This week we had a lot of fun and got a lot done!
Sister Alger one of the senior missionaries gave everyone in
our district a clicker... what is a clicker? Well its a concept that her friend
Hillary Weeks came up with, she heard that on average we have over 300 negative
thoughts a day so she decided to count them and what she realized was she
started to feel depressed and it was really taking a toll on her, so she
decided to start counting her happy thoughts and she felt so much more
confident, happier and just had a positive, glass half full attitude. So we got
clickers and started clicking away, since we spend so much time in the car it
was a really fun way to stay positive and have happy thoughts, every time sis
Demuth clicked hers i wanted to click mine so I thought a happy thought and
boom i had like 200 happy thoughts counted by the end of the day! Find something
to "click" about this week.
We got some new missionaries this week and so we spent a lot
of time helping out at the mission home with the departing missionaries and the
new ones too! it was so fun to welcome the new missionaries they are so excited
to serve! Whenever there are new missionaries part of their
"orientation" is we take them tracking in Boston Commons or Harvard
square, we basically just take them and drop them on the side of the road with
some pass along cards and say we will pick them up in 20 minutes.... its
pretty rough but it really breaks em in. I remember doing it and it was hard
people weren't nice and it is such a shock coming from the MTC but they were
all troopers. On the drive back one of them asked how do you deal with all the
rejection, and its hard it took me a long time to learn to just brush it off
and move on but if we know our purpose and we understand the value of our
message then we will be happy to move on to the next person who comes our way
and share it with someone who is ready to hear the message of the restoration.
Its so fun that i know so many missionaries now and to think that i am on the
second half of my mission it really is flying by!
This summer we are doing a series of open houses in the
Longfellow chapel in Cambridge every Thursday and Friday! We set up a bunch of
displays and walk up and down the streets asking people if they want a tour,
and a lot of people are curious because it is a historic building, its fun but
it makes for a long day hopefully we can get it to the point where we set up and
the local missionaries can take over so we can be doing other work, its been
really hard balancing our proselyting area and PVC and STL something always
lacks, but its teaching me how to prioritize.
On Saturday we woke up at like 4 am and went to a
parade in Warwick RI, it was the Gaspee parade, apparently it was a British
boat that Americans sunk and they claim that was the start of the American Revolution,
it was really fun the parade went right by the church building so they open it
up for people to use the restrooms and walk around, we set up an open house and
everyone was coming in a checking it out. On our way out of RI we stopped by Gillette
stadium in Foxboro MA where the Patriots play! It was so neat!
Then we drove to Marlborough for their Brazilian party!
Brazilian food is so yummy, they danced and sang it was so fun, and there were
a ton of nonmembers there which was really good.
Sunday there was a huge event in Cambridge along the Charles
River it was the annual Chinese Dragon Boat Festival! Every year around 30,000
people go to watch the races. We worked with the Chinese elders and branch
president and some members we set up a booth and passed out over 200 English
and Chinese Book of Mormons it was so much fun! We met so many interesting
people and learned some Chinese too. Its crazy to see just how many people don’t
know about the Book of Mormon or how distorted their view of the Church
is. Unfortunately we couldn’t set up any banners because it was SO windy
so we just set up some ipads. We were out there most of the day and I got a
little sun burnt but its okay i could use some color even if it is red its
better than how white i was before. We had to miss church because the event was
all day, which stinks because we actually had an investigator at church, but
after we went back to the Cambridge stake center and the Chinese elders blessed
and passed the sacrament to us. It was cool they said the prayer in
Chinese.
Nothing too exciting this pday except for washing the Mormon
mobile, which takes like 3 hours and all our quarters.
Key Principle:
This week I have been focusing a lot on prayer, it has
always been a time for me to thank my Heavenly Father and ask Him for things
but this week I realized another very important reason we pray is to just pause
from our hectic lives, just be still and recognize our Father
in Heaven.
Another crazy fun and busy week ahead of us with zone conf,
MLC, and interviews and then lots of events for PVC this weekend.
Love you all thanks for your prayers and support!
XOXO
-Sister Sophie Brooks
Mission Office
182 West Central Street suite 203
Natick Mass 01760
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