Hey yall!
Man do you grow to love Mondays when you are on the mission. How have you all been? I'd love to hear from you!
On Wednesday I got my new companion! Sister Christensen is a queen and a gem. She is brand new to the mission but is a natural born teacher and has an amazing desire to serve. A little homesick maybe, but she's ready to serve!
Some of you may remember Marcus, a friend I mentioned a while back. We met on Facebook and he is a member of the Trinity (Lutheran) church and sits on their council! We had the opportunity to give him a church tour and this week he returned the favor. Our mission president and his wife joined us for the tour and it was lovely. It was so interesting to see the similarities and differences between churches. We all share a love of Jesus Christ!
We ate some interesting food this week but nowhere near as bad as the worst I've had. Please... no more chili. Midwesterners sure are generous, to a fault at times! I have felt so blessed to be surrounded by so many faithful and kind people. The Midwest is a special place that is rich with religious history.
We've been teaching a lady who says she sees ghosts. Not my favorite vibe but she is so interested in learning about the book of Mormon. She reads it every day and tells us how much she relates to it. The Gospel is for everyone!
We met with some members yesterday and had them share their testimonies of the restoration (the restoration of the church of Jesus Christ through Joseph Smith). One man, a convert to the church shared his story and said 2 Nephi 9 changed his heart. I read and and this verse stood out to me. Give it a read!
"And whoso knocketh, to him will he open; and the wise, and the learned, and they that are rich, who are puffed up because of their learning, and their wisdom, and their riches—yea, they are they whom he despiseth; and save they shall cast these things away, and consider themselves fools before God, and come down in the depths of humility, he will not open unto them." 2 Nephi 9:42
Oh ya, and to explain the subject line. We are currently teaching a man we met from a random text message. He recently suffered a stroke so he's been fighting that. Yesterday we delivered a book of Mormon and a Bible to him so he could get reading. Because of his stroke, he's lost feeling/control of half his body. Basicallyyyy he couldn't tell but his pants were not pulled up all the way. My companion and I had a good laugh when we got to the car! Hopefully you all had a good chuckle too.
Jesus loves you!
Sister Katie Troy
P.S. sad amount of pics this week sorry :/
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| besties 4 lyfe |
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| sunset vibes |
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| the orange ball in an ice block courtesy of me myself and I |
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| The big one. (Aka a quad scriptures) |
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