Never fear! I did not miss sending an email yesterday. It's transfer week, I am staying in Rancho with Sister Hunter for her last transfer in the mission and honestly we are so excited. The only change is that Sister Hunter convinced the AP's that we needed one of the three red Tacomas in the mission because her hair is red.... and drumroll please...... it actually worked! Catch us driving the most coveted car in the whole mission🤣 It's such a joke because I literally am the example of what not to do when it comes to driving and somehow get to be driven around in the red Tacoma. Anyway it's kind of a party. I love the Rancho ward and we are teaching so many amazing people here.
Monday: Tonight we had literally one of the best lessons of my whole mission today. We are teaching this sweet girl named Amanda so we had a 11 year old party with her and two other girls that are members. We made cupcakes and related that to the gospel of Jesus Christ. At the end we talked about baptism and she said she wants to get baptized! But, she is super nervous. Before we could say anything the two girls from the ward resolved all her concerns and now she is on date to get baptized on Halloween! It was so tender to see the girls bear their little testimonies and help Amanda want to enter the waters of baptism.
Tuesday: So, I'm not going to lie, today was super boring, but, we did have one awesome miracle. We went to mutual to celebrate Emily's birthday and so many of the girls just supported her and Emily and Evie are getting baptized on the 30th! They are so ready and have even gotten their mom to become active again in the church. Hopefully they can all go to the temple temple do baptisms soon.
Wednesday: Today we got to meet some awesome members which was super nice because they have kind of all been avoiding us. We also got to talk to Amber who is such a cool lady. Her daughter got baptized 4 months ago and now we are teaching her and her two other kids! We are hoping they get baptized here soon too! She is so kind and literally should be a member. I can't wait to see how the Holy Ghost blesses her life.
Thursday: Today we got to have a lesson about commandments with Emily and Evie and they soaked it all up. It was cool to see Evie soak up the hand motions. We also had a really awesome lesson with a returning member who told us today she wants to make steps in her life to receive the gift of the endowment. Super hype and we are so excited to see her progress.
Friday: Today was pretty slow 🐌 Sister Hunter and I street contacted and knocked doors for literally 5 hours straight because all our lessons canceled. Let's just say I'm so grateful that I'm serving my mission now and not 20 years ago. Also, our girl Amber broke her phone so we have been communicating through notes we leave on her door and she tapes them up. Check below for some cute pics. The one awesome miracle from today is we got to truly help one of our members out of a faith crisis which is my all time favorite thing to do. I love getting to testify of God's love and the Atonement, so after a long day it really finished off strong.
Saturday: Honestly the only thing worth noting today was that we had another really awesome lesson with Emily and Evie about tithing and their mom really committed to paying that again which is huge. But, since today will be super short, spiritual thought time. Our Mission President asked us to really ponder what we would ask Jesus Christ right now as a missionary if we could ask him the desires of our hearts. This is what I came up with.
"Magnify my dedicated efforts to bring many of your beloved children here in Vegas to the waters of baptism, by allowing me to truly see them as beloved children of God with a divine potential, and to be the vessel by which the spirit can speak to their minds and hearts whispering to them the magnificent blessings of the Atonement and waters of baptism". I know that as I ask the Lord, what lack I yet, and truly dedicate myself more and more each day that he can answer these prayers and hopes. I also know that the Lord councils in the scriptures so many times by asking what you feel or what you want. So, my challenge for you this week is to really ponder the question, "what will you that I should do?" from the Lord. Then, write it down and dedicate yourself to working to receive those blessings. More often than not our will is aligned with God's will he just needs us to ask.
Sunday: We had 5 of our friends come to church! Yay! They all really enjoyed it and hopefully we have more next week. One cool miracle is that Amber was really having a rough week and church really helped her feel the love her Heavenly Father had for her. After that we went and talked to Wanda who ditched us at church! Turns out her friend was sick and so she stayed home to help her out but we set up a lesson for Tuesday and hopefully we will put her on baptismal date too! We have been so blessed here in Rancho and I'm so grateful to be seeing the fruits of my labors a little more.
Monday: We had a great time today knocking more doors and had some surprise lessons with several older ladies in the ward which was awesome! We finished the night out finding a new person named Nene who wants to come to church!
All in all a fabulous week and I'm so thankful to be staying and to see all these people I have come to love get baptized (hopefully) Here's some pictures of shenanigans with Sister Hunter. Honestly my phone is cracked so some of these are terrible quality 🤣 But, they are fun.
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