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| February 19, 2015 Wausau Zone Conference |
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| February 19, 2015 Lunch at Zone Conference |
Dear Family & Friends,
Poor Da, send him my love :( That's
awesome that Chris is getting married!!! Yay eternity! My trainer Sister
Anderson is so close to getting married...I warned her that she better wait
till I get home so I can go...even if we have to make an extra pit stop on the
way home haha. Speaking of which...if we are staying in Nauvoo, I think you
have to get reservations for a hotel or whatever we are planning on doing...I
wish I had the internet sometimes to see when the pageant is. The Baetens from
our ward are actually in it!! So I'll get the deets from them :)
I will send something to Deb, this
world is so crazy right now, there is no doubt that the time is at hand for the
Savior to come and cleanse it!
YES, the Hmong here are hoppin'! I am
surprised how many. We have tracted into a few Hmong people who speak pretty
good English, but it is so cool learning more about their culture.
There are so many blessings that
accompany those whom and with whom you serve. Nothing gives me more joy than
seeing that hard shell of defensive misunderstanding melt away around the heart
of someone we come in contact with when the Spirit touches their soul in some
small or big way, unknownst to us. We met a sweet older lady tracting in the
dead of night a couple of nights ago. We knocked on her door and she answered
in her curlers saying: "And what in the WORLD are you two doing at this
time of night in this freezing weather??" We mentioned we were doing a
survey and when she asked "why? I'm not changing religions." We said
that we want to understand people's beliefs and what makes them happy. She said
"Fine, but I'm watching a good movie so make it snappy..." We ended
up talking to her for almost an hour about her family and her Christian
beliefs. She lost her son when he was 11 and has been relying on the Lord for
all of her strength. She has been through so much, but has the most glorious
countenance that made me just want to keep smiling. She opened up so
much, laughing and we couldn't help but laugh with her, and
although she was not interested in the Book of Mormon or anything, she
genuinely said how thankful she was that she got to talk with us. I look
forward to meeting with her again.
This week the power of
member-missionary work was apparent, not only in our area but many others as
well. After we offered a training at Zone Conference about the importance
of getting to know and serve the members of our wards (for only then can
we earn their trust and the work fully move forward) we employed the
service of the Hoens for our investigator Kelly, who has been investigating a
long time, to give her a blessing to help her quit smoking...she still desires
baptism so we will be working with her to make a plan to talk with her doctor
about options to help her quit smoking. We also brought Sister Chandler, who is
new in our ward, and Mai Lee the recent convert who came to Zone Conference,
with us to a couple of lessons and they were so excited for the first time
going out with the missionaries and meeting new people. I believe many miracles
will continue to develop from their service.
I think the members are starting to
trust us more...the bishop's wife invited us over for dinner for like the first
time EVER after stopping by and getting to know them a bit better. We have been
reviewing the Ward Mission Plan with families in the ward and the young men
also made all the missionaries care-packages, which were so amazing to see, and
many youth are asking questions about missionary work!
Sadly no investigators came to church
yesterday :( They were either sick or "busy" so we will work extra
hard this week to make sure our baptismal dates and the others we are teaching
GET TO CHURCH! We have also found a few promising potentials this week so we
hope and pray that they will turn into solid investigators this week.
Thank you for all of your steadfast
devotion towards the Lord and the support you give me and bro and all the
missionaries. Because we need all the help we can get...
Love you more than the icy cold
loves turning snot into icicles!
-Sister Weaver-
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