I was so excited she sent me a selfie! - Mom
Good Missionary Monday
everyone! Hope you all had a good week! Sister Banda and I had, well, a week.
We don't have much to complain about but not a lot to rejoice in either.
Manchester is just full of surprises I guess. Don't get me wrong, I love it
here. It’s just hard being a missionary sometimes.
To answer the question on
everyone's mind, no we have not started to teach the mom we tracted into the
week before. We texted her to confirm our appointment and she texted back to
let us know they weren't interested anymore. That was rough. But it's ok, she
now has a Book of Mormon in their home and as Sister Banda puts it "One
Mormon closer to accepting the gospel". And the trend of our investigators
and less-actives dropping us the day of the appointment just continued throughout
the week and they were all for legitimate reasons (illness, kids, family
problems, Labor Day weekend plans) but it was still really hard to accept.
On top of that Sister Banda and I
had a weird feeling later in the week whenever we would pick a street to tract
or even before appointments (which ended up falling through anyway, but still).
We initially thought we must have ate something bad but it was more in our
chest and we just felt ill at ease a lot of the places we would go. It's just
weird. We just feel something is up with Manch that we don't know about but we
can just FEEL it. Something rotten in the state of Denmark as Hamlet put it or
"I've got a bad feeling about this" in the words of almost all Star
Wars characters. Oh well. Maybe we'll
never know why we weren't supposed to be on those streets yet, but it still
makes us scratch our heads.
Well, there were some fun things
and miracles that happened this week, it wasn't a total bummer! On Tuesday we
felt prompted to look for a potential investigator we had been looking for a
whole day a few weeks ago and felt like we should look for her in the
neighborhood next to ours. Low and behold we were able to find her address and
we knocked she opened the door and was so excited to see us. She said she had
just got home from her church and prayed for help and there we were at the
door. That was a really neat experience. We made rough plans to see her again
in mid-September so we'll see how that goes!
On Monday I was able
to buy a Blu-Tooth keyboard which has been a huge blessing with the iPads. And
Saturday we had two service opportunities, the first one helping a family move
their stuff out of a storage unit. There was a cool pile of stuff to be donated
and being the weirdo I am went through and found some cool things, most notably
a Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat CD with Donny Osmond. Obviously
we haven't listened to it because that's against missionary rules but it was
funny to see. The second service thing we did was help a non-member tear some
wall-paper off her walls. That was actually pretty fun; exhausting and tedious
but fun.
Finally Sunday we saw a baptism
of the Assistant's investigator! It was such a cool experience to be a part of
that for her, to see someone take on the sacred covenant of baptism and
dedicate themself to coming unto Christ. Even after the rough week we had, to feel
the Spirit of Baptism, along with the just the Sabbath Spirit and the Spirit of
Fasting, it gave me strength and hope that I can go out there and find the lost
sheep. I can find people in Manchester who want to come unto Christ and invite
them to make covenants as well. What a wonderful opportunity we have out here.
May we all come to Christ a little closer this week!
-Sister Wright
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