5/5/14
Wow this week has been so BEAUTIFUL!!!! The weather here is so nice. I have to say Iona is just amazing too. It is the perfect little city. I think my favorite part though is the people. They are seriously just AWESOME! They are so down to earth and so friendly. They are also really ready to do missionary work.
Not to much has happened this last week. We were able to attend Missionary Leadership Council. It is when all the Sister Training Leaders and Zone Leaders get together and council over the mission with the president and his assistants. It was really fun because we were able to reflect on this last months push to reach the Standard of Excellence. Really good stories and lessons have come out of this.
This week we also were able to find 3 new investigators. We have been trying to meet this family the whole 5 weeks we have been here and finally mom was home and we were able to visit. It was great to see them and set things up. They have 3 daughters that are all young women age and they all want the discussions. It was amazing to see them get excited about the gospel. The spirit really guided us there and we were able to show them that we really do love them. Something they all said is that if we do this they don't want to feel like a number they are real people and we made that really clear. So hopefully they feel comfortable with us.
What else this week? Not a whole lot has happened. We were able to reach most of our goals.
So I have wanted to follow up with you on something that was said in General Conference. Do you remember Elder Ballards talk?
So now that you have read the talk you know the 2 things I wanted to talk about. The first main thing is do you have a Preach My gospel? and if not go get one or it's free online. Second thing is are you studying it? I think your answer was probably not. So I'm telling you to start right now. I want you to go to page 172 and we are going to do an activity together. The second bullet point down is the one I want to do. So get a piece of paper and write down 5 names of people you want to help introduce to the church.
Now pray as a family to know who each of you can help. I want an email next week from each of you telling me what your answer was and what you are going to do within the next week to help them come closer to their Savior, Jesus Christ. It could be anything such as invite them to mutual, invite them to family home evening, invite them to read the Book of Mormon, or invite them to a church activity. Whatever you and the spirit decide to do i want to hear about it. And don't think I'm not going to follow up because that's my favorite thing to do. :) Alright well im excited for this and I will keep you updated on what I plan to do in my missionary efforts back home.
I love and miss you! Keep on being amazing!
Sister Dearden
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