Hello hello everybody,
Man this week was Crazy!! We have not had near enough time
to get everything done that we need to, but we've done a LOT and had some great
great experiences. It was so great :)
But now about our amazing crazy week.
I've really really felt so blessed to have Sister Surio as
my trainee. As a missionary it's pretty much inevitable that you will hit a
point where you kinda start slacking just a little, just because of getting
used to everything and it starting to feel a little robotic..ha But me and her
have made a goal to just keep working our very very hardest and really strive
to do All that we can for the people we're teaching, and I can say that as soon
as you give your all...plus a little more, Heavenly Father will step in a
miracles will begin to happen. We received a referral from the office this week
of a boy named Shingo. He had seen about the BOM on facebook before and so went
to mormon.org to put his name on there as someone interested in listening to
missionaries. So we went and found him, and let me just say he's the most
Amazing person ever. He is SO prepared!! We were able to teach his aunt and
uncle that he lives with and another 11 year old girl (he's 18) and as we
taught the spirit was so strong and he just soaked everything in. Well then
yesterday at church, about 2 minutes before the meeting started he walked in!
You may not understand how amazing that is...like that NEVER happens here! We
have to try hard to even get members to come! So we were SO excited, and it was
the primary program too which made it even greater! Then we were able to go back
last night and teach them again, and the spirit was so strong, they were
crying, and they all accepted baptism dates, including Shingo's friend that was
there. I feel so good about them. We also got another new investigator this
week named Grace, a friend of one of the YW in the ward who also is so
interested and accepted a bap date..and we love her!! She's absolutely
adorable, and so smart. So this week I really learned the importance of working
hard, and then working a little harder. I will say there have been days that we
were waking up early and skipping meal hours just to fit in all the things we
have to do, but we do now have 10 people working towards baptism, and I feel
like I've never been closer to the spirit. It's been such an amazing experience
and I'm definitely being stretched. I absolutely love the work we're doing, and
even though I am exhausted, it's the most amazing feeling of exhaustion that
just brings so much Happiness.
Also this week, we made it a goal to knock on every day of
our area..ha But the first day we started we actually ended up knocking on a
members house that we hadn't met yet, and she was SO nice. And...SO RICH. We
went inside and it actually looked like an american house, with a bathroom that
had a FLOOR and the toilet FLUSHED. Oh my goodness I literally almost cried in
there. haha And so we were able to talk to her, and then help her set up lots
of Christmas decorations!! It was so much fun. She's in the YW presidency so
they invited us to come to workshops with the young women on things that will
help them either on their missions or in the future, so that should be fun! But
it was a really really great week and I feel so blessed. I know that this is
the work of God, and there is Nothing that can stop it. As we give all of
ourselves to serve Him and keep the work going forth, He will help us and we
will see miracles. I love you all so much!!
Love,
Sister Benesch
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