Hey everyone! The area is going great! Sister K. and I are really working on gaining the ward members' trust and getting them excited. Once they're excited, we are going to do all that we can to help them with their missionary work.
It's almost my four-month mark; I've been looking back on how much my testimony has grown and how much I've changed as a person. We always talk about how the Spirit changes our investigators, but I hadn't really thought about the Spirit changing me. He really does! When we allow the Spirit to guide us, we really begin to fulfill our potential. I know that you've been telling us this for ages, but I have really seen it in my missionary experience. There is always room for improvement, of course, but that's how it always will be. I really love being able to feel the Spirit all the time and praying all the time and learning all the time and teaching all the time!
R. fasted this week! She can't fast food because of her diabetes, but she fasted Facebook which was really tough on her. Sister K. and I fasted as well; all three of us fasted that her parents' hearts might be softened. She is doing well; she really is progressing in her testimony. We also found a new investigator through a member referral this weekend. Her name is M. and she is awesome. She told us about how she feels protected when she reads the Book of Mormon. She also told us that she believes that Joseph Smith did see Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. She already has a testimony!
We tracted into a crazy, anti-Mormon Bible-basher lady who had hatred oozing out of everything she said. I felt so sorry for her. Why waste so much energy hating us when she could be doing something productive? Not necessarily joining our church, even -- there are so many other happy things she could be doing. We bore our testimony to her and left but, before we did, we asked for a referral. She wasn't too happy about that but it was one of our goals for the day! :)
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