This week truly has been a great week amazing highs!! And a few lows... but
hey what would be a mission without some trials and triuballations...
eh?!?
So let me shared with you the amazing details!!
Monday: We had a lesson with (investigator) at members home it went great-
first lesson we had with him in a week or so due to holidays; he now accepts and
understand tithing is from God that was a relief!! He has now been taught
absolutely everything he needs to understand before baptism! His baptismal date
to Jan 30th and he has commited to do the BOM 17 pg's a day challenge with us so
when he is baptised it will be the day before he completes the BOM!
Tues: We picked up a couple from ShirLanka (Lalithe and Radika) which we
felt sooo great about! We met them on boxing day, we felt Lalithe already looked
like a priesthood holder. We had a great simple lesson with them on godhead and
prayer as they are Budhist and don't know much about God. Spirit was very strong
and they were very excited to come to church this Sunday! Its too bad though
because they ended up talking with their family about becoming members and they
forbade them to and they dropped us Saturday night before they could go to
Church. Its too bad but I know some real seeds were planted there! Then we were
walking all around town of Wolfville and street contacting and we ran into a guy
whose from Spain, lived in Ecuador, his name is Julio. We stopped and talked
with him and he said well lets go to a coffee shop and talk more about this....
so we were like alright! Turns out he just become muslim a year ago and he was
debating and basically trying to convert us... so after getting out of that
which was HARD, he kept pushing and pushing we said well we will drop you off a
BOM tomorrow.... So we left it at that then we continued to contact people. For
New Years Eve we had to be in at 6 unless we had a dinner appointment so Sister
Gee had us over for dinner it was a great dinner then we were in by 9 and
sleeping by 10:30!
Weds: We had breakfast at a members home it was great, then we knocked (we
find knocking is working quite well as everyone is home for the holidays). We
were able to pick up a new investigator who was a referral from the member of
the ward, we served an older lady in the ward who doesn't have much money where
we cut her hair, then we knocked some more. We also met up with Julio to give
him a BOM that was just a downward spiral- he was filled with anti. We just gave
him the BOM and talked with him a bit but got out asap... it was too bad for two
days afterwards he sent us quite a few angry text messages filled with anti.
It’s too bad but when things like that happen. I just really realize how angry
the adversary is with the work that we are doing and that the adversary really
is just doing whatever he can to stop the working from progressing as Heavenly
Father is preparing many! Then Weds night the Halifax YSA sisters, Renda and
Laxton arrived for the visit in our area!
Thurs: it an amazing visit we had with the sisters we saw many miracles!!
Literally we had many successful opportunites for us to teach with one another.
It really just amazes me that this is the Lords work and no matter who you
teach and serve with the Spirit will unify a companionship and allow the
teaching to come from one sound place; which is Heavenly Father and by the power
of the Holy Ghost that is possible! Sister Laxton and I started our day where we
went and cut Tanya's hair for a service, then we went and taught Jo which WOW
was such an amazing lesson!!! I don't even know what happened but it was
completely Spirit driven it was amazing- we had planned to teach POS but we
totally just took complete different direction where we addressed her concerns
of why she isn't reading in BOM. The Spirit led us to ask many inspired
questions which had her open up- and Jo usually is quite hard in heart with a
wall up, but the Spirit just pounded it down!! It was unreal- I was quite bold
but it was only because I know where she has been . At the end of the lesson I
said lets all kneel and pray so we did; I looked Jo in the eyes and was like "Jo
the Spirit is so strong, I feel so strongly that you need to say the prayer."
(keep in mind Jo has NEVER prayed in our lessons and always straightway shut it
down). She looked at me and we literally sat there kneeling on the floor for 10
minutes - it was amazing. We literally were watching Jo wrestle within her self
as the Spirit wrestled with her natural man... finally she did and it was a
beautiful prayer. During the lesson and after there were few tears, it was
powerful and she opened up to say that when we are around she has the desire to
180 her life around and go back to church, but as soon as we leave that desire
leaves with us. It was amazing to see how she recognized those feelings. We
were able to help her establish that those feelings are from God ... all in all
it was POWERFUL and words can not put into words that moment with Jo Sister
Laxton and I. So we left and Jo commited to read BOM daily!!! When Sis L and I
got in the car she looked at me and I looked at her and we just were like WOW!!
She later said "your intense I feel like im serving with SIs Broadhead again"
haha. So afterwards Sis Renda and I served with one another and we went to
Hants Port and we knocked for good two hours outside in the freezing cold it was
FANTASTIC! Nothing will stop the work from progressing! We were blessed to
knock into a former investigator and contact a referral and set an apt. up with
both. After dinner we felt inspired to knock an apartment building and we came
across a man in his 60s who has been clean from alcohol for 26 yrs! We had such
a powerful lesson and Sis R and I picked him up as a new investigator, teaching
with her was so smooth and we just learnt so much form one another! It was great
and I look forward to teaching Garth this week! Again in that the lesson the
Spirit was POUNDING! In the lesson he just stopped and stared into space for
good couple minutes - we sat and embraced the silence and he looked at us and
said " I was just thinking how blessed you two young girls reward will be one
day for doing this... I don't think you two know how amazing this work is that
your doing" The Spirit was unreal and his words were God sent and very touching-
afterwards Sister Renda and I were speechless it was unreal... it was a great
opportunity for us to grow closer with those sisters and strengthen each other
as sisters!
Friday: We went to Jo's, read with her in the BOM another powerful
experience where we watch message "Patterns of Light" - by Elder Bednar. We
talked about revelation and how we can do so receive and recognize revelation.
It was a crazy snow storm where as the day continued to go on we eventually had
to head inside. As we were parking our car our car got stuck in the parking lot
leveled out from all the snow... Luckly a man that lives in apt. building came
and shovelled us out. 45 mins later we had our car safely parked and we headed
in and weekly planned and called potencials etc. It was successful and best
thing, no one else was out, we'd be crazy to!
Sat: We had a tone of appointments planned but it was one of those days
where alot of our appointments fell through, we taught new gator Patrick and
then we street contacted and knocked were able to invite 60 ppl that day to
learn. After a hard day of work we were planning and we were blessed by the Lord
to recieve a text from Jo Davis where she was telling us she is going to come to
church tomorrow! We truly were so blessed to recieve that!!! And it certainly
was a shock and huge tender mercy! Her praying in a lesson was a shock and day
before she was saying no right away to church! Such a testimony that the BOM as
one reads, it truely works, God sends miracles!!
Sunday: Jo Davis came to church and Jordan Comeau did as well! Jordan is
like a regular member by now haha. Testimony meeting was amazing! Every
testimony that was shared was so inspired and all directly to Jo's needs. It
actually was hilarious, she would just look at me and smile! Dory a Phillipeano
RC (recent covert) who was baptized in July, turns out is one of Jo's students
in her English class that Jo is very close with as well!! So they connected at
church as they both did not know each other was mormon... it’s amazing this work
is so inspired...BECAUSE THIS IS GODS WORK! Jo has a wonderful relationship with
Sis A and I; we are so close and we can just say stuff to Jo like "JO?!? come
on?!? you know this is true! These things are not just coincidences!" She just
laughs but I know she knows!! I love seeing LA's come back to church... it warms
my heart and just makes me so happy to see, but I know it makes Heavenly Father
even happier! So that afternoon we taught Jordan at members home it was a great
lesson we read in 2 Nephi with him as he had 17pgs to read so we felt it would
be good to read few pgs of that 17.
We had dinner at Jo's and we had another great Spiritual lesson with her,
it was honestly alot of me relating my experience to hers.... (that sounds
really self absorbed for me to say) but it wasn't the way it sounds. It’s
interesting the Spirit just totally directed me to share and it really touched
her and enlightned her. It really is amazing, I fasted that day pleading to
Heavenly Father to help me to always REMEMEBER my experiences, my conversion,
who I was before this gospel and after and to remember my need for this gospel -
because as humans I find we naturally have the tendancy to forget and as we
become use to Spiritual experiences its easy to take them for advantage and
become content! THAT IS MY FEAR TO BE LIKE THAT, so part of my reasons for
fasting was for that ....and in Jo's lesson my conversation was crystal clear
and was flowing out of my mouth and was in relation to what she needed to hear.
I am very grateful for the powers from heaven we recieve through fast and
prayer. We left her to watch "Lord, I believe" by Jeffry Holland and read Almd
32. Sis A and I left and just were on a cloud and so Spirit filled.... we
knocked, contacted referrals, stopped by members home, then we came home at 9pm
set our bags down just about to add up our keys for the week and plan and we
hear a knock knock knock at the door. Without even thinking Sis A and I go and
answer the door.... and BOOM; Christof is there (one of the divinity school guys
that asked us on a date). He hands us a new english addition of the New
testatment and says "if you read this and find the same Christ you have "found"
right now then I will convert to mormonism" sooo weird! So we had a converation
with him, in a really weird situation, it was very frustrating more anti came
from him ... afterwards it was bit upsetting... but it is so clear that we shook
the adversary's boots that day from the amazing work that the Lord is blessing
us with. We did call President Leavitt though and had a great conversation with
him about that situation. PL read with us Alma 30 over the phone, it talks
about Korihor the anti-christ and it was very powerful experience. President
really motivated us and left some comforting words. It never affected my
testimony but it’s sad to see people that are so merely convinced against the
truth, (Apostates) but reading Alma 30 was exaclty the situation we were faced
with. Anti is like wrestling with a pig- you both get dirty but the pig
enjoys it - never read it, just hearing it is upsetting! ...BUT GET
THIS: after the convo with Christof at the door we came back to the
office after that frustrating upsetting conversation with Christof to a text
messages from Jo where she sent us a quote from Elder Holland's talk that we
left with her.
At the end of the quote she said, I read the talk and it really resonated
with me and I loved it, I am now reading Alma 32 the quote was; "When
problems come and questions arise, do not start your quest for faith by saying
how much you do not have, leading as it were with your "unbelief." That is like
trying to stuff a turkey through the beak!... Sometimes we act as if an honest
declaration of doubt is a higher manifestation of moral courage than is an
honest declaration of faith. It is not!" ... like how inspired and
heaven sent is that?!? Sis Aslett and I looked at one another and then tears
flowed haha a bit from the Spirit and frustation and in awe at how aware
Heavenly Father is of our needs and what we are going through. That quote was
well needed at that moment.... little did Jo know we needed that quote just as
much as she did at that moment.
We did have an amazing week though! We were able to talk to 200 ppl! and
find 6 new investigators! And now the town is so much more alive today as all
the students are back so we are looking forward to talking to more people!
This morning I read my patriarchal blessing! I just love it so much! I
love studying it and writing down lines and understanding it more and more, I
recieve so much strength from it! I am so greatful for the priesthood and how we
have this gospel because of it! I know that Heavenly Father has restored His
gospel through Joseph Smith. We are so blessed to have this knowledge and to
have one another! I am so greatful to be raised in a home where the priesthood
was actively used and truly has created a foundation for the rest of our lives!
I love you all very much! I am constantly being stretched and growing so
much! Its amazing and the work will always go forward!!
Have a great week family and friends and I would like to stress to
you and invite you to see the eternal perspective, open your eyes and don't get
caught up in the little stuff and see the bigger picture - rise above and be
Spiritually minded not "carnally" minded!
I love you so much my heart is full and its a great day to be a missionary!
--> thats to all you members wear a missionary badge on your heart!
LOVE,
Sister Pizzey
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