This week was hard but good, but still hard, but good things
happened. A lot of our appointments fell through and our investigators went
MIA. (probably due to the fact that it was spring break) We were able to talk to
a lot of people though. Even a random Mexican guy who I spoke a little spanish
to and he started going off in spanish and I understood enough to realize that
he was asking me out! Eww, basically I shoved a pass-along card in his hand and
was like "okay bye."
We had a really cool experience on our way to a less
actives. We parked around the corner because she lives in some apartments. On
our way over I saw this teenage girl in front of her house on her phone. We
stopped and started talking to her. At first she was like, "I already go to
another Christian church." But the more we talked to her the more she told
us about how she wishes she had more direction in her life and how the other
girls at her church go on Sunday but they aren't very good people. We told her
about how our church believes in living our religion and trying to become like
Jesus Christ. We even ended up talking about baptism. Basically by the end of
our conversation she was really interested and we set up a return appointment
and she said that she was going to invite her friend over to learn more too. It
was so cool! We are going to see her this week, so hopefully all goes
well.
We also went by a potential that missionaries had met
before. We knocked on her door and she hadn't remembered talking to
missionaries. She said she was a devoted catholic, but the more we talked to her
the more she opened up about how she wished there was more goodness in the
world and that she could understand God's will better. She basically had a
bunch of questions that the plan of salvation answers. So we were able to set
up another visit with her to teach her more of the plan of salvation so we
should be seeing her this week too.
We also visited a part member family. We talked to the dad
and the 2 teenage boys. One of the boy's girlfriend was over and we ended up
talking about conference and church things and she had a lot of questions. We
ended up teaching her most of the plan of salvation. It was a really good
experience. She's been taught by the missionaries before and her family members
are strong Catholics (as usual) but the spirit was definitely there as we
talked. The wife who isn't a member and is an alcoholic also joined in the
conversation for a while.
And we invited some other people we talked to on the street
to watch conference (2 of them were neighbors of some members). So hopefully
they watched and felt the spirit, so that when we follow-up (remember
Elder Ballard's talk?) we can teach them more. Conference was the best!! On
saturday the singles ward fed us breakfast and some members fed us all lunch.
On sunday everyone did their own thing but since we live with the Leazenby's
they fed us too. Conference is pretty much just under Christmas for
missionaries. We all have to go to the stake center to watch it so we get to
see everyone in our zone. Their were also some Anaheim missionaries there
because their spanish branch is in our stake (its weird). They have ipads in
that mission and they were just whipping those things out all over the place.
But I'm over caring about ipads, so it was whatever. I loved conference. I loved
Elder Holland's talk. That was a crazy story about the sister missionaries. The
worst thing I have ever had was someone being rude and yelling at us. I
loved President Uchtdorf's about how gratitude is a way of being not just
numbering off things you have. I also liked Elder Bednar's about spiritual
traction, how burdens in life help us come closer to Christ. I also really
liked the one about Joseph Smith and how he received revelation and restored
the church. Also Elder Christofferson's about Christ's resurrection was really
good. I loved so many of the talks, there were just so many good things
said.It was also good to see President Monson back to his usual self because at
the last conference he was still getting over his wife passing. Something
that really struck me this conference was that fact that the prophet and the
apostles are special witnesses of Christ. When we explain to people why it is
important to have a prophet one of the reasons is that they testify of Christ
and help us to believe that he lives. All of the speakers testified of Him and
His divinity. It is so powerful to have all of those solid witnesses that Jesus
is the Christ. It is amazing to be set apart as a representative of Him and to
be able to teach and testify to those we meet that Christ lives and that He has
prepared a way for us to return to Him. I love being able to also bear witness
of Him.
Love you all!
-Sister Washburn
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