Hello
everyone! Hope you had a great week like I did!
On
Monday, we had a pretty relaxing PDay. We've decided to have a new tradition
and since we were both so exhausted from all our traveling and whatnot, we took
a nap. Which was quite nice! Then we did our shopping and headed to Newcastle
to spend some time with the other missionaries and watch some movies. Then we
headed to see Eileen and we taught her the Restoration and then went to see the
Griffith family. It was a pretty short evening, but it was good :)
Tuesday we had a service project
and helped a member move houses. It was supposed to start at 10:00 and we got
there at 9:59 and it was almost done by the time we got there. Gotta love
Elder's Quorums! Then our lesson didn't show up, so we went to see Heather and
talked to her about the Plan of Salvation and then did finding in her area. We
did a little knocking and then did street contacting at the beach. Then we came
home for tea and companionship study and then went to a Book of Mormon Class
our Branch Mission Leader is doing. It was great! We just read the stories and
then watched the Animated Scripture Stories. Brought back my childhood :D
Wednesday we had district
meeting in the morning about exact obedience and that went over...so we went
straight to Lorna's house. She's also from the Philippines and so she got along
really well with Sister Magallano! We taught her the Restoration and invited
her to the Relief Society Activity this week which she accepted! We're so
excited! Then we had a really late lunch and went to the library and had a
lesson with Kurt. He taught us the Word of Wisdom and then we had a lesson with
Tony and Kurt joined us for that. We read the talk "Stand Up Inside and Be
All In" ah I just love that talk! It was such a great lesson too! Then we
tried by a potential and she wasn't in, which was ok, we were late anyways and
had to be to a tea appointment anyways. Then we had companionship Study and a
relief society Activity. We watched the women's conference. Then we tried by
Becca and she let us in for a bit but had to go. So we had a few extra minutes
so we walked around and these kids asked us if we believed in Jesus because
they had a friend who had a or of questions...well he just wanted to argue with
us and they were laughing at us the whole time. But we handled it and we're thankful
we could go in after that!
Thursday
we did all our studies in the morning and then went out to see a few less
actives and do some knocking. Then we saw Heather again and did more Finding on
the beach before going to tea with our Branch President's family and then took
Eileen out teaching with us. We saw a man named Bill and talked to him about
his story and how we could help him. Then we had a lesson with a part member
family and they want us to keep coming and teaching them! So we're pretty excited
about that! Then we went back to Lorna's because she had made us a Philippino
dessert!
It was
so good! It's like sweet rice with caramel on top...
Friday
we had our weekly planning session and lunch and then went to have a lesson
with Becca, but she wasn't in so we got gas for the car and then headed to see
John and Shannon and taught them about tithing! It went pretty well. Then we
travelled to Morpeth and saw Winifred. She talked a lot, but we were able to
talk to her about Thomas S. Monson and read his recent talk with her about the
Book of Mormon!! Then we had tea with another member and then had companionship
Study at home and went to see Jennifer Thompson before heading back to
Newcastle for the night.
So
Saturday we had exchanges in Newcastle. It was interesting! I was with Sister
Barrett and we had such a fun day! So we started out the morning with knocking.
We knocked for about two hours...and literally only one door opened. So we went
in for lunch and companionship study and then headed back out! We went to try
by a referral who wasn't in, so we knocked in her area and then went to try by
a member and talked with her about Jesus Christ and doing her dailies! Then we
came in and closed the exchange and then Sister Magallano and I headed back to
Ashington. We saw a less active family and then came in for tea.
Sunday
we had church and it was so good! We got to give a presentation in the combined
portion of third hour for fifth Sunday about the Area Plan. It was really good!
We had them list their blessings and then we talked about how the Area Plan is
meant for us to strengthen the blessings we already have and how we're supposed
to try and visit with every active member once a month and we had some pretty
positive responses! Then we had lunch and went to see a less active whose a
single mom and since her kids are all starting school this week she's asked us
to reteach her all the lessons so she can feel caught up enough to come to
church! And she also wants to come to the Relief Society Activity this week!
Then we did some knocking, had our missionary coordination meeting, and headed
home.
My
Spiritual Thought for the week is from Conference:
"God
knows you and invites you to know Him. Pray to the Father, study the
scriptures, seek to do God’s will, strive to become like the Savior, and follow
righteous mentors. As you do, you will come to know God and Jesus Christ, and
you will inherit eternal life."
-'And
This Is Life Eternal' By Elder C. Scott Grow
Also, I
just wanted to include a line from the movie we watched today.
"We
are Angels hiding in the bones of humans" 😇
Go be
angels :D
Sister Hope
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