FIRST: Skype info for next week. Monday
morning, 8:30 am my time- which, if I've calculated correctly, is Sunday night,
7:30 pm my time. I want to do something a little different this time- I want to
have 5 minutes with each person individually, and then the last 10 minutes all
together. Mom and Dad, you can decide if you want 5 minutes individually or if
you want 10 minutes together. Also, I would love to have
a family prayer together at the end.
-We get a pretty good amount of new
investigators from english class, but they are ALWAYS in the XinZhu3 ward.
Always. Well, last week, Sis Smith and I decided that we wanted a new
investigator from English class this week, and we were going to pray
specifically for it every day and see what happened. Wednesday night english
class came and went...no new investigator in our area. But after then we got a
call from the XinZhu 3 elders saying that two of their English class students
stayed after class to ask some questions, and then set up for Saturday. Two new
investigators for us!
The following is an actual phone conversation I
had with A on Saturday night at about 9:45 pm:
"Hi! This is Sis Murri. Sorry to
call you so late- were you sleeping?"
"No, I'm just reading the Book of Mormon
right now."
[little moment of speechless excitement]
"Wow! That's great! What part are you
at?!"
"I just finished reading chapter 8."
Yeah, she's amazing. We met with her last
night, and she pulled out her Book of Mormon, which she had highlighted with
her favorite parts, as well as a notebook, in which she had written an entire
page of the verses that she liked. She told us, "when Ama sleeps, I just
can't sleep because all I want to do is read the Book of Mormon." She has
the strongest desire to come to church- which is incredible in and of itself,
because she won't be able to understand a lot of it since her Chinese isn't
that great. We taught her about fasting last night. I have so much faith that
God will provide a way for her to come to church so that she can get baptized.
We asked her to pick a day this week to fast, and we will do it with her. We
also asked her to pray to know what day God wants her to get baptized (her date
expired since she couldn't come yesterday). I think if she receives the
revelation herself about what day God wants her to get baptized, she will have
more faith in the miracle that He is about to do to help her get to church. I
REALLY want her to be our May baptism. SO BADLY. But I will trust God's timing
and if that's not what He's got in the cards, I'll be okay with that too,
although I totally have faith that it can happen.
Another neat experience this week: we were
riding our bikes, and I saw a door and sort of felt like I should hop off my
bike and ring one of the bells. At first I thought, "nah...." but then
I just decided to do it anyway. Well, the lady who answered the speakerphone
said it was inconvenient (which is what most people say when they don't want to
talk to us...) but then I asked her when would be a more convenient time, and
she gave me her cell phone number to call her and set up a time! One of the
things I was promised in my setting apart blessing was that my ability to
listen to and follow the spirit would get stronger on my mission- and I
really feel like I have seen that come to pass. I feel like I have a better
understanding of how the Holy Ghost communicates with me, and have more of an
ability to hear the "ideas" he puts into my mind and just do them,
even if I don't really understand why.
I love prayer. I feel like it's only taken me
20 years to understand how to REALLY do it. But now I think I am starting to
get it. I have come to see that there really are so many blessings God wants to
give us that He is just waiting for us to ask for. What do we as missionaries
really want from our missions? To see many baptisms, to have our RCs go to the
temple, to achieve the standards of excellence, to experience personal
conversion....then why aren't we always praying for those things. Or really, why
am I not always praying for those things? Just because God CAN read our mind
doesn't mean I don't need to tell him what is on it. :D Prayer really is the
key to not living beneath our privileges.
Well, that's about all for this week.... love
you!
Sis Murri
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