Dear Family and Friends,
I hope you guys have had a great week! I sure have. I want to share with you a quote I read this morning in a talk about teaching doctrine. It talked about how in the church we teach a lot about principles and the things we should and should not do, such as pay our tithing and go to church. But understanding the doctrine behind those things will benefit us so much more. When we understand something, it means to have the Holy Ghost tell you tell you it is true through the feelings you have in your heart. When you feel something it's much harder to deny it. I'm going to be better at teach the Why, or the doctrine behind principles this week.
“True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and
behavior.
“The study of the doctrines of the gospel will
improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior
will improve behavior. … That is why we stress so
forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel”
It has been pretty fun and hot week here in Raymond. The town is finally back to its normal size after it about tripled in population with everyone who came to visit for Canada day. We did a lot of service this week which was great. However, our lessons went down in number. The upcoming week is going to be better. We are going to work as hard as possible to do as much work as we can.
Monday evening we helped serve cake after the family program which was a talent show. On Canada day we went to the parade, because that's were the whole town was. We talked to a few people during the parade. Then we went to a few BBQ's with members. That evening we volunteered at the Street Fair. Both activities were great opportunities to talk to with a lot of people. Most of the people we talked to were members, but it got our faces out in the community so people can know who we are more.
Our investigators are doing pretty good. We dropped Lloyd this week, but we haven't told him we did that yet. We taught Sam twice this week. She loves the gospel so much and you can see her learning each time we teach. On Wednesday we taught her about the law of chastity. She pointed to Haylee, her daughter, and said obviously she's already broken it. We also discussed other aspects of the law of chastity. At the end of the lesson she asked if you could repent for breaking it and if so how? We told her exactly how she could repent. The next lesson we had with her we read 2 Nephi 2 and discussed the importance of agency and choice. Then we taught her how to mow her lawn and helped her do it. She came to church on Sunday and loved it like usual.
Sunday evening we had some time in between appointments, so we stopped by to see the Cameron's because we had not seen them the whole week. It was hard to teach them because their four year old Zina was hiper and loud, but she eventually quieted down enough for us to teach Scott. We talked to him a lot about prayer and he again opened up to us about his concerns or feelings. We tried to resolve his concerns. I felt during the lesson that we just need to continue teaching him the lessons, because right now he only knows a few things about the gospel.
I just want you to know that I know this church is true. This is the Lord's gospel that I as a missionary have the opportunity to share with everyone I meet. I know God lives and that he loves everyone. I know the Book of Mormons is true and brings us closer to Jesus Christ. I love this gospel so much.
Love you all,
Sister Barton
The pictures are from Canada day.
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