ATTENTION: My dear last
companion Sister Bobbitt was wonderful enough to follow the spirit and was
tracting in our old neighborhood and felt prompted to talk to the mailman.
Turns out nobody moved into our old apartment yet and there was a whole bunch
of letters for me!! I still have not received them but hoping she will forward
them to me! I will get back to you soon!
Well folks this week
was kinda rough, but I will just keep to the highlights.
We found three new
investigators all in one lesson! In previous
weeks we spent a day going through the area book. For those of you who don't know what an area
book is, it is a binder full of records of past former and potential
investigators. It was an extremely
monotonous day going through it, organizing, and calling people. Nobody answered but one woman who said we
could come and visit! She had to cancel
a couple times, but everything worked out finally and we were able to find a
member (a miracle in itself, missionary work is SO hard in the summer time cause
everyone is gone), to go with us. Her
name is Lisa Black and she is living with her daughter Melissa and family. Lisa's mom was a member! but a less-active one
from the sounds of it. They are super prepared! We have an appointment with
them tonight so fingers crossed!
Also, I've found
another Sister Kandare!! Ok no one will ever be Sister Kandare ever, but this
one comes mighty close! Her name is
Sister Perini and she is a member here in Pinehurst. We visited her Wednesday night and it was just
so good! She as S. Mendoza says,
"Walks in the spirit.” That's
something I love about being a missionary is that I can just go to peoples
houses’ and we can talk about the gospel and feel the spirit literally any
time!
I went on my first
exchange and of course I was the one who stayed in the area with Sister Workman
(STL), and Sister Mendoza went to Pembroke. Being here only three weeks made it
a bit difficult. I got lost only once
though! Unfortunately we weren't able to get any appointments for most of the
day so we mostly just tracted haha Sorry to Sister Workman! The sun wasn't shining, but it was
suffocating-ly humid. It was funny, most
of the people we talked to knew Mormons and had friends or family members that
were members! No one was interested, but still had some good
conversations.
We had another lesson
with the Alstons and finally met her husband! It was SO good. The relief society president
and Sister Alstons new visiting teacher came. They have been reading the Book
of Mormon together and are all set on going to the temple! I am so excited to get to be a part of their
journey to an eternal family, Heavenly Father works miracles!
Our prayers have been
answered this week by receiving two member referrals that we are super excited
about!
Sunday we had a
fireside called "Why I Believe," where 3 members shared their stories
of how they came to believe in this church and in Jesus Christ. We had Tom, our
investigator who we haven't seen in forever, come!! I was hoping for a
"spirit-punching-in-the-face" moment, but he is still pretty
comfortable in his faith right now. The fireside was SO incredible and we had
our bishop, the 1st counselor, and the 2nd counselor all invite him and his
wife to dinner! haha They are rock stars.
I found this scripture
in my studies and I wanted to share.
"Behold,
this is the promise of the Lord unto you, O ye my servants. Wherefore, be of
good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you;
and ye shall bear record of me, even Jesus Christ, that I am the Son of the
living God, that I was, that I am, and that I am to come."
It is my testimony
that Jesus Christ lives. Because of Him, we get the chance to start over,
again, and again. I love Him. I'm trying to be like Him and I want to follow
Him. I have such a long ways to go and sometimes I overwhelm myself thinking I
will never get there. Jesus Christ loves us and I know that He loves me.
Love, Sister Dearden
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