Hey Everybody!
CAN YOU BELIEVE GENERAL CONFERENCE?!?!?!?!??!?!?! One of our
dear ward members, Sister Barker, told us that when she was investigating the
church, she re-named the Book of Mormon and called it "WOW". haha
Love it. I would like to rename General Conference to "WOW" as well.
The spirit was so strong. And being out on a mission getting to watch it in a
chapel with people who had never heard of Thomas S Monson before they met us is
the BEST EXPERIENCE EVER!!!!! General Conference is way too short....... And
Elder Ballard's talk has already opened up many more opportunities to teach our
member's friends! Woopee!!!!
Lots of great things happened this week! I don't have much
time so I'm sorry, but know that Sister Gillins and I are setting goals and
working till we drop! Haha we get to bed and we are both so tired it's
ridiculous. Such a good feeling. One of my favorite things lately is goal
setting and evaluating with Sister Gillins. She has so many amazing insights,
ideas, and her testimony and ability to teach is increasing day after day,
minute after minute. She has such a strong desire to improve and it is so fun
to see. I am learning, from her, humility, patience, LOVE, faith,
encouragement, everything a missionary needs. And as a result of her example,
encompassed with help from the spirit, miracles are happening this week!!!
We had to do some "Spring Cleaning" in our
teaching pool this past week so we lost a lot of investigators and our days
this week were more than open haha. After Spring Cleaning we got a call from
our Zone Leaders telling us that the zone's goal is to focus on Member Present
Lessons (because those are DEFINTIELY the most effective) and we hope to have
100 member present lessons as a zone this week. That is around 7 Member Present
lessons for each companionship. They told us that they prayerfully considered
it, and felt strongly that the London First Ward (us) could have 15 member
Present lessons this week..... Sister Gillins and I looked at each other when
they were saying this and immediately did a silent jig out of excitement hahaha
we were so excited for this goal!!!! And as nervous as heck because we had
little to no appointments scheduled!!!! But that is when the Lord's miracles
began to come forth. We have been praying, fasting, and doing a lot of
preparing. The past few days we have been calling Former Investigators, talking
to new investigators, calling all the members in our ward, praying some more -
and miraculously we have been getting call after call of less actives who just
moved in and are hoping to get back into the church, athiest who are suddenly
hoping to learn more about God, Member's friends who are asking question and
showing interest. Our schedule for the next four days at least are filled to
the brim and members all around are accepting our invitation to come teaching
with us. This week is going to be amazing!!!! Sister Gillins and I are going to
do everything we can. We will not "let up, slow down, or be
still". WE WILL DO OUR PART.
Every single day I wake up just thanking my Heavenly Father
for this opportunity. I am honored each and every morning to be here.
Oh! Also, I am now eating mushrooms, and olives, I can
whistle now, I almost killed myself on some loose wooden steps, cats don't
disgust me (as much) anymore, and milk in a bag is TEN TIMES better than milk
in a carton. These are some changes that have taken place in the last five and
a half months :)
D.... refuses to be baptized but she is coming to
everything and she is singing the hymns now!!!! She has no idea what they are
and what the tune is but she sings with all her heart and it is the cutest
thing in the world. Love her.
Well I'm sorry this is so short. Next week will have
more info. I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!! Keep your standards and be safe and
TALK WITH EVERYONE YOU COME IN CONTACT WITH ABOUT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS
CHRIST!!!!!!
Sister Bodine
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