August 15, 2016

August 15, 2016

Hey everyone! This week was full of miracles! 

We went on exchanges with the Avon sisters and it was so fun! 

They are the sisters who are in charge of the Hartford temple open house and they were telling us all about it and i am beyond excited we will be working at the temple open house for 3 straight weeks and we will be there everyday from 7am-9pm so that means we wont even proselyte at all!

I cant wait! 

So this week we found this lady at rite-aid she was checking us out at the register and she said how much she liked our name tags then she asked if we had a church and we invited her to come and take lessons, so when we were on exchanges sis Morris got to teach her a lesson at the church and she asked if she could be baptized! So they set a date for Sept 10! 

This Sunday we had a lesson with Kim, she was the one who had been taking the lessons forever with the elders and we set a date with her for Sept 3! She was a little uneasy about it and then we met with her last night and she is ready!!! It was so amazing just a really good week! 

Key Principle:

Obedience brings blessings 

sometimes you just have to be patient 

"no matter where you stand in your relationship to God, I invite you to draw nearer to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ"

-Dale G. Renlund

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/the-mediator?lang=eng

p.s. I learned how to juggle this week.. or last I don’t know all the weeks mush together

 

August 8, 2016

Aug. 8, 2016

Solid week here in Bloomfield! We picked up 4 new investigators! We taught one on Sunday with our relief society president and it was so cool! We introduced the Book of Mormon to her and she was like "I was thinking of going to a Christian book store this week to buy another book that was similar to the Bible but now I don’t have to."

So in ward council last week we asked everyone to prepare a referral/someone that we could teach and we came in this week to ward council and we got 4 new referrals! 

There is this member who owns a an ice cream shop called grass roots and its this super yummy organic ice cream and she comes up with tons of crazy flavors and she was telling us the process of how she comes up with them and basically she just thinks of an idea and tries it and if it isn’t good she doesn’t sell it so I asked if I came up with a flavor that she liked if she would try it and so all week I had been thinking of ice cream flavors and I made a big list and brought it to church on Sunday and she said she is going to try a couple of the flavors! just call me willy wonka

answer to subject line: an investigator 

Key Principle: 

fear departs when faith endures 

Isaiah 55:8-9 

 XOXO

-Sister Sophie Brooks

1204 Kristins Way 

Bloomfield Ct

06002

 

August 1, 2016

August 1, 2016

We had a really productive week and it felt good to get so much work done! This area is doing really well we picked up four new investigators this week and set baptismal dates with three of them! it was so awesome! When we called to report our numbers this week the zone leaders said that those were the best numbers they had seen this area have in over 7 months! It felt so good but I know its only because we were obedient and relied on the Lord to help us achieve our goals!

So Kim has been investigating the church for about a year and her husband is a convert who is recently reactivated and we had such a good lesson with them this week. We taught her about the importance of the Book of Mormon and how reading it will bring her closer to God, we also talked to her about a lot of her concerns and how they are holding her back from progressing we told her that its okay to have doubt and concerns and not agree with everything, just as long as she has a belief in God and Jesus which she does, when she started meeting with the missionaries she didn't even believe in God so she has come such a long way. She told us how she has received answers and how she wants to progress, and how she is so glad that there are sisters here because she can relate to us better, then her husband asked her if she wanted to be baptized on Sept 3 and then confirmed on Sept 4 because that is his bday and the day he was baptized and she accepted!!!! It was such an amazing lesson! 

Josaphine Pittman and her daughter Niasia were former investigators that the elders here had taught about a year ago and so we stopped by to see if they were interested in learning again and they were so excited to see us! We had a great lesson with them with an amazing member help Merideth who is about my age and home for the summer and it went so well. She came to church on Sunday and loved it and then we went over for another lesson last night and her and her daughter committed to be baptized Aug 27, she has a lot to learn and change before she can be baptized but she is so ready its amazing and her kids are adorable! Its funny they keep calling the Book of Mormon the Book of "Norman" 

So at church they had a combined 3rd hour class with all the adults and they were talking about the temple open house!!!! It made me so excited they talked about how to invite friends and how the sister missionaries will be doing all the tours and we get to live there for a month! Oh man i just cant wait I just hope I get to be here for it! Also our ward mission leader gave us a good shout out and said "you can trust these sisters they are hard working and are excellent teachers" so yeah that was nice. Working with members is the best. 

Well the work is moving along and Sister Morris is learning a lot and becoming a great missionary, so as big mama would say "I cant complain about a thing"

Key Principle:

So this week our next door neighbors took us out for dinner and then they asked if we could discuss religion and they are a non denominational Christian and they were so nice and it was fun to see the similarities in religion. It is hard though to have your faith tested and to realize that maybe you don’t know all the answers you thought you knew that is why my key principle this week is "doubt your doubt before you doubt your faith" I’m excited to study out a bunch of the topics that came up and learn more because we can never stop learning. 

 

July 25, 2016

July 25, 2016

It feels like it’s been forever since I wrote because so much has happened since then. So to start off Cody did get baptized and married this past Saturday and I didn’t go unfortunately but I heard that it went really well. 

So this past week we picked up the new missionaries and they were so cute and excited to be out in the mission field. My new companion is Sister Kendra Morris! She is from Washington State and she is so cute, fun and energetic, and she is really hard worker.

So we drove to our new area and we pull up to our apartment we go in and its super nice but smells like a campfire and boy so that was weird then we look around and for some reason the elders living there before us thought it was a good idea to put their beds in the kitchen.. Yup they out them in the kitchen.. I don’t know why and then there was a mouse trap on the kitchen counter, we haven’t figured out if it was a joke yet or if it was for real. So we spent the next day cleaning and reorganizing the furniture. But we have a washer and dryer in our apartment and that makes up for literally everything including all the expired food they left us! 

the ward is so awesome! They haven’t had sisters in like 8 years so they are so excited that we are here! 

We don’t have too many investigators so we went tracting a lot and went through the area book, which was a mess, but its okay we are just working on picking things up here and sisterafying things

also we found out that if we stay in this area we will be working at the temple open house it starts next transfer I’m so excited! 

Key principle:

"What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God" 

Saw that quote tattooed on a guys arm in down town Hartford this week :)

Have a great week love you all! 

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     XOXO

-Sister Sophie Brooks

1204 Kristins Way 

Bloomfield Ct.06002