Dear Family and Friends,
This week started out amazing. We had lots of appointments and felt like everything was beginning to look up. All that changed by the weekend when all of our appointments, except ones with members fell through. I love teaching the members, but we had a lot of open time and didn't know what to do in that time. It doesn't feel right to go tracting or street contacting and we can't just drive around and contact less-actives because everyone lives so far away from eachother, it would use up our klicks(kilometres) very fast. We did spend some time walking to a few less-actives. Only one of them answered. She was on the phone currently, but was very welcoming and said we could come back another time. We will try to do that.
As for our teaching pool, we still have our two fairly new investigators Teho and Unilyn. We were going to teach Teho on Friday night but he canceled leaving us with an open schedule that we didn't know how to fill. As we prayed, Teho's name kept coming to my mind. I concluded that we just needed to go stop-by, but I wasn't sure why. We already responded to his text about canceling, but we stopped by anyways. We just asked if we could do anything for him and encouraged him to continue to read. Afterwards as we talked about that experience in the car, we both felt that we didn't do anything wrong and we both got the impression that we were stopping him from doing something bad.
Hugo is someone we called on the ward directory. He had not been contacted by the church in 8 years and agreed to meet with us. As we met with him he told us much of his life story and how currently he is going through a job change. He is a smoker and believes it is helping his health. Hugo asked us about church, then was there on Sunday. After church he said he would be back next week as well.
I love being a missionary and seeing the Lord's hand in my life. I have learned so much about the power of the Atonement. It truly can change us if we let it. Today I was reading in Mosiah 7. I thought alot about how the Atonement can rescue us if we turn to the Savior and do all he asks us to do. This verse stood out for me as read.
33 But if ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all diligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage.
Many of the people I'm teaching right now have to overcome something. I think everybody has something that is keeping them in bondage, myself included. The promise is that if we give up those things that hold us in bondage and turn to our Savior Jesus Christ, in his timing and by his will we will be delivered. We have to follow him and do all he asks of us, which is to keep the commandments. I invite you all to ponder on what more you can do to follow the Savior and read President Monson's talk from General Conference. Here is a link:https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10/ponder-the-path-of-thy-feet?lang=eng
I love you all! Thank you for all that you do.
Love Sister Barton
Pictures: Chinook time in Calgary=warmer weather and slush!
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