Good morning familia!!
Thanks
for the emails, I hope dads lips are ok...... send me a picture haah!! I
hope y'all have a great Thanksgiving this week!! First off thanks for
the amazing cinnamon rolls, they were the bomb! Thank you!!:) I'm most
thankful to be on a mission right now, to meet these amazing people and
to learn how awesome the gospel of Jesus Christ really is. I'm grateful
for Christ's atonement that we can be redeemed and it can also enable
us. I'm so so grateful for you my family for your amazing examples and
support to me! Thanks a bunch!!!
I'm starting to
get more used to being up here in Denton it is just so different from the
south haha but I really love the missionaries here and I'm starting to
love this area! So every week we go to Our Daily Bread which is a soup
kitchen and we help prepare the food and serve it and clean, we served
218 plates on Wednesday!
Almost all the missionaries in our zone do this and it is a lot of fun.
I really love when we get to do service, I feel like before my mission I
didn't probably because I was just too lazy but now I LOVE it and the
people are so so grateful:) Its pretty good food too!
Also
we had interviews with president this week! Yay! So we were at the
church like all day and I had to give a training I was scared but it
went well I think. haha We were able to clean up our area book and it
was great! We are trying to help our wards come up with a ward mission
goal for baptisms this year so our missions goal and the stakes goals
will be the same so we can go together arm in arm because working with
the members is most important! I've been learning a lot about setting
goals and they are awesome and so important. I'm glad y'all taught us to
always do that! Performance measured is performance improved! We also
have some exciting things coming up for the holidays! We are giving
Living Christmas Cards, the members write down their friends that they
would like us to give this gift to, we the missionaries sing a few
Christmas hymns share a few scriptures from Luke and then give them a
Joy to the World DVD and leave them with a prayer! What a nice gift:)
Our purpose is to bring the spirit into their homes and then the members
job is to follow up and see how their friend liked it and it easily
opens up a conversation to share the gospel with their friend!
Brilliant! And I can't wait we will start the day after Thanksgiving!
Also the church is doing the He is the Gift initiative. Have you heard
of it?? Its awesome!! There is going to be a video and it is gonna be
advertised everywhere even at Times Square and will be the masthead on
YouTube for one day even!! In the Dec. Ensign there will be pass along
cards for YOU guys to pass out and you better pass them all out!!!! So
many great things comin:)
So every time we go to a
members home for dinner we have a lesson with them and we are helping
them to come up with a family mission plan. soooooooooo do y'all have
one?? You should! I was thinking of that talk by.... I can't remember who
and he said we should invite someone once a quarter to meet with the
missionaries! I so slacked on that before the mish, haha but even though
you are in Utah you can totallyyyyy still have a mission plan:) So many
members are like I don't interact with nonmembers because all my friends
are members and I'm just like well you need to get some more friends
then!!! I also read that you can really tell a members level of activity
in the church not by them just attending each week, but how involved in
missionary work they are:) That's good!!!! Y'all will be blessed:)
On another note, at church yesterday a part member family came to church, the parents are members but haven't come in like 20
years and they brought 3 other family members and they were like we are
coming back next week it feels like home here and they are very
interested in learning more! Hallelujah!! It was a miracle! What a
blessing! They are busy this week with Thanksgiving but I can't wait to
go and teach them! Also there is a mentally disabled young women who
comes to RS with her mom and she turned around during the lesson and
said hi to me and then so loudly said, "she looks like Shakira" she
loves Shakira apparently but it was soooooooo funny!! hahaha
Oh also super excited to go to the temple! We are going next week on Wednesday
so that is when our Pday will be so I will email y'all then!!! We went
on two exchanges this week with the sisters we cover and it was super
fun I learned lots. We are busy busy but we are getting better with all
three of us working together but it is a challenge:) But it's all good!!
I love you all so so so so much!!!!:)
Sista Wells
I love having sisters actually close to us! partay!! and yes my MTC comp. Sis C is here:)
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