This has been one crazy week! This upcoming week is going to be about the
same. We have been working really hard to the best of Sister LaMont's
ability right now, but we have had some pretty cool experiences too. We had
five investigators we'd been working with, but decided because we haven't
seen them in a while, to drop them. Our main focus right now is Bernard who
is on date to be baptized on September 9th.I'm a little stressed out right
now for him because we still have 3 lessons to teach him and he's not used
to meeting with us more than once a week. We are doing to change that
though. He came to church on Sunday! Which was great, but he didn't stay
for priesthood. We are not sure why he won't stay, but we are going to
teach him about the priesthood tonight and hopefully resolve that concern.
Other than that he is doing pretty great and is excitied to be baptized.
There is another investigator in our area, but we are not teaching her.
Jordyn is being taught by the Sister Training Leaders, even though she is
not YSA, because she asked them too. That whole confusion about whose
investigator she was and why it is that way was confusing, but we sat down
and talked with the Sister Training Leaders and now it all makes sense.
They are teaching Jordyn and we will focus on her less active parents, but
we are both teaching the whole family because Jordyn and her mom sit in on
both lessons. We are working together though and that's what the family
needs.
This week we did a lot of service for a less-active family who was moving.
On Wednesday we were supposed to go down town street contacting as a zone,
but Sister LaMont did not feel up to it, so we didn't go. Instead we taught
Bernard that morning, then ate lunch in a park. While eating lunch we got a
call from Sister Collins who was in desperate need of help because the
moving truck was coming a day earlier than expected. So we went over and
helped her pack as best as we could in the little time we had. The next day
we arranged with members to go on splits. Sister LaMont went with Sister
Lougheed so she could rest, and I went with another Sister go help the
Collins pack. I helped them from 3-6. They had a lot of stuff, but with the
help of some members from the ward and the missionaries we were able to
help them and they were truly grateful!
I've learned a lot about being in the right place at the right time, and I
know many times this past week we were. I'm so grateful we followed the
promptings of the spirit so that we would be ready. A quote by Jeffrey R.
Holland that I put on the front of my daily planner as really been what
this transfer has been like. It says:
"Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to 'great tribulation'
when we look around us and see others seemingly much less obedient, who
triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma, and
God has a very good memory."
I realized I was comparing myself to other missionaries then getting
discouraged because I wasn't like them. I didn't understand the gospel as
well as they did, or recongnize spritual promptings like they did. But this
week I have realized I wasn't that way, because that is not who I am. I am
a different, but that is why God called me, for my uniqueness. I need to be
bold, and let who I am show. I know that as we all realize who we are "Sons
and Daughters of God" that we will be able to reach our full potential and
move forward. I invite you all to as my mom always says, "Dare to be
Different!"
Love Sister Josie Barton
P.S. all the pictures come from yesterday. For P-day we went hiking in
Kananaskis. It was beautiful and so fun. We were the only sisters there,
but that is okay.
Love, Sister Barton
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