So Yes we find out this Saturday transfers and if I
am transferred. I will leave next Tuesday but there’s a good chance I'm not...
it could really go either way I’m not sure! But yes Pres Leavitt called me Saturday
night and told me he was going to St.John’s and that he will be able to
meet Blake! I found that so cool that
Blake was meeting my mission president! I love President he is awesome. And the bike accident haha well there’s been a
number of them; president finds them hilarious and likes to bring them up to
everyone. One time the assistants were in Charlottetown and I almost biked into
a car and the whole district watched that happen including the assistants. It was really funny haha! And maybe that was
what he was talking about.
So let’s start with this week! Monday evening was
awesome, Christian date to be baptized is for August 10! We taught him with a member Sister MacDougal
(one of my fav. Members, we skyped at her house). The lesson went alright but he has ALOT of
complicated questions. Mainly all to do with his culture in Nigeria. We weren’t able to answer everyone of his
questions but he said when he prays about baptism he feels good very
excited. After we taught him he txted us
later that night and said he can’t wait to prepare for August 10 and looks
forward to it. I was so excited I took a
picture of it ! haha. We had zone conference on Tuesday where all the
zones in New Brunswick which is two zones, president and sister Leavitt and the
assistants all came over as well. It was great. We role played 4 different role
plays and the assistants videoed taped them and then we watched the videos in
front of everyone! It was so intimidating! It was funny; president kept
replaying ours making fun of me haha.... cause I barely spoke. I froze haha!
But it was funny and I could take it. But I noticed in the video I need to
smile more when sitting and listening to the investigator our "straight
faces" don’t look all that pleasing to others and a simple smile just brightens
everything! So during zone conference at lunch I had to watch driving
videos.... haha yes the driving videos that has to be shown to
the missionaries who have horrible driving records aka ME. And well
hint hint I need to watch them to be allowed to drive... hint hint, maybe I
will be driving soon... But actually kind of funny, the church categorizes 5
classes of drivers,1 being the best and 5 being horrible the worst and guess
where I am family! ding ding ding ! that’s right class 5.... :) haha. But it’s
okay they showed me some horrifying videos of true stories of missionaries
crashing, killing companions and well basically making me never want to drive
again.
So Sister Judd and I taught the Book Of Mormon
class this week; it was on how the Book of Mormon and Bible support and complement
one another. It was great! It ended up only being a member and Christian
our investigator, but hey it was awesome and that is a member present
lesson right there! Christian loved it, he was eating it all up! It was really
great to take the time to study about that and learn about how the BOM and the
Bible truly support and complement one another, they go hand in hand
! It’s awesome so great and I love it.
We were able to give service this week at Sis MacDougal’s
house. We weeded and Sis judd weed
wacked her trees and I racked them up! It was great I love serving others and
it felt great to burn some energy! We passed over the 3 Jamaican brothers to
the Elders last week and that was great because they learn so much better from
them and than learning from us two girls. I don’t think they had the gospel on their
mind during the lessons or what we were teaching them if you know what I mean.
Friday was a day of finding, where we contacted
referrals and literally talked to everyone.
It was great. It was a hot day
and nothing spectacular happened, but it was one of those days where I was
riding my bike looking around looking down at my tag and was thinking
"heck ya! I’m in Charlottetown town! I can smell the Ocean, feel the
humidity and I’m a freaking missionary and this is awesome!" I felt like I was - well normally I would say
walking, but since I was biking I will say riding on sunshine! Friday we met a
guy named Matthew outside a place called Harvest House - it’s a place where
they give sermons read from the Bible and preach to homeless people and people
who really need it. He was one the
people who teach to those people, a really nice down to earth guy who really is
just trying his best to do what God wants him to do. He's in his 20s and we explained what we as
missionaries do and set up a appointment with him the next day.
So Saturday was crazy! So hectic but great! It was
literally so hot! I got fried right like a lobster! But from 10-6:30 we were nonstop
moving. Whenever we have hot days like
that we find our appointments are from one end of the town to the other
end. We literally taught appointments
straight from those times; hopping on our bikes moving from one end to the
other! We taught Zack, then we went and taught Matthew and its always
interesting teaching people that are so BIBLE BIBLE BIBLE, but it was good, he
had alot of questions and fears about reading a book the BOM. He is a great guy, so many homeless people
came up to him while we were teaching him.
He just loves them and they love him. I feel just as much as he needed us, we learnt
from him as well. He truly wants to
serve and do what Jesus Christ would do. And yes that is our calling as
missionaries but it is amazing to see someone that simply loves and has
patience with everyone and I really want to become more like that. I really
realized how important it is stop and just take the time to help people even if
there is no way that they may be baptized but to literally pray and ask help
from HF to help me to do his and Jesus Christ will in bringing others to their
gospel but also ALWAYS helping the poor and needy no matter what. It was
amazing and something I’m going to really pray and try my best to become better
at now and for the rest of my life. But Matthew understands the role of the
Holy Ghost already and knows that through prayer God will lead us and he said
he will do whatever the Holy Ghost tells him. Then we were able to teach Robert about the
priesthood and it is amazing seeing him, he is loving the gospel. They started family history and were able to
find ancestors in South Africa so already have some of their work done he was
excited to see that! We had another lesson with a couple Wayne and Glenda
(Glenda always serves us a Subway and loves us). It was our second lesson with them and we
brought Sis Steen this time. We watched
Restoration DVD and went over BOM and right after Wayne talked about how
he experienced feelings he hadn't had for years, he was on a cloud
etc. It was amazing! We taught Shawn as
well and it’s amazing the Spirit just helps me get him, he asks complicated
questions and the Spirit directs my answers in such unique ways that I never
would normally answer. It’s just amazing
to see how we literally are instruments in God’s hands.
But yes Saturday was an amazing day and we were
only physically able to do it with Heavenly Father helping
and strengthening us the whole day!
Sunday was unreal we had a great turn out at church
we had SEVEN of our investigators at church! With our investigators and the elders it made
it to be 9 investigators total! It was
Christians, Wayne and Glenda’s first Sunday! Then Shawn’s 2nd Sunday, Bob,
Zack, and Michel all of been there at least 3 times. It was awesome our church
row we had Sister Plamadon and her husband Michel, then Shawn, Christian, me,
Sister Judd, Glenda and Wayne! It was great!
We went and taught a LA Sister Henderson after, she
really is great lady and we love her and things are going good with her. She is just really lonely, we actually
started teaching her daughter Kelsey and husband Richard!
It’s so amazing being a missionary its truly a
refiners fire we learn sooo much. It’s
unreal!
This
Gospel is so amazing I love it. Scriptures are so powerful and God loves us all
so much and wants to strengthen and help each of us. We just need to act, open your scriptures and
read daily and have faith!
I
love you all so much! Have a great week! And travel safe dad!
xoxoxo
Love
Sister
Pizzey
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