Hello everyone!
This week has been so good! I've been settling more into missionary life. It's definitely an adjustment, but it's a good one. :)
So, General Conference! How fun is that! More exciting than Christmas? Hm.... I'd say it's up there. Okay, favorite talk?.... I don't even know.... They were all so good! I want to go back and watch it all
again. I wrote out a list of about 8 questions, and I haven't had time to go over that list yet, but I'm fairly certain every question was answered.
You know what's better than General Conference? Days when someone is baptized in between two sessions! Yeah that's right! Debbie got baptized! It was amazing. About twice as many people as We thought would show up showed up. It was awesome. Debbie has troubles with her leg, so we had to
have two people helping in the font. One baptizing, and one helping her back up. It was so beautiful. I cried and I couldn't stop smiling! So did my companions. As soon as she got out of the water she just
said, "Yes! Yes!" Because she can't say anything else. She was glowing. Once Debbie was back and dried off, Sister Winget and I did a musical number. We did "Baptism," which is my personal favorite baptism song. I sang and she played. It was a bit hard to sing with all the emotions going on at the time, but it happened. Then we had a wonderful lunch and went back to conference. It was so good!
So on Tuesday we went over to see Sister Trent. She's awesome and assertive the way only an old lady can get away with. She decided to come with us to see a few investigators, but none of them were home, so she took us over to a house that she's fixing up and trying to sell. It is an awesomely me house by the way. She's doing good on it. I'd buy it if I had money and I wasn't on a mission. So while we were there, there was another man from the ward named Brother Gary, who was helping out and he was with a construction guy and they were just discussing things on the house.
After Sister Trent gave us a tour of the house, we got in the car and were about to leave. Then Sister Trent yelled out of the car window to Brother Gary, "Teach him the gospel!" Then Brother Gary motioned for us to come back, so we did. Brother Gary convinced the guy working on the house to come and talk with us. We got in the house and then Sister Trent turned to the guy (who's name was Jeff) and told him, "Sister Shelton here has only been out for a week, so can she practice on you? So it was all on me. My companions promised they'd never throw me out to fend for myself, but Sister Trent didn't.
I first got to know him a little, and turns out he does know a bit about the church because he had a few friends who went on missions, but he's actually Catholic. (It's strange. You'd think being in the
south you'd get more Protestants, but I've had more encounters with Catholics) After finding out a bit about him, I explained a little bit about the Book of Mormon. Then Sister Trent burst in telling me to
read my favorite scripture from it. It caught me off guard, so I didn't actually give him my favorite, but I gave him a good one still. Moroni 10:4-5. Very generic missionary scripture, but I'm glad I chose it. I explained to him that God doesn't want him to just take our word for it. He really does need to read it on his own and pray to know if it's true. That's something I love bout our church. Then I bore my testimony of how much I love the Book of Mormon and how I know that
it's true. The spirit was so strong. I don't feel like I have ever bore a stronger testimony of The Book of Mormon in my life. I could tell he felt the spirit and that he understood how much I loved it,
and it was just so good! The I asked if he'd like a copy, and he did! It was my first time handing out a Book of Mormon!
Jeff is such a nice man. I only saw him for 20 minutes, and I probably won't ever see him again because he doesn't live in my area, but I felt such love for him. That wonderful charity. He is a son of God, and that is wonderful. I don't know if he went home and read The Book of Mormon. I honestly doubt he did, but maybe one day he'll look over and see it laying under some papers, and pick it up, and his life will be changed forever, and that is good enough for me.
I hope all is well at home! It's great out here. If anyone wants to write me you can send it to the mission office written below. I'd loveto hear from all of you!
This week has been so good! I've been settling more into missionary life. It's definitely an adjustment, but it's a good one. :)
So, General Conference! How fun is that! More exciting than Christmas? Hm.... I'd say it's up there. Okay, favorite talk?.... I don't even know.... They were all so good! I want to go back and watch it all
again. I wrote out a list of about 8 questions, and I haven't had time to go over that list yet, but I'm fairly certain every question was answered.
You know what's better than General Conference? Days when someone is baptized in between two sessions! Yeah that's right! Debbie got baptized! It was amazing. About twice as many people as We thought would show up showed up. It was awesome. Debbie has troubles with her leg, so we had to
have two people helping in the font. One baptizing, and one helping her back up. It was so beautiful. I cried and I couldn't stop smiling! So did my companions. As soon as she got out of the water she just
said, "Yes! Yes!" Because she can't say anything else. She was glowing. Once Debbie was back and dried off, Sister Winget and I did a musical number. We did "Baptism," which is my personal favorite baptism song. I sang and she played. It was a bit hard to sing with all the emotions going on at the time, but it happened. Then we had a wonderful lunch and went back to conference. It was so good!
So on Tuesday we went over to see Sister Trent. She's awesome and assertive the way only an old lady can get away with. She decided to come with us to see a few investigators, but none of them were home, so she took us over to a house that she's fixing up and trying to sell. It is an awesomely me house by the way. She's doing good on it. I'd buy it if I had money and I wasn't on a mission. So while we were there, there was another man from the ward named Brother Gary, who was helping out and he was with a construction guy and they were just discussing things on the house.
After Sister Trent gave us a tour of the house, we got in the car and were about to leave. Then Sister Trent yelled out of the car window to Brother Gary, "Teach him the gospel!" Then Brother Gary motioned for us to come back, so we did. Brother Gary convinced the guy working on the house to come and talk with us. We got in the house and then Sister Trent turned to the guy (who's name was Jeff) and told him, "Sister Shelton here has only been out for a week, so can she practice on you? So it was all on me. My companions promised they'd never throw me out to fend for myself, but Sister Trent didn't.
I first got to know him a little, and turns out he does know a bit about the church because he had a few friends who went on missions, but he's actually Catholic. (It's strange. You'd think being in the
south you'd get more Protestants, but I've had more encounters with Catholics) After finding out a bit about him, I explained a little bit about the Book of Mormon. Then Sister Trent burst in telling me to
read my favorite scripture from it. It caught me off guard, so I didn't actually give him my favorite, but I gave him a good one still. Moroni 10:4-5. Very generic missionary scripture, but I'm glad I chose it. I explained to him that God doesn't want him to just take our word for it. He really does need to read it on his own and pray to know if it's true. That's something I love bout our church. Then I bore my testimony of how much I love the Book of Mormon and how I know that
it's true. The spirit was so strong. I don't feel like I have ever bore a stronger testimony of The Book of Mormon in my life. I could tell he felt the spirit and that he understood how much I loved it,
and it was just so good! The I asked if he'd like a copy, and he did! It was my first time handing out a Book of Mormon!
Jeff is such a nice man. I only saw him for 20 minutes, and I probably won't ever see him again because he doesn't live in my area, but I felt such love for him. That wonderful charity. He is a son of God, and that is wonderful. I don't know if he went home and read The Book of Mormon. I honestly doubt he did, but maybe one day he'll look over and see it laying under some papers, and pick it up, and his life will be changed forever, and that is good enough for me.
I hope all is well at home! It's great out here. If anyone wants to write me you can send it to the mission office written below. I'd loveto hear from all of you!
Sincerely,
Sister Shelton
Tennessee Knoxville Mission
11320 Station West Dr. Ste 101
Farragut, Tennessee 37934
Tennessee Knoxville Mission
11320 Station West Dr. Ste 101
Farragut, Tennessee 37934
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