"Sister,
let's pray for patience, because if we pray for strength, I'm going to
hit someone"- a one sentence summary of our week.
YEAH THIS WEEK WAS KIND OF SUCKY BUT ITS OKAY BECAUSE I HAVE 40+ MORE TO IMPROVE.
Here's
the thing: everyone in this city has depression. EVERYONE. I personally
believe its because of the cold and because they dont have a movie
theater, but thats just my opinion. But really, we just deal with alot
of sad people and sometimes I feel it rubbing off on me and have to
think "STOP AND BE HAPPY SO THESE PEOPLE CAN BE HAPPY TOO"
okay Im just going to summarize some of the good points this week:
Sister
Neves and i had A REALLY GOOD IDEA to make the members not be so lazy
and get them PUMPED about missionary work!! We basically made up our own
visiting teaching program but with our investigators and the members
but were making it an "ADOPT AND INVESTIGATOR" and basically we ran
around church on sunday giving all the members pieces of paper with one
of our investigators or less actives and yelling "CONGRATS YOU HAVE A
KID! ITS A GIRL! SHE'S 30 AND LIVES ON SUCH AND SUCH STREET! TAKE CARE
OF HER!" and it was pretty awesome so we'll see if these people actually
take care of the kids we gave them haha.
On Sunday morning we were running around trying to bring our investigators to church (no one came btw...........................
AT
church I also gave a talk in sacrament meeting about missionary work
and rescuing lost sheep and all that, and the WHOLE TIME sister neves
was sitting in the back row making hearts with her hands and making
kissy faces at me HAHAHA i couldnt even look at her, I love my
companion.
We have a family of a mom and her
two daughters that we are working ALOT with and they'll probably be
baptized sometime to July, because they're not ready yet so we dont want
to throw them in the font just for fun ya know. We had an awesome
lesson/FHE with them yesterday and they had other non member friends
there so we talked about the book of mormon, and I asked the 8 year old
girl Raqueley "what is the book of mormon?" and she yelled "TRUE!"
hahahahahaha it was so perfect. i love her.
We also talked
with the mom, Kelly, about how she can really receive a solid answer
that the BOM is true, and it strengthened my testimony of prayer, but
not just prya but SEARCH, PONDER, PRAY, AND LISTEN. We invited them all
to find a quiet moment in their day to really read, and really pray, and
after just listen, find some time to search for peace and invite the
Spirit to enter into your mind and your heart. SO in summary, it was
super great and totally what they were needing.
We
had a movie night this week in the church building, and we were sitting
in their with our investigators when the 6 year old daughter of out
ward mission leader ran in and said "SISTERS! COME HERE! DAD'S TALKING
WITH SOME GUY THAT BELIEVES IN THE GOSPEL!" so obviously we were like
"NOBODY MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!" lol and then we went and started talking with
this guy that isnt active in the church and has alot o problems and we
had a really spiritual lesson with him talking about repentance and we
all cried.
Yesterday we had another lesson with
him and I started talking about the difference between testimony and
conversion, and i read alma 23:6-8, when the lamanites were baptized,
and it says that those of them that layed down ALL their weapons of
rebellion, as to not fight anymore against God, were the ones who were
truly converted. After I explained that, this guy were teaching looked
me straight in the eye, and said "So, what are your weapons of
rebellion?" BOOM. SPIRITUAL PRICECHECK.
We all
have things that are holding us back from being truly converted to the
Lord, be in pride, stubborness, laziness, selfishness (all of which are
some of my weapons). But step by step, we can really overcome these
weakness and give our whole soul unto Him! And the first step is
recognzing it!
I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY, even on the pretty sucky weeks lol.
Love,
SIster Lipps
also i just remembered that one night this week sister neves woke up at 1
am and said "sister, SISTER!! do you think im robbing god because im
not paying enough with my fast offering?"
just a good glimpse into life as a missionary....................
Pictures:
When you let a 9 year old do your makeup and she makes you straight up barbie
Mini waterfall! the only up side to all this stupid rain
COOKIE
DOUGH! i teach everyone here how to make cookies lol. also they thought
I was crazy because i was eating the raw dough, and then Raqueley took a
piece of the dough to eat and said "LOOK IM AMERICAN!" hahaha #VERDADE
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