It is Monday!!
So this Sister Missionary put it best when she said, the days feel like weeks, the weeks feel like months, and the months feel like days. It has almost been a month. Can you believe it? me yes and no. I feel like I am more stuck on the weeks feel like months haha I am so happy though
So I don't have a lot of time this week, and so much happens in a day it is impossible to share it all, if only you could all be here! You would never want to leave because it is just so edifying. I will share the highlights of my week.
The sisters and I love tracting. I like to call it tracting and laughing. The weather is perfect here so as we are out and about I can't help but smile. Sadly no funny stories this week of crazy things people say to us. Those are always entertaining. I see miracles though how the Lord really is directing us to where we need to be. Sometimes we go to an area and we meet and talk to people we know we were suppose to see. Other times we have no luck and go to another area where a family just got home 5 mins ago and if we would have been there any earlier we would have missed them. As we seek, we find. The Lord truly does put us in there paths or them in ours. Tiny miracles like that never cease to amaze me.
This last Saturday was one of my favorite days. We were put exactly in the places we needed to be at the time we needed to be. We were on exchanges so the Sister Training Leader, Sister Bonner, was with Sister Nielsen and I. We dedicated the whole day to giving service. So we prayed to see where we were needed. We drove to the area we felt like we needed to go and then bam. There she was, a little old lady weeding her yard. We stopped and asked if we could help, she said yes and begun to teach us how to pull weeds. She was so sweet. She actually went to West Minster college. She has had a lot of exposure to the Church and knew about missionaries although she had never met with them. We had such a great conversation. Her sweetness really reminded me of Grandma Pat and guess what her name is? Pat. Coincidence??? haha. I also found a four leaf clover in her yard, yes a four leaf clover. Now that is not just luck. She let us in her house and we shared a message about faith, how it is a little seed that needs nourishment. She completely agreed. We left her with a Book of Mormon and then made a return appointment. We will see her this Tuesday. So met our two new investigators, Jesse (her husband) and Pat Johnson. What a miracle.
Later in that day we also helped wash someone's car and were able to share messages along the way. We met a Buddhist who gave us his number so we could go back and have an open discussion with him. I can't wait. We also met a teenage couple Justin and Alanya. Justin said he doesn't know if he believes in God so we asked him if he would ever want to know? He said yes and gave us his number. I can't wait to meet with both of them.
The lesson I learned this week is you need to be persistent. Not pushy or annoying but persistent. After all it is true isn't it? Why would we let them get away with an answer of just no thank you? it reminds me of this quote
"My brothers and sisters, we are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness- be they family member, friends, acquaintances, or strangers. We are the Lord's hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent on each of us" _Thomas S Monson
He is dependent on each of us, would the Lord give up easily? No. He never gives up on us so I can never give up on His children.
I love you all so much. We have been extending the commitment to the ward members to pray every day for a week for missionary experiences. I extend the same commitment to you. The gospel is true, we have to share it in anyway that we can.
xoxo
Sister Niedert
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