It's 6 degrees currently. Not so bad.
Thanks
for letting me know about the rebellion in nursery, here in Colony ward
my comp and I visited nursery on the way to relief society so we could
get snacks (two Sundays ago...we had permission), and we helped with the
lesson and with music. The kids are soo cute.
Happy birthday Adam!!!!!!! I love you! All the trucks in Alaska wish you happy birthday as well.
Congratulations Bunker fam on getting a wee yiddow baby named Linkin. Hope to see pictures soon :)
So.
Missionary work. So hopefully we are going to see the investigator that
dropped us this week, just cuz Sister Brown is leaving and she at least
wants to say goodbye.
We
had kind of a slow week and didn't see very many people other than our
recent convert who is doing GREAT, and our investigator who speaks
Spanish, and a few less-active people. Our recent convert had a great
spiritual experience with praying for help getting over the urges to
smoke this past week. She said "look i know I have the Holy Ghost and I
know Heavenly Father can take away those thoughts and so I prayed and
told him that and ever since, the urges have been WAY less." Oh my gosh
so cool, she now has such a stronger testimony about prayer and holy
ghost. We taught her that day about the temple and she is really looking
forward to being able to do baptisms for the dead and also to go
through the temple in a year. I found a pretty rock outside, grey with a
few thick white stripes through it, and wrote with sharpie on one side
"February 5th, 2013" and "Temple" on the other side. To help remind her
that a year from her baptism this year, she can go through the temple.
(Pssh sister brown said after I made it, "I think that day is a Monday
next year" cuz this year it was a Sunday...pssh don't tell me that! The
temple is closed on Mondays. This would ruin EVERYTHING. Just kidding.)
THEN i took the cheap red nail polish I bought last p-day and painted in
the sharpie words and then took clear nailpolish and put that over all
of it to make it look real pretty. Yay. She really liked it.
It's
crazy being a new missionary and having a comp getting ready to go
home. I know I will be all right but this could be really hard in the
sense that I could really start missing home myself and thinking about
what it will be like when I get home and where I'm gonna go to school
and all this crazy stuff but I think I will be okay. Sister Brown is
amazing, she was dreading going home --and she still doesn't want to--
but she is facing it, and handling it. Which is so healthy. I mean we
needa stay focused on our work until the end but we also wanna be ready
to go home when the time comes.
SO.
We hear a lot about this 1940 census coming out and how amazing it is for geneology. You excited mama?
I
sent that letter that I sent like three days after I wrote it cuz i
don't break no mission rules, I don't want you to think I wrote and sent
it NOT on my p-day. Bahahhaa.
Week 6 of my second transfer. This is it, guys.
I love my family so much.
We
went tracting and a guy answered the door, young, super energetic,
invited us in, other people in the house, he laughed and said, "Well i
think it is all right, this isn't my house actually," hahha, and Sis
Brown and I sang "how great thou art" and this guy and two other guys
and the woman of the house- a foster mom slightly distracted chasing
after a 2-yr-old-- sang with us and we got two of the guys' numbers to
meet with them again and gave them book of mormons and they were super
spiritual, one is a worship leader at another church, he invited us to
this "walk with jesus" thing in the morning (we checked with mish pres,
he said it'd be okay -- if WE invite people, it could be a good thing to
show WE can be invited as well--but also we must make sure that we
aren't gonna be attacked or anything because of our nametag and stuff).
Super open-hearted guys. We asked them if they knew there was more
spiritual truth out there that God was waiting to give them--aka the
book of mormon--would they want to know about it? They all readily
answered yes. We ended up not going to the walk with jesus thing cuz the
guy texted and said one of his friends was going through a hard time
right now and they wouldn't be there for the next few days. But anyway.
We're meeting with them on Tuesday at like a coffee/hot chocolate/orange
juice place. Hahha he added the hot chocolate and orange juice into the
description because he knew we don't drink coffee.
And
we have a meeting with another potential investigator. A guy showed up
to church a lil too late and talked to the Cottonwood elders, this guy
lives in Sister brown's and my area, so the Cottonwood elders got this
guy's name and number for us. he works at the hospital with a mormon
doctor and so was referred to church that way. We called him and asked
if he'd be interested in meeting with us this week, he said yes, he
sounds really nice and friendly, we have a meeting with him this
thursday. That's exciting. I hope all goes well.
My
current favorite scripture is John 14:27. "Peace i leave with you, my
peace I give unto you. Not as the world giveth, give I unto you. let not
your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
The
only peace you can find is through Jesus Christ. The world might try
and offer you its own definition of peace. Many people think peace is
only possible once there is no war. But we know that through Jesus
Christ we can have peace during times of war, and that there are also
times that the lack of war doesn't guarantee us peace inside. This
weekend was a bit hard and I prayed and prayed all day long, please just
let me have peace inside. It was all I held onto. The Savior loves me,
he loves all of us, individually, and when we show faith in him and
change our life to leave behind the bad stuff and go toward the good
stuff, he will help us. Like in 3 nephi 9:13, he wants us to come unto
him so that he may heal us. I love being a missionary. I love studying
the gospel. I love leaving the world behind. I love serving others. I
love my Savior Jesus Christ.
xoxoxo
sister mel ashbrook
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