Things are going great here in Laramie! Monday
we went shopping after emailing, which pretty much meant that I bought a
watch at Walmart and Sister Martin bought some shampoo haha. We played
soccer with the Elders in Laramie and also a member family, so that was
way fun! Monday
night we went tracting and no one was interested, so we decided to try
one more door and this man answered and came out onto his porch, and
talked to us for like 40 minutes! He's catholic and was telling us about
all of these crazy abstract things he believes that I've never heard of
before.. And then was asking us a lot of deep doctrinal questions about
the Mormon religion and what we believe. We just simply testified, we
told him what we believed and knew to be true, and we kept it simple and
used scripture references to support! And to his questions that we
didn't know answers to, we just simply said we didn't know, but told him
what we did know to be true. It was intense! At one point, he said that
he'd talked to missionaries before and "no Mormon could convince me" of
this and that, mainly about repentance and sinning and things like
that. Honestly though, he's right. No Mormon will ever be able to
convince him of anything! We don't convert, the Holy Ghost does. We
can't touch his spirit or his heart, but the Holy Ghost can. He and his
wife and family are going on vacation for a few weeks, but they want us
to come back next month and teach them again. I can't wait! I'm going to
prepare and study and be ready for the next time we see them(:
Anyways,
that was probably the most exciting thing that happened this week!
We've still been doing a lot of less active teaching, and we've tried to
visit Larissa again but she wasn't home all week. But we will keep
trying(: I've learned that missionary work, takes work! In order to be
successful and fulfill our purpose as missionaries, we have to work. We
have to be obedient. We have to try our hardest, and I know if we do
those things then Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and especially the
Holy Ghost will be there with us every step of the way. I just love this
gospel so much(: Hearing what other people believe and telling us that
our religion isn't right, it just strengthens my testimony that much
more! Because I know for a fact it is true. And I know that because the
Holy Ghost has reaffirmed that to me many times in my life, and no one
can take that away from me!
We are starting a
new program in our ward called Feed My Sheep, and it's a two week
program for families to follow. By the end of the two weeks, after
exercising faith and obedience, they will prayerfully come to know of at
least one person who needs and is willing to be taught the gospel. I'm
so excited for this! Our wars mission leader and wars missionaries are
helping us out with it, and we are going to start with six different
families doing this. We need the ward members help very badly! Hopefully
this will motivate them more to get involved with missionary work.
Sounds
like the reunion was a good ol' time and that everyone is doing well!
I'm sorry that you've been sick Mas :/ that's always a bummer. Thanks for all of the continued support and
prayers.(: I love you all so much! My challenge to you this week is to
study the talk "Come What May, And Love It." I studied it this morning
and loved it so much! Have a great week!
Love, Sister Thomas
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