Hey Y'all,
Another great week and so much to be
grateful for! This week we have done what we can tell the whole world seems to
be doing to. We took the Ponderizing Challenge to ponder a scripture and have
it up where we will see often. I put one by my study area, on the frige and in
the car my scriptures was Doctrine and Covenants 88: 118. My new scripture this
week is going to be Ephesians 6:11-12. I have loved what Elder Durrant has
started. I can tell what he means that such an amazing way to have the spirit
and have great thoughts in our minds. I have loved thinking about what this
scripture really means. I didn't memorize it completely but I know love what it
says about learning. We need to study and work for learning but we won't learn
without faith. This week we have focused on sharing it will all of the members
and Less actives we are working with and some of our investigators.
This week on Tuesday was probably the
best day of the whole week. WE had a lesson with one of our Investigators who
ha had a hard time with understanding all that we are sharing she is however
very open and wants to understand. we taught he Restoration with the
Restoration Cups. It you don't know what that is its just teaching the
restoration with plastic little cups. With cups with the apostles, levels of
the priesthood, Gospel of Jesus Christ (faith,repentance....), modern
revelation of commandments to follow and our prophet and Jesus Christ at the
top showing who is the lead of our church. we then brake it done when we have
the great apostasy and then rebuild it with random cups about how other
churches were made. Then we rebuilt it the again completely showing that
Joseph Smith Restored it all fully and completely. Well as we were teaching we
got to the rebuilding of the church and just said that modern day Apostles
names and she wouldn't let me go any further. She kept repeating I get it, I get
it, I get it now. She says why is it that some church or the churches I go to
don't share these things with me or help me understand it better or allow me to
know and learn for myself. You girls have been sharing all of this with me and
it is finally starting to make since. With that we invited her to be Baptized
and she, without hesitation, said YES! It was amazing. When we closed I was
going to give the prayer and I answered her if there was anything I could pray
for her and she said that I can quit smoking. She had never before told us or
ever brought it up before. We did explain the word of wisdom to her as we were
teaching and she briefly said it but never has she gave us something to pray
for you her either. She normal says just my health and family. I can see her
changing. She is so amazing and I know she is happy with what she is learning
and will soon be able to do. Later we saw a less active sister who has been
wanting a blessing from the Elders we just could never get it to work out. It
was amazing and so great to see her smiling and knowing that she already felt
uplifted. We had a lesson with another one of our Investigators who has been
having a hard time wit her feet. She was born without ankles and she is going
in on Tuesday to schedule surgery. She was great and it was a great day. She
isn't supposed to be walking but she was up doing stuff. the lesson went really
well. We talked about praying often and Scripture study. She said she knows
each are important and basically she was teaching us.
We had two great lessons with one of our
young investigators who has ADHD and they both went great. We used visuals and
that seems to help a lot. We decided at the pace we are going we didn't think
she would be ready for the end of the month to be baptized so we moved to
December.
Sunday we had one of investigators who
hasn't come to church at all finally came and she really enjoyed it and lots of
h members came and said hi to her. We looked through our former investigator
and visited some and now have two new investigators with an appointment and a
potential new one with a lesson this week.
Great week and so much work to do. I
feel like we are always moving. We have the greatest people to teach and all
starting to progress or close to it.
Another great week and so much fun.
Missionary work is the greatest and the most rewarding. I love the people and I
love getting to ask about there History! Pembroke is full of amazing stories
and amazing people. The Lumbee people are just the best. I love it here! Well,
I hope your week is great!
Love Sister Farr
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Sister Tayler Farr
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