SISTER MELISSA RICHARDSON
AUGUST 19, 2014
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Well there weren't any surprise apostle visits but it was still a good week!
On Monday night, we got to spend with one of my favorite people Kelley
(recent convert). Her and her son went on the youth temple trip the
Saturday before and it was an incredible experience for them! That is
the ultimate aim for everything we so as missionaries and everything
we do in the church--to get people to the temple to receive and feel
those blessings.
Tuesday and Wednesday were good days too with teaching lessons and
doing service.
Sister Merchant wasn't feeling well on Wednesday and I joked with her
that she should get sick so we could take naps...and then she did! I
felt bad because I didn't really want her to get sick. We had to
cancel our appointments and stay in for most of Thursday-Saturday :(
It's hard when you have to completely to stop your momentum. But she
is feeling better now which is great! It was still enjoyable though to
just read scriptures and ensigns and Jesus the Christ and watch church
movies all day. I did a lot of cleaning and even painted my nails for
the first time in a year to kill time. We would go to do Facebook time
sitting in our car at mcdonalds so we were able to teach lessons
online still!
A cool miracle happened on Saturday. We were home all day since Sister
Merchant was sick and sleeping most of the day. Our landlord came with
her neighbor to change our water filter. Her friend found out what
church we were missionaries for and she started thanking me for all
the family history work our church has done. She said she was able to
trace her family back 400 years! She had been using ancestry.com so I
taught her about familysearch.org and showed her my family history
pedigrees which she loved. She said she felt goosebumps talking about
family history and just loved it and wanted to work on hers. I took
down her info and I'm going to contact her when I found out where the
family history center is near where she lives in Jacksonville! A
lesson opportunity brought right to my door!
Yesterday was our ward conference. And we had 4 investigators at
church! Our new technique that our zone is emphasizing is having ward
members invite our investigators to church. And it's working really
well! And then the members are excited to see them at church as well.
I read this quote this morning by President Monson: "The future is as
bright as your faith!"
Sister Richardson
This is the picture i took for our Facebook event this week on the
23rd! It's called I Follow Him!
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