5.23.16
Hey there Y'all!:)
Yes from the Subject I would assume you are thinking I am
sick, and you would be right but that did not slow us down toooo much from
getting out missionary work done!
So last Monday during emails Sister Tippetts looked a little
rough and couldn't wait til we got home so she could go lay down because she
had a super bad head cold. We went out that night and taught a lesson and had
dinner with a member. We also invited the investigator we were teaching to be
baptized and she accepted a date and hopefully we will see her baptized on June
25!:)
Tuesday we stayed home most of the day and Sister Tippetts
slept. I felt great and studied for hours. I studied the talk that I mentioned
last week, "Beware of Pride," such an amazing talk and hope that a
few of you all were able to read it!! I was able to read a little in the Book
of Mormon and have decided that I want to finish the Book of Mormon one more
time before I finish my mission which won't be hard at all because I am almost
halfway though it again!:) I seriously love the Book of Mormon so much!! Every
morning when I read it I can feel the spirit so strong and learn something or
am reminded of something that I am slacking on or want to improve in! This book
Truly testifies of Christ and makes me want to be a better person!
Wednesday when we woke up Sister Tippetts still wasn't
feeling great but we had a zone conference that day and we were not about to
miss that!! I learned so much from it and we sang a hymn that I did not know
very well and it had a line in it that says "and have done away with
lesser thing." Though out the conference our mission president invited us
to heed that often. He also said "Therefore, what..." often and make
us really think about having purpose to everything we say and do. We learned so
much that day and I loved it so much. It was a long day but good, we also had a
meeting that night with our ward mission leader so we did not have often to
proselyte but we did teach one lesson and were in and out quickly and taught
about how important it is to keep the Sabbath Day holy! I love teaching that
commandment because of the blessing associated with it because there are soo
many!
Thursday we had a weekly planning session and then were able
to proselyte a while that day. Super cool story from that day though! So at
Zone conference we received a referral from some missionaries who got it from a
member who had talked to this guy and gave him a book of Mormon a year ago. I
am not sure why he waited so long to give the referral to missionaries but
nonetheless we went and tried to find him got lost on this road and called a
couple of members because our GPS was useless at that point and a member was
able to tell us that we were way away from where we needed to be so we drove to
the road and couldn't find the house. So we parked and started walking and a
lady yells to us from her door and asks if we were witnessers and I said, yes?
we are missionaries and then she said that she was a JW and then the witnesser
question made perfect sense. We told her who we were looking for and she told
us that he didn't live there that his ex wife did. We were not sure if we
should still go but we went anyways and told her the story of trying to find
her and she was super open to listening and we had a return appointment before
we left!:) Also that night we were able to pick up a new investigator and put
him on date for baptism July second! One of his best friends is Mormon and had
given him a book of Mormon and invited him to come over to her house for a
lesson with the missionaries and he accepted. It was the coolest lesson ever!!
When he said the closing prayer he said that he thought he had found his path!!:)
pretty cool!
Friday is when I got sick and it hit me hard so we stayed
home and I slept all day but we were able to have a lesson over the phone with
one of our investigators who we put on date Sunday. I had cabin fever soo bad
though!
Saturday we did all the things we were supposed to do Friday
but took it kind of slow because I still not feeling the greatest but I did not
want to stay in the house any longer!
And Sunday was not bad! We have been working with this lady
who is a member but has not come to church for a while, before we went to her
house and she came for the 5th sunday in a row yesterday and told us that she
had really had her mind set on the temple!!:)
Even though we were sick it was not going to keep us from
seeing miracles and trying our hardest to do the will of the Lord! I hope you
all are doing well and also enjoy all the pictures! Have a great week!!
Love Sister Mauck
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