June 9, 2014
Cheyenne, WY
Sorry about the not very good email last week! I have learned to type
faster but just not fast enough! Plus maybe I was distracted because I
wanted to talk to (email with) my mom and look at cute baby pictures...it happens :)
Well then, for the big news: I am staying in the Corner Stone ward in
Cheyenne for another transfer! My companion however, is going over to the
Cheyenne East stake, so close and yet so far. My new companion will be
Sister Christensen who I have spent a couple of hour long car rides with so she
isn't completely unknown to me. Funny thing about being a missionary
though, just because you aren't being transferred, doesn't mean you don't have
to move. So I am packing again! New start with a new companion
right?
Well for the past week we have done lots of things. Generally I
resort to using both my planner (things that actually happened) and my journal
(how I felt about things that happened) in order to report on said
happenings. However, having transitioned to a new planner, we shall have
to rely on journal and memory, so mostly how I felt about the week.
First off, I was very sad that my black pen with which I usually write in
my journal inexplicably quit working. However, I have switched over to
blue gel pen and am quite happy with that! Also, it is amazing how
activities tend to occur at the same time and for some reason, though I keep
trying to disprove this, there is a limit to how many things we can do/events we
can be at/people we can see within a certain space of time. However, we
did get to go to one of B____ and S_____'s baseball games this week,
which they have been inviting us to for weeks and seems to always be the thing
which doesn't fit in the time we have.
As we found the baseball fields, we really had no idea which one they were
on. I told Sister Linsenmann I was hoping that B____ and S_____'s mom
would see the two strange people who were wearing skirts to a baseball game and
come find us. Sure enough, as soon as we called her she told us she could
see us and we got to watch the first two innings!
As a missionary I have come to really enjoy both praying myself, even in
groups, and hearing other people pray! It is an amazing thing :) My
favorite is when someone talks to Heavenly Father honestly, instead of with
their 'prayer mode' on like sometimes happens when we pray in groups. To
some extent that is understandable, because there is a difference in what we
would share in a personal, private prayer than with other people, but we should
still be honest and thoughtful even when we pray aloud with others.
We had a great Relief Society activity this week. The kind where we
could do the project and sit and visit at the same time and some great
fellowshipping went on!
One of my favorite parts of this week, it is a little long. One of
our investigators was going to watch a baptism on Friday, but she ended up not
being able to go so instead we went contacting some of the people we don't know
in the ward. We met N____ and S____ (mom and Daughter) who are two less
active members. N____ at first said it was due to health problems.
S____ then mentioned that they may be looking into other churches. They
have been studying the Bible and watching some televangelists I guess. I
had the opportunity to teach about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
in five minutes (something which we have been encouraged to practice and learn
how to do, we have been trying and it worked in beautifully!) N____ was
nodding right along agreeing to everything and I hesitated only a moment before
the actual restoration part, and she nodded with that too! They have not
been reading the Book of Mormon, and S____ made a big deal about looking for
God's word and God's word only. I affirmed my testimony that the Book of
Mormon is also the word of God.
The Book of Mormon is the word of God. The Bible is the word of
God. There is no competition between them, and no conflict because they
support each other as they both testify of Jesus as the Son of God and
Savior of the world. That is the important point, not the book, but that
Jesus is the Christ. He is.
They both asked for Book of Mormons to be able to read it again and try it
out. It happened to be pouring buckets outside, and we only had one Book
of Mormon, so we ran to the car through the rain and got soaked, but it was
totally worth it :)
Don't forget TMFWD! This week it shall be.....gray!
love, Sister Emily DeFord
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| Sister Linsenmann and I! Did I send that already? |
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| Black for last week's TMFWD |
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| The Wheatland sisters made Elder Baddley a grave cake (he dies tomorrow), complete with scary baby head and hands that Hermana Cropper and I have found at the thrift store while doing service |
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| Sister Linsenmann and I both gots curly hair! Her all the time, me because we were out in the rain |
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| And crazy faces! |
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| Sister Linsenmann, you are being transferred, but you will still be in Cheyenne for Frontier Days! |
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