Monday, October 14, 2013

Oct 9th, 2013 Maren

Hey family....
So guess what.... today I have been a missionary for 9 months :O!!!! How did that happen?
Sorry I forgot to tell you guys last week that P-day was going to be a little different. We had Presidents Interviews on Monday so we had P-day today instead. Little weird having it in the middle of the week.
So real quick... man my mind is everywhere. sorry.
Okay. We were blessed this week with some new investigators. You know those stories about people just walking into the church and being amazing prepared and ready to hear the gospel. Well those stories are the exception usually not the rule... but this week that happened to us.
She walked into the church on Friday night and talked with one of the Elders. She basically just said she wanted to talk to someone and so he set up an appointment for us. We Met with her the next day, twice actually. Once and the church and just listened to her story (her name is Anabel by the way) and then we were able to go over that night and teach her and her sister the message of the restoration. They have both studied a lot of religions searching for something that felt right and I know that they were able to feel the spirit on Saturday night. They both have their challenges but nothing that a knowledge of the truth cant overcome. Family, I feel so amazing blessed to be right where I am. I feel so trusted of the Lord to be blinded in a second time and so grateful that there are prepared people here. In my interview with President this week he said "when we are prepared and worthy the prepared ones seem to find us." Wow. I am humbled at the trust the Lord has shown in us. I hope we can help this beautiful family accept this wonderful gospel.
... As a side note. We also had the opportunity to talk with a guy who the Zone leaders were working with while they were running around trying to get conference set up. We gave him a soft commit to baptism while we were talking and the Zone Leaders followed up later by setting a date. Its super cool to work in an Elliptical where we just work together and help each other. We have a lot of fun doing it too. I think on friday we're going to do our first flash mob of the season! Nice! I am excited. Singing on the train. So much fun!
Other big news of the week..... drum roll please.... WE ARE NOW ON FACEBOOK!!!! yeah some of you may have seen me online last night.. super weird. We were trained yesterday and logged on last night for the first time. Honestly... kinda felt like we were sinning. Haha. It was super easy to get distracted and want to go look at what you are all up to and at all my friends wedding pictures... but thats just not what I am here for. It amazing though.... I have already seen how it is going to be an amazing missionary tool. The work is going to explode here. Just you wait!
Sorry I dont have much time today. I loved conference. We got to watch it at our building here.
I love you all!
-Sister Maren Hale

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