First of all....thank you guys so much for all the early birthday wishes!! Seriously means the world to me ❤ I feel so lucky to have my birthday fall on General Conference weekend again because we get to hear from the prophet! Best birthday present ever!
Honestly I have no clue what happened this week! The time just speeds up the longer you are out. I can't believe it's been 3 months already and I'll be done with training in a week so pray for me haha.
Joel's baptismal date is finally set for this Wednesday, October 3rd. We found him at the beginning of this transfer and now he's getting baptized right before next transfer. It's super rare to find and baptize someone in one transfer so Sister Morris and I are very blessed. We often laugh about how crazy it was that Joel found us. A week before we met him, we were making absolutely no progress. During our weekly planning session, we finally just threw our hands up and basically decided to give up looking for people to teach that week. We felt like Heavenly Father had seen our efforts and would bring someone to us. A couple of days later Joel asks for our church tour flier at the library....and calls us about wanting to go to church that weekend! It was not a coincidence and Heavenly Father definitely answered our prayers. I can't wait for my first baptism of the mission, it's going to be so good!
This week we've been spending most of our time knocking on doors. Our current friends have all failed to progress so we've been focusing on finding new people to teach. We've been trying this new door approach where we ask people how they are preparing for the Second Coming of Christ. Most are just taken aback and they have to sit and think about it for a minute. We then proceed to tell them how Christ restored His church through a prophet and gave him the proper authority to act in God's name. Then we say that we represent this restored church and we help people prepare for the day when Christ will come again. Many have responded positively to this approach and they'll usually let us talk with them. We even made a new friend. Pam is an older woman who has been looking for a different church. She has so much faith, but she is lost without the complete truth of the restored gospel. We taught her the Restoration and she was pretty insistent about checking out our church on Sunday.
We've also been singing to everyone this week. Sister Morris is pretty good with the ukulele and she's been learning a bunch of hymns and primary songs. We take the uke around when we go tracting and ask people if we can sing to them. Most people will let us and the music invites the Spirit. Almost everyone we have sang to is more open to hearing us share a scripture and our testimonies of the Book of Mormon with them.
We've been very blessed with sunshine this past week, but now fall has officially rolled in. We tried to go hiking this morning to get a good view of Mount Rainier, but we were all freezing and the fog covered up the view. It was still such a pretty hike and the leaves are finally starting to change colors! Anyone who knows me knows that I love fall the most out of all the seasons, so despite the sudden cold air, my heart is full of joy.
Thank you everyone for your amazing support! I hope you all have an amazing week wherever you may be!
Love,
Sister Smith
Enumclaw=farm country so basically cows everywhere
The Halloween costumes have started to appear in every store so naturally...this happened
This dog tried to attack me with its love
On top of the world
My cute companion
Sunrise hike with the sistas.
Look it's finally fall!!!
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