This
week was a marvelous one. Why? Because everyday was an amazing one, yet the
week went by soooo slow. Let's pray that that happens every week :) It's nice
when the time slows down on a mission haha.
So we got to visit Aunt Alaine and her family on Wednesday! Everything
was set for it to work, we were prepared and excited - and while we were on our
way.... Sister Bodine realized she forgot the Address at the apartment... But
no biggie! We thought we can just call Aunt Alaine and get it from her. Nope.
Her phone was down and no one was answering. But thankfully she lives on a
circle which usually aren't too big and it was an apartment building so it
should be pretty easy to find. We looked at the map and saw that it was pretty
much the biggest circle in Mississauga and when we drove there we found that
there were multiple apartment buildings.... so we went to all of them looking
for clues because I couldn't remember their last name either haha! So much for
preparation eh? Sister Hsiung and I were laughing our heads off the whole time
as we were getting drenched, running from building to building. Thankfully,
Aunt Alaine's husband was waiting in the lobby for us in the LAST building we
checked. You gotta love those hilarious moments.
But ya it went really well! Some of our second cousins, Margaret and her
husband, and Janet. They were so nice! We talked a lot about the family, and
Grandpa - Aunt Alaine showed me pictures of Grandpa when he was younger. I
thought it was nice that she had an older picture of our family on her fridge
with all her other family! Aunt Alaine talked most of the time. She is so
loving! The whole family is so accomplished and so smart! We sang Joseph
Smith's first prayer after dinner and had to leave quickly. But I was so happy
I got to go and that more family got to come! Grandma Barrett thanks for having
such great family!! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!!!
We
exchanged with Sister Mendenhall and Sister Reeves on Tuesday. I got to go to
Donn Mills for the day and work with my mommy! It was so much fun working with
each other again. She is such a hard worker as always. We had no planned
appointments so we spent the whole day outside talking with everyone! The
funnest days. And miracles were happening right and left. We prayed to find a
family, and honestly I feel like everyone we were seeing were young moms
pulling strollers! A lot of potential amazing families to teach. God answers
prayers. And Sister Reeves is AMAZING. haha Sister Hsiung said that Sister
Reeves was giving her advice on how to contact, and how to be healthier. She's
so awesome :)
1) B... and L....
So we went to visit a potential investigator J... who ended up not being home.
Which was weird because she literally texted us 5 minutes before
to say that we can still come by. Anyways long story short, she was actually
not interested in the gospel at all...weird but she wanted us to visit her siblings...
why? we still don't know. So, we met with her siblings L... and B....
L... was upstairs so we taught B... the Restoration with the pamphlets like I
talked about last time! He got a strong impression that "this is
true" and he wanted to be baptized! We were very excited. Right after we
are done praying, L... comes down stairs and we decided to teach her too. So we
spent another 15 minutes teaching the wonderful message
of the Restoration. When it came to inviting her to be baptized, she said,
"But I've already been baptized." our first initial thoughts were,
"oh no, she didn't understand our message. " so we started clarify
how the gospel of Jesus Christ has been lost for centuries and
it has been restored once again on this earth. It seemed like she understood it
more the second time so we invited her to be baptized again...and she
said again "but I've already been
baptized". our thoughts were really? I thought you understand. Our member
starts talking about priesthood authority again... and then finally she said,
"no I don't think you understand,
I've been baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints". What What?! It was crazy but cool
experience haha. She was baptized when she was 12 and went less-active soon
after. She is visiting from Montreal so we are planning on getting her in
contact with the church there. God knows where ALL His children are!!
Well I love you all and I am
grateful for you all and I am so happy! I hope you all have a great week! I
know that we can ALWAYS trust in our loving Heavenly Father.
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| Sisters Mendenhall and Reeves |
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| Sister Hsuing |
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