Hello Friends and Family!
Another beautiful, hot, week in Canada.
SOOOO PRETTY CANADA AHHHHH
This
week we contacted, met with members and less actives, and taught
lessons to investigators, therefore, making it another successful week.
We
had a really cool experience teaching from The Book of Mormon to a
part-member family. We had the objective of teaching them the Gospel of
Jesus Christ that being, faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift
of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. Concepts that we'd talked
about before, but this time we wanted to have a formal lesson on. And
what better way to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ than by using the
scriptures, which we believe to be the words of God. So we read 2 Nephi
Chapter 31 (https://www.lds.org/
Just trying to gather the wheat from amidst the tares (hehe scripture reference)
Update on our investigators:
James: Is doing great! Still reading The Book of Mormon and praying. We are seeing him again tonight, so pray for him!
Denise: She's doing great. We are going to start teaching her family and we are so excited.
We
also go our transfer calls this week. I will be staying here in
Kirkland, my first and only area so far, and Sister Zobrist will be
leaving to Ottawa this Wednesday. We will be super sad to be separated
after only 6 weeks together, but these past weeks have been a huge
blessing to us and I'm forever grateful that the Lord allowed us to be
companions. She's so wonderful. But I will be receiving a new
missionary, and I don't know her name yet, but I will tell you all next
week! I'm super excited to show her around Kirkland and just help to
love the heck of these people.
And because
Sister Zobrist is leaving, we went and stopped by some of our members
houses yesterday, so she could say goodbye. She said goodbye to Bridget,
a member who we love so dearly, and we both bore testimony of the
Church and its truthfulness, and then Bridget opened up to us about how
much we'd helped her in just the past 6 weeks. She told us all of the
ripple effects of all the things we'd done with her. We laughed
together, and cried together as she told us how grateful she was for us.
Never before had I been so humbled and full of love as I had been at
that moment. We had no idea the magnitude we'd had on her life in just
that short time. And just seeing at least a little bit of the fruits of
our labors was so inspiring to Sister Zobrist and I. We were so grateful
that we had gotten to serve this women, and obviously I will continue
to serve her as long as I'm here in Kirkland, but long story short, you
NEVER know how much good you do. You never know the ripple effects you
have on people's lives. WE are one of the ways Heavenly Father
administers His blessings to His children. WE are HIS hands. So please,
don't ever be discouraged when you don't think you've done enough to
help, because you've probably done more than you'll ever know. But also,
never be afraid to give more. To help more. To comfort more. To love
more. Because people definitely need it. And God needs you to do it. So
give freely, and love will freely come to you.
Bridget and Jesse, loves of my life
AH
okay, I'll get off my soapbox, but really I'm so happy doing the Lord's
work here. Nothing has been a greater blessing to me.
I love and pray for you all,
Sister Thomas
Scripture of the week:
1 Nephi 4:6-7
"And I was led by the spirit not knowing beforehand the things which I should do. Nevertheless, I went forth..."
An Elder finished his mission in Kirkland, so we made him a
strawberry-rhubarb pie.
Oh my gosh, pretty sure I should be a baker now
because it was
SO GOOOOOOOOD. and it's beautiful and artsy,
so here's a
picture
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