This week felt forever long but it was an awesome week!
To
start off, we had MLC (Mission Leadership Council), and about 40
missionaries from our mission came to Bismarck for it. On Tuesday, we
went to this Sports complex and played ultimate frisby, flag football,
kick ball, and soccer for a few hours, then we got to go back to the
mission home to watch the movie "Free Town" (if you haven't seen it,
it's amazing, but make sure you have your tissues handy) and the Face to
Face with Elder Holland. Wednesday we had the actual meeting, then
headed back to our areas for to do missionary work.
Friday
I participated in my first ever Zone Training Meeting as a Zone Leader
(which means that between me, my companion, and 2 sister missionaries we
had to take up 2 hours of training that we had to pray about and decide
what to have a training about.) It really was a cool experience, but
I'm pretty happy that the stress from that experience is over, at least
for another month.
So, as far as doing
missionary work, like finding people to teach and teaching people, we
didn't do any till Thursday. But we had an awesome week once that day
hit.
Sunday was the best ever! For the first
time in..... about 9 months? I had an investigator come to church, and
to make it even better, we actually had 2 there! We were so happy to
see them there! E is one of them, and T is the other. They
seemed to enjoy it although we didn't get to see E afterwards, but
we went to visit T at 3. We had an amazing time there with her, her
son S, and D, the lady she is living with. We taught them
the Plan of Salvation (my personal favorite lesson) and you could just
see in their eyes that it made sense to them, but most importantly you
could feel the Spirit in that room. So strong. It was such a special
moment. When we first met with T, she believed in a higher power,
but she said that "if it wanted me to know about it, it would let me
know, so I guess I'm not supposed to know." We asked her why she
thought we were there, and she said that there aren't coincidences, so
she is probably supposed to learn from us, but she didn't know what.
And, to paraphrase what we said to her using the words of Paul the
Apostle to the people of Athens "He whom ye ignorantly worship, declare I
unto you." As we taught about Heavenly Father and our relationship
with Him, she got excited and intrigued. At the end, we invited her to
pray specifically to Him, not just to some unknown higher power, and she
did. And, as she told us later, for the first time in a long time, she
was receiving answers to her prayers. One of the highlights of my
mission for sure.
Loving it, as always. It's
great up here. We're still breaking records of highest temperatures in
March, so we're happy with that.
Love you all tons!
Elder Carter V
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