So another amazing week of miracles! Sister Thompson and I are
truly blessed here and I love it here, we are right in with the "groove" of
things and are having alot of success! We will be serving with one another for
another 6 weeks atleast here in Wolfville and Sister Laxton who was our comp.
for little less than a week will be now permanently serving in Dartmouth.
And Yes Sister Olsen was in my district in the MTC, in my room and also met
Blake and Lindsay on the rock, come on Kell bell got to get in with the "dets" !
And Dad I actually laughed at Instabull because I totally remember dancing
around to that song hahaha thats hilarious!
I feel so blessed to be serving with Sister Thompson. This work is soooo
inspired, I have learnt so much from serving with someone like her its amazing,
so much about my character and how I need to change my nature with me being not
patient pretty well haha. AL righty so on to the week of miracles!!
So on Monday the old Windsor Branch that was shut down had a Corn Boil at a
members home so we went there from 3-6 and I actually was able to talking to a
LA members bf who is not a member and we had a great convo, I was able to relate
with him and why he is anti religion and be real with him but also testify of
this gospel and the blessing and strength it can bring in our lives. So he ended
up giving me there number and hopefully we will be teaching them this week! They
live way out but its great! I love being a missionary and talking to people I
really could talk to anyone now give me anyone and I will squeeze a convo out of
them whether they'd like one or not- haha I have turned into such a
"maritimer!"
So we have done some organizing this week for the Musical Concert that us
missionaries in the kentville ward (aka us sisters) are having for Sept 29th!
(day after moms bday!) it will be a great event for local artists that are and
aren't members to perform gospel or classical music and have people come and
feel the spirit in the chapel! it will be great!
So Wolfville is just bumping with back to school students aka candy shop
for Sister T and I the streets are so sooo full now! The town size literally
doubles in numbers during the school year full of LOTS of wondering students
that are determining who they are in life and are just lost with that because
THEY NEED THE GOSPEL! So Sister Thompson and I are literally talking to every
single person we can, and when I say literally talking to everyone we don't just
say hi, or we DO NOT just give them our "missionary bit" we go up and get to
know them, we be "real" we our open with them and ask them questions to make
them be open we build a relationship and I have come to realize that any
conversation can be brought into the gospel yes ANY conversation and have it not
be awkward, so we are actually keeping count of "real conversations" we have
daily and on saterday we were able to talk and have real convos with 50 diff.
people and get to know them and of those 50 we found 5 solid interested people
who know what our purpose and that we believed our gospel is the only truth and
that our invitation was to them to know this as well and the accepted, but they
also knew our personalities and we knew them as well and 5 of those were 3 new
investigators for that Saturday! There is 17 finding ideas in PMG and we also
try to use all of them because knocking is probably one of the least effective
ways to find new gators!
One of my goals for this transfer was to come to know the best finding
technique for here in Wolfville and I have realized that street contacting and
the Free hair Cutting Booth is the best finding technique here! They work
awesome!! I love it! Saturday we had the Free Hair Cutting Booth and I was
cutting hair for 2.5 hrs straight! haha We actually had a line up of people
waiting for cuts and as people waited the elders and sister T taught them and as
they sat down in my chair I re taught them haha it was great! And two of the
peoples hair I cut gave me there number to call them to teach them! Its
hilarious unique finding idea but works like a charm. We won't be having it this
saterday because we have service that the ward is giving and then the next
weekend there is "sisters conference" where all sis missionaries will be in
Dartmouth at the mission home for training and we will be going to the temple(I
am soo temple trunky I can't wait!! Speaking of which I am excited to see a new
"presentation" ;) hehe )
So we started teaching Erika's husband Matthew this week he is hilarious
haha its amazing I really feel like I am here for them! Like our personalities
are all the same I feel like I have known them for years.. ( Mom and Dad this
will be another area that we visit in the future) But he is going to take longer
than Erika forsure. Erika is like the definition of a prepared investigator and
Matt will be a member one day as well! Its great because Erika is like a member
present in the lesson we teach something and get her to testify of the
truthfulness of it haha she said this week in our lesson quote on quote " I know
this gospel is 100% true" ahhh its music to the ears! They have a 12 yr old with
handicaps and they moved here for school for special needs children and they are
currently fighting the government to take care of some of the schooling fees of
$25,000 tuition, and the day after the started praying as a couple they found
out their neighbour is in with politics here and will be helping them with this
issue... HF hears all our prayers its a truth!! But Erika is loving the BOM and
we will teach Matt over skype when he works out of town as he leaves tomorrow.
We will be having dinner at there house tonight and teaching them before he goes
for 2 weeks!
So on Wednesday we did the YW activity where they were all sapose to bring
a friend where we styled their hair and stuff but none of them did, but it
still turned out to be productive where a LA YW that we have been teaching came
and we cut their hair and shared how "we are one" in work of salvation and got
them all pumped up about missionary work now and serving missions its great! One
of the YW was so excited she showed up at the hair cutting booth on Saterday to
help us with it! she was my little "assistant" for the day.
On Tuesday we gave the spiritual thought in the relief society presidency
meeting on "we are one" and were able to commit all of them to prayerfully pick
a date to find someone for us to teach, it was a great spirit filled spiritual
thought (haha go figures hey?) but we could really tell that their eyes were all
opened to how they haven't been fulfilling their role as members in the work of
salvation.. it was great!
I also served one of the Elders investigators Thurs morning at 10am we went
to her house and we gave her dreads haha yes I never have done dread locks
before but there fun and we were able to teach her as well!
So Saturday we had so many opportunities to talk to people it was great
actually at one point we were grabbing our car for the booth and we saw a new
person moving to the apt. and we insisted for him to let us help him move in so
we helped him move and he is from Uganda and has a wife and child and he gave us
his number and said to call him when they are more settled in there apt, in a
week to teach them he belives in God!! we can't wait! We also went to see a
former investigator and as we came to his house he was moving and had no car to
move his stuff so we popped his bed in our car and drove it over to his new
house where he walked over and met us and we were able to teach him that day and
pick him up as a new investigator as well! But talk about timing it was amazing
he was just moving his address( which was our one way of communication with him
) and pop HF dropped us in his path and allowed us to move him to see his new
address its great! the gospel is true!
We are still teaching the Jamaican "brothers" is what we call them haha all
4 of them are progressing and reading everyday. They all love the gospel and
understand it and Jordan Bateman got transferred so it old comp. is heading over
this week to teach Patricks family in Jamaica its great! Patrick wants be be
baptized with his family in Jamaica but Byron may be baptized here!
We are learning so much from the Elders here, we now do weekly planning
with them on fridays and learnt alot from them. The sisters in the past were
very lazy & slow missionaries and the sister field of missionaries has
changed derasticly. ITS A GREAT TIME TO BE A MISSIONARY
We were able to have dinner with a RC whose Phillapeano this week and she
made us some good phillipeano food!
We were able to pick up 8 new investigators and we currently have 6
progressing investigators and hopefully will have more on date this week! Last
night we started teaching a girl in our apt. building Chauntee she is from
Barbado's 24yrs and has been questioning her faith some questionable things have
been happening at her church and so she has stopped going and then pop us
missionaries came in and layed the truth down it was great! We were knocking
Sat. night and we were let in a house at 8:40pm and it was the weirdest thing
the couple could of been mistaken for mormons, we taught them a bit of the resto
lesson but he is studying is a divinity college here for his masters and he was
taken back on priesthood so he pulled out his greek bible and he can almost read
a hebrew bible haha yes crazy but they were really nice and said they will read
and pray and see if the bible supports our message and are having us over for
dinner on tues and we will be coming back with bible passages in BOM supporting
authorirty from God it will be interesting because he can totally own us in
bible knowledge so it all comes down to if he is humble enough and will pray and
read BOM if JS truly has the vision. SO if the Lord wants him he will be ready
to be a member but we will see! We also started teaching a chinese gator Jershy
who I am very excited about! I LOVE teaching chinese people, can be very bold
with them haha Sis T was taken back at how bold I am with them but they love it
and get it!
I LOVE this ward it is so great! The Bishop is awesome and has changed so
much with helping us and trusting us in my time here. Its great and its another
great day to be a missionary!
Here is another chapter to my novel and I hope you all have a wonderful
week and that mom and dad have safe travels! Will you be seeing any temples over
there? That would be a good thing for you to see especially with your LA friend
Karen!
I love you all!!
xoxox
Love,
Sister Pizzey
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