Happy New Year everyone!
I hope everyone had a great new year and set some good goals
for this coming year. New Year is an awesome time to reflect and to set goals
for this coming year!
I hope you all wrote some goals down cause if you dont write
them down it doesn’t mean squat... speaking of squats it is getting insanely
cold here (and snowing right now) so we have been working out inside in the
mornings and i dislike it very much. Sister Blackburn decided that we can only
go outside to run if it is above 30... :( which it hasn’t been so bummer.
Well this week we visited a lot of older people and had a
lot of member lessons, most of our investigators were still getting back in
town from the holidays or sick so we didn’t get to really meet with any of
them.
So Danielle (Wendy's Danielle) moved in with her dad, but we
don’t know where that is! And she dropped her phone in water so we can’t get a
hold of her! it is so sad but we don’t know how to find her so we are not
giving up but we are not exactly teaching her right now which is sad.
I think i have mentioned Bud and Ruthy Walters before but I
just love them so much! They are this recently reactivated couple, they were
baptized about 30 years ago and stayed active for 1-2 years then fell away and
were inactive for almost 25 years! when i got here we started meeting with them
again and they finally let us in, bud told us how he studies the scriptures for
like 6 hours a day while he worked out and we showed him the LDS app, invited
them to church and boom they come every week now without fail! It’s amazing to
see how he loves the gospel so much and how all he wants is for his family to
be sealed together forever. i know that it was all the spirit working on him
and we were simply facilitators for the spirit. so a few weeks ago we were at
their house for dinner and we were talking about prayer and how amen means in
agreement, so i don’t know why but i said something like "so if Ruthy
tells you to do the dishes and i said amen it means i agree" so now every
time we go over he makes fun of me for it and says "do the dishes
amen" i guess i asked for it ha-ha.
They finally started construction on the new building in
Westerly which is so stinking exciting!. The end date is approximated for
February 14 so we'll see. I’m not holding my breath though. But we have been
visiting/calling a lot of less actives and former investigators who said they
would come to church when we have a building in westerly. We were taking turns
making calls and i called this one lady and she flipped out at me and told me
how she got a restraining order against all "Mormons" and how i was
breaking the law by calling her! It was stressful, and that is why it’s important
for missionaries to update area books and write information by people's names
like if they have a restraining order. hahaha...
Well this week for p-day we are going to Newport RI with
some of the Elders in our district i am so excited, we are doing a "cliff
walk" and seeing the mansions there, and walking around down town it
should be fun, but cold.
Key principle
“the enabling power of the atonement strengthens us to do
and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural
capacity"
-David A Bednar
The atonement is the most important aspect of the gospel it
is what makes change possible it is what makes it possible for us to be perfect
even though we aren’t. I am grateful for it and i am excited to understand it
more as i continue to serve the people here in New England.
Also kind of random but instead of saying "can i
microwave that for you" in New England they say "can i nuke that for
you" so weird.
Well that’s all love you lots and shout out to Hunter and
Lauren for tying the knot January 6, 2016
Congratulations!!! Love you both very much!
I’ll send some pics next week!
Sister Brooks
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