One Month Mark!!!
The Rainy Season has Started!
This week has been full of adventure and new experiences! So first off we got to go to a missionary training with Elder Lawrence of the Seventy and his wife. It was so AMAZING!!! I took over 7 pages of notes! I have reread them multiple times! Everything that came out of their mouths was pure gold. We have set a goal as a mission for the month of November to have 40 baptisms mission wide. I am so excited and we pray for help everytime we pray. It has been an amazing experience seeing the work move foreward so rapidly since then! We have 3 solid people on date to be baptized in Eatonville in November already! Then we have had a great week and found a few new investigators that are so promising! I would like to share one of these experiences. Last night was a little stressfull because it was getting dark and we didn't have any set appointments. Everything kept falling through and no one was getting back to us. Sister Bailey hates with a passion knocking on doors, but has been trying to do better. We had time for maybe one door before it would be too dark to be out tracking... so Sister Bailey drove and parked somewhere. We started walking towards a house I had never even seen. It was tucked back near a hill in the town. I asked her who lived there and she said she didn't know, but that this was the house we were supposed to go to. So I do like always do shrugged my shoulders and said okay cool... haha. We walked up to the house and rang the door bell. We waited and finally a little old lady answered the door. She seemed confused at first, but we said hello and I asked her what brought her joy. She said her family and we proceeded to talk about how family is essential to God's plan. After a couple minutes of talking, she opened her screen door and said would you girls like to come in and talk out of the rain? We were both kinda shocked at first because it isn't often someone asks you to come in haha! But of course we accepted and went and sat with her. She told us about her kids and her husband and that he had passed away. She explained she was Catholic and went to a church in town(this doesn't scare us though everyone goes to some church here) As we continued she told us she had a heart condition, but couldn't get surgery becasue of her age. Ssiter Bailey asked if we could say a prayer for her together. We prayed and began to teach the Restoration. It went very well. We got to the part about Christ and how he established a Church but that wicked people changed its teachings after his death. She said this after we taught about it.. "I know! People are so confused! Hopefully he calls another prophet soon!" I giggled and responded like this. "Yes! People are so confused! But we have so wonderful news for you! Heavenly Father has called a prophet and has restored these lost truths to the earth again for all of us!" Her eyes got all big and she was like Really?! We then taught about Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, and that President Monson was the prophet today. We asked her to read in the Book of Mormon and she willfully accepted. She was so excited to read and learn! We set an appointment to go back and teach her more on Thursday this week! I walked out of that house in awe!!! I couldn't believe that we actually had knocked on a door and gotten a new investigator! AHH!!! It was the most spiritual experience! I am so excited to help Rosemary come to know her Savior better and learn that he has a plan for her that will bring her so much joy! It really was a miracle. Heavenly Father has prepared people for us if we will only listen to the promptings he gives us. I am so grateful for this experience! I would like to ask all of you to pray for Rosemary and that she will continue to have a desire to learn and will accept the gospel and be baptized! I testify that this church is true! It will bring us more joy than anything else in this llfe. I testify that Missionary work can and will be accomplished through our Savior's direction. He will put people in our lives that need what we have! I love you all very much! I hope you all are doing well!
Love, Sister Northrup
