Hello friends!
We just had a very interesting
experience about 20 minutes ago. Sister Hewitt were sitting in a little
sandwich shop and this lady walked over to us and had this sweet little smile
on her face. I thought, oh she must be a member of the church. Well she got
close to us and said "Hi girls, I just wanted to tell you that you should
read the bible a little more thoroughly because you're being deceived. You need
to go back to the basics, you don't really know Christ." I was floored!
She said it so nice I didn't even know how to respond! We just told her that we
appreciate her opinion, that we know this church is true. We asked
her if she has read the book of Mormon and she said yes and that everything
contradicts what is said in the bible. We testified that we know everything in
the book of Mormon completely supports the bible, it doesn't go against it in
any way. We told her we would read the bible a little more if she would read
the book of Mormon a little more. She eventually stopped and left. It was
interesting to me that she felt such a need to warn us we were being deceived.
It was actually a little bit amusing. Sister Hewitt and I just laughed after.
This week was so good! We went on a
couple exchanges, it kept us pretty busy! We
had SUCH a good lesson
with our investigator Doug this week. We had the lesson and the mission home
with President Robinson and the spirit was SO strong. We talked about baptism
and what it means. Then we had raspberry shakes with President. (That's their
trademark, apparently raspberry shakes where they're from is a big deal) Then
we all went to a baptism together afterward. It was SO good to see Doug finally
in a church building, he had been resisting it for so long. I think he was just
nervous, but everyone there made him feel so welcome, I was just overwhelmed
with joy.
Well something else incredible
happened this week. We were out tracting and there was this young couple
walking their dog. We went over to talk to them and ask them if they would like
to learn more about Christ and they gave us their number. We gave them a call
and they said "well, we're not sure if we're really interested in
church." and we just said "Oh...okay" And I think I sounded a
little sad because then she said "But you girls seem really nice, so do
you want to come have dinner sometime?" And I was like "WHAT?! YES!
WE DON'T HAVE DINNER TOMORROW!" And so we went over for dinner and we
talked to her and her husband all about what we do as missionaries and
everything. They seemed really interested. Her husband had to leave but we
asked if we could show her a video. We showed her "Hope of God's
light" It's this INCREDIBLE new Mormon message. She liked it. We asked her
"What made you want to invite us over for dinner? Usually strangers don't
do that." And she said "well, I don't know. I have depression and so
I know I need to start branching out and talking to people. I haven't
invited anyone over for dinner before, but I felt like I should." And we
were like OH MY GOSH THE SPIRIT IS SO AWESOME. We told her that we KNOW we
met her on the street for a reason. We asked her if she would be willing
to let us come by and teach her about the church. She agreed. Once again,
another instance of Heavenly Father placing prepared souls in our paths. So
cool! :)
Well tomorrow night we get to drive
to Soldotna for exchanges and I'm excited. I LOVE the sisters in the mission,
they have all become my best friends. I'm so blessed to serve with such
incredible sisters. I have so many new best friends! :)
LINES OF THE WEEK:
(Sister Hewitt was writing with a
pen on my foot)
Sister Hew: "I'm writing BH,
for Brynn Hewitt, I'm marking my territory."
Me: "Do you realize those are
my initials too? You just wrote my own initials on my foot..."
And then something else funny
happened, our ward mission leader is a mortician and his family lives above the
funeral home. We do laundry there every Monday morning.
This morning his 14 year old
daughter Maddie said "We need to have you guys over for dinner! Do you
guys like BBQ?!"
Sis Hew & I: "Um YES!
We love it!"
Maddie "Good, he uses the
crematory to BBQ"
Sister Hew & I:
"WHAT?!"
Maddie "Just kidding...."
Hahahaha not funny!
I love you all! Keep on keepin on!
The Lord loves you! The church is true!
Love, Sister Hallmark
ya know, just helping a family knit their tree... |
Art work done by my lovely companion.
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