My family is so awesome! My parents sent me copies of the talks they gave in Sacrament Meeting about revelation. They both shared experiences where they had received revelation. It was really cool because even though I had heard a lot of those experiences before, it was cool to hear again how God has lead my parents and my family and how following the promoting that come from the revelations has helped them and my family. I am so grateful for awesome parents that are worthy to receive revelation and that act on it. I know that their example prepared me to come on a mission and work hard.
This week, our area has been struggling with finding new investigators. And that was different for me because in Little Rock, there's so many trailer parks and there's always someone new outside their trailer that we can talk to so finding new investigators isn't a problem there. But that's not how it is in Memphis. :) And my first two weeks here, it seemed like we were getting dropped by everyone or feeling we should drop them. So at one point his week, our area book was down to 10 investigators. It was pretty scary for a minute. We spent a lot of time finding and working hard with those 10 investigators this week and we found a couple of new people. Our teaching pool is still not nearly what I would like it to be, but I know that Heavenly Father has a plan for us. I know he is preparing people for us to teach and this week we're going to continue to find a lot!
Hermana Petty really works hard and I definitely appreciate that about her. As a companionship, we really want to be doing everything we can to get better (and eventually perfect) at the 4 pillars and being the best missionaries we can be. We are doing our best to purify and be the best missionaries we can be. We know that because we're struggling with finding new investigators right now, we really, really, really need help from Heavenly Father and we need to be worthy of that. Hermana Petty is an awesome companion because she works hard and helps me want to work harder too. I know that she wants to be a better missionary and improve every day and wants to help me be the same way. She has a lot of faith and a lot of energy and loves being a missionary.
One of the few people we found this week was Rosa. We had spent about an hour walking around a specific neighborhood close to our apartment and we were having no luck. We had only found a couple of hispanics. About half of them really weren't interested and the other half were kind of not interested. It had also rained a little while we were walking around and we were tired and making our way back to the car. We were disappointed because we thought the most promising person was a man that might live alone. As we were walking, we saw a house that looked like it might be hispanic so we decided to knock on do one more. And the most awesome lady answered the door! She seemed genuinely interested and enjoyed talking to us. We set an appointment for last night. Last night, we taught her and her two daughters (ages 7 and 9) the restoration. When we asked her what she thought about Joseph Smith's experience, she said that she thought he needed faith and that faith is really important. And that because he had faith and prayed, he got an answer. And at the end, when we asked her to pray, she was nervous for a minute but then prayed. And she told God that she didn't have a lot of time right now to read the Book of Mormon because school just got out for her kids and her husband's work is really busy. But she prayed to be able to find the time. And she told God that she would put in her part to find out if it's true and asked him to help her know. She even prayed for us to have help as we are learning Spanish. :) It was the most beautiful and sincere prayer I have ever heard. I am so excited to keep teaching her and to go back for our appointment on Wednesday! She is so ready to hear the gospel! I know God prepared her for us to find the other day!
Today I finished the Book of Mormon from when I started it before my mission. I love verse 32 in Moroni 10. As I've been reading this time, I've been choosing a phrase from each chapter and writing my thoughts about it in a journal. Today I chose, "come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; ... and love God with all your might, mind, and strength, ... that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ." I love that our purpose is to invite others to come unto Christ. Our message and our church is centered on and led by Jesus Christ so our purpose is to help other people come closer to him. And as we do that with all of our might, mind, and strength (aka being the 4th missionary), then we come unto Christ as well. I am so grateful for the blessings of the gospel and for the opportunity to share it with others and invite them to come unto Christ!
Love you all!
Hermana Keller
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| Haha... A present from the Elders. They had a contest with each other and the loser had to eat a worm. They gave us the extras. :) |
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| Te Amo! |
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| The other side. |
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| Face masks last night. |
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| We played disc golf today. We're trying to do a fun thing every
week. Last week we tried to go bowling. But it was closed so we just went to the church and played soccer and frisbee. |
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| I climbed really high in this tree to get Hermana Petty's disc out. |
