Ok, so what a week. It's been pretty hectic, but nonetheless exhilarating! We had Mission Leadership Council this past week and a few other meetings, and so it's just been moving from place to place basically. It's been so much fun though, I've loved every minute. The Neffs are slowly getting more of the hang of things, and we're working now a lot more on how to schedule sisters to be online more, but still have enough area time. And despite it being slow
I'm
not sure I've mentioned before about Cross Creek Bible Study. Cross
Creek is a huge Christian church in Wayne County all us missionaries are
very familiar with. Many people who've been members have closed doors
on us. A few months ago Sister Packard and Sister Murdock were here in
Macedon tracting when they knocked on a door and just so happened to
stumble upon a Bible study happening for Cross Creek girls all in their
20's. They invited them in and asked if they would like to be a part of
their Bible Study. So they did, and kept going since. As they talked
with President Evans and Elder Bradford, they counseled that it was a
good thing to soften the hearts of some of the people here in Palmyra to
their view of Mormons. So when I came in we kept attending! It's been
an incredible experience to get to know them, and helped me more fully
understand that there are good Christian people out there who truly want
to share the word of God.
Another miracle of the week! I may have mentioned the Novick family before. Damian and Dmitri are the sons of Wendy. We've been having lessons at the Hill Cumorah and this week we introduced Sister Hallows to them! They enjoyed her, and man, it was powerful to hear Sister Hallows (who is a convert) share her conversion story to them. She's an on fire missionary!!
Miracle of miracles was able to happen this week! Fernando came to the temple for the first time!! Because I'm here in Palmyra and the temple is just across the street from where we live President allowed us to go during our dinner hour. It was such a special experience, and very sweet to watch Fernando perform that work for others. Before we started the baptisms one of the temple workers addressed us and more specifically, addressed Fernando, and told him "in the house of the Lord, all of His promises are fulfilled." And in that moment I knew all the promises the Lord had given me were fulfilled.
I love you all very much! I hope you have a great week!
1. Sister Hallows and I
2. Fernando going to the temple
3. A missionary we gave a tour to one of our last days at the Smith Farm (we no longer assign sisters to the Smith Farm during February because it’s not busy enough, so lately we’ve been having some Smith Farm withdrawals)
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