Wonderful Season for Missionary Work

11.30.15

Hey Y'all!

It really was a Crazy week! But lots of wonderful things! This coming week will not be as crazy but the week after that is going to be crazy but we are going to enjoy this week, it is only going to be a little crazy not super though.

Tuesday last week was great, crazy but great! We drove at 5:15 in the morning to this meeting. It was such a great and productive meeting. I learned so much from it and we were able to discuss the new Christmas initiative for this year that just started... #ASaviorisBorn, it is such a sweet short video, If you haven’t watched it yet...  check it out. www.mormon.org/christmas Just as sweet as the one from last year he is the gift. We also talked about how important it is to get those who are just baptized to the temple, for them to feel of the spirit. Our mission has a goal of getting everyone who is baptized to go to the temple with family names in 1 month! It will be hard work especially since there is not a temple in our entire mission but entirely possible especially if we are planning well and getting this done that we need to!:) The Spirit of the Book of Mormon combined with the Spirit of Elijah... now that is powerful! After our meeting we traveled back and got home a little after 7:30 and had a member come and pick us up and we went to see the Brother that got baptized Saturday and then went and saw someone who is really sick that we have been working with that has not been going to the church for 40+ years. The elders came to the hospital to give him a blessing and he said that he LOVED the spirit that he could feel with all of us there and he has called us often asking us when we were going to come again and wanting to learn more. He also came to church on Sunday but that lesson we had Tuesday right before we had to be home was wonderful and full of the spirit! As it says in Preach My Gospel... "When the Spirit touches the heart, hearts are changed." The day before he was not really excited about us coming and learning more and after that blessing and realizing that there are people that don’t even know him personally that love him. That is one of the biggest blessings of being part of a ward family!!

Thursday, Thanksgiving, was super busy. So the night before we were worried that we were not going to be able to make the day full of proselyting and full of purpose but man was it! I realized that I needed to have more faith in the missionary handbook that talks about holidays are prime proselyting times! So at 10 in the morning we left our house and went and had 2 quick 30 minute lessons with 2 of our progressing friends. And the second house we went to ... fair warning a funny story is coming... we knocked on the door and he had just woken up and when he opened the door a little dog ran out. My companion when she had went on exchanges the week before had chased this dog for like 30 minutes in Blacksburg and I thought that was what was going to happen with us and luckily it was not that way! I caught the dog in 2ish minutes and had it against my side and brought it back to the door. I tossed the dog back into the house and looked down and realized that the dog had peed on me... Are you kidding me?!? In the meantime my companion was pretty much rolling on the ground laughing super hard... thanks for that sister. Welcome to the life of a missionary. So we went inside and had a quick lesson with him and then we went home so I could change, not the end of the world but it would have been nice to go through Thanksgiving, not having a dog pee on me. But later in the day we made cookies and put cute thanksgiving bows on them and a scripture and handed them out to lots of people and we were able to talk to people that we had not talked to in a while and will be teaching them soon:) and we also had a lesson with someone after we had had our second Thanksgiving meal haha.

Saturday was amazing! We were able to watch one of our friends get baptized and his mom came as well!! All week we had been inviting people to come because we were worried that everyone was going to be out of town but we were able to have a wonderful service and felt the spirit soooo strong!

This season is really a wonderful season to do missionary work! The spirit that is in the air because of the hymns that are sung and the celebration of Christ birth is really a reason to be grateful for! I know that this is the true reason we celebrate Christmas! I know that our Savior still lives today and loves each and every one of us so very much. I hope you all have a wonderful week!!

Love Sister Mauck