Hola Todos!
It's been a busy, full week, and we've been accomplishing much! There
is a lot I want to share in this email that I am excited to write
about. First, transfer calls came this morning and both Sister
Loveridge and I are staying in the Lake Travis area! This is my 5th transfer
here and I'm excited to see what the Lord has in store for us! I can't
believe tomorrow I will hit my 11 month mark of being out here in the
best mission in the world!
We were able to go to the food bank again this week and at the end
they gathered all the volunteers so they could tell us the amount of
meals that we put together (4,035 meals). That definitely made me feel
good, and it is always so much fun to get to work with the people there
and also the other missionaries in our zone.
Last week I wrote in my email about Staci Dunson and her husband Troy,
who is a non-member, and how we had planned to eat dinner with them
this week, and we did! It was a great experience and we were able to
leave a restoration pamphlet with them to read together as a couple.
We are so happy that Troy is opening up to us, we hope to be able to
go back again this week on Tuesday! Also last week there were a few
new investigators that we found and were able to go back and teach
them this week. We aren't sure how interested they all are, but we
have been hoping and praying they will continue to have an open heart
and mind. The Lord is preparing people for us to meet and this week
we were able to see many miracles. On Wednesday we got a call from
Caroline Storm (our ward mission leader's daughter) and she told us one
of her friends from school wanted to meet with us and start learning
more. Her friends name is Macie Slane and she has been coming to
church with Caroline for a couple weeks. We were able to meet with
her this Saturday and we taught her the restoration and invited her to
be baptized and she said YES! She told us she wanted to learn more so
that she could be baptized, and she told us she really loves coming to
church! We are excited for her and hope and pray everything will work
out with that.
I had exchanges with Sister Jones' companion Sister West on
Wednesday! She is an amazing missionary and I love getting the
opportunity to watch her continue to learn and grow. She just finished
her 12 week training in the mission. She has such a good spirit about
her and has a strong testimony and she loves everyone she meets! I
had a good experience with her and we were able to learn together. We
met a woman named Liliana who has twin boys and she let us share a
message with her! Sister Loveridge and I are planning to go back to
her house this week and give her a Book of Mormon!
We had dinner with Tina Thai this week and she invited her non-member
friend Berlin to eat with us. Berlin has been going through a lot in
her life and she was able to talk with us, and as we were about to
leave I had a strong feeling to give her a copy of the Book of Mormon.
So I did, and as I handed it to her I testified to her how much that
book has changed my life and has answered every question I have ever
had. She thanked us and later the next day Tina told us Berlin wanted
to meet with us again and that she is excited to talk with us! We have
dinner with Tina, her family, and Berlin this week!
During District meeting our District leader Elder Grover talked about
the Book of Mormon and how we can help our investigators know and
understand that it can answer every question that they have and I
thought it was very inspired given the experience I had just had with
Berlin the night before!
On Sunday morning before church during personal study I was able to
finish reading The Book of Mormon all the way through while being on
my mission, and at church I went up and bore my testimony about the
truthfulness of it. I have been studying more about the Book of
Mormon this week and I read a talk called "There Is Power In The
Book" By Elder LeGrand R. Curtis Jr. Of the Seventy (October 2016
General Conference). I would invite all of you to go read this talk.
It is very powerful and it is one of my favorite talks from General
Conference on the Book of Mormon and the power that is has. I like how
he says "Some people have such a powerful experience with the Book of
Mormon the first time they open it, but for others the witness of the
truthfulness comes more gradually as they read and pray about it.
Whether our testimony of the Book of Mormon comes the first time we
open it or over a period of time, it will influence us all of our days
if we continue to read it and apply its teachings."
It's been a busy, full week, and we've been accomplishing much! There
is a lot I want to share in this email that I am excited to write
about. First, transfer calls came this morning and both Sister
Loveridge and I are staying in the Lake Travis area! This is my 5th transfer
here and I'm excited to see what the Lord has in store for us! I can't
believe tomorrow I will hit my 11 month mark of being out here in the
best mission in the world!
We were able to go to the food bank again this week and at the end
they gathered all the volunteers so they could tell us the amount of
meals that we put together (4,035 meals). That definitely made me feel
good, and it is always so much fun to get to work with the people there
and also the other missionaries in our zone.
Last week I wrote in my email about Staci Dunson and her husband Troy,
who is a non-member, and how we had planned to eat dinner with them
this week, and we did! It was a great experience and we were able to
leave a restoration pamphlet with them to read together as a couple.
We are so happy that Troy is opening up to us, we hope to be able to
go back again this week on Tuesday! Also last week there were a few
new investigators that we found and were able to go back and teach
them this week. We aren't sure how interested they all are, but we
have been hoping and praying they will continue to have an open heart
and mind. The Lord is preparing people for us to meet and this week
we were able to see many miracles. On Wednesday we got a call from
Caroline Storm (our ward mission leader's daughter) and she told us one
of her friends from school wanted to meet with us and start learning
more. Her friends name is Macie Slane and she has been coming to
church with Caroline for a couple weeks. We were able to meet with
her this Saturday and we taught her the restoration and invited her to
be baptized and she said YES! She told us she wanted to learn more so
that she could be baptized, and she told us she really loves coming to
church! We are excited for her and hope and pray everything will work
out with that.
I had exchanges with Sister Jones' companion Sister West on
Wednesday! She is an amazing missionary and I love getting the
opportunity to watch her continue to learn and grow. She just finished
her 12 week training in the mission. She has such a good spirit about
her and has a strong testimony and she loves everyone she meets! I
had a good experience with her and we were able to learn together. We
met a woman named Liliana who has twin boys and she let us share a
message with her! Sister Loveridge and I are planning to go back to
her house this week and give her a Book of Mormon!
We had dinner with Tina Thai this week and she invited her non-member
friend Berlin to eat with us. Berlin has been going through a lot in
her life and she was able to talk with us, and as we were about to
leave I had a strong feeling to give her a copy of the Book of Mormon.
So I did, and as I handed it to her I testified to her how much that
book has changed my life and has answered every question I have ever
had. She thanked us and later the next day Tina told us Berlin wanted
to meet with us again and that she is excited to talk with us! We have
dinner with Tina, her family, and Berlin this week!
During District meeting our District leader Elder Grover talked about
the Book of Mormon and how we can help our investigators know and
understand that it can answer every question that they have and I
thought it was very inspired given the experience I had just had with
Berlin the night before!
On Sunday morning before church during personal study I was able to
finish reading The Book of Mormon all the way through while being on
my mission, and at church I went up and bore my testimony about the
truthfulness of it. I have been studying more about the Book of
Mormon this week and I read a talk called "There Is Power In The
Book" By Elder LeGrand R. Curtis Jr. Of the Seventy (October 2016
General Conference). I would invite all of you to go read this talk.
It is very powerful and it is one of my favorite talks from General
Conference on the Book of Mormon and the power that is has. I like how
he says "Some people have such a powerful experience with the Book of
Mormon the first time they open it, but for others the witness of the
truthfulness comes more gradually as they read and pray about it.
Whether our testimony of the Book of Mormon comes the first time we
open it or over a period of time, it will influence us all of our days
if we continue to read it and apply its teachings."
I have seen this in my life as I read the Book of Mormon every day. I'm
not sure exactly the experience I had of receiving a witness that it was true.
But every time I read it I feel the spirit testify to me of its
truthfulness! I love the Book of Mormon!! Brandon also got up and
bore his testimony and shared an experience he had this week with his
sister who lives in England. He was talking to her over the phone and
during their conversation he was able to share his conversion
experience with her and he said it was a very spiritual experience for
him! He is an amazing missionary!! I'm excited to continue to see him
grow! He's so amazing!!
Well I hope y'all have a great week! I am off to see the Capital in
Downtown Austin for p-day!! Stay safe love y'all!!
Con Amor,
Hermana Mann
But every time I read it I feel the spirit testify to me of its
truthfulness! I love the Book of Mormon!! Brandon also got up and
bore his testimony and shared an experience he had this week with his
sister who lives in England. He was talking to her over the phone and
during their conversation he was able to share his conversion
experience with her and he said it was a very spiritual experience for
him! He is an amazing missionary!! I'm excited to continue to see him
grow! He's so amazing!!
Well I hope y'all have a great week! I am off to see the Capital in
Downtown Austin for p-day!! Stay safe love y'all!!
Con Amor,
Hermana Mann
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