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| Emailing at the library with my new companion, Sister Mailata |
Hello my lovely family and friends!!
I hope y'all had a wonderful
spring break! It's finally starting to feel like spring here. It has been in
the 70's all week and it has felt so great!!
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| Cat shirts that we bought. Saying Goodbye to Sister Squires was very hard! |
This week has been pretty good.
We had two amazing miracles and I am so excited to see how the next 6 weeks go
with Charles and James.
To start off with Charles... (Excommunicated guy)
To start off with Charles... (Excommunicated guy)
We set an appointment to meet
with him Tuesday right after transfers. He called us on the way home saying he
wouldn't be able to make it and asked if we could please come the following morning, Wednesday morning. So we brought
a member with us Wednesday
morning and visited him. We
started asking him what he remembers and knows about the restoration and he
started to say he knew about Joseph Smith but he didn't think that he or the
restoration was a big deal and didn't understand why the Mormons "worshiped"
him. The member that was with us was so good for him. She explained how much
Joseph Smith did for us and how we don't worship him, we just know that he was
foreordained to restore the church Jesus Christ had when he was on the earth.
She also told him that at one point in her life she found it hard to believe in
Joseph Smith, but as she continued to read and pray, she felt so much peace and
gained a testimony about him. It made him realize we aren't all perfect,
members have doubts too. It made him feel a little more comfortable. We brought
up 2 Nephi 3 and how Joseph in Egypt prophesies of Joseph Smith and how he
would bring both good word and deed into the world. And of course he did! (This
was my scripture last week and it totally fit in great with what he needed to
know, ponderizing is the bomb) Charles loved how our member explained it all
and helped him clear up many things for him and answer some of his questions.
He told us his concern on how he would love to read the Book of Mormon but it
is hard for him to understand everything. We suggested he studied with the
seminary manual and he was very happy about that and said he would start to
read again. He didn't come to church yesterday sadly, but we hope he will
continue to progress and we can get everything straightened out.
Okay James. I love him and Lisa.
They seriously are the best. We went over and saw them on Friday night. We talked about the
atonement and how Christ knows what we are going through because he has gone through
it all. We talked about how the atonement isn't just about Christ dying for us
on the cross but it is also him suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane and how
he was resurrected. After the lesson, Lisa brought out her ice cream cake
because it was her birthday on Thursday. We were just talking and enjoying cake
when James, out of NO WHERE, says that he has been thinking a lot about baptism
and how he feels like he is almost ready. Last Saturday, Sister Squires asked
him on a scale of 1-10 where he was on being baptized. He said he was probably
at a 5.1. He goes on to explain he is probably at a 6.5 now!! He jumped a whole
1.4 in
one week! If he keeps progressing this quickly, he will be
ready in no time. The look on Lisa's face was priceless. She had no idea and
you could just see the happiest smile on her face. In church, we talked about
the Holy Ghost and how it can be a constant companion for us after baptism.
James was asking so many good questions and would answer a lot of the questions
as well. He is doing so good! Everyone is getting really excited for him.
Since it is warming up, we are
getting more service opportunities! Sister Squires and I have been asking for a
while for people to have us come do service for them because tracting all day
gets tiring. Now that she is gone we are getting some... :( haha Brother Noe had us do some yard work and we
helped him get more gravel so we could fix his gravel driveway. Then Bishop and
his wife had us come over and do some yard work, rake old leaves, plant flowers
and put some pine needles down in their flower beds- can't remember the reason
why hahaha. They are so sweet. They then fed us lunch and we admired their
view. In their back yard they have a lake and they built a pretty dock and they
have little chairs on it. They have tons of fishing poles and kayaks. It's so
pretty! I told them when I come back, I'll definitely be using them.
I'm excited, I'm able to go to
mid mission this coming Thursday and Friday. It's a meeting the
missionaries are able to go to with president and learn new things and set
goals on how you want the rest of your mission to be like and how your mission
has been so far. Time sure does fly. So I'll be able to spend time with the
sisters I came out with and be at the mission home. I'll make sure to tell
y'all all about it next week. I'm excited.
Scripture of the week: Amos 8:11-
it talks about how there is going to be a famine in the land, not of hunger or
thirst, but of the word of God. I hear from people how crazy the "real"
world is and how they are scared for the future. It just makes me really
grateful that we have the gospel of Jesus Christ on this earth. Because we do,
we know that we will be okay. I am so grateful for this gospel and the
wonderful time I have to go share it with those in Powhatan. Time sure does fly
fast. I love being a missionary.
I love y'all so much,
have an amazing week!
Love Sister Brooks
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| Sister Mailata and Me at our apartment |
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