Monday April 24, 2017
This week was
transfers! Sister Tsalagi headed up to Gridley so I hung out with some Sisters
while I waited for Sister Kikel to come down from Anderson! We cleaned, dropped
off clothes at a donation center; got ice cream with Nicole then met up at the
mission office!!
Sister Kikel is the bomb! We've only
been comps for a week and we are already good friends!
Wednesday we went finding!!
Per usual lol knocked SO many doors!!
We then met with our awards
Relief Society presidency to figure out how we can help! They are SO on the
ball!! Like there isn't a Sister in the ward that they haven't tried to
contact. So they gave us some names of sisters they only have addresses for and
to go and see if they would like to receive the weekly newsletter. So we have
attempting that!
After dinner we realized that
we really needed to use the bathroom, so we went over to the K family’s home and
ended up being there for about 45 minutes talking about all of their neighbors
they would like is to visit. Which was AWESOME!! We are super pumped that
they are opening their mouths and sharing the gospel!
Thursday was an awesome
District Meeting! Elder Lloyd asked me to give a spiritual thought! I thought
long and hard and felt impressed to share the story at the end of John where
Christ comes to His disciples while they are fishing. They continue to drop
their nests but always come up empty. Then the Lord tells them to cast out
their nets on the right side. They do and their net is full. I actually had a
dream about this...God speaks in mysterious ways. I talked about how God is
going to give us specific instruction on where we need to go to find those who
are prepared! We just need to have an open and willing heart and be ready to act
on whatever answer that we receive!
That afternoon we did a
"do or die" with D. We prayed before the lesson to clearly know if we
should continue to teach him and let me tell ya it became crystal clear that
his heart is not open to the gospel right now. It was so sad because the gospel
had the answers to all his questions and concerns. I pray that some day he will
soften his heart and listen!
Friday
was our monthly car fast day! We weekly planned and then started walking! We
live a mile or so outside our area, so it took us a bit to even get to a place
where we could tract! But it was great to be out and about doing the Lords
work! We knocked SO many doors but my favorite one was the neighbor to our
dinner appointment, the R’s! The R’s are AWESOME! So missionaries are always in
their home, so I assumed the entire street would have been tracked out. We
decided to knock on their neighbor’s door and meet J. He has friends who are
members and have kids on missions so we talked about missionary work. He told
us that he sees missionaries in this neighborhood all the time, but that we
were the first ones to knock on his door!! What?! He has literally been waiting
for missionaries! I am so grateful we followed that prompting! The Lord is
continually guiding us! Even though he is very involved in his church and isn't
really interested, he won't forget that and neither will I!!
On Saturday we met up with A. and a member family, the N’s! A.
is from the Philippians and is not a member. We are teaching a recent convert
named C. who is also from the Philippians. So, A. has offered to translate the
lessons into Tagolog so that she can better understand! How cool is that?! We
gave him the first pamphlet and invited him to read through it and to pray for
guidance! I am so excited to see the miracles that come through this!
Well those are pretty much the highlights from this week! I hope
y'all doing well!
Until next time,
Sister
Emily Gore
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