11 Months Today

Today I hit my 11 month mark!

It is so crazy that time flies by SO fast. I feel like it was just a few weeks ago that Mom, Grandma and Grandpa were dropping me off at the MTC. But then I look back at everything that has happened and it's crazy how fast it has all gone by, Some of me hope that it will slow down so I can really enjoy the next 7 months, but part of me is glad it goes so fast so I can see all of you again haha :)

 

Anyways this was a little bit of a slower week, we had a lot of things fall through, but I definitely saw the miracles too.

Really the week was pretty slow until Saturday. Before that is was just typical meeting with people and Teaching, and knocking doors, but nothing out of the ordinary. I did have the chance to have an interview with my mission president, and it was great! I love having time to talk with President Hobbs one on one even if it is just for a few minutes. We talked about a lot of things, but one thing he told me was to read the talk "Becoming Perfect in Christ" by Elder Gerrit W. Gong. If you guys haven't read it, you should it is SO good. It talks all about how we don't need to be perfect NOW, and how we can just be happier. Its good, you all should definitely read it.

Anyways, On Saturday we got to do service. Our Bishops daughter is moving and we got to help move her family. It was soo fun to be able to do service, in our ward, we rarely get to help anyone with anything so it was really fun. But then that night we had Stake Conference. I have never enjoyed church on a Saturday night so much haha. It was really great. We talked a lot about missionary work, and they had a lot of people speak, most of which were converts to the church so it was really cool as they talked about the importance of missionary work. At one point though the Stake President was speaking and he decided to make it a more interactive. He started asking everyone questions and things. At one point he had all the missionaries hold up their missionary handbooks (the rule book essentially for missionaries) so I whipped mine out and held it up. He then called on me and an elder to come up and answer questions about it and how we can help the members help us keep mission rules haha it was SOOO embarrassing but everyone in my ward got a pretty good kick out of it :)

Then Sunday was great! WE had another session of stake conference, this time I was not asked to participate haha, but it was still just as good. Afterwards we had a kind of cool little experience.

So all day we had been trying to be really diligent and not waste ANY time so we were super speedy all day visiting people, and we went to go visit a girl I met a week or 2 ago named Mariland. We go there and she wasn't Home :( but we saw a lady across the street so we went to go talk to her. She had a Cowboys lanyard on and I started talking to her about Texas and found out she was from Fort Worth. After talking a little Sister Cook offered her a FamilySearch.org card. Immediately her demeanor changed and she said "listen im born again Christian, I don't need this" I then explained that the website had nothing to do with our religion but that it was just like Ancestry.com but free. Her Demeanor changed again, "REALLY?! I just quit ancestry because it was too expensive!" she then proceeded to tell us ALL about her family history. Super cool.

Then we started walking down the street and sister cook said "if you feel like we need to knock on any doors let me know" I not really wanting to, said okay and kept walking. We got to the end of the street and I looked at sister cook and said "stop, there something we need to do here" she then said "I know, I was trying to ignore it. I really don't want to go tracting" I told her I didn't want to either. Then we turned around and there was a guy walking out of his house :) we talked to him for about 15 minutes and he seemed semi-interested. But after we talked to him right when we went to the car, Mariland showed up at her house and we set a return appointment with her and her friend! It was small but it was a miracle that the lord stalled us and got us to wait for mariland to come home.

I don't know if it sounds as cook as it was...but it was cool haha.

Anyways that was my little miracle this week.

Sorry I haven't sent any pictures lately, the library here is SUPER slow and I can never get them to send...but I will work on it.

I love and miss you all!

Sister Becca Redd