The Week of Two Years‏

The Week of Two Years

Jessica Cale

 

 

9:14 PM

 

 

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On this week's episode of Sister Cale in Columbus-an investigator gave
the sisters all the Jones Soda in the land, the Sisters found ways to
teach people and not lessons with art, there were awkward, wonderful,
and delicious dinners, lots of sticky notes on doors (this Ward knows
nothing about sticky-noting, I'm baffled), Sister Cale played the
piano (albeit rather poorly for a less active member), the Sisters had
a wild and crazy New Years Eve with Martinelli's cran-Apple sparkling
cider and going to bed at 10, and despite the fact that Sister Clark
was sick there were many miracles.

Hello My Friends,

This week, like pretty much all the weeks of this mission experience,
has been incredibly blessed and simultaneously in retrospect was just
weird. Whatever, it was fantastic and I'm excited to tell you all
about it.

As previously mentioned, I managed to keep with my goals and finished
the Book of Mormon for the fifth time in the last year on the
thirtieth. I love the Book of Mormon so much. I'm so jealous that you
all get to learn about it in Sunday school this year (yes, I recognize
that I will be around for about five months of regular Sunday school,
but that all seems very far away right now and that's how I like it).
I know that the Book of Mormon is true. Nothing has helped me to
better know my Savior than this remarkable little book. One of the
miracles of the Book of Mormon over the last year for me has been how
much it has helped me to better understand myself not only as I am,
but as my Heavenly Father wants for me to be. If it has been a while
since you have read the Book of Mormon-change that. The beginning of a
New Year always seems to focus heavily on change. Let this be the year
that the Book of Mormon changes you. Please.

One of my favorite parts about this last week was the ways art just
seemed to be the name of the game. We taught Leticia about teaching
and learning in church and did so with the object lesson of origami.
She was kind of distracted that day because her boss kept calling her
every five minutes in the lesson, but her cousin's kids love the
origami. The other bit of art came as straight revelation as I
considered how we were going to help one of our investigators really
delve into the Book of Mormon. She hates reading (I don't get it) and
consequently really doesn't think to pick the scriptures up and read.
She may hate reading, but she loves crafting. As Sister Clark and I
contemplated how we were going to teach her The Gospel of Jesus Christ
we felt like we really needed to do something different. That's when
it hit me. We were going to art journal the Book of Mormon and Bible
together. And it was perfect. When we introduced the idea to her she
totally fell in love with it and was super excited about a way to make
reading the scriptures more personal and engaging for her. I think
that's another important thing I've come to understand more as a
missionary-we have to do the things that make the gospel work in our
lives.

One of the coolest lessons that we taught was with a teenage girl
named Sam. On Monday night we had stopped by a less active family's
house only to find out that they had moved. Instead when the door
opened we met two teenaged girls, one who was not at all interested
and the other who seemed vaguely interested, but was sure that her
sister Sam (who was asleep) would be interested. We went back the next
day and were able to feel such a wonderful spirit as we shared the
message of the restoration with Sam. I love when the people we meet
answer questions and within their answer you can hear all the ways
that God has been preparing them to learn more. Sam is definitely one
of those people.

The church is true, life is good, God's in charge, and Satan hates you.

Love you all!

Jessica