2. us after eating Buffalo Wild Wings... aka BW's
3. us after doing service for a member ;}
How was your week? My week was pretty awesome!! We had a rough start but Saturday night and Sunday night were amazing!!
What was the best thing to happen this week? So on Saturday we had an amazing lesson with our investigator Paula and we helped her understand why we were there and talked a lot about the Book of Mormon and its correlation with the Bible :} she really understood what we were saying and she promised to read the Book of Mormon and Bible every day and pray to know that BOTH of them are true. Then last night (Sunday) we were walking to a Potential Investigators house (his name is Ed). We get to his house and his, I think, wife’s grandma answered the door and was very nice and let us in. we talked to Ed a little about the Book of Mormon and set up a return appointment with him for this Wednesday ;} then Shelby, the grandma lady, asked if we could get her a large print copy of the Book of Mormon. We said that when we came back on Wednesday that we would bring her a large print :} THEN as we were leaving Ed’s house, we ran into another Potential and his friends (Gabe, Dwaine, and Ray) and they were very open to letting us talk to them and they had a lot of questions that we were able to answer right away for them :} it was such a miracle for sister Holloway and I ;} the Lord is definitely watching over us and he absolutely answers prayers! So we got some new investigators last night ;] they are soooo cool and I am excited to watch them progress towards Christ:}
Did you do any exchanges? What are those areas like? In your 50 mile area do you get extra car miles? We did do exchanges… two of them ;p but we are done with exchanges so we can now work on our area ;] finally haha. I went to Seminole this last Friday and Saturday and it was weird but fun :} it is a little smaller than Lawton. And we don’t get extra miles…. So that is really dumb :p
Did you have any training to teach? what was it on? do you need me to send any info for these training's? we did a training this last week at a Specialized Training Meeting (or STM for short) and we trained on being a successful missionary :} we used the headings of Helaman ch 7, 8 &9 and then read all of chapter 10 and talked about how Nephi was a successful missionary, not because he baptized nations (because he didn’t baptized anyone) but because he did what the Lord required of him to do :}
Am I sending you too many clothes? Na I like having a different variety of clothes :} hehe
What have you learned in your new calling as STL? What is your favorite part? What is your biggest trial right now? I have learned really how to listen. I thought I was a good listener before, but now I really have to listen and understand where these sisters are coming from. It’s really strange :} my favorite part is finding out that I helped these sisters in some sort of way. A lot of the time after exchanges, I look back and wonder if they learned anything on exchanges or if I even helped them a little bit. So that reassurance really helps me out to do a better job ;} the biggest struggle is feeling judged by everyone. As a leader, your weaknesses are put on a pedestal for everyone and their dog to see. It is really hard and scary. Plus I have been feeling very inadequate when it comes to being an STL and I feel like I am constantly letting my companion down. It’s a struggle but I know that with the Lord, I can do hard things :}We
We had ward conference on Sunday and Pres. Butler reminded us that access to the priesthood is not a man thing but for all as I'm sure you really recognize daily in your service. What have you learned? learning about the priesthood is so COOL!! i have learned a lot about it on my mission ;} I have learned how worthy you have to be. I have also learned that even if a man isn't as worthy as he should be and if he were to give a blessing to someone in need, those blessings from the Lord would not be held back from the person in need :] it also just helps me to remember and recognize how much my Father in Heaven loves me and knows me for who i am ;}
We we also taught that we should pray to know how our Heavenly Father feels about us and know how much he loves us. I hope you know you are loved by Him and by us! haha i will pray to know that ;} and i could indeed read the poster and felt the love :} it was awesome! thank you and i just love all pictures so it doesn't really matter what they are of ;]
but i gotta go :] love you mom!!
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