Hi You All! (I'm not converted to y'all
yet, but now saying "you guys" just sounds weird!)
This week multiple people (two of them
are now new investigators!) have asked us "Do you really believe
this or were you just born into it?" We explain how much this
gospel has blessed our lives and how we want to share those blessings
with others, but really I want to say: "Yes, I was born in this
church, but if I didn't believe it with all my heart, I wouldn't be a
missionary!" Honestly, being a missionary is really hard. We are
sleep deprived and in a lot of high stress situations. People can be
pretty rude to us and we almost get hit by cars while on our bikes
pretty frequently. But all of that is nothing compared to all of the
miracles we see! As missionaries of the Lord's restored gospel, we
have so many days where everything falls into place. Last Thursday we
rode our bikes to get to an appointment and then we found out that
the person wasn't there. It was discouraging because we rode our
bikes 5 miles just to find out our appointment canceled. But we
tracted in that apartment complex for a little bit and met someone
who was very interested in what we were doing as missionaries and
agreed to read the Book of Mormon and let us come back and talk about
it! We later ran into our original appointment who said we could come
back another day. It was awesome to know even though our original
plans didn't work out Heavenly Father's plan was even better.
Also on Tuesday, we met with one of our
new investigators for the second time. He wanted to get baptized a
couple years ago when he was 17 but his parents wouldn't support him
even though they weren't against it. Now he is 19 and asked if we
could start coming every Tuesday. We read the first chapter of the
Book of Mormon together. He was impressed with the last verse of
chapter one, Nephi 1:20: "But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto
you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he
hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto
the power of deliverance." He kept talking about how that last
line really resonated with him. When we asked him to say the closing
prayer, he did! He asked God to get help with his work schedule so
that he can free up his Sundays and go to church. I was so touched by
how genuine and sincere and filled with faith his prayer was.
On Saturday and Sunday we got to watch
General Conference and it was awesome!! You can watch it at
gc.lds.org. One of our investigators in 8th ward was watching it. He
is very well versed in the Bible and we have not been seeing him that
much as he hasn't been progressing, but he watched all four sessions
of conference and asked a lot of questions about it over text! I hope
his heart is softening after hearing those inspired messages and he
will let us help him on his spiritual journey!
We had so much fun watching conference
with the R family! They are the nicest, funnest group of people you
could ever meet! All the members here in Plano take such good care of
us!
Here we are with Sister R!
Sister D and I just made ourselves at
home in their house :)
The prophet and the apostles are all
looking pretty old, seeing the prophet needing help to stand up and
Elder Packer looking so tired made me sad, but like King Benjamin in
the Book of Mormon, God will support his leaders:
"For even at this time, my whole
frame doth tremble exceedingly while attempting to speak unto you;
but the Lord God doth support me, and hath suffered me that I should
speak unto you."
-Mosiah 2: 30
It is fun to read chapters 2-4 in
Mosiah with the perspective that is just like General Conference. It
is cool to see how the people prepare to hear the words. There are so
many principles in preparing for conference that we can apply in our
own lives!
Being a missionary is AWESOME!! Have a
wonderful week!
Sincerely,
Sister D. Greenall
P.S. The Meet The Mormons movie is
coming out soon! David Archuleta has an awesome song in the
soundtrack that you download for free at: meetthemormons.com/glorious
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