Hollah!

Hey family!

 

Man, this week was a whirwind. We did pretty normal things for the first couple of days, and then my companion got called to be an STL so she had to go to training in McAllen, so I was in a trio with the two other girls in our apartment, sister Bentz and sister Whitten. We had some great adventures traversing around Brownsville together.

Also, after the training, our district leader gave us the challenge to use better referral questions (instead of things like "do you know anyone on this street" to  things like "do you know anyone who has lost a job"), and also talked about the importance of using the Book of Mormon. He gave us the challenge to come up with lots of new referral questions to have ready so that we can use them, so we spent a lot of time coming up with those. We got pretty dried out of ideas, and we settled that we just need to start asking "who do you know?" and go from there ;)

But, yesterday we contacted this house and the lady was super not interested, but sister Pickett asked "do you know anyone who is sick who maybe needs some help?" and she was like "Yeah, actually, I work with sick people all the time! Let me give you people you can visit!" So we went in while she was writing down names and stuff, and then I was thinking, if we were already in her home we should share a message from the Book of Mormon. So we pulled out the Book of Mormon, and asked if we could share something. At first she was super apprehensive and was like "why would you use more than the bible? I don't understand!" but we talked about it, shared a story, and left her with a Book of Mormon. It was super cool, because she went from being totally anti other religions to committing to read the Book of Mormon. Pretty cool :)

 

Ever since the change of areas, sister Pickett and I have been doing lots of work with less-active members of the ward, and have made some really great frienships and things, but not a lot of progress as far as returning to church. We had been fasting and praying a lot for investigators and less actives to come to church. Yesterday morning it seemed like everything had fallen through, and we didn't have anything.. but we went to church, and it was so cool. SO many of the people we've been working with came! And the husband of one of the families came, who wasn't a member, for the first time in years. It was such a miracle to have our last week together be a week when we got to see some fruits of our labors here :) The Tender Mercies of the Lord are real!

 

Love you all!!!
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Hermana Reynolds