Love Being a Missionary!

Another week come and gone and it is almost October! It really is crazy how time flies!

As you probably have all seen, we are using facebook every day. It is really a fun thing to do and a great way to reach our investigators and potentials and also our friends and family back home. I am so glad to be able to use this new tool in the Lord's work. And by the way, you are all more than welcome to comment on, like, and / or share any of my posts.

On Wednesday we did exchanges and I got to go back to Green Level for a day with Sister Brown! I got to see Karen too which was so nice!!! It was a little weird to be back in my old area with my old companion, but it was also a lot of fun to be with her and catch up on things going on. We stopped by a less-active family that we had stopped by before with no luck and a little rudeness. But this time the husband answered and let us in and we talked with the family for an hour! It was so fun to get to know them and hopefully Sister Brown will have more luck in the future with them.

Thursday we did some more service for the Grahams and they are very excited for General Conference this weekend. We are going to watch the Saturday Afternoon session with them and we are hoping it will be a great experience.

Dominique, the 20 year old we met last week, has been having a rough week this week. Despite all that was going on we still took her on a church tour and on Saturday she came to a baptism in the morning and the relief society broadcast that evening! She also came to church yesterday! We are going to try and teach her again this week and introduce the plan of salvation.

Friday we met a woman in the ward named Sister Fuller. Her mother was a temple worker for years at the Washington DC temple but she hasn't come to church lately. She has been having a rough year with having various close people die because of cancer. She is amazing! We were able to show up at her house during a time when she really needed it. She agreed to get a priesthood blessing because she has a strong testimony of the priesthood. It was a very sweet experience for everyone involved, including her non-member husband.

I am so very blessed to be a missionary! I love these people so much and I feel so blessed to have met them and to have this time devoted to helping them come closer to our Savior Jesus Christ.

Have a great week and enjoy General Conference!
 

Love,
Sister Shurtz