6.27.16
Hey there Y'all!:)
Hope all is well wherever you all are. It has been pretty
wet here the last week but my companion and I have been safe from the floods.
There were some crazy rain storms with beautiful/scary thunder and lightning
storms. Really a testimony builder that this really is all of God's creations
and he has stewardship over it all. All things are here for our enjoyment but
we still have to be careful around it all!
We have been hearing often about the causalities around us often,
seriously soooo sad, it really did rain like cats and dogs for days. Every time
we talk to people about the floods the number for recorded deaths goes up, I
think it was at 26 last time we talked to someone. But it has been really cool
to see how much everyone is coming together to try to help their fellow west
Virginians. Even though we are in Teays
"Valley" we did not have to deal with the floods which was a blessing
for sure! We are super close to all the floods though. All the missionaries are
accounted for in our mission but all the flooding was within our stake and
there was flowing water on some of the back roads that we drive on and the river
that we drive next too is super high and there are a lot of people that are
without food and water and shelter for that matter in places little ways away
from us. We just read in an email from our mission president that there are
over 32 thousand without power:/ But that is not going to stop missionary work
from happening for sure!! It will be a great opportunity to serve those around
us!
Anyways our sharing of the gospel has been hastening the
last few weeks!:) We have a lady that I have been teaching for a while, she
will be baptized in the next few weeks and she is doing so AWESOME! She has
quit smoking, quit drinking coffee and tea and has been working on overcoming
her struggle in social anxiety. She loves learning about religion but has recognized
the difference when she learns about the restored gospel, especially in the
Book of Mormon. We have also been working a lot on the concert we are putting
together... #PRAISE and I am seriously sooo excited for it. Sister Tippetts and
I have been putting together a handful of songs to sing. We have been working
on trying to find new people to teach a lot lately and a lot of the people that
may be interested in learning has come by way of handing out fliers to people
about the concert and people asking why, I love the question... WHY? A perfect
opportunity to share the gospel:)
I hope you all are doing well! Have you tried any of the
invitation that I have extended? I would love to hear some cool stories from
it!! (Courtney.mauck@myldsmail.net) This weeks invitation will come by the
story we have been sharing a lot with the people that we are teaching. Alma 37
(specifically vs 36-37) We read these 2 versus to an investigator this past
week and she, for the first time and we have been teaching her for months,
accepted the invitation to read a whole chapter from the Book of Mormon when we
left! Pretty cool. Read the chapter, it is pretty great! Hope you all have a
great week!
Love, Sister Mauck
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