Dearest Family,
As always, I love you so much!
A few minutes ago, some of the elders showed up to the Trail Center
to do their emailing because all of the libraries are closed to day for the
holiday. They disappeared into the work room (where the computers are) for
about 10 minutes and then returned, apparently done with their emailing. I just
don't get it. It has already been 15 minutes for me and I have only written a
couple of sentences. I guess that I just need to work on my emailing skills.
Today it feels like everything is moving in slow motion, so maybe that is
slowing me down a bit. Nothing to worry about, I just have a lot on my mind to
day.
Let's see, last week was the end of sick week. Monday and Tuesday we were in
the apartment all day. Wednesday, we had Zone Conference. It was awesome. I
have been thinking about/working on having more faith recently and wow, this
Zone Conference was exactly what I needed. The ward mission leader from the Bellevue 2nd Ward was
there and President Kunz invited him to speak to us for as long as he needed. An
hour and a half later, I can say that most of our lives had changed or were
going to. He explained to us about faith. That each person had their own level
of faith, just as different miracles occurred according to different levels of faith
- the centurion with the sick servant vs the woman with the issue of blood
needing to only touch Christ’s robes vs laying on of hands, etc. Christ is able
to work miracles according to our level of faith. He also taught us that the
Lord wants us to do great things and to act, to move forward and not to wait to
be told or acted upon by the Spirit. If we believe that we can do marvelous
things, we can! In order to do this, we must ponder, desire with pure intent,
keep the laws of the blessing we receive, ask and bind the Lord to keep His
promises, and then exercise faith by acting on the promptings we receive. We do
this through great faith and powerful prayer and it takes obedience, diligence,
and sacrifice. We are to expect marvelous things, to expect the best, unless we
are told by the Spirit "no". I learned so powerfully how much we can
each accomplish if we act in faith. It is faith that creates miracles and
miracles are always possible. I thought that this also went really well with
President Monson's ABC's to living an abundant life in the Ensign from January.
A- attitude changes the outer aspects of our lives. B- believe in yourself and
what you can achieve. C- courage, which is determination to act in spite of
challenges.
Thursday and Friday were sort of starter days getting back into the work. I was
feeling mostly better, but would get exhausted pretty easily, so we had some
hours in our area, but not too much. Sunday, though was a fantastic day. The
sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. When we prayed at the end of
companionship study, we prayed that we would be able to find someone to come
church today and that we would be able to find a new investigator and teach a
lesson. With all that, we had a little over an hour to be in the area before we
needed to head for church. But, we acted in faith and optimistically headed out
for the area. We tried a couple different investigators and potentials, but no
luck. As we were pulling up to the last place we wanted to stop before heading
to church, someone else pulled into the circle we were parked in and dropped
someone off outside their home. Turns out, it was a 20ish year old guy named
Tom. His mom is a less-active member of our ward, but we have never met her. We
were able to teach him a lesson right there on his driveway and give him a copy
of the Book of Mormon. It was awesome. We are excited to meet with him and his
mom again later this week. Even though we had still not found anyone to come to
church, we were not discouraged. When we got to church, Sister Gill ran into us
and introduced us to her son, who returned this week from a mission in Brazil. He was
giving his mission report in Sacrament Meeting. His old girlfriend, Sarah, who
is not a member, but has taken several of the discussions before was there as
well as Carol, who we were teaching about a month ago but whose parents were
not happy with her investigating the church, so she has been on hold for a
little while. It was awesome! We acted in faith and we were able to see all of
our prayer answered. It was also really good to be able to see Carol again. She
is great. Hopefully things will work out for her soon.
So, yeah. That's pretty much been my week. It took a little while to get off
the ground, but I think that it ended up being a pretty great one. Even though
being stuck inside has not been the most exciting part of my mission so far, I
have learned a lot from it. As they say, everything happens for a reason.
Love you!
Sister Melly
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