Week - 38 Overland Park

Week - 37 Overland Park

Sorry about last week... AND I promise that I will try to make it up with this email!

The weeks are flying by and I hear it will just get faster and faster! 

This week has been more of a tougher one. I had to get a root canal done and that wasn't bad at all.  Everyone was telling me how awful it was and it wasn't that bad at all!  But what they did  tell me is that I would instantly feel relief.  BOY were they wrong!   Im going into the dentist today with a possible infection. Lets just say these past couple of days have been hard to work with this pain. AND it makes me so sad because I just wanna work and when your body wont let you... makes me really mad. :(

BUT we did see some amazing miracles this week.

JW I know you are all probably wondering what is going on with him.... well We haven't met with him again yet...... HE has read the Book of Mormon all the way to either. And that is a big no no with being a JW is that you apparently can't read the Book of Mormon.... but he and his friend did and aren't just reading they are studying it!  So we are just praying that they have a change of heart. We did talk to the member who's brother is the JW and we are setting a lesson up and we are going to bring President Love as a team up. 

SO we are really excited about that.  Oh his name is Abraham

Another miracle of this week is Christian. Sister Erickson and previous missionaries have been trying to get in contact with.  We were trying to figure out where the lord needed us. My companion suggested that we go see this less active member who has been struggling. But as we pulled up i felt like we needed to be somewhere else.  We pondered for a second and then I felt like we needed to go try this potential.  So we went and it was amazing! We caught her and her daughter at the perfect time.  We chatted with her about how she is looking for a church and a place for her daughter.  She has been turned away from many church's because of her daughters special needs.  As we talked with her I felt impressed to share a video with her about the primary.  So I followed it and it caught her attention.  She invited us back for Tuesday so that we could talk more. The spirit is there you just have to learn how to listen and tune into the still small voice and trust me I'm still figuring it out and I feel its going to be a life time of figuring it out.

Another miracle is Benny that we just ran a crossed....a coincidence I think? NOT.  But we were trying to find this other potential and we ended up finding him.  He is amazing we gave him a Book of Mormon and he sincerely wants to learn more.  We go see him this upcoming weekend:) so excited. 

The lord truly provides as we give everything we can. That is something that I have really learned this week is that even when you don't feel good.  As long as you give everything you can and you "try try try" the lord will provide. 

General Conference was amazing!  I felt like each talk was speaking right to me every time.  I love this gospel and I love my Savior! I love General Conference and the guidance that our loving Heavenly Father gives us.  HE is aware and HE does care and HE will protect you.  Im so excited to become more of a Shepard helping my Shepard in the vineyard.  I love the challenge that President Nelson gave about reading the Book of Mormon and highlighting all the references to Christ.  I have loved seeing my Book of Mormon light up as I find my Savior on every single page. 

A little bit about my companion! We were in the MTC together! SO you could say that we are having a blast being companions!  She is from Wyoming.  She has one of the strongest testimonies and I love serving hard each day with her. 

I love you all so much! and I'm so grateful for all you do for me with love and support! 

#alwaysinmyheart 

Sister Bitters

Week 36 - Overland Park

No email from Sister Bitters this week but we did get some pictures😊  She has been having some health issues including a broken tooth, that was filled with a infection, to a root canal and soon to have it capped... She is adjusting to her new area and loves her companion Sister Erekson.

FLU SHOTS...

Week 35 - Overland Park

Hello people that still read this email:) I love you all so much and appreciate the prayers and support you send my way.  You're all amazing and if you ever need anything send me an email and I will do my best to help and support you! 

Well this has been a week full of fun:) I have no idea where to start.... well we arrived to p-day last week and they told us right then and there that we were on walk week... OH BOY everything we planned went out the window because our area is huge! But its okay because we saw amazing blessings that came from walk week. 

One moment we had this week was a TWO HOUR long discussion (we probably said 5 words each) with a JW (Jehovah Witness). Well that is definitely something that we didn't have in the plans for the day.  Here's the story.... We had district counsel that morning and Sister Erickson and I were both not feeling the best,  on our way home the ward missionary called us and asked if we could come over.  This ward missionary has grand kids that aren't members, so when they are home she likes to have us come and talk with them!  Which is awesome, Sister Erickson and I hurried over excited to hopefully start teaching them.  Well we walked in and it wasn't her grand kids..... It was her brother Abraham (JW). He is probably the sassiest person I have ever met.  We sat down and he said I want to know more about this church and who ordained Joe Smith to be a prophet?   Then he went off for about 2 hours on all different topics.  He honestly didn't even let us answer his first question.  Total Bible bash.... well he was trying but Sister Erickson and I just let him bring down the hammer as he liked to say it.  By the end of the discussion we had him committed to read the Book of Mormon we said that we would love to teach him more, "IF " he was willing to listen to us...:) So yes that happened..... What hurt the most is that he started mocking the First Vision and honestly I could of cried because that experience holds such a special place in my heart and my love for the prophet Joseph Smith. 

Yesterday at church the ward missionary told us that Abraham was all the way in Ether! yes in two days! crazy, she said that he is highlighting and saying that he is learning a lot. So we are just praying that he has a change of heart the next time we see him, we are going to try and get President Love to come with us as a team up. 

Oh we also got him committed to watch General Conference this coming weekend.

No,  the hardest things of being in the mid-west. is being in the the bible belt. But just like it says in the scriptures.... "You will be hated because of my name"..... OR something to that effect and to be 100% honest let them hate me, because I will never be ashamed of the name I represent. This is a quote that my companion found after that experience with Abraham...

"by controlling out reactions, being calm and temperate, and avoiding contention, we will begin to qualify for the gift of meekness." 

That is why the lord allows us to go through these bible bashes..... its an opportunity to become more like my savior. So i am now grateful for those moments. Even when i just want to cry because the things he is attacking is stuff I hold so dear to my heart.

Okay now who is excited for conference?! 

Because i am so excited! its like Christmas for a missionary.  Sister Erickson and I have been extending invitations to prepare for general conference. 

(AND SOMEONE TOLD OUR MISSION PRESIDENT TO BUCKLE UP)

The invitation that we have been extending is to pray everyday and ask Heavenly Father to prepare you for general conference in that you will be able to receive personal revelation.  I truly believe that President Nelsons talk last conference, on person revelation and the importance there of, is for our benefit. The world is getting scary and we more then ever, need to stretch our spiritual complexity.  So my challenge to you is to pray and seek revelation, to read President Nelsons talk on revelation from last conference to prepare. 

This work is amazing and I'm just so grateful to be apart of it. We got two new people we are working with and one of them, we are going to Liberty Jail this Tuesday with! Im so excited to go! 

We have 7 recent converts in this ward and I love them so much! The work is hastening! 

Well I love you all so much,  you are all in my prayers! 

#come what may and love it!

#3D&G

#always in my heart

#MIMbestmissionever

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