Dearest Family of Mine.
Man, just hearing about all the soccer and band and things makes me remember those good 'ol days. It sounds like a lot of fun things going on, I'm proud of y'all :) Keep on winning the games and bringing home the awards. I always liked Jeff Chamber's music, he's up there in my favorite composers. He'll do great things.
Wasn't conference FANTASTIC?! Gosh, the whole thing just spoke to my soul. I wrote down a bunch of questions that had been running through my head and had been on my heart before hand, and every single one of them was answered over the course of the two days. Lot's about marriage, women, the little decisions, and rising up to our duty. I loved listening and took pages of notes. April is quite far away.
Last Monday we had dinner with Karl and Vanda again, and we talked quite a bit to him about committing. I was praying the whole lesson to know what to share to touch his heart. Then I thought of the scripture where the Lord told Oliver Cowdary to study the matter out in his mind before asking, the problem was, I didn't know where to find it. So I prayed. I told Heavenly Father that I had done my studying and it had come to my mind, and I really needed help to find this scripture now. Then I found it. I shared it with them, and we asked Karl to study it out in his mind, to really try and think about it and ask Heavenly Father what he should do. We asked him to try it for three weeks. This man has worked with Missionaries for 15 years now, and he says he just can't push the "I believe" button, he needs proof, an "ah-ha moment." I told him to study it out for real for three weeks and he would find an answer. Sometimes it's really hard for me to promise things to my investigators in return for them trying. Because...what if it doesn't come? But in Preach My Gospel it tells us to have confidence when promising blessings. So promising people good things to come is an act of faith on our part. A big one for me. But I do believe that if we do our part, God is faithful. Always. Karl expressed a concern about tithing during that lesson and then Elder Bednar's talk came. I was praying that Karl and Vanda were watching it. They didn't, but we went over to their house on Sunday to watch the last two sessions with them. His wife took notes, we're meeting with them again tonight.
We had our Sister Training Leader Exchange this week too with Sister Hill. She came out just before I did, and she is a doll. I always get so nervous before exchanges, and then I realize they're not as big of a deal as my brain explodes them to be. It was excellent! We when to the fancy Salt Lick restaurant with Sister Hill and our district after district meeting since it was one of the Elder's birthdays. Sister Hill and I got matching T-shirts :) Yeah TEXAS!
So the member we live with, Celeste, she has a nice boy. He came to visit her yesterday for conference and they made us breakfast. Then we parted ways for conference and Sister Clements and I were out the whole day. We came home later, and found them sitting on the couch holding hands. AHHH don't walk in the room! Nothing was evening wrong, but we peeked around to talk to them anyway. We talked for just a few seconds and then Sister Clements says "well, you go on with your life, we'll just be in there...planning. Enjoy." Those poor Sister missionaries...I felt like slapping my forehead and asking Sister Clements "enjoy?" Way to set the mood for 'em Sister Clements :) haha! "You enjoy sitting on the couch with somebody you love, we'll just be in here planning...like missionaries do!" Poor, poor awkward missionaries. We had a good laugh from it.
This week, I had my first sick day. Awful nasty thing. Sore throat and achy stuff. I slept it off for a while, after calling our mission President's wife. Then I felt better and we went about stuff. Sister Clement's also got pink eye this week and took a nap cause it hurt and was kinda swelling. So I had a sleeping meditation phase...mostly sleeping... But I was thinking a lot about what to do to help our ward the most, and I kept sitting up and looking at our master board while I was sleeping. I usually get my best ideas while I'm sleeping or right before I'm sleeping. And after the matter, I felt a lot like we should focus on getting our members involved in the work. Know the members, and help them share the Gospel kind of thing. So that was my conclusion. We need to help our members share the Gospel. It was one of my questions going into conference, and I got the same answer: help the members share the Gospel. And so that's become our main focus for this week.
Transfer calls come next Sunday. What the weird?! Things just go by too fast.
Celeste found a scorpion in our house this week. Gross nasty thing. She's keeping it in a jar. It freaks me out at night.
Well family. That's about all for this week :) It's been a good one.
I love hearing from y'all! Keep the letters coming!
-Hermana Montgomery
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