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| Sister Swapp |
GUYS. GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS AND SENDS BLESSINGS. alright. I love this area. It's a great area. Now this week we saw some miracles and it was fantastic. We visited a lot of members this week and I'm starting to know these wards better even though it's hard because there's about a billion and a half or them. But all is well! We stay super busy in this area and it's the greatest because there's so many things to do! So we were going on our merry way talking about the gospel and we had some fantastic lessons.
One in particular stands out. We visited Vince, who has a date to be baptized and he super ready, but he hasn't given up smoking. So we were just stopping in to say hello and he ended up bringing up that he still smokes and he probably should stop and so on and it was GREAT. We were able to promise some mad blessings and happiness for him if he did because he would be able to become totally free of his addictions and it was swell. Then it gets better! We were talking about how the book of Mormon helps us overcome temptation and that if he read it and really prayed every day that he would stop feeling the desire to smoke and with the help of God he would be able to overcome his addiction. So he came up with the idea to try it for 5 days. He said he would try it for five days and then if it was working he would keep going to try to quit smoking. So we're in the middle of that and we'll see! We made him a pack of "holy smokes" so hopefully those will help too!
We were super busy on Saturday, so we didn't have an opportunity to find anyone to teach until almost 4 but we figured that we would pray and use the three hours until our next appointment to put in some good solid work. We went to visit three people that missionaries used to teach and we didn't talk to any of them, but in front of/on the way to all of their houses, we found a person that was genuinely interested in the Gospel. It was THE COOLEST THING EVER. The first one is named Ricky and he's so cool. He was locked out of his house and he figured that he might as well listen to us, but we talked to him about our missions and why we're out here, and by the end he said he wanted to come to church to see what it was all about! Then we met Wayne. He's looking into Buddhism right now but he still believes in Jesus Christ and when we started talking about the plan of salvation with him he asked if we could find a place to sit down so he could understand it better! We got through the whole plan of salvation and he says "what else to you have for me?" So we gave him a book of mormon and he said he wanted to come to church too! And then we met Ivan! He's an artist who has recently had a spiritual awakening and he said he wants to come to church TOO! I still don't understand even a teeny tiny bit what sister Swapp and I have done to deserve such wonderful miracles but it's the absolute most greatest thing.
So here's another one. We were at church yesterday and a nice man named Manuel came into the church and said that missionaries had talked to him in a Starbucks once and told him about this ward so he decided to come in and stay for the whole three hours. He said that every church says that they're the right one but that he really liked this one and wanted to join! Sister Swapp and i figured that Manuel was there because none of the three people that had said they would come to church had actually showed up. I guess the Lord works in mysterious ways.... but it was such a good week.
Today we had a sisters activity and we
made food and we tye-dyed stuff and we threw water balloons!
MISSIONARY WORK IS THE GREATEST.
Don't forget to read your scriptures
- Sister Dorrance
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| holy smokes! All of the little papers have a scripture on them so when Vince wants to smoke he can read a scripture instead! I made the box out of the cardboard on the back of a notebook and a bunch of pass along cards if you were wondering! |
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| Sister's Activity |
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