November 11th

My friend who I hired to update my blog for me is falling behind on the posts. So today there will be 2 posts, the first (this one) from November 11th, and the second from November 19th. Also, please note the change in my mailing address! Write me!

Something cool I learned recently! So, in 1 Nephi 13:40, it's Nephi having that vision. The verse describes the purpose of the Book of Mormon! The purposes are: 

1- To establish the truth of the Bible

2- Fill in the "plain and precious" things that were lost from the apostasy

3- To testify that Jesus is the Christ.

Cool right?!

A couple weeks ago we saw a street with a few brick mailboxes completely destroyed. Like, to smithereens. (a car had run them over. the story varies between a distracted driver and a diabetic who passed out) I suggested that we go to those houses and offer service to fix their mailboxes. Lo and behold, the first door we knock on is a woman named Ruth. She has fraternal twin one-year-old girls. Guess who lives four houses down? A woman in our ward who has fraternal twin one-year-old twin girls! What! So we tell them about each other and this week we brought Sister Checketts (the woman in our ward) to Ruth's house to help them get to know each other. We taught kind of the first lesson but I decided to forgo reciting the First Vision because, hello, there were four screaming one year olds there. It was quite the play date.

This week we also met with a real member referral! A REAL one! Usually our member referrals are "my neighbors are Baptist, go talk to them". This one was "my friend is interested in the Book of Mormon and she wants to meet with the missionaries". AHHH! So we did and she (her name is Beatrice) is great! She is totally going to read it, pray about it, and come to church. Those are the three signs of a truly progressing investigator.

Also this week we got to meet with someone who we never ever get to. His name is Matthew. He loves everything that we teach him, he just never has time to meet with us. 

And one last person- Tracy. She has a long story, but to make it short she's had a rough life. We were talking to her on her driveway for a while but she shooed us away before her husband got home because "he would be too happy to see me talking to missionaries". hahaha. 

Adios, amigos!

~ Sister Munro