Sister Pierce is Called to Serve: Trio Sisters

September 14, 2015

HELLO!!!!!! :)

This week was pretty great. We started the week off with a New Missionary Training meeting and it was wonderful! I love hearing about and learning from the experiences that other missionaries have and be able to learn how to improve from them. This mission/the missionaries in this mission are pretty awesome. :)

We then were able to meet with our investigator Diane and talk with her about...well, everything. That lesson was pretty scattered. That's what I've found about new englanders. They just talk all of the time and get off topic pretty quick. it definitely makes us missionaries learn how to be "on our toes"! We then met our other investigator Bobbie on Wednesday. We haven't been able to see her all transfer, and sister hamilton began to worry that we "lost her". Well, if we lost her, we found her again! She expressed her interest in continuing to learn about the gospel and said she will try to come to church on Sunday!! That was pretty exciting. Then, we had a lesson with a LA member and found out that her daughter, Loraine, hasn't been baptized yet and has the desire to be baptized (she's 9). We're doing to start teaching her this week. We then met with a potential investigator wednesday night and set up a return appointment with her for tonight. The tricky thing about that is that we want to have a member there, and our new ward mision leader is really stressing us to go on splits (both we and the elders in our ward are a trio). That means, I'm going on my first split tonight because sister hamilton thinks I should go to teach Julie since I'm more expereicned and she thinks she would benefit from me teaching her. I'm a little nervous for it, but I know it will go well. I always get nervous before things happen, but once I'm in the middle of it, it always works out. Luckily. haha

On Thursday night, we had dinner at the mision home with President and Sister Stoker! It was so weird to go back to the mission home since I hadn't been there for almost 7 months. It was nice to see what it looked like without all of the snow though!!! Dinner's in this companioship are interesting though. Sister hamilton is allergic to Wheat and corn, and sister lee is allergic to dairy, corn, peaches, pears, and apricots. I think heavenly father is forcing me to be a little more healthy or something. haha but, it's fun to see what people come up with for meals!! My favorite meal so far was a homemade Cafe rio salad. Super good!

Later in the week, we met with a LA member, Brother Therrian. He is awesome! He has some challenges mentally, so it feels like we're teaching a child in an adult body. It's a blast! he is so honest, and so interested in the gospel. He also has a strong deisre to read the book of mormon (this is the first time he's had the deisre to do so) and he LOVES it!! He also loves having us come over each week. I love being loved. haha I think it's such a blessing as a missionary. Once people know our porpose in being there and can see that we truly care about them, we all then develop love for each other and it makes our visits so much more enjoyable.

We also tried to contact some potential investigators, and ended up meeting more potential investigators: Judy and Collin. We talked with them on their porch for nearly an hour! they are born-again Christians (which is huge out here) and they discovered that we pretty much believe the exact same things, we just have something special to offer: the book of mormon. Judy was SO close to accepting one, but she didn't take one because her husband said he wouldn't read it (he's a new testament teacher). She told me that she would talk to him about it, and we left her with our number and church address. I sure hope she calls!! If not, we'll stop by in a couple of weeks anyways. haha the joys of being a missionary!! :) We get the opportunity to "hunt people down"! haha (not really, but it feels like it sometimes). As we were meeting with them, we bore testimony after testimony, and Judy especially, loved everything we had to say and believed what we said. It's amazing the power testimonies have.

Well, that's about it for this week! I love you all!!

Keep P.U.S.H.ing!

Sister Pierce