Hey everyone.
So.. This week was full of visiting less active members... We had an
appointment with Rose, but i guess she was sick so we had to cancel, so
we're going to teach her tomorrow. But yeah... Lots of visiting less
actives. It's kinda frustrating. They tell us they want visiting teacher
and home teachers, so they're upset that they're not getting the
attention they feel they deserve from the Church, yet they dont come to
Church... So i'm learning from all this that YOU HAVE TO DO YOUR
VISITING TEACHING AND HOME TEACHING!!!!!!!!!! Less active members dont
come to church because they dont feel like anyone cares. So it's all
coming together for me now that visiting teaching and home teaching is
more important than we will ever understand. If every person visited the
people they were assigned to each month like they're supposed to, we'd
have a lot more active people coming to Church every week because a lot
more people would feel more welcome.
Yeah... So. This morning President and Sister Batchelor came to visit
Sister Blake and I to do our companion study with us. I was scared when
they called us to tell us they were coming to see us, because i really
thought that they were gonna ream us out for not having enough
investigators or something, but it turns out they actually just wanted
to come visit us and to encourage us to keep us doing as good as we're
able to. *whew*
Also... It snowed yesterday. I made a snowman. But all the snow was
melted by mid afternoon, and my snowman was all gone by night time. I
was sad.... I found out that lots of people let their kids stay home
when it snows because it only snows here literally once a year and is
ALWAYS gone before the end of the day. So they let their kids stay home
to play in a cm of snow. haha... I got a letter from my missionary
friend serving in the Atlanta Georgia mission right now (Irena Smith. We
were Canadian MTC buddies.) Yeah. She told me that her first week in the
field they cancelled church because of a cm of snow. REDICULOUS!! When
it snowed here, we weren't allowed to drive anywhere... Seriously...
people freak right out when it snows. and as if that's not random
enough, the day before it snowed, it was POURING rain the entire day.
Man... I've decided the weather here isn't fun. It's different EVERY
single day, and it cant make up it's mind, and it makes wardrobe choices
difficult every morning.. haha...
On Monday, we went to a funeral for a recent convert's husband. It was
held at another church, so we totally stuck out like sore thumbs when we
went in. haha... Of course the recent convert was happy to see us, but
nobody else could figure out what we were doing there. The preacher
wouldn't even shake my hand. haha... I couldn't figure out what Church
it was though... The name of the Church said "Grace Fellowship" but i
dunno what denomination it was... yeah... There was a drum set and 5
guitars at the front of the church too, so i was a little afraid that
there was gonna be a rock show or something at this funeral, but luckily
that wasn't the case... I can only imagine what their Sunday worship is
like. man... Anyways... That was my experience with going to another
church... It was kinda fun... but awkward...
Yeah... I think that was the most eventful experience this week.. All of
our appointments with our investigators were cancelled, so that was
sad... but whatever. One of the appointments, we had a member and her
daughter come with us, but the investigator wasn't home, so the
daughter, who is 9 years old, wanted to go tracting with us. haha. So we
took this 9 year old girl to a few houses and it was fun. She totally
looks at us like we're these perfect missionaries and i laugh... i'm way
not perfect.... as demonstrated by my lack of punctuation and
capitalization... haha... that's just for you Clarke... By the way... i
still haven't heard anything about how your student teaching is going.
yeesh. get up on it will ya?
I'm sorry i dont really have much else to say... My week is full of
tracting and not much else... I'll update you on Rose's progress next
week. So continue praying for me... well... not so much for me.. More
for the people in Cabot, that they'll listen to us... I'm pretty sure
they've all been brainwashed by their own churches.. Sis Batchelor told
us this morning that preachers go out of their way to tell people not to
listen to us and ESPECIALLY not to pray about what we teach them..
haha... it kinda just goes to show that they're fully aware of the power
of prayer, and that there's something special about us.
Yeah.. So i know more than ever that I am a Daughter of God. Not even
really because of one specific experience. I just know it. We had a
District meeting on monday and we were taught that we should picture
everyone in White... like.. baptismal clothes and temple clothes. Then
we're seeing them as Christ sees them and all of the sudden we're less
afraid or intimidated by them and we do a better job at talking to them.
Yeah... So if anything... never forget that we're all children of God,
and that we never get out of being a missionary whether we're serving
full time or not. yeah. Basically just do your visiting teaching and
home teaching and talk to everyone about the gospel, and make sure to
invite them to things. People dont change unless their invited to do so.
It says so in Preach My Gospel. Love you all.. Thank you for thinking of
me.
-Sister Alison J. Dyer
