Diligence is Key!

6.15.15

Hey Y'all,

What a crazy few weeks. So last week I was in the middle of an email for the blog and the librarian kicked us off the computers and I am not sure why because they have never asked us to get off before but anyways I am doing great and the work out here continues to move further and stronger forward:)

Last week was one of the harder weeks I have had on my mission but lots of good things came from it. We had lots of things cancel including a baptism last Sunday but we found a new investigator from it. We went to go see some less actives and an investigator in the mobile home park and they were all busy or not home so I saw this family playing a couple houses down and I told my companion that we needed to go and knock on the door. We proceeded to do so and she was not interested at first until we explained some of the myths she had heard and that they were not true. She then opened up to us and said that she wanted to get back into church because her daughter had been asking questions about God lately. And we taught her a little about the book of Mormon and she didn't have much time but she said that we could come back later and we were really excited about that:)

So the day we had weekly planning we were really having a hard time with it because we really didn't know where to go with it all. We were having a really hard time being positive because lots of the people we were teaching were not progressing the way we felt like they should and there were lots of people who we were really not sure how to help, not their fault we just couldn't figure everything out. The day or 2 after that we went to the district meeting and it really was an answer to our prayers. We talked about rejoicing because this really is the lord’s work and that we really need to be enthusiastic and be excited because of what we have to offer and the things we know to be true. It opened my eyes and made me realize to quit stressing over the little things and just be excited with everything and remember it is not our work that we are doing it is all through the lord that we should be doing this and if we do it with that in mind then everything works the way it needs to!

Later in the week, the people who had canceled their baptism and almost told us that they were not interested anymore, received answers to their prayers and know that the book of Mormon really is the word of God and are really excited to get baptized now. They feel like they really are ready now and have really made a change in their life. These really are the things that make missionary work all worth it. Seeing people change their lives to want and desire to have their family be together for time and all eternity. It really makes the quote "Missionaries leave there families for a short time to help others be with their families for eternity," come true!

Another miracle that happened is that we went to a part of our area that we had never been to and we knock on I think like 10 doors and more than half of them told us that we could come back and one of them we taught a lesson to and he was really excited to start reading the book of Mormon which was really cool because he had been part of the religion he is a part of now for a long time but he really liked it all! We can’t wait to go back to that area. Our area is one of the biggest in the mission and we don't get to all of it but there are so many different parts of it that I really want to get to before I leave. Transfers are in 2 weeks and I am not sure if I am going to get to stay because I have been here for almost 6 months but thy will be done and I will go where I need to go:)

So funny story of the week. So we were done for the night and it was a little after 9 and we were diving into our garage and I parked and it is dark outside at this point. So we grab our bags and there were 2 boxes near the door and I went and read them and yelled to my companion they were for her because she had been waiting for a while and as soon as I quit talking she screamed "SNAKE." It took me a while to register what she had said because at first I thought she was screaming because she was excited but when I looked over and she was moving fast and dancing like a weirdo and I ran to the front door not the side door that was 2 inches away from me but the front door that was around the corner of the house and was trying to catch my breath once I got inside and was sitting on the couch. My companion wasn't too far behind me. So we went to the table and went straight to planning and in the middle of planning I started laughing just imagining what we looked like running away from the baby black snake that we saw. After planning my companion grabbed the fly swatter, don't ask me why she grabbed that, and started going through our recycle stuff trying to find the snake. She was on the window seal, quite frankly she looked like spider man, and when she lifted up one of the boxes she jumped off the ledge and sprinted in to the house and said she gave up. Anyways that was our dealing with a snake Saturday night.

Hope you are all doing well and you’re doing great missionary work!;) Love y'all and keep up the great work at home!!

Love Sister Mauck