We Are Sowing!

We had an epic Zone Training Meeting this week that set the foundation for everything.

 

First, President committed all missionaries to give out  7 BoMs a week, or 1 BoM a day. In some areas, this is really easy because there's a million people in your area. Others, it's a little harder when surrounded primarily by empty corn and hay fields. Ours is somewhere on the middle-lower category. We successfully passed out 7 BoMs this week, which brought us great miracles!

 

We followed inspiration to go see a part-member family that is moving away soon. They really needed the visit. It's hard to see people turn away from the church just because of offense taken. But they are moving to Utah, so hopefully I can see them more when I get there :) There are positives to living in Utah!

 

I discovered the best ice cream on the face of the earth this week. It's made in Madison, but we went to a little bakery in Algoma and they had some and it was DELICIOUS. I've never had anything like it. It was great :)

 

Phone lessons. Thank you, Sister Ipson. They are beneficial, sometimes. Maybe someday they'll upgrade us to Skype. Probably never.

 

We gave a BoM to a guy named Matt, who seemed super nice and open to reading it. We were really excited. Well, we went back yesterday and he was out playing frisbee with his girlfriend, and he was so not interested. I swear it's always the significant other. But the girlfriend seemed to like us, and we didn't give up in pressuring them to read the BoM, and their was an interest in his eyes that's pretty hard to hide. It was interesting because I was so excited to teach him because he seemed so golden, but then this happened, and yet we both felt really good about it. They didn't invite us back, but there was definitely a seed planted. Success!

 

Then we also had one of our golden potentials drop us by note-on-door. That was lame. She was super nice and friendly and interested and suddenly just said that she went to read the BoM and 'felt like it was wrong', so she didn't want to meet. Probably looked us up on the internet. GAH.

 

We met another super awesome potential named Jennifer, and she seems very open to letting us back, although she says she's not home super often. It's okay, we have faith :) That's something I've been working really hard to develop this week. I have kinda gotten cynical of people on my mission. But if you're faithful, things are much better.

 

We gardened for service this week, and had a good companionship chat. The Bakers were listening to For Eternity (about marriage) and it talked about how girls need girls to talk to because guys don't get it. It's SO true. Just being able to chat about memories with your companion does so much.

 

We kinda offended our investigator--cause we had to--and then came back the next day and laughed our heads off together. She's over it. I love when people can get over things.

 

We have lots of great potentials. I am excited to work with them. Although, Scott is avoiding us because HE KNOWS IT'S TRUE. This is a problem. You can't do that. It's not good for your eternity. Not good at all.

 

The Lord really blesses us in this work. He loves His children. He shows it. He wants this work to go forward, we are the ones that hold it back. But we are hoping to see the reaping soon. In the meantime, we continue to sow :)

 

Sister Neal