Highlight of my week: Ward Christmas Party! It was fantastic! About 150 people came. Mainly members, but they brought a lot of their none member friends and less actives a long too. Everything went smoothly and the dinner was delicious! I loved being able to see all the members doing missionary work.
Friend of the week: DM! Boy is she one amazing woman! She is the most in tune to the Holy Ghost person I've ever met. She had the prompting to move to Wisconsin to live with one of her daughters here, which meant leaving her job and condo in Colorado and moving in with 6 people and she went. Everyone thought she was crazy, but she know what had to be done and went to it. She was a ward missionary in Colorado and loves being a part of missionary work (mainly with her less active family here in GB and re-activating them) and is having us over for dinner (well taking us to Ihop) tonight. She is seeing so much success! Her whole family (I like over 15 people) here in Green Bay came to the ward Christmas party and are semi-attending church regularly. "Slowly, but surely they will come."
Pictures:
Me in the snow at 8 o clock at night. There is so much snow that it looks like it's about sunset a night long. Never gets fully dark. The sun is usually down by 4 o clock now.
Spiritual thought: "There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save" Thomas S Monson. One thing I've determined to do once I'm off my mission is to reach out each Sunday to at least one person I don't know and get to know them. You never know the impact a smile, handshake, and hello can have to someone struggling. More often than not God uses us to answer others prayers. We have the responsibility to "life where [we] stand" and how can we lift together if we don't know each other? My challenge to you this Christmas time is to reach out to 1 person in your ward you don't recognize or know well and get to know them! Try to see who in your ward might need a friend or word of encouragement. Let them know you care. And if you know everyone already do the same thing, but at work, school, or anywhere else. Pick one person and "steady..grasp...encourage...inspire...and save" them. If you aren't sure who do pick then I recommend reading your Book of Mormon 10 minutes a day thinking about people you know and how what you are reading could help on of them. Heavenly Father will bring someone to your mind.
Other News: Lots and lots of snow. They keep the roads pretty clear though.Our phone died this week. Had to go without one for 2 days and lost all our contacts. Which as a missionary is pretty horrible. We did a lot of random drop byes which didn't turn out too bad over all. A great experience I had this week was teaching Sister H's twin 7 year old girls. Not that the lesson was all that great, but because their less active dad did a lot of the teaching. He chimed in a lot sharing and explaining Heavenly Father's love for them and the importance of prayer. On a sadder note our other investigators moved back to Racine on Sunday :( it was a great experience getting to know and teach them. I hope they continue to take the missionary lessons down there. Who knows, maybe it is just what they need to start taking those steps towards baptism!
With Buckets of Love,
Sister Kern
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