Thursday, December 7, 2023

" tiwi is putting me in a cage"

 HOWDY YALLL!! This week was soooo good!! Here are some sick miracles from this week!😎🤠🫶

- KERRY: HOLY SMOKES! So on Monday everything we had planned for the night was falling through and our backups didn't feel right at all. We drove from apartment complex to apartment complex trying to figure out where God needed us but I had just the strongest feeling that we needed to be somewhere else. That morning we had said a very specific prayer that we would find someone who had been praying for us to find them, teach the doctrine of baptism, and put someone on date. We ended up knocking into Kerry, she might be THE MOST ELECT person I've met! We ended up teaching almost the full restoration at her door step, she was in tears. She told us how she had been treated horrible by people from all the churches she's gone to. People would make horrible comments about her scars from an accident); We were able to bear testimony of the savior and God's love for her. She said she felt like Joseph Smith and said she had been praying for a church with people her age to find her! We ended up putting her on date for baptism for December 28th! My comp suggested the date and she started crying again and showed us her calander app on her phone and it had a task she had put in a few days earlier to complete a spiritual goal on that day! We had a lesson with her yesterday and she told us she stayed up until 3 am reading the book of mormon and couldn't put it down. She said it filled a hole in her heart🥹🤧🩷

- RAYLEE: We had a pass off lesson with some elders in the Bentonville ward and it was so good! There was so much going on during it and so many people who were walking in and out of the convo. But it was cool to see how gradually as we shared more and more everyone became super interested and stopped what they were doing to listen to us. We were able to invite raylee to be baptized and she said yes! Please send prayers that her boss will let her have Sundays off!!

-JOY: during Sunday school some elders in the family ward called us out of class, introduced us to Joy! She's ysa and is looking for a church. We did a church tour, it was so good and the spirit was so strong! She was crying, I was crying haha! We showed her the baptismal font and taught her about baptism and the Holy Ghost, she goes "wow I would love to do that someday". We were able to invite her to be baptized and put her on date!🥳😆
-MLC REVIEW: we got to see all the missionaries! We talked a lot about specific prayers, receiving answers to prayers, being prepared. It was so funny!

- ZONE CONFERENCE: zone conference was soo bussin! Here were some takeaways:
" why would God send you to this place to teach this ppl if there were no ppl for you to teach"
"Faith doesn't move backward it moves forward"
" tender mercies don't come the way we expect or want but they do come the way we need"
" even when others don't believe in christ they see you and want to come to know him"  
" We've got to go, we have people we need to teach" 

❤️‍🔥Spiritual Thought ❤️‍🔥
"when we plead with all the energy of our souls for those things we so much desire; when, as Paul says, we “come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” (Heb. 4:16.) Prayer is the way and means, given us by our Creator, whereby we can counsel and communicate with him. It is one of the chief cornerstones of pure and perfect worship. In prayer we speak to the Lord, and he speaks to us. It is our privilege to have our voices heard in the courts above and to hear the answering voice of the Lord conveyed by the power of his Spirit."

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" the spirit is no respector of shacks"


 HOWDY YALLL! This week was so amazing! We really got to see God's hand in everything we did. 

- mlc was so good! It was a big answer to my prayers haha! We talked a lot about prayer! And the story's of people who pray specifically and with faith. I loved the story of John tanner, how he left behind everything and gave up all he had for God. And how he acted on the revelation he received even though it seemed scary or uncomfortable!

- Exchanges w/ Sis Shelin🥳😎🤠 it was so amazing! Sister shelin is such an amazing missionary(: we had a really cool lesson with with this girl named Kat! I was able to feel so much of God's love for her and see her how he saw her! We were able to invite her to be baptized and she said yes!

- God has been answering so many of our prayers, it's been so cool to see! We've been STRUGGLING finding ysa to teach who stick! We have been able to find some super promising people this week, have been getting referals from other missionaries as well! 

- we've been doing bom study groups weekly and it's been so cool to see members get excited about what they learn and then bring their friends the next time! One of our members was able to bring his girlfriend who's not a member and she loved it! We ended up teaching her the next day, had such a powerful lesson!!! We invited her to be baptized and she said yes((: 

❤️‍🔥Spiritual Thought ❤️‍🔥
I did one of my personal studies this week on Mark 2, the story of the friends who broke open a roof in a house where Jesus was teaching to get there friend to Jesus. It made me think of the covenants we make to bear on another's burdens. This talk really helped me to understand what it looks like to minister and to bring others to Christ!

And They Sought to See Jesus Who He Was








 

" tribe of Ephraim forever"

 HOWDY YALLL!! To be frank I'm exhausted haha but this week was pretty good! We had lots of tender mercies ((:

- we had the sickest miracle this week! We were trying to get to a member dinner and there was a fat car accident, so we got stuck in standstill traffic for 30 minutes 🫠Our members ended up having to drop off food for us in the Walmart parking lot, we ended up sharing our spiritual thought there. At this point we were running late to our meeting with the stake, there was still stand still traffic. We decided to pray, I felt like I needed to pray that the roads would clear and that the drivers would recognize us as servants of the Lord and let us pass. We pull up to try to turn left across 4 lanes of stand still traffic and the 1st and 2nd cars stop to let us pass and the 3rd literally backs up to let us pass!!! This never happens here people are crazier than Utah drivers in Bentonville. The other lane had gotten a red light and the road was clear the whole way to the church building!!! God is so good, he hears and answers our prayers.

- we had a zone tour with president beutler and it was the best! We were able to have so many amazing conversations with people, were actually able to find a ysa!! We ended up helping someone move their couch into their apartment and teaching them haha! Turns out one of them had a dad who was a member ( she wasn't a member) but her dad had been trying to get her to read the book of mormon! What are the odds! 

- we've been on the finding grind! And God has been providing so many tender mercies for us! I'm all ears for any ysa finding ideas ya'll have though, we got kicked off campus and our most promising apt so we're down for anything lol! 

❤️‍🔥Spiritual thought❤️‍🔥
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Think about the question: What am I willing to leave behind to follow Jesus Christ more fully? 








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