Can you believe it's Thanksgiving???? Isn't that just the craziest thing ever? I can't believe it.
And on top of that it snowed this week for the first time!! It was like 70 degrees on Friday, then miserable and rainy on Saturday, and then there was snow when we woke up on Sunday morning. Time to break out the fleece lined tights. And the Christmas CDs. (Actually, we already did that. A month ago :))
We've had a great short week-it's been full of miracles. Brother Sollars went to the stake priesthood meeting last Sunday, and during our lesson Thursday, he kept telling us how much he liked it, and how he felt he fit right in, and how excited he is for his upcoming baptism. I am so excited for him, too!
Last Tuesday was one of those days when I'm like, "Why can't every day be like today?" We started teaching 2 new people and were pretty much running from appointment to appointment all day. It was great!
One of the ladies we met and started teaching, Ella, is amazing! She has a son who is a Mormon, now, and so she loves the missionaries. But she is really worried about what her family is going to think about her learning from us. We had a really neat conversation with her about putting God first, even above family.
One of our investigators, Clint, is a lovely Jamaican fellow. And he cooks! Jamaican food, too. So we had Jamaican barbecue on Saturday! It was amazing. It's one of the many reasons we love him!
So tonight we're going down to Charleston to stay there for the next few days. Elder Meurs (he spoke at the last general conference) is coming for a mission tour, and I am so excited! I always feel refocused and lifted spiritually after meetings like these. It'll be a great was to start the week. Then on Wednesday, we're having an special MLC with him, so we're staying down there for that. Then, it's Thanksgiving on Thursday! Basically, we're not going to get squat done this week in our area, but I'm sure it will work out!
So this week I spent some good quality time reading in the Gospels in the New Testament. I came across this little parable that I really, really liked. It's the parable of the seed growing secretly. In it, a man sows a seed, and then goes about working on other things and sleeping, and all the while, the seed grows, but he knows not how. And one day he comes back and the full corn is ready to harvest, so he grabs his sickle. When I go out and teach the gospel, it plants seeds, but that's about all I can do. No matter how good a teacher I may be, I can't build faith in a person or give them a testimony. Only they and the Lord himself have the power to make it grow. So we get to plant, and then come back for the harvest. The real heavy lifting happens between them and the Lord. It takes a lot of faith, sometimes, to walk away and work on other projects, but the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ is a living, vibrant seed. Under the right conditions, it absolutely, without fail, will grow and develop. This week we got a phone call from Jon, who we had stopped teaching a few weeks ago. He previously wasn't willing to make commitments, so we had to walk away for a while. But this week, he called us, wanting to start lessons again. All the while, the seed has been growing inside him. I know that the message I share everyday with people is true, and I know that once a person hears it, they will never be the same again. There is something new in there, trying to grow.
I love you all! And I'm so excited to see ya'll again someday!
Love you to the moon!
Sister Ward
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