Wow what a week. Is anything more exhausting than serving a
mission? Maybe being a doctor or something, but let's not think about that. It
makes me more tired :)
So we saw some people this week! Members and investigators
and even a less active or two. We were able to make a few appointments and drop
in on some people, so it was a pretty good week for that!
On Friday we went with Brenda and a member to the Mesa
Temple Visitor's Center, to see the movie "Joseph Smith: Prophet of the
Restoration." We hadn't seen her since Sunday so we were happy! The movie
was awesome, but I kind of hated it because it make me cry so much. After the
movie we walked around the visitor's center, and we sat down for a few minutes
and Brenda asked a few questions. It went really well! We thought she would
make it to church yesterday but didn't show up, but she did ask us to come by
today at 4 to see her. So we're still going forward!
Something really awesome did happen this week. On Friday,
during weekly planning, we texted an investigator we have been trying to meet
with, Jenna, and she called us. She said her boyfriend had just kicked her out
and she asked me to say a prayer for her over the phone. So my companion and I
knelt, put the phone and speaker, and I prayed for her. She told us about an
Affirmations book she is reading, things to make you feel better and more
positive I think, and she shared one about how, no matter how big our dreams
and hopes are, God will always help us achieve them. She was so sweet, and
asked to come to church with us on Monday -then corrected herself to Sunday :)
We made plans to get a member to drive us over and pick her up, and she asked
what to wear and if she could invite her boyfriend if he was still talking to
her. I've only met her once, on her doorstep in the dark and we talked for a
few minutes while my last companion and I wrangled her ferret and told her
about Joseph Smith and the Priesthood. But we got a text yesterday morning from
her phone, her boyfriend telling us she has the flu or something. So instead of
two investigators at church we had zero, but that's what I'm used to so it's
okay :) I just want to meet with Jenna so bad! She said that she feels God is
directing her (and her boyfriend) to the church. I wanted to jump up and down
and say YES HE IS!!!! I could feel love for her, and I could feel God's love
for her. So we are trying to help her in any way we can, and we may just drop
in sometime this week to visit!!!
I went on exchange up to the Cave Creek ward with Sister
Tenney on Saturday, and we got to go to the Gilbert Temple Open House! It was
gorgeous and I did not want to leave! If any of you get a chance, you should
swing by sometime in the next few weeks to see it! Biggest temple they've built
in 17 years, ya know!
I feel like those are the weekly highlights...... We keep
plowing through! I love you all and I cannot say enough how much I know that
the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the full and complete truth on the earth today! I
want everyone to have the happiness that the gospel brings.
I love all of you so much! Thanks for all of your support
and love back!!!
Love, Sister Hailey Brown
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