This week has been full of miracles!!
Sister keeler and I are just in awh about everything! we could not be more
blessed!
I hope in this email today I will be able to express to you the feelings I
am having and how amazing this week has been and how amazing this work is. My
mission thus far has allowed me to increase in my understanding of the eternal
perspective. It is amazing. What truly matters in this life is bringing forth
the kingdom of God. As we seek the kingdom of God first we will be blessed.
Sister Keeler and I had an amazing pillow talk session last night- simply about
this life on earth, how these are the last days & things pertaining to that
and it was quite revelatory.. haha :). We truly feel on our missions we have a
perspective where we feel we are looking on the outside in on the world. We are
completely out of the world in our own missionary bubble and with that I feel
the veil has just gotten thinner in our understanding in what really matters in
life, what our purpose is and how easy it is for others to get off their
discourse in returning to Christ. My mission is continuing to change me and has
converted me to selfless service in the Lords kingdom on Earth and giving myself
to His will and His errand because we are the Lords hands.
Anyway this week was filled with amazing events that I will explain to you
quickly!!
So Tuesday we had a lesson with Quincy where we were BOLD! We pleaded with
the Spirit to be with us before the lesson (as we were nervous) and the spirit
guided our words and pushed us to be bold and lay it down! We taught the
restoration and resolved her concerns with God being a man, it was amazing! She
understood and committed to read daily to pray and experiment through reading the
BOM as that is her convincing evidence! Quincy is very much aware that it is
not a coincidence that we have met her and are teaching her, her husband is
actually reading the BOM as well! We had a great lesson with Elise as well in
her home around a wood fire, we talked about the atonement alot and she is doing
great and was excited to begin stop smoking program on thurs.
So Weds morning President Leavitt gave Sis K and i call and asked if we
would like to have dinner with him and Sister leavitt that evening... we were
like YES! Weds we got dumped with a storm, it was CRAZY! Sis Keeler and I had a
plan to do and contact 10 ppl that morning and we were committed so we left apt
at 10 that morn and decided to walk to the grocery stores. There was no one out
the wind was nuts! So we walked and talked to 10 ppl in the grocery store.
Everyone thought we were nuts for walking- we decided to get into the apt and do
some inside work. It was probably best as there was like zero visability on the
roads, so for Weds we did alot of inside work. It was a blessing, near 4 there
was actually visability and we could actually see just crazy wind. We were able
to drive slowly to President & Sister Leavitt's house. Its funny this storm
there was expected to be no power for a day or two so we had candles and stuff
but power never went out. So we had dinner with PL and Sis leavitt, we
formulated an email with President that he sent out to Andre, then we visited
with them. I just love the two of them, so blessed to have such amazing mission
president who cares so much for us! After dinner because of the horrible roads
we stayed at presidents house, we planned to teach a lesson over skype at 8 that
night and we could use the skype equipment there. We stayed and basically had a
1 on 1 training with Sis K and I pres and sis Leavitt about facebook, calling
potential and so on, it was so GREAT! We have grown so close to the Leavitts, as
we live so near ... sis K and I are just again in ah and feel so blessed.. like
seriously why did we get this blessing to be serving here and work so closely
with them!! ahhhh!!
So we taught Pam that evening over skype it was amazing!! Seriously Pam is
wonderful we hadn't even taught her the restoration yet and she knows its true,
she has already told all her friends and family that she is converted to the
mormon church, she is an answer to many prayers! In her prayer at the end of the
lesson she was like " Heavenly Father I am so grateful really I am just so
pumped" haaha it was funny she felt a little embarrassed after her prayer but
she said afterward, I didn't know of any other word to use other than pumped
haha.
So Thurs we volunteered at the hair salon, which was great nice to see
Quincy there! We also served two sisters in the ward, where I cut their hair,
one of them is a YW Savannah and Raven. It was great we are truly setting a
great example and working with them, every Sat we are going to have basketball
hour where we play ball with them and they bring their friends to come play with
us. We will begin and end with prayer and spiritual thought! But we also began
the Stop Smoking Program with Elise in a members home it was great. We told her
we would eating nothing but fruits and veggies with her for the week of her
doing the program and so we have!
Friday we had a great lesson with Betty and she is still going through
financial stress but we are still preparing her for April 19. We are having
dinner with her tonight in a members home. We as well were blessed to begin
teaching this lady who is LA member from Raymond, her name is Megan that the
elders found later that week. She moved from BC but knows Sis Keeler’s family.
She wants to come back to church and has a 9 year old daughter named Onika who
wants to be baptised, so we began teaching her on Friday as well! Wow such a
blessing!
Friday night the Trurro sisters arrived and we had our visit with them the
next day.
So Sat we started with a training that sister Keeler and I had over skype
with all the sisters in the zone, it was at 9 am for the hour in companion
study. We trained them on the things we learnt from Sis B on our visit with her!
It was great! I love training and teaching with Sis Keeler we just bounce off
one another and are very balanced!! It was really good and we were able to
roleplay with the sisters and leave them all with things to focus and work and
roleplay on in their companion studies. Then Sister Christiansen went out and
talked to 10 ppl came back to the church, did a bit of her 12 week training then
we had a church tour with a girl named Tianna who is 18 years old. We met her
couple weeks ago bus stop contacting and finally were able to teach her! Turns
out her and her sisters bestfriend is a "passionate hard core mormon" in
Montreal and she is very interested, we gave her a church tour and had a
wonderful first lesson. She said her sister Skianne is interested and that they
both would be at church tomorrow. So we picked her up as a new gator! Afterward
we had a "Free Popcorn booth & balloon animal booth" outside of walmart...
haha yes you heard me right! Sis meihe can do balloon animals and it was the
most perfect idea EVER!! Because it drew in all the young families where parents
will do anything for their kids. We have all these families gathered around the
booth which they had to wait at for 15 mins or 10 mins for a balloon because of
the line, us missionaries would talk to them for a time sooo prime! So we had
alot of great gospel convos where we were able to spread the light of Christ!
And we also got two SOLID potentials from it!! It was sooo great! So sis Meihe
and I worked with one another for that afternoon afterwards...
We had the Womens Broadcast, president and Sis leavitt actually had an
event at their house where all the sisters in the metro and anyone we are
teaching could come so we brought Sis Belford with us. They had refreshments at
8 pm, sis Keeler and I enjoyed our bananas with no ice cream or sweets haha but
Pres and sis leavitt got a kick at that, then we all watched the broadcast! WOW
that was AMAZING!! I LOVED when they got the 8 year olds to stand up and sing
the song, she hummed it was amazing how quickly they knew the song and started
singing it. I had goose bumps! I loved the video of the older lady that showed
her married, with kids, then grandkids, and showed her at the end of her life
looking at her prosterity, and smiling after her husband passed.... like that is
what life is about and for!! I am going to have like 7 kids one day! Seeing all
the cute primary girls and hearing the speakers when president Eyring said the
Lord will be bring His children to higher spiritual grounds made me think how
the younger generation truly are elect valient spirits in the pre existance that
they have been saved for these days for a reason and that these younger
daughters of God that are being born and raised in the covenant are going to
have strong firm grasp to the gospel it is amazing!! Made me think of Avery
talia how they truly are valiant little choice spirits of the Lord.
So Sunday was amazing we had Tianna, Skianne and Pam at church! Pam and her
two kids were there, she loves church and so did Skianne and tianna the ward
welcomed them! Betty could not come last minute but will next week. We had a
dinner apt with Bishop it was amazing, we are totally on the same page with him
he was saying to us how he is appreciative of our work. Him and his wife are so
young and just remind me of what it would be like and Blake and Linds in the
future if he were a bishop they are cool! We had an amazing lesson with Pam
Sunday night where we were finally able to teach her the restoration and we
committed her to May 10th! Her bday is May 11th and she was like YES that feels
so right, she prayed about it in her heart and was like it feels so right, she
is seriously on board. She commented on our facebook page yesterday, we saw it
this morning it is amazing haha she committed everyone on facebook to open their
hearts to this church! She is stalwart!
We have truly seen miracles brought to pass in this area! Through faith
all things are possible ... this is the Lords work and we are His hands!
I love you all hope you enjoy another chapter to the novel :)
"We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our
encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness. We are the Lords
hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His
children. He is dependent upon each of us" President Monson
Whoo hoo i am stoked for conference! Encourage you all to go into conference
with a question!!
Love you so much!!
xoxox
Love,
Sister Pizzey:)
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