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"And because of your diligence and your faith and your patience...by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious, which is sweet above all that is sweet..." -Alma 32:42
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| Exchanges! Love these ladies! |
One thing he said really stuck with me. As missionaries, so often we get caught up in being "busy". We go from lesson to lesson, to less-active, to tracting, to meetings, so often just being content with the activity itself. But as Elder Christofferson said, "You can have activity without accomplishment." He challenged us to not be content with being busy, but to work for the fruits of our labors. What is the whole goal of being a missionary? To bring people to Christ! I want to focus on that fruit, the conversion of those we teach.
That being said, we have seen so many incredible fruits this week! The S.'s came to church this week! We were so thrilled, the entire family was there, even H.! We were also able to set baptismal dates with N. and C. for June 27th! The spirit is really working on this family! Darlene even bore her testimony to the rest of her family about this being the true church. We are so so exited for them!
Also, our investigator S. was at church! N., his wife, is a member of the church. We LOVE N.!! She is a rock in her family and is bringing her husband and her grandchildren, and her daughter, into the church! S. has been very hesitant taking the lessons, and until now would not read the Book of Mormon. However, in our lesson this week, the spirit was working in his heart. He came to church on Sunday, and LOVED it! We presented a Book of Mormon challenge to the ward, and set a goal to read it as a ward by October General Conference. Afterwards, S. came up to us and said that he was going to take the challenge! Now, every night, N. is holding family scripture study with her grandkids and with S.!! We feel so so blessed.
This Book of Mormon challenge itself is a miracle! We saw the miracles it brought to our mission when we did it earlier this year, so we decided to challenge the ward to all read it together. I am soooooo excited about this! When we presented it to the ward, Bishop W. jumped up right afterward and totally ran with it! He spoke for a good 20 minutes to the ward about the importance of the Book of Mormon, and got the really excited about the challenge! It's just a testimony to me that this is exactly what our ward needs right now. We are teaching so many investigators that are ready to be baptized into the ward, and we need the ward to be strong to receive them! Oh man. Good things are coming for the Centralia ward!
I love you all. So much! The gospel is true.
Sister Petrie
That being said, we have seen so many incredible fruits this week! The S.'s came to church this week! We were so thrilled, the entire family was there, even H.! We were also able to set baptismal dates with N. and C. for June 27th! The spirit is really working on this family! Darlene even bore her testimony to the rest of her family about this being the true church. We are so so exited for them!
Also, our investigator S. was at church! N., his wife, is a member of the church. We LOVE N.!! She is a rock in her family and is bringing her husband and her grandchildren, and her daughter, into the church! S. has been very hesitant taking the lessons, and until now would not read the Book of Mormon. However, in our lesson this week, the spirit was working in his heart. He came to church on Sunday, and LOVED it! We presented a Book of Mormon challenge to the ward, and set a goal to read it as a ward by October General Conference. Afterwards, S. came up to us and said that he was going to take the challenge! Now, every night, N. is holding family scripture study with her grandkids and with S.!! We feel so so blessed.
This Book of Mormon challenge itself is a miracle! We saw the miracles it brought to our mission when we did it earlier this year, so we decided to challenge the ward to all read it together. I am soooooo excited about this! When we presented it to the ward, Bishop W. jumped up right afterward and totally ran with it! He spoke for a good 20 minutes to the ward about the importance of the Book of Mormon, and got the really excited about the challenge! It's just a testimony to me that this is exactly what our ward needs right now. We are teaching so many investigators that are ready to be baptized into the ward, and we need the ward to be strong to receive them! Oh man. Good things are coming for the Centralia ward!
I love you all. So much! The gospel is true.
Sister Petrie
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| Reunited with Sister Dahlberg! She's hilarious! |
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| Sister Biddle again! I just love her tooooo much! |
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| Dorky glasses picture... |
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