Hey!!
How is everyone doing!??!?! How are school preperations going? Hope everything is going well. :D Agh! I can't believe Jenessa is a Senior!!! Or that Julia is going into Jr. High. Sabrina looks So gorgeous in the picture, and I'm sure the boys are growing up just as quickly. I can't believe it. :) I love seeing you.
This week has been a pretty good week.
Monday- Monday was an absolutely incredible day. It was amazing. Haha- I still don't even know what happened. Usually on Monday nights we are lucky to get a few contacts, or on a good night, we'll get a lesson. Well... This Monday we had a few miracles. We went into the thrift store to do some contacting, and we started talking to a younger lady. We asked her if she knew anyone that would like to hear a message about Jesus Christ. She said her sister, who was shopping across the store might like to hear our message. We then went out into the parking lot, and had one of the most incredible lessons ever!!! They seriously asked all the right questions, and wanted to hear so much more. It was beautiful. We even talked about the three kingdoms of glory, and it made sense to them. Whoot!! Whoot!!! You really know someone is golden when they actually understand the three kingdoms of glory!!! Unfortunately, we haven't been able to see them since... but I hope they do really well!!
Tuesday- Tuesday was a bit of a mixed day. Haha. We had an incredible day planned out with a bunch of members to go with us to teaching appointments. Our first member, and awesome girl that just turned 18, was all ready to go, unfortunately, our appointment fell through. But she was a good sport, and we visited some other people. We had a freeze moment when one lady said that she disagreed with the idea that Christ visited the America's, but it was okay because she had bits and pieces that she disagreed with in every religion, and that is why she probably wouldn't ever join a church. Yeah- SCARY!!! Well, fortunately, the Spirit was there, and we asked her if she had been reading the Book of Mormon. She wasn't. We testified to her pretty strongly that reading the Book of Mormon was the only way to find out if what we were saying is true, and the only way she would ever know if she wanted to join our church or not. I love it when I can feel the Spirit testifying through me. It is a great experience.
We also had Sister Harrison who came with us. She offered a great testimony of the Book of Mormon. Our investigator even said that she would read it after we had left... :P Although she didn't, it was a step.
Wednesday- This was actually a really interesting day. Mostly because of the lesson I've learned. President has recently been having some problems with missionaries studying deep doctrine, so he's been telling us not to dabble in that stuff. Now, I've never had a problem with that stuff... but honestly, I've never really known what it was exactly, and because I love learning so much, I've always been worried that that might be one of my potential weaknesses. On Wednesday after correlation, we were talking to the Elders a bit about transfer meeting, and one of the zone leaders started talking about the problems the mission was having with the deep doctrine stuff. For the first time I've actually heard an example of the deep doctrine stuff, and Yeah. Let me tell you, between my practicality, and the way you and Mom have taught me to love truth and hate anything else... that stuff has absolutely NO attraction to me. WHY anyone would EVER spend any amount of time worrying about that junk is beyond me! I honestly have enough to worry about with the basic saving doctrine's of the gospel. And going deep with them is NOT deep doctrine, it is simply reaching a deeper level of understanding, which is perfectly fine. Let me tell you, the Spirit leaves REALLY quickly the second anything stupid pops up... So- that was good to know. I also have absolutely no taste for bible bashing. I just feel sick to my stomach. Two missionary traps I really don't have to worry about as long as I listen to the Spirit. They are pretty clear.
Thursday- we went out with Sister Flemming. She's the WML's wife, and a member of the Relief Society presidency. She is absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible. I just love being with her. She is so caring, and so generous. I'm really grateful I get the opportunity on my mission to work with so many great ward members. They really are a great example for me of what I want to be like. I'm working really hard on taking advantage of this opportunity, and change myself to become more like that person. Can't conquer everything at once, but I'm grateful I have that example and I've been able to see myself change a bit.
Friday-We had a pretty good day. Throughout my mission I've REALLY wanted to get better at working with members and help regular, southern Baptist people to get to know the Mormons. The Southern people are very service oriented, very involved, and so we've been working on our community service hours. Saturday we had the opportunity to help out in the community and we also went to dinner with some absolutely awesome members. I was very satisfied.
Sunday- Mario's birthday was on Sunday!!! So we celebrated. Its kinda funny, all of these people that can't speak a lick of Spanish getting together to celebrate this little Mexican. He's a sweetheart. It was just going to be us and the Elders, and we were just going to have cake with milk at the church, but Mario surprised us all by bringing tamalies and pop, and then the bishopric surprised us by swinging by the church after visits. We managed to convince Brother Drake to stay for just a bit, and it was awesome. So grateful he did that. The best part of the celebration was trying to get the candles lit. Haha- we had about five people circled around this little tiny lighter, trying to block the wind and light more than one candle. We finally got three of the 12 candles lit, and as we were singing all but one was blown out. :) It was a mess, but a lot of fun. We ended the party by singing hymns as Sister Williams plunked them out with her right hand. It was quite the celebration. I absolutely loved it.
That evening, we had another special treat. Sister Ambrose, a member of our ward, agreed to teach us how to crochet. After living all those years with Mom and grandma, I still don't remember how to do it! But she taught us the basic stitch, and we've been working away at our little squares ever since. I was happy that holding the needle and yarn came back very quickly. I've never really realized just how addicting it is though. :) We said we were going to leave at the end of the row... 20 rows latter... haha. It was lots of fun. Certainly brought back good memories of Grandma Bradshaw. I'll have to show her what I've learned.
Overall, its been a really good week. :D I hope you all have a great week!! I love you all so much. I think about you all the time, and hope you are enjoying life and staying Steadfast in Christ.
You are amazing,
I love you.
Love always,
Sister Pratt
~Steadfast in Christ
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