Hey there familia!
Aahhh!!
So this week has been so gosh dang frustrating!! We had an awesome
lesson with Ricardo at a member's home on Tuesday and it went so well!
The whole family jumped in and things were just flowing away, at the end
we committed him to pray and come to church, his response was oh yeah
of course I'm gonna do that!.. but did he... NO:/ sweet mercy. I have
felt like we just keep hitting all these dead ends. We'll have this
little glimmer of hope and then it just disappears.
I was reading in
Alma 8 though and a member pointed something out that was pretty
interesting, so Alma decides to come back to Ammonihah right? And when
he comes back he meets up with Amulek (the member) and in verse 27 it
says and he tarried with Amulek for many days before going out and
preaching. Well I took that as ok we're taking a step back, and we're
going to build our relationships up with the members here before we go
out and try to preach again which is mildly frustrating cuz you would
think after 5 months I'd have good relationships with the members, and
honestly most of them i do. But there are a couple more families that we
need to get to. I'm just constantly praying that the Lord will help a
sister out!
We
went and visited the Swopes this week. They are an older couple and I
absolutely adore them! So brother Swope has had a TON of health issues,
he can't really see, he can barely hear, and it's pretty tough for him
to get around, but I still think he's the greatest and when you see his
wife take care of him it seriously melts your heart. But, anyways, he
showed me his man cave and I just about died! He has a wall of signed
baseballs! A WALL OF THEM! He has a boxing glove signed by Muhammed Ali
and a giant sneaker signed by Karl Malone!! I was drooling over
everything!! Hahaha but really it was pretty neat.
On
Wednesday after our ward correlation meeting I was walking around
talking to some of the youth and I decided to just give a couple of them Books of Mormon to hand out. I challenged a couple of them to give them
to a friend before Sunday and guess what! My favorite 12-year-old, Colby
Allen, came up to me during church and said look at this as he handed me
his phone and there was a picture of his friend holding the Book of Mormon and smiling:] Haha i felt like a proud little mother! It was a
cool moment to see that he did go and do the thing that I had just
casually challenged him. He's number 1 and I'm grateful for the fearless
youth that we do have.
Gosh
well, I wish that I had some awesome story to throw down and share,
but honestly I have NONE! We'll have this awesome lessons with less
actives and potential investigators and then.. it just goes nowhere.
Yesterday we were talking to people before sacrament meeting started and
a member came up to us and said how's the work? I wasn't sure how to
respond so I said "Oh, well as you can see, no one is here with us today."
He made the comment "ya know sisters you're kinda like Johnny Appleseed,
just leaving seeds everywhere you go." In my head I was seriously yelling
NOOOOOO!! I am not Johnny Appleseed! Ah, I refuse to accept that, there
is so much work to be done! I got up to bear my testimony and for some
reason I felt prompted to tell them the "my best friend Des" story where she asked me about what we believe and I told her I didn't wanna
talk about it. Surprisingly, I had a lot of members that felt touched by
that story.. heck, I just can't figure these people out! I love them, I
really do, I just don't know how to motivate them to be more missionary
minded. BUT I think that's enough pity party from this missionary! Seriously life is really good, I love this work and all the many
blessings that come with it:]
Love, Sister Bowden
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