7.20.15
Hey Everyone!
We had a really busy week! We went to parts of our area that
have not been visited in a long time (a little town called Riner, VA) and met
lots of cool people out there. We got to meet lots of less active members and
lots of them were really nice. Also while we were out there we found this guy
in our area book that had been interested in the church a little while ago but
the missionaries never went back to visit him is what he said. He said that he
still had lots of question because he was kind of upset with God because his
wonderful wife died when she was kind of young like 15 years ago and also had a
son that died when he was very young. He said that he had lots of questions and
we told him that the church still had lots of answers and he was really excited
to learn more about it again. We got his number and are really excited to teach
him!
We had a fun relief society activity this week as well, an
ice cream social, it was pretty great. We had 3 less active members that came
and an investigator who really got even more excited about her baptism date
after she had met all the wonderful women in the ward and how much it felt like
a second family. I really love this new ward and love working here. The members
here love the missionary work and come to lessons with us all the time and
really have seen blessings come to our investigators and less active members we
are talking with progress as we involve the ward.
I had a really cool experience on Sunday. So before this
weekend we had been looking through the records of members and trying to pick
out some less active members we wanted to work with. One name in particular
stood out to me. So we went and tried to contact him and couldn’t find where he
lived. So we told the elders to go and find him because he was now in their
area. They couldn't find this less active so I didn’t think much about it
anymore. Next time we had ward council I wanted to bring his name up to the
bishop and see if he would be some who would be receptive to missionaries. So
yesterday at church there were a lot of new faces that I hadn't seen before and
we were in gospel principles class and they went around the class and has us
introduce ourselves and the guy that had stuck out to me was in the class. So
we went and talked to him after church and he said he was interested in getting
back to church. It was really cool to see the face of the name that had really
stuck out to me. A testimony was born in me to never give up on strong
spiritual promptings that I have though out my life and especially on my
mission.
Funny story of the week: So we were at a lesson with someone
for the first time with a member who just got back from her mission like less than
a month ago and we were done with the lesson and asked him if he had any
questions. He said that he had a personal question and so we said he could ask
it. He asked if as missionaries we were like nuns and asked if we were ever
going to get married. We explained that we are only on missions for a little
while and told him that family is really important to our Heavenly Father. He
then asked if we were married yet and we explained that we were not and then He
then asked me personally again if I was married. Of course I said no and asked him why. Then he asked if I get
asked out a lot on my mission and I told him no and then he told me that maybe
if I didn't wear the ring I have on my ring figure that I would get asked out
more often, all three of us on the couch just laughed really hard. (the ring I
wear is a CTR ring and the only finger it will fit on is on my ring finger
haha) it was kind of weird but super funny.
Love y'all and hope all is well!
Love Sister Mauck
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