, we had a super-duper splendid 4th of July! Our genius zone leaders (this is the part where you figure out my opening sentence) decided that since no one ever has citas on holidays, we would do a zone contacting activity. So we all showed up at the Flower Mound festivities, and they pull out this ginormous Book of Mormon and Bible and tell us that they are going to wear them, and we are going to pass out cards and as many book of Mormons as we can! Got to give them points for creativity! I personally thought it might have just reinforced the whole "cult" idea with some people....but hey you never know! I think some people definitely gave us points for dedication :) Then later that night we were asked by a member in the 2nd Ward who was in charge to come help out directing traffic and be "gate-keepers" at the same festival....#awkward #heywerentyouthoseweirdosinthebigbookearlier? #noidkwhatyouaretalklingabout...
Lessons
learned from this week: No matter how stupid you look, your dedication
and diligence goes a long way for some people. If you're excited
about it, even if they aren't interested at first, they will at least wonder
why. Sometimes that's all we need :) This church is sooo true! As
they say …If it wasn't us missionaries would have ruined it a long time
ago...haha! Hope yogur
week es lleno de milagros! Les quiero mucho!
<3hermana
bonny
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