To My Dearest Family,
Well another week has gone by. This week was
pretty interesting and lots of things happened. My days keep getting
jumbled together so I am sorry but it is so much easier to go day by day.
But first things first sorry to scare you for not writing you yesterday
but it was the holiday so we didn't have the library to email in... but anyway
Tuesday- I was starting to get frustrated with the work a
little bit here because I feel like the people we are teaching just need like
EXTRA help and so I was praying so hard Monday night that the Lord would be
able to help them and that other people and angels on the other side would be
able to help me and them. That night Matt came to me in my dream.
We were so happy to see each other and we hugged and laughed and just
talked for a long time. We talked about missionary work and the work that
I was doing in Iowa. I said Matt, "I need your help too."
He then told me "Mindy, I am helping you I know who your
investigators are and I am working with you." He went on to name
personally all the people that we are working with. I was woken up after
the dream and it was still pretty early in the morning but I knew I needed to
write it in my journal. I am truly amazed how much the Lord and those on
the other side are aware of us and our situations. They are there to help
us. I know that Matt is helping me in my missionary work. He has told me
and I feel his spirit and his love.
Friday- We decided to go knocking at these apartments
called Bentley. They are pretty sketchy not gonna lie. We are
banned from knocking on certain buildings there but we went to the safe ones.
We were freezing our butts off and no one was answering their doors so we
were kind of just walking around in the parking lot trying to decide what we
were going to do and this black guy kept seeing us because he had come and gone
twice. He got out of his car and asked us what we were doing in the cold
outside and what our nametags were for and so we talked to him for probably 5
minutes. He said he was too cold and needed to go inside but we asked if
we could come back tomorrow. He said Yes! So happy....I guess that
is what happens when you endure the freezing cold weather!
Saturday- We met with Ben, the guy from the apartments.
He is from Liberia and is so awesome. He read the pamphlet that
we gave him the day before about Joseph Smith and he had lots of questions
about him and about the Book of Mormon. We had an awesome lesson with him
and we answered his questions and we invited him to go to church with us the
next day. He promised he would! YAY!!!
Sunday- Ben came to church! To our surprise he
stayed all 3 hours! We were so happy! Everything was started to
click in his mind. He grew up Christian and I think that he is realizing
that the church is not so different than other churches and that it isn't
taking away from his knowledge right now but just adding to it which is sooo
nice! We are excited about it and we also received some good referrals
this week that we are anxious about and really excited for!
Monday- MLK day! We had a huge tri-zone activity.
This was the most adventurous day of my whole mission. We had
planned to pick up 2 sisters in our district from Mt. Vernon...it is about half
hour away so we are about 5 miles away from their apartment and we are driving
on the highway and as we come around this curve on the highway we see this
rippling HUGE LONG silver "snake". We had NO idea what it was!
We could tell we wanted to avoid it but it was windy and it was moving
all across the highway and so we look ahead and this HUGE semi barrel rolled
and broke the guard railing off the side of the highway and it is now in the
middle of the road. It was so long and so scary. So because we were
driving like 60 we couldn't stop fast enough not to hit it so we ran over the
guard rail. Then we paused and stopped and just stared and the semi was
destroyed. I would be very surprised if the driver made it out alive.
It was so scary. Then we noticed that running over the rail caused
the biggest hole in our tire ever so we had to change the tire. 2 sister
missionaries and it being freezing outside, for our own sake someone was bound
to help us....within 2 minutes of pulling over someone stopped and changed the
tire for us. Then we finally got to Mt. Vernon and the other sisters had
to drive us. But then we got to the acitivty and we played so many games
and it was a blast and guess who was there??? SID PRATT!!! IT was
so much fun to see her! Then to end the night the cars got grounded
because there was so much snow and ice so the member we live with had to pick
us up and our car still is in Mt. Vernon with a little donut as a tire!! MAN what a day!
My companion SIster Roberts is the best! I love her so
much. The members we live with are the best they are our second parents
right now and we love spending time with them!! My district is 4 sisters,
2 elders and 1 senior couple. We see them once a week, but we see the
elders more because we split the same ward because our area is MASSIVE.
It is super fun....elders are fun to work with but I do miss all the
sisters from Temple Square but I am sooo happy to be here and to be given the
opportunity to work with ward members and meet different missionaries. Missionary
work is honestly the best! Tracting is hard because of how cold it is no
one even wants to open the door because it lets in the cold air but it is good!
We are still somehow finding people to teach! Thank you for the
packages of warmer clothing! I love them! Thank you for your
support! I love you all so much!
The church is true.
Sister Marsh
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