John 5:39

5.31.16

Hey there y'all,

Hope you are doing well and that you are staying cool. Where I am at it has been in the 90's for the past week and humid... ewww! I am not a fan of the humidity, all the more motivation to find people to teach the gospel to, to get into homes and out of the heat and humidity:) The bugs are coming out too and the other night we got eaten alive by the mosquitoes, thanks for that bugs! But I am super grateful it has not been snowing anymore!!

Last Monday we were supposed to have one of the families that we are teaching, follow us over to a members home to have a family home evening and were supposed to teach the family home evening but the people we are teaching were sick so we went over to the members home and were able to talk to them about missionary work and set up a time for them to bring their 2 youngest kids and have a lesson with them and we actually ended up scheduling it for the next day so the dad of the family and our bishop could come over and give the lady we are teaching a blessing. That blessing was so sweet and the lady we are teaching loved it and felt the spirit of it. She was supposed to come to church but was not able to make it so hopefully we will see her at church soon.

We also had exchanges this week and I stayed in the area again. As we were getting ready to drive home and make phone calls I had a strong prompting to turn into this apartment housing that has someone living there that is a potential investigator and he was not home and when I turned in I knew that he was not going to be there but I went in anyways and the apartment one over this lady that we had never met before and she seriously had a light about her and we went over and started talking to her and she accepted a book of Mormon and we set up a date to go and teach her and when we were leaving she was flipping through the book, super cool!:)

Saturday we did a lot of walking and we walked to contact this referral that was a little more than a mile away from our house and the reason they were a referral was because the family was from Wyoming. We were visiting a member and they told us that they had moved from Wyoming after I told her that is where I was from and she told us that we should go talk to them and so we knocked on their door and I think their daughter answered and told us that we could come back and she was soooooo excited to meet someone else from WY! They were from Pinedale... not as cool as the east side of the state but I guess they were still pretty cool;)

Fun Story of the week. So yesterday was P-day and we could not email and we received permission to do it today because the library was closed for memorial day. But we were over at a member’s house yesterday and helped her with a few things and she bought us Pizza and then we tried to make milk shakes out of ice cream bars... well She did not have a blender but she told me to try to use the juicer.... yes you read that right. She said that she had had it for months now and never used it and probably was not going to use it, that it was a gift from someone. Just to let you know so that you never do it, it did not work very well, it just made it pretty much into milk. I put milk into it so it would not mess up the juicer but we put it in the freezer for hours and it tasted fine but I would not do it again, I bet it would be really good if we actually had a blender!:)

I have been thinking a lot lately about how important it is to read the Book of Mormon and study out the scriptures and how important that is. It is such a simple task and it is so easy but sometimes we just put it aside like it is not that important. In the scripture I put as the subject, Christ is telling us to do it... For me when Christ says we should do something I now realized how much it should be at the top of our list of things to do!! Anyways I hope you all have a great week! Remember to read your scriptures say your prayers;)

Love Sister Mauck