Hola!
What a week! Mission time is so
weird, like really, it goes by way too fast. I'm sure I say this every
time I email home but it's true.
Can you believe that
conference is next weekend? I'm a little scared haha, all the sisters
here have warned me about how crazy it is, it should be fun. Luckily we
have p-day on Friday so I think next p-day we are just going to sleep
all day in preparation for conference. We get to go to one session, and I
cannot wait. Chicken Pox will not stop me from going to this conference
:)
We were able to teach a lot of lessons
this week in the TC. I love it, it's so fun and exciting to teach. It's
especially fun to teach when they are expecting it. The people who come
to the square don't usually expect us to teach so when we call
investigators and they had been waiting for you to call, that's
exciting. We had what we call a TC pump up this week and it produced
miracles. We met as a district in the TC and we said a prayer together
and then we just went through our entire area book and called everyone. I
mean everyone, and let me tell you: faith can produce miracles. One
particular person that I got a hold of was a less-active, K. She was so
sweet and so fun to talk too. Turns out that she has been going to
church and institute every week. She's slowly turning her life around by
making friends in church and by not hanging out with the wrong group of
friends anymore. She's been struggling with her personal prayers
though, but she had a sincere desire to strengthen them so it didn't
feel like she was praying to a wall. I've decided that prayer is my
favorite thing to teach right now. I just love telling people that we
have the ability to talk with our literal Father in Heaven. People just
don't realize or understand that God is our Father, He is our loving
Dad. And I love telling them that. What I love telling people even more
is that prayer is the way that we get to talk to our Heavenly Father. I
mean if you really knew who He was, and who He was to you, why wouldn't
you want to talk with Him. After explaining prayer to K, you could
really feel that she felt the spirit. I don't think she really
understood what prayer was until now and she was so excited to start
praying again. You can really feel and hear when people are committed to
the gospel and it just brings so much energy.
Another
miracle of this week, I don't know if I told you about our investigator,
M, that we met on chat last week. He's meeting with sisters and he came
on chat to have a few questions clarified. We got his information so now
we are also staying in contact with him and teaching him. He is a
miracle by himself. He has only been meeting with missionaries for about
two weeks and he has progressed so much! He went to church on Sunday
and loved it, and earlier this week he took a trip to the temple. The
temple closest to him has a visitor center so he was able to walk around
that and learn a lot. He grew up without religion completely. It's a
little hard for him because all of his friends are atheists and he has
been a little scared to tell them that he's investigating the church,
but when we talked with him last he told us that he had told his mom and
a few of his friends and they had all reacted great! I love listening
to him on the phone, he is really talkative and loves sharing the many
experiences he has had. Even better he is able to recognize all the
miracles and blessings that have walked into his life since he started
learning about the church. The field really is white already to harvest.
We're preparing him for baptism and we think he can be ready pretty
soon, we're hoping that the local missionaries have talked with him
about it because we have only been able to talk with him a little
concerning it. The only concern he has is his girlfriend who he is
living with right now. He wants to get married but he wants to wait till
after he finished school so that they can start a family. So we're just
trying to help him understand that even more blessings will come into
his life as he starts living all of the commandments, including being
baptized, sooner rather than later.
Some amazing things that also happened this week was our Relief Society meeting on Thursday
morning. Michael Otterson (sp?) came and spoke to us. He is the
managing director for the Public Affairs organization for the church. He
shared with us some principles we can use when answering questions and
how we can discern when a question is sincere or not. It was super
interesting and I loved it. The best part was, in the middle of the
meeting his personal assistant walked in and handed him a sticky note.
He stopped and read it and then apologized, told us that Elder Holland
was trying to get a hold of him. Haha he then looked at us and told us,
"Better not keep an apostle waiting" He then excused himself to go call
Elder Holland. How crazy is that!? I think I forget that I live next
door to the church office building and the church administrative
building. As he was walking out of the theater we all yelled for him to
tell Elder Holland that we all say hi. Later he came back and finished
the meeting, but it was a very funny and exciting interruption.
Also on Sunday
we got to watch a broadcast of the Ogden Temple re-dedication. It was
broadcast-ed to a theater in the conference center for the sisters. I
felt really special :) I am so grateful that we got to go. Especially
because I remember the Sacramento Temple Dedication but not really.
Elder Holland spoke at the session we attended, after that I am no super
excited for conference. I love being able to listen to our living
Prophet and Apostles. How blessed we are to live in a time with prophets
and temples. Temples are the place where we can go to receive
'celestial parenting' from our celestial parents. Temples are our
heavenly home away from our real Heavenly Home. I love the Temple, and I
hope that everyone can see how blessed we are to have them on the
earth. One thing that President Eyring shared with us in closing (he
conducted the session) was that every time a temple is built and
dedicated on the earth the power of the adversary is lessened. 2 Kings 6:16, we are on the winning team, why fear?
I
love you all! Oh and I'll let you in on a little secret. We were
downstairs in Scriptures and Revelations and we saw a little boy with
his family, he was maybe 4 or 5. He ran up to the exhibit with Mormon
and the plates, saw the plates and ran to his mother yelling "Mom, Mom,
Mom I found the real gold plates!" I don't know how the little boy
figured it out that we had the real ones but just in case you were
wondering where they were :)--haha
XOXOXOXOX
-Sister Fluckiger
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