Today has seriously been the busiest Pday of my mission!!
This morning we went for a really good run (we're trying to run everyday until
it's gets too snowy and we're stuck inside) and then after, a ward made us
brunch.
This lady dressed up like Mrs. Claus and we sang Christmas songs and
then right after, we had our zone activity. We went to a senior activity center
and sang to them for a half hour while they ate lunch. It was so sweet they all
got up and gave us grandma hugs and told us they loved us.
Thennn, we went over
to the Moore's house (one of the senior couples who do so much for our mission)
and had hot chocolate/decorated sugar cookies.
Then things got a little more
exciting and Sister Bellais taught us all how to dance Tahitian style! We
printed off a picture of each sister in our zone and everyone had to write why
they loved the sister. It was really sweet. And since it is the start of a new
month I had practically no food so we went to Costco and stocked up on the good
stuff.
This week has been amazing though. We had Thanksgiving and
spent it with the most humble mom and daughter. I am SO sad we totally forgot
to take a picture. I think maybe we were just enjoying the moment too much we
forgot?
It was Sister Howard, me and another set of sisters from Mongolia and
we ate in this little apartment close to Temple Square and helped Briana and
Lory set up their Christmas tree after we ate.
We all were able to go around
the table and just share our conversion stories. Lory is just getting back into
the church and one of the sisters from Mongolia is celebrating her first
Christmas here on Temple Square as a missionary because none of her family back
home are Christians. The sisters on Temple Square have the most inspiring and
incredible conversion stories. It always blows my mind when I'm able to sit
down and really talk with them and hear where they've come from and how they've
found the gospel.
We have had the biggest miracles since the lights have
turned on! Sister Howard and I were about to go home on Friday night and as
we're walking by this couple, the girl yells to us, "Sisters! Can I give
you a referral?" We were both like, "Um, YES!"
So we called the
referral the next day and it was this really cool girl from Flordia who's super
open to learning more and has actually been thinking about investigating the
church. Thenn, on Saturday, this other member just randomly walked up to us and
gave us another referral of a part-member less active family who lives in
Draper and have had a lot of questions about the church lately.
But the biggest
miracle of all happened yesterday. So, Temple Square is super dead during the
day and then at night, things are ridiculously busy so Sister Howard and I were
covering the Assembly Hall (just standing in one of the buildings waiting for
guests to come in) because some poor sisters had been in there for a few hours
and hadn't had anyone to talk to.
Anyways, these 3 members walk in the door and
we started talking with them. One of them was from Houston, Texas. To go back a
little bit, about a month ago I answered an inbound call of this guy who's from
Texas and is just super interested in the "mormon culture" and the
beliefs of the church and how they shape us into the people we are. We've
called and talked with him a few times and he actually met with the
missionaries today in Texas for the first time!
As we've been teaching him a
little bit about the Book of Mormon and the Restoration he's been super open
and interested but last week he had kind of a negative experience with a
missionary. So we were kind of worried about him and sooo when we met this
member in the Assembly Hall from HOUSTON TEXAS, we were like, "We're
actually teaching someone from Houston right now!"
He asked us where he
lived so we looked it up and the member told us it's literally 10 minutes from
his house and he knows tons of people in the YSA ward where our investigator
would be attending!!! Then, he was like, "Give him my number and I'll
introduce him to people."
The member is actually a convert who joined a
few years ago and he's superrr similar to our investigator. It was just so cool
to see how aware God is of every individual and how he really is in the details
of our lives.
Being a missionary is the best. I'm not exactly sure who all
my mom forwards this email to, but if you're thinking about serving a mission,
DO IT! I love the gospel and I am so grateful that God allows me to be apart of
his incredible work.
Love you!
Sister Helton
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