This week we did a lot of finding. We are trying to talk to
as many people as we can. A lot of our appointments fell through but I feel
like we are doing a lot better at finding so I know that we will be able to
find people to teach soon. We gave talks in church and I wasn't even that
nervous about it so I think it went pretty well. I went on exchanges in
Whittier with Sister Oler who grew up in Hawaii and New Zealand. She lives in
Utah now and she is a tall samoaan volleyball player. On our exchanges we found
them a new investigator! It was this high school girl named Sierra and we
taught her the plan of salvation and she wanted to learn more. I could feel the
spirit was there in the lesson and when she prayed at the end it was so great!
We also talked to this guy who wanted to bash with us and kept telling us that
he has studied Mormonism and he is pretty sure that he knows more about our
religion that we do and that we worship the wrong Jesus. Basically he tried to
be all theologial on us and some of his points didn't even make sense and he
said that we really need to look into our religion more so that we don't go to
hell. And we were just like "Well we've prayed to God to know if this
church is true and we recieved a witness from Him that it is so we are going to
stick with our religion." It was just ridiculous the guy wouldn't even let
us talk really so ya some people's hearts are just too hardened. We also went
on splits with 2 sisters in our ward. The girl I went with is a single lady
named Stacy. She look like she is hispanic but she is really Dutch and grew up
in Holland. She kind of has an accent because she lived in England for a long
time too. She told me her conversion story that was really cool. Her dad was
abusive when she was young and so her mom divorced him. Her mom was searching
for a church for a long time and finally one day 2 sister missionaries knocked
on her door. At first she was really sceptical about the book of mormon and
everything but she prayed and knew it was true so she joined the church. Then
Stacy was living in Canada at the time but she started taking the lessons too.
She felt like after all of the crazy things that have happened to her in her
life she finally felt peace. It was really great to go out and work with
her. Other than that we are just trying to work as hard as we can and be
obedient so that the Lord can bless us with people to teach.
love you all!!
-Sister Washburn
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