Hello Loves!
Here were are again. I'm hoping that the next time that I get to e-mail you all that it will be from my iPad (we get them this Wednesday!). We'll see how it all works out though. I'm sure that it's going to be different, but so effective. This week is one of those weeks where I really feel like we just listened to the spirit, went where we were directed, and watched the miracles happen as a result of that.
In the past few weeks we have had a hard time getting to see several of the people that we had been working with. I'm not super big on the idea of giving up on people, so when we were in an area where one of them lived we would try to stop by and see them, but it was becoming tiresome to see fingers lift the blinds and then still have no one come to the door. We had started to think that it was time to give a greater amount of space to these people and just try to see them later. One such investigator was Sara. We had stopped by to water some plants for Judy (because she was still at the rehab facility after her knee surgery), when we were leaving I asked Sister Brown if we should try to see Sara. We hadn't seen her in almost two weeks and she wasn't on the plans for the day, but we were nearby. She said yes. And Sara was home and let us in.
Honestly, there were three or four different instances this week where that happened and we were blessed to get to talk to an investigator that we didn't think was going to talk to us ever again. I love these Ohio people.
Other awesome things this week include the lesson we had with Sam and Jamie about the Christlike attribute of patience. Sister Brown and I may have needed this particular lesson more than Sam and Jamie. All week long we would think of a way that an iPad would make a lesson so good and would help an investigator understand something so much better, and then we would realize that we still don't have them, so we spent much of the week feeling like things really would just be so much better with iPads. I'm excited for the new tool that we're going to have, but I think it was also good for us to get to talk about patience and about how we need to wait for things in the Lord's time. I think that's one of my major struggles. I have a quote by one of the apostles in my quote box that says, "So often we pray for patience. But we want it right now". So that's something that I've been trying to work on this week. I've been trying to accept that even if I want something right now, Heavenly Father's timing has, and will continue to be better than what I could plan. I trust him to know what he is doing and if I truly trust him, I'll also wait happily for things to happen according to his schedule. Even if it's hard.
One of the highlights of this week was the Mission Fireside. I love these meetings. And not just because I get to sing and singing brings peace to my soul. There really is such a unique spirit present when missionaries gather together in such large groups. One of my favorite parts is when they have recent converts share their testimonies. It is so powerful. Sometimes I wonder if President puts that in the program for the benefit of the missionaries, because it is so good to hear that people have been found by missionaries knocking on their door or in a variety of other ways. It's important to hear that people do sometimes choose to accept the gospel fully.
Your funny story for the week is as follows-I had a dream a few nights ago that I was in Disneyland. But I was still a missionary. And all I could think about is what character did I want to go find, and what cute missionary picture could we take together that would also allow me to share some sort of gospel message with the handler? Could my Disney Geekiness and the Missionary-ness that is slowly but surely seeping into my brain have collided in a funnier way? I'm not so sure.
The Church is True, Life is good, God's in Charge, and Satan hates you.
Love,
Jessica
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