Erin Greenwood Mission: Week 73: October 16, 2017: It was such a good week!!!

Hey Fam! So this week flew by.

Well, I already sent out pics and told you that we had a BBQ on Monday for pday but it was way fun! We all signed up to bring something and then went to a members home to grill and eat. Then we went to a nearby field where we played flag football.

Right near the end of pday, all the other missionaries had to leave except us and another set of elders so we volunteered to just go down the street to the McDonalds and finish emailing there. But guess what! There was a giant Greenwood sign right out front! So of course I took a pic with it :)

We have been thinking and praying a lot to know how we can make going to FHE have more of a purpose so we made a goal to talk with 3 new people cause we figured that since work in a YSA ward really only moves forward when you work through the members and get referrals. Well at the end of the night, one of them actually came up to us and asked us to have dinner with him and one of his non member friends! Such a huge miracle!

This week was really eventful though. On Tuesday we had MLC where a member of the 70 (Elder Echo Hawk) was there and he spoke to us and we had dinner with him and then Wednesday we got to have zone conference and hear from him, his wife, and president and sister Love. Both days were SOO GOOD!
In MLC he talked about how success is brought out by:
1. Knowing this is the work of the Savior Jesus Christ.
2. Having faith in the Lord. And letting Him become a part of me.
3. Being fiercely obedient. To the rules and to the Spirit.
4. Expecting miracles.

After MLC we went to the Websters (some members in our home ward that are so awesome) and we watched Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration with Yolanda and Daylan (some of our investigators). They loved it and Daylan was just begging to watch some more. He was like “can we do this every dayyy???”

Then in Zone conference, one of my favorite quotes that he shared was from Elder Uchtdorf and says:

“Faith is a principle of power. But that power

usually comes in a response to faith.

Some might say that baptisms are not determined

by the missionary because it is a moral choice that

every investigator must make. There is truth in that

statement, but there is also truth in this one: There is

a power that can cause things to happen that need

to happen. There is a spiritual force that can stir a

mortal soul toward the spiritual, motivating deeper

study into the Book of Mormon and more prayer

with real intent. Faith is a power, and it can cause

things to happen that need to happen. It can cause a

soul who is good but dormant to awaken to God."

Faith is something that everyone always talks about from like the first day in primary but I realized that it is one of those things that nobody really understands fully. It has been something that our mission president has really been pushing for us to study lately and it has been incredible. He wants us to have the faith to “see the end from the beginning”.

After zone conference we were just pumped up and ready to work. We had exchanges right after so Sister Sly and I (who I already was comps with in Kaw River) went back to KC1/Shawnee YSA to get work done. We had a lesson that night with Onna (I cant remember if I have told you about her yet) but she is incredible. We show up to the lesson and she’s like “ya, I’ve been reading! I hope you dont mind but I read a little more than you asked me to and now I’m in 1 Nephi 8”. She went on to tell us the whole story of Lehis dream and the meaning behind it and how she could apply it to her life...man, i love being a missionary. The spirit was so strong in her lesson and she is just killing it.

Not only did we have a member of the 70 come out this week but we had 2 people from SLC that came out to do a mission tour from Thursday to Monday morning. So we took out one of them with us on thursday night and she came to all of our appointments. It was so cool to have her there with us and our lessons all went so well! We met with C (who is literally incredible). She has been watching conference off of the gospel library app and reading and praying daily, plus she was reading a little extra in the gospel library app from the teachings of president hinckley and wrote a whole bunch about it and what she learned. She is doing great!

We taught A that night with J (the lady from SLC) that night too and neither her or Sis Bench speak spanish but they did their best to help me out. We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ and had her draw pictures of each one. She said that she has been reading and praying every night! And she is literally the cutest girl. And she is extremely shy but she is totally warmed up to us now and lessons are so fun!

On Sunday one of our lessons fell through so we decided to stop by M’s (another investigator) and it was perfect! We ended up watching Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration with her as well and it was so fun to just watch her face as we watched it. She was just eating it up. And afterwards she was like “How come y’all didn’t show me this earlier!? That was so good!” She has been being taught by missionaries for over a year and finally has a testimony of the prophet Joseph smith and the Book of Mormon. She has been reading it daily and knows that its true!

Well, I think that I have written sufficient for this week even though I could go on and on. It was such a good week! I love and miss you all :)))