Hello Family!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!!!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND HAVE BEEN
THINKING ABOUT YOU FOR THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. I HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL
WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!! YOU'RE OLD!!!!
This was an amazing week. Daddy I don't know if you looked
at Sister Warburton's BLog this week. If you haven't go look at last week's
email :)
So we had Skills and Interviews this week with President and
Sister Scott. I LOVE getting to talk to them. I made the mistake of blinking
while talking to President Scott and it was suddenly over. haha it goes by so
fast. They are such amazing people. Zone Training has now been changed to be
called Zone Council - meaning that all missionaries in the zone are there to
work together. So we sat in a circle like a council and as a group prayerfully
decided what our goals for the zone were going to be for the month of May. It
was a really cool experience deciding it together and getting everyone's ideas
and points of view.
So Sister Gillins and I had a really cool experience
yesterday. I have been working really hard at following the promptings I
receive while we are out contacting. Yesterday, we had the feeling to go to
Orchard Park and tract the houses in that area. Before getting there my eyes
were set on a street called Middlewoods and I felt like we had been there
before. It was really weird because I know that we haven't. So we drove through
Middlewoods, it looked great and then we found this really nice looking
neighborhood a couple of streets down that looked great and decided to park and
get out there. We said our prayer in the car and just as we opened the car
doors, I got a little spiritual slap in the face saying "You
have been wanting to feel more promptings from the spirit - now you're getting
one so GO TO MIDDLEWOODS." I got it so I told Sister Gillins, we got back
in the car and drove back to where we had started. We knocked on a couple
houses, and then a boy our age walked past us. We ran up and started talking to
him. Long story short, he has had a REALLY hard life, he has lots of questions
and he is ready to have them answered. We scheduled an appointment for him to
meet with the YSA Elders. We found out just as we were leaving that he usually
takes a short cut route to get to his home, but ended up taking the longer road
that day. And that is when we saw him!! God is good :)
Haha Sister Gillins and I, the past couple of days, have had
many opportunities to get frustrated and discouraged with ourselves, our
investigators, and other things. But we didn't :) Haha there was one particular
day where things did not go very well that night, and during our daily planning
it was really easy to tell that both our minds were elsewhere. So we got our
pillows, brought them into the study room and took a couple minutes to just
scream into our pillows. It turned into laughter after a little while and it
felt great haha. You gotta love missionary life :) IT'S THE BEST THING
EVER!!!!!
We are working with so many amazing people right now. We
have 4 friends progressing towards baptism in May right now, and they are all
working really hard to keep their commitments! It is so much fun. G...,
A... (name changed), T..., B.... and his son, D.... and two of her kids
all came to church. It was amazing. There were so many people at church this
week and it sounded like a zoo in Sacrament Meeting. Our ward is a very
big happy family so everyone sits with everyone during Sacrament and kids are
running around from pew to pew. Not the most reverent thing ha but we have
unity that's for sure!
So A.... is amazing. WE met him through Church
Headquarters, and at first we thought he was a less-active when we first talked
to him! We found out that he really isn't a member, but he is totally prepared
and excited about the gospel. He has been looking for the truth for years.
Thank goodness for the Osmond family and being representatives of the church
and a strong happy family throughout the years. That's what sold him on it
haha. We met with him for the first time this week. As of now, he is loving the
Book of Mormon, he has downloaded pretty much every gospel app possible and he
is striving to live the word of wisdom before we've even taught him about it
haha. Thanks to Mormon.org
he pretty much knows everything about our church before he even met with us. He
even downloaded "The District" and watched that several months ago!
Haha he is so prepared that Sister Gillins and I were nervous that he really
was a member playing a trick on us by letting us teach him. Since that has
happened to us before... but this is for reals :)
I might get to sing in church for Mother's Day next week
mommy! It'll be for you :)
Well I love you all. I have been loving the Book of Mormon
lately and most definitely been loving focusing my studies on light and the
Spirit. The Holy Ghost truly is such a gift and is SO IMPORTANT for people to
understand and recognize when learning about the gospel. It's so much fun to
study but even more fun to APPLY!!!
Make it a great week! Family I am excited to talk with you
next week! Come up with some great questions you would like to ask
me. I promise I will answer them :) haha Keep your standards!
Sister Bodine
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