What an exciting week! This coming Saturday Steve will be baptized! He is the elder's now, but we get to see him at church. It was an amazing experience to tract into him on January 1st, 2014 with Sister Edwards, to teach him almost every lesson with Sister Olsen, then to see him continue to change as the elders taught him the last 2 times. I'm so grateful to my Heavenly Father for giving m the opportunity to be a part of it!
One miracle this week was getting in to see Toni G a less active. I've been trying to see her for almost 6 months now and we finally got in! Sister Olsen and her had a lot in common (close family members having tumors previously) and she invited us back!
I was able to help Sister Kasson with yard work and she even sent us home with a bouquet of flowers that we picked! It is still sitting on our table! The other bouquet we made we went to a less actives and "ding dong ditched" her. I hope she liked them! We waited around the corner to make sure she got them.
Enjoyed dinner at the Pitt's - Elder Oviatt made homemade pizza! Yummy! Then they had to take off so we got to teach the lesson. I shared my favorite video - Abide with Me - a Mormon message.
Got to go to Kehana's soccer game and talk to a lot of people there. She did really well and makes me want to go out and play. If only I wasn't in a skirt!
Miracle number 2 was getting in to see Suzanne S! She is another less active I've been trying to see. We didn't teach the lesson we had planned, it was completely by the Spirit. Sister Olsen shared a story of a boy who's mom's died and he felt alone and how he came to know God was there and I shared Matt 27:46 and explained how God withdrew His presence from Christ and how Christ was truly alone. Because Christ was alone we never have to be. She started crying and shared how alone she had felt the past couple months. The Spirit was so strong I was close to tears myslef!
Another miracle was we were trying to figure out when we could have dinner. There was only a 45 minute block of time and being 30 minutes away from home we could go there and eat and there weren't any fast food places close so if we ended up going out to eat we were worried we would be finished in time. Thankfully the Lord had a better plan in mind. Our lesson at 5 turned out to be dinner. Sister C said, "As soon as I hung up I realized I should have asked if you wanted dinner. So just in case I have everything ready to make if you will just help me cook it." God knows what He is doing! :) His timing amazes me day by day. You'd think I'd be use to it by now...but nope!
On Sunday we held the Bishop's fireside and did a "role play" with the youth. It went better than I could have imagined! I'll try and explain it the best I can. So Sister O was the "investigator" and the Elders were going to teach her. They knocked on the door and she let them in. I was the "narrator" of sorts. The first time she asked a question I said "Pause" and asked the youth how they would answer that question. They then told Sister O their answer and she responded as if one of the Elders had said it. It went back and forth for a while. Then we switched places - we taught Elder S. The youth really enjoyed it and it gave them a kind of "first hand" experience with missionary work without the pressures of doing it one on one..or I guess three on one.
a youth - invited her non member friend to the activity. At the end of the role plays we opened it up to questions the youth had for us on missionary work or general questions. The friend had a lot of great questions and really enjoyed it because she liked seeing what her friend would be doing in a year.
Overall it was a fantastic week and the weather is a beautiful 30-50 degrees most days. Everything is coming alive!
Spiritual thought - My favorite scripture (of all time) is 3 Nephi 14: 8-11.
"8 For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
9 Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask bread, will give him a stone?
10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?"
[Or if he ask Eternal Life, will he not give him his son?]
"11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?"
I love this because we asked for Eternal Life and God gave us His son. If He gave us His Son as the ultimate gift then how can we doubt that we will give us the things we stand in need of?
With Buckets of Love,
Sister Kern
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