E-Mail #23

E-Mail #23

November 7th, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

Hello everyone....man do i have an amazing week to report on!!!

 

So lets start off with the big and GREAT NEWS!!!!

 

 

8 new investigators this week!!!!!!

 

 

HOLY DANG!!! check us missionaries out here in junction city, totally ROCKING IT!!! Although I'm not going to lie we could have done a little better than 8, but still 8 is PRETTY DARN GOOD!!! Its been amazing to see how the lord works and to be a part of his work! i just LOVE IT!!! So now I'll rewind back to last week. So Monday which was Halloween was such a party. We went to Manhattan around 2 and we were there until 830 that night! because on Halloween we are not allowed to go out and work, so we all had a party with lots of food and a desert competition in Manhattan and had lots of fun! it was great! Tuesday was good, we for some dumb reason forgot to put a back-ups for our appointments on Tuesday, but we were soooo blessed because EVERY appointment went through without a problem. we went from one appointment to another the entire day! super blessed!!! Wednesday was a GREAT day, we got 3 of our 8 new investigators on Wednesday. We had decided about a week ago that we were going to set apart 1 hour a day to find, which mainly means we are going to pray to find out where we need to go tracting and GO AT IT!!! Wednesday was super cold, but we bundled up and went tracting anyways, some people thought we were crazy to be out in the cold, but we didn't mind we were sharing the gospel. We met 3 really great people and are looking forward to following up with them and seeing how they are doing and seeing if they kept the commitments we left them with. But i have to tell you about a great tracting experience. so that day we are out and about and we knocked on a door of a really nice decorated house, super friendly looking right. The lady opens the door and she is in this really nice coat and everything, so we start talking to her, and as soon as i said our church name, she rolled her eyes and started to close the door. Quickly sister fie'eiki said do you know anyone that would be interested in what we have to share, and the lady turned around and said 'JESUS....Jesus would be interested in what you are saying' HAHAHA!!!! we were laughing pretty hard. So we are going to share our message with Jesus one day and see what he has to say about it. Nothing much happened on Thursday....but on Friday....wow WHAT A DAY!!! We got 5 new investigators that day!!! IT WAS GREAT!!!!! One was one that we didn't expect to even happen. Every Friday we go to a members home for lunch and she makes us this amazing meal every time. Well it was her birthday, yep her birthday and she was cooking for us, she is amazing, so then she invited her friend over, and as we were talking about the church her friend became very interested, so we kept talking and then have an appointment with her this week! ITS GOING TO BE GREAT!!! Then we met another great person tracting, she is 17 and super spicy and fun, and has SO MUCH FAITH it is SOO COOL!!! We also gave a guy a church tour, a guy that we tracted into a couple weeks ago, and he is super nice and the spirit was super strong when we were talking with him, and i am super excited to teach him more! Then lastly we taught a couple that learned about the church before but never got baptized, and they are still amazing and still great, and we are looking forward to teaching them more and helping them feel the importance of baptism!! It was such a great day! This week we are going to do our best to commit people to baptism, we do really great at teaching and testifying to them, but if we teach and testify, then we need them to understand baptism is where it is at!! its the first step to all the happiness and blessings, and EVERYTHING! so we are going to make sure we commit people! The weekend was kinda dull, but still good. But yes, that was our amazing week!!! We are soooo thankful for the time we are able to spend each day doing the lords work. It is so amazing. I think of how my personal study has changed, i am learning SO MUCH about the book of Mormon that it is AMAZING!! I'm trying to work my way through the bible and understand and read all those stories we hear growing up. Its so great to do this everyday. I am very blessed to do the lords work, and its not easy, i struggle every day. Its the hardest thing i have ever had to do. I have never felt so depressed and yet so blessed at the same time. Its weird how it works, but it does and its the lords work! I am just so happy that i am the lucky one who gets to witness the lords work first hand, see everything he does....because I'm not really doing much, he is!! and its so cool to see him prepare ZION!!! ZION!!!!! yep....that's right, i am helping the lord prepare ZION!!!! HOW COOL IS THAT?!!?

Anyways. I love you all!

Happy week!

Sister Barnum