I love the theme this year. Something I have realized on my mission is that we are one of the few churches that believes it is okay to ask. I feel like that might be because the church was started by someone just asking a question. That has shown me that yeah I was taught this but I also need to ask and really know for myself. We are always inviting people to pray and ask God if these things are true and a lot of people are like "no, I do not want to ask God."
Here's Ana's main letter for the week:
Is That A Bear
On Monday we washed and waxed our car since zone conference was on Friday. It was actually kind of fun because then our car was all clean and shiny.
There
is this family that we have been trying to get in contact with since I
have been in Cornerstone Park. Their name is the Gonzalez family. The
dad and two older kids are members and the rest of the family is not.
They ended up actually coming to church on Christmas and he said he
wanted to come every week. We ended up teaching one of the other kids a
lesson on Tuesday
while her older siblings went to mutual for the first time. We thought
she might be getting bored since she is nine but when we were done her
dad asked if she liked it and wanted to be baptized. She was like, "I can
be baptized!" she ran allover the church screaming, "I am going to be
baptized!" The entire family came to church again on Sunday. The dad woke up at 3 am so he could make it to church. He works for Pepsi and has to go restock all of the vending machines.
Wednesday it started to snow a lot which was fun. Then on Thursday
morning it was still snowing. There was a lot of snow. The thing about
Denver though is that it all melts really fast. It is basically all
gone today.
On Friday
it was Zone Conferences. We went over rules pretty much the entire
time. We also talked about planning. Sister Davies gave a training on
how we can have more effective member lessons. We are going to start
trying to meet with members so they have a greater desire to do
missionary work then when their friends are interested that is when we
meet with them. We will see how that goes, first we have to set up
appointments with members. We got out of Zone Conference and our car
was gone. We were like, "where is our car?" The vehicle coordinator was
like, "oh, I sent it to the shop it must still be there." We were about 30
mins late to dinner, but our car had new tires so that was nice.
Saturday
the craziest thing happened every single person who's door we knocked
on was home and we talked to them. No one was really interested, but
there were some less-actives that we have been trying for a while that
we actually contacted so it was crazy. We also went and got Pho for
dinner. I had never had it before but it is literally every where in
Colorado. We were sad that we could no longer get tropical smoothies, but
as soon as we walked in a Justin Bieber song started playing. I turned
to Sister Webster and said Sister we have been blessed for being
obedient. She was like, "I have never thought of Justin Bieber being a
blessing, but okay Sister Holcomb." Earlier in the day we saw this thing
that looked like a pig. As we got closer Sister Webster said, "is that a
bear?" We drove closer and it was actually a pig that was just wandering
around the suburbs of Littleton Colorado.
On Sunday
for dinner we went to President Sabey's house (the stake president). The Seventy that came to stake conference is a potato farmer and brought them a
bunch of potatoes. They decided to make them for dinner. We all
decided they were super good potatoes and that potatoes actually taste
better when they are fresh. None of us had ever had a fresh potato
before so it was exciting. In case anyone was wondering, Elder Grow is a
good potato farmer :)
Some replies to our family letter:
I think William's report is sufficient.
[excerpt from Brian's email: In church each fast Sunday
they have someone give a report in priesthood opening exercises on how
missionaries are doing. I’m never there since
I’m in primary. Isaac normally gives the report, but he is doing an
orchestra thing the next few weeks and wasn’t there either. He went to
the Elm Creek ward at 9:00
so he could still go to sacrament meeting. That left William to give
the report. He said,
“Uhhh…..she likes hedgehogs.” I think last week Henry said he liked
hedgehogs and you said you like them to. He later remembered Jose got
baptized so he does read your letters. We’ll have to make sure he is
more prepared in the future.]
Hopefully you can get back
to normal soon and not be as busy. It was super exciting to go to Jose's
baptism. The garage I do not think will ever actually be clean. I
forgot to say this a few weeks ago but I hope you had a fantastic Louis Tomlinson's birthday :)
I hope you have a great
week and you are staying warm too. The weather here is never the same
it can go from the negatives to the 70's in the same day. You just have
to bring everything with you just in case. A reason I am glad I have a
car to carry everything.
XxoOxOXOxxo
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