Yesterday was Victoria Day
in Canada! There were a lot of fireworks and parties going on. It was so fun to
try to talk to as many people as we could yesterday and hand out Book of
Mormon's! I wanted to share some fun
things that happened this week:
We went to a member’s home
for lunch and they said that we were going to have "mystery meat". Sister Coleman leaned over to me and said,
"God has mysteries... Meats should not have mysteries..." After we
were almost done eating, the members told us it was CAMEL MEAT! It wasn't bad at all.
With the warmer weather and
no air conditioning in our apartment, we have been fighting flies in our
apartment like crazy. We catch them with
a plastic container and let them free outside off of our balcony. The things we try to do to get our sleep……
Here are some exciting
things that have been happening in our area!
Everything in our area is rising!
-We got Kerry (our
'eternal' investigator of 3 years) a quit date for smoking which is huge!
-Toni (our investigator)
has a baptismal date and wants to be baptized, but is overcoming a huge hurdle
of changing his work schedule with his boss to have Sundays off.
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| Exchanges with Sister Chelson, an amazing missionary! |
-We are helping Kareem
(recent convert) prepare for a patriarchal blessing, which is huge! He is just
so nervous of even doing family history and we have helped him in finding
comfort little by little in overcoming the anxiety that he has.
-We will be teaching
Chrissy Pope's (recent convert) 14 year old daughter.
-We went on exchanges with
the Oakville North sisters! Sister Chelson came here to Hamilton with me and we
did some service for our investigator named Jo'Anne... let me tell you a neat
story about her!
Jo'Anne: When Sister
Coleman and I first came into Hamilton Mountain, we were going to visit a
former investigator down the road and I decided to park down the road to walk
there. On the way, we saw this lady gardening in her yard and we decided to
talk to her. Jo'Anne was wearing a big, wooden cross around her neck and is a
'nature' woman. She is Christian and is a 'primary' worker in her congregation.
I held a Book of Mormon in my hand and we began to explain to her
about The Book of Mormon. She wasn't too interested... But I book marked
the page where Christ visits the people in the Americas and gave it to her. A
week later, Sister Coleman said, "We should visit Jo'Anne." Later
that day we knocked on her door and asked her if she'd read any of the Book of
Mormon and she said, "Well, yes I have! I read 3 Nephi 11 and found it so
interesting... But I didn't know where Bountiful was and just decided to start
reading from the beginning. I got to 1 Nephi 17..." After picking Sister
Coleman's jaw off of the floor (haha) we went in and began to talk to her. She loved how the Book of Mormon explained the
Sermon on the Mount more clear to her. On exchanges, we went over and did
service with her of painting canvas's for her 'primary' kids. She asked us what holidays we celebrate and we
told her about Easter and Christmas, I than began to tell her about a special
event that occurs every six months, and that we get to hear from a modern day
prophet. We told her about general conference
and tied it in with the restoration. She found that very interesting! She is not ready for sit down lessons, but
Sister Coleman and I really think that if we do service and short visits... She
will let us know when she is ready to have formal lessons. SHE IS AWESOME! Someday she will be baptized.
We know it. J It is the little seeds that every member has
an opportunity to plant along the way!
This morning in my personal
study, I read Acts 4 and it was so incredible how Peter and John refused to
give up their testimony or hide it in any way.
I was simply thinking about how precious my testimony is to me, what I
know to be true, and being a missionary, a representative of Jesus Christ
doesn't mean I push my religion on people, but I have the sacred opportunity to
declare what I know to be true, without hesitation and invite all to find out
for themselves. I would deeply recommend reading Acts chapter 4 and see what
revelation you receive for your personal testimony or missionary work.
So having said that, I wanted
to leave off with my testimony of The Book of Mormon. My testimony is one of the most precious
things to me because there is nothing that can bring down someone’s testimony. Through my mission, I have grown closer and
closer to The Book of Mormon. Even though I have never walked with Nephi and
his family in the wilderness to the promised land, knelt with Enos in prayer,
listened to King Benjamin give his speech, felt the nail prints in Christ's
hands when he visited the Nephites in the Americas... I know that it's true and
I cannot deny it. I leave my testimony
with theirs of the truthfulness in which they share: Jesus is the Christ, our
Redeemer, and Savior. I am so grateful for the beautiful Restoration and
evidence of it through this book in which I hold close to my heart. When I
share it with those here in Canada, I can feel those people I read about in the
Book of Mormon standing with me. Like Captain Moroni in declaring the 'Title of
Liberty', Samuel the Lamanite on the wall, and many more spiritual giants in
the Book of Mormon. My testimony stands
with them in declaring these things to all of God's children. The Book of
Mormon is true! Joseph Smith was a prophet that translated these ancient plates
through the power of God so we too, can draw closer to Jesus Christ.
The evidence of Christ's
church is here and I love sharing that with every person I come in contact with
on the street! I leave my testimony and know these things to be true. Amen.
Until next time...
Sister Robb
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