5.16.16
Hello!
Hope you all had a great week! We sure did, it was actually
quite crazy! So first highlight of the week is we have been calling this
investigator of ours and lost contact with them for like a month or so and
Sunday they actually answered last week and then we called them again Tuesday
and they asked if there was any way we could have a wedding this weekend... yes
in less than 7 days. They asked for Saturday but we had stake conference this
weekend so we were going to try for Friday night but that didn't work so we met
them at the church on Wednesday and met with bishop and decided that we were
going to have the wedding on Sunday at one, and hour after the general session
of stake conference, lucky for us they were broadcasting the session to our home
building but there wasn't much to put together because we had done it mostly on
Saturday. We have an amazing Relief society president and she was able to get
refreshments and some people in the ward that do weddings to have some simple
decorations and had a really pretty program made up, seriously such a sweet
wedding. My companion and got a call from the bride the day before and asked if
there was anyone that could help her with her hair and we told her that we
could do it and so we did her hair in like 10 minutes, in between the times we
were running around making sure no one else needed help with anything. She
looked pretty great:) And the groom’s parents came and the spirit was so strong
during the wedding. The Bishop did a really cool sand analogy right before the
ceremony talking about how important it is to keep God in our relationships. It
was really cool to watch everything unfold and see how much everyone was
willing to help!! So the day before the wedding we taught them the restoration
and put an emphasis on the importance of priesthood authority, choose a date
for them to be baptized, around the end of June, and talked to them about
Eternal marriage and they were so excited about everything! Sadly, we found out
that they do not live in our area, still in our ward boundaries but they live
in some other missionaries’ area so they will teach them to baptism. But it was
cool to be able to be a part of that part of their conversion and we are
excited to see them at church and see their baptism in the near future. I love
planning weddings, it’s pretty fun, 3 in one mission is something I guess I can
handle:)
Funny story of the week. So we are teaching this sweet
single mom of 2 kids. She has been telling us she will come to church and every
time she doesn't come to church it is usually a pretty acceptable reason for
not coming to church, like being up all night with a teething baby, or running
her SUPER pregnant friend that lives with her to the hospital because of
premature labor or many other ones. So we told her we would come Sunday
mornings and start waking her up so she could come to church because she wanted
us to. So we go to wake her up on Sunday morning around 8:30 and we knock on
the door and no one answers the door so we go back to our car and to save miles
we study in our car for about half an hour planning lesson plans for those we
were going to teach during that day. Anyways we go back up at 9 and she opened
up the door and let us in and then went and laid back down on her couch and we
asked her if she had been on a trip during the week (because we hadn't seen her
car all week every time we had come to teach her) and she said yeah and it was
all by myself. She was half asleep when she said that and then we just asked
her if she was going to come to church and she fell asleep all the way and
didn't answer. So my companion and I awkwardly stood there for like 2 minutes
and then I just asked her with a loudish voice if she just wanted us to come
back later in the day to teach her a lesson and then she was like, "Oh, I
forgot you all were here... sure come back.... lat..er..." We left and waited til we got back to our car
to laugh pretty hard. Then we went to the church and made sure everything was
set for the wedding. Later that night we went back to her house and she asked
us if she had let us in earlier that morning and we told her definitely that we
would never come into her house without her letting/asking us to come in. We
told her of the short conversation that we had... she died laughing especially
since she told us she had not gone on a trip that she was just working
hahahaha. But she is the sweetest and told us that when she gets to church the
first time it will not be hard to come back it is just the getting there the
first times that is the hardest, AMEN to that sista.
Anyways to say the least we had a pretty good week and have
seen some pretty great miracles. We also got to talk to this family that live
like a mile away from the church and she is really interested in the gospel.
She has just recently been working on her relationship with God. She has a son
that is almost one-year-old and he had been though 9 surgeries and it a miracle
baby and the doctors have put it. She said they had a church that had really
been helping them through this hard time but it is like a 20 minute drive and
it was too hard for her to commute that, she wants to be going more than once a
month but she felt like that was all she could do with having to make sure that
her son had absolutely everything he may need and then some. She seemed pretty excited
for us to come back and is really excited to learn more about the Book of
Mormon too. We were also able to talk to another young mom that was pretty busy
but we were able to teach her the restoration in like 5 minutes on her porch
and she said that she would read it and that we could come back in a week and
she would tell us if she wanted to continue learning. But she had also told us
that if she found out it was true that she would be baptized. Pretty cool
stuff!:)
Time is flying by but one thing I know is how important it
is to find everything that Heavenly Father needs me to do while I am in this
area. I would invite you to do the same thing where ever you are living. There
is a reason that we are where we are, and a lot of the time it is for others.
Make friends with your neighbor and find out about them and how you can help
them. One thing my companion and I have been working on is trying to find why
we are in an area, a little area like a specific street or a reason we wrote a
name down in our planner, there is a reason for everything! I know that
Heavenly Father places us in areas for a reason and that if we ask him where we
are supposed to go it is not only the best place for our family but sometimes
for us to help others as well! I hope everyone is doing well and that you are
continuing to come closer to Christ every day! I know that it is a daily thing
that I work on! Have a great week!
Love Sister Mauck
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