Hello everyone!
This week was packed full. We had exchanges this week and I
spent a few days up in Christchurch! There are soooo many people there compared
to here in Ashburton. I served with Sister Saulala. It was really cool,
exchanges seem to be a good way to re-energize an area! In Christchurch and
Ashburton we found a number of new investigators during exchanges. Woo! Sister
Saulala and I were eating lunch and one of the workers came up to us, told us
he used to have a Book of Mormon and lost it, and asked if he could come to
church with us. Man, it was so cool!
Christine's baptism is coming up fast! She had her baptismal
interview this week and is pumped and ready to go! Prayers for her would be
appreciated as she prepares for the 23rd :) We were teaching her a lesson on
Saturday at the chapel and i looked out the window, and saw a man standing
outside. I realized that I had seen him before - when we were inviting people
to our special missionary Sunday on February 24th, we gave him (Mark) an
invitation. He didn't come that day, but about a week later we ran into him
again on the street. He said, "I lost my invitation to church, can I have
another one?" I was like, "Uh yes! Yes of course you can!" So i
was naturally very excited to see him standing outside the church. We invited
him to join our lesson with Christine and he was excited to join! He
participated in the lesson, but about ten minutes into the lesson he stood up
and said he had to go to the bathroom and left the room. We saw him walk out
the chapel - noooo! So we chased after him, and invited him to use the restroom
inside the church, but he declined and ran across the street. Man, we hope to
run into him again! I'm praying that we find him when we're downtown street
contacting or something.
We had an open house on Saturday this week. It was designed
for the members to help them get involved in missionary work and get excited!
It was a huge success. We had the elders in our district come from Timaru to
help out, and the senior couple, Elder and Sister Little helped as well. We had
4 rotating workshops: object lessons (even though we don't teach discussions
with object lessons.. but it was just fun), a scripture chase, a role play to
give out a Book of Mormon, and a Mormon.org tutorial. The members really enjoyed
it! We had a non-member there as well, named Milo. He is from the Czech
Republic and is on a work visa here. He has been going to a bunch of different
churches and walked past our church. He said something made him stop, and he
saw the missionary's phone number posted in the window. Elder and Sister Little
happened to walk past him right then, and invited him to come to the open house
and he showed up! I want to teach him so bad! He had a good time at the open
house, I'm just praying he didn't feel overwhelmed. I'll keep you updated on
Milo - keep him in your prayers please! :)
I know that this church is true. This is the Restored
gospel. Joseph Smith did see God the Father and Jesus Christ; God answered his
prayers, and He'll answer your's too.
Love you all!
Sister Rose
