It Was Hot, It Was Smelly, It Was Worth It: Week 40
Apologies for not sending out a weekly last week. I guess I got
a little too caught up in ultimate dodge ball. But here I am, alive &
doing well.
So last week pretty much all of our set appointments fell
through, that's okay though that meant lots of finding.
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| real hot day for knocking some doors |
Two of my favorite things from LAST week.
1.
Jessie
- We met her looking for less actives - she let us right in. Which was very
kind of her because it was super hot. We taught her the restoration and it went
amazingly and she wants us to start teaching her daughters when they come back
in town, she was just so impressed that two young girls like us choosing to do
something like this.
2.
I got a
blessing from a member of my bishopric. It was one of the most - if not thee
most amazing blessing I have received on my mission. It was absolutely just
what I needed. I remember saying a prayer before, telling God, that I have the
faith, I have the faith, I have the faith... over and over and that whatever he
needed me to hear, he would tell him to say it. And things were said in that
blessing that proved to me who was actually speaking to me.
THIS week was amazing as well!
We found someone named Matthew; he was just getting into his
car. (We had to pass him off to the elders.) But we went back for our return appointment
and he wasn't there. So we went a couple
of buildings down for a little while to knock some doors and when we were
walking back to our car - there he was. He's like "Sisters! I'm so sorry I
missed you! Glad I found you!" So we walked with him to the dollar store
and taught the restoration.
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| That one time at 8:30 where it was so humid we were sweating so bad |
Yesterday we stopped by our investigator Leslie's house real
quick and invited her to church (she’s hasn't come yet). She said she would try
to make it, but it didn't seem to be sincere. But she came!! With all the kids
and everything. It was such a blessing because all of our other investigators
canceled out and I didn't expect her to come. Our Bishops wife invited her to
dinner so last night after church we had dinner with her as well, and she
brought a friend we've never taught.
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| At Bishop's house for a lesson again. |
Lou and Jason are doing amazing; we had two wonderful lessons
with them this week. Sweet Jason always just sits by his table - taking all the
notes in the world. Asking such beautiful questions. He texted us this week and
told us he watched the restoration video and he loved it.
Okay super cool thing about Lou and Jason. Jason told us that
the night we knocked on their door.. (actually the exact second we knocked on
their door) they were talking about how they needed to find another church..
about how they needed to know where to go and how lost they felt.. and then
someone comes knocking at the door..... (Spoiler alert, it's us)
Saturday we were having a super spiritual powerful Plan of
Salvation lesson and Lou just looks at me, looks at my Tag and goes "OOO!
Sorry to interrupt. I remember a part of my dream last night. I was just
staring at your Tag. Sister Sorensen, it was your Tag, and I had it. I don't
know why I had it but I remember it being pretty important that I
did."Well it is Lou. It's a pretty important tag.
And I'm never taking it off. Ever.
I love this tag.
There my name is, about an inch away from my Saviors.
Ya know, I'm a really imperfect person, and it's awfully
frustrating.
Sometimes I get with people I'm teaching and it's so easy for me
to feel that God will forgive them for their mistakes, that he can change them.
And yet at times I can't seem to feel it for myself. I'm still trying to
understand the amount of love he has for me, it seems impossible at times. But
I know I feel it for other people, and I know his love runs deeper than I can
even imagine.
It's been said, "The closer we are to Christ the more we
feel his grace." I think I'm starting to understand that now. I have
always believed that the closer I am to Christ the more I feel his love.
"The main idea of the word Grace is divine, it means of
help or strength, given through the bounteous mercy and love of Jesus
Christ."
So Grace put simply is love and mercy. Well the closer I feel to
Christ the more I feel his love, I get that, but the closer I feel to Christ
the more I feel his mercy. This is what hit me. The closer I feel to
Christ, often the more of the time I feel like a really unprofitable servant, I
feel aware of every Weakness or sin or fault. Christ is there to love us, and
to change us. So therefore the closer I feel to Christ I would have to feel
like changing. The closer I feel to Christ.. the more I feel his mercy and love
- to me that's Grace.
Maybe that's why people run away just as they begin to get close
to him, they feel the storm before the calm; they are scared of the pain of
stretching change.
Christ accepts us as we, but ask us to change. "Go and sin
no more"
"When we come unto Christ we choose to be
changed"
- Sister Sorensen🌞 |
| Sister Clark, Sister Schomaker,& Sister Sorensen |
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| The Crew |
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| Riding, |
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| Knocking |
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| Riding Again. |
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