But I guess I should probably back up to Thanksgiving this week...
The most popular question I've been getting is "how many dinners did you have?" So to answer that, we were invited to four, but two of them were members, so we didn't go to theirs so we could focus on going to the two others with people we're teaching. (Also because we'd have died if we had four dinners)
One of the dinners we went to was with a man we're teaching. His family puts together a Thanksgiving Feast for a bunch of family and friends and anyone in the community who needs a place to eat. We went early to help set up and when people started showing up we passed a man who said "Hi Sisters". Sister Hines and I did a double take because we didn't recognize him but pretty much only members know to call us sisters.
And here's where us being face to face with Death comes into play...
So we introduce ourselves and ask what his name is and he responds with:
"Death."
That was it.
His last name was legitimately Death.
Apparently he used to be a member but fell away years ago. We had a really neat conversation with him and near the end he asked us what our favorite scriptures were and he shared his favorite with us. As he shared his favorite verse from The Book of Mormon the spirit was so strong and I knew that it was also an answer to our prayers for another person we've been teaching. After he finished I asked if he'd be willing to ever meet with missionaries again and he said he and his wife had been talking recently about getting back into religion! Sadly, he's in another mission area, but we have some Elders heading his way!
We put our friend Jen on date this week! She was the one I mentioned last week wanting to be baptized! We've been working with her and her daughter for awhile now and they're both the cutest 💖
This week we started teaching the daughter of a member in the ward who has been looking for religion recently and who's family is a whole mix of religions but none of them really know what they believe. So she asked us to come over to answer her son's question, "what happens after we die". When we went over she told us her son was at his dad's house but she felt back rescheduling so we taught just her. But the lesson we had with her was one of the best lessons of my mission! We taught her The Plan of Salvation and the whole time she just kept saying "This makes sense" and asking questions to learn more. When we talked about the premortal life she said "So we were all together up in heaven. We were all friends!". And in the middle of the lesson she turned to her mom and excitedly said "I think I just got my answers!". It was amazing to see someone so prepared to hear about God's plan for her that all we had to do was lay it out and explain it. 💖
I hope you are all having a wonderful week and an amazing first few days of the Christmas month! Since all of my misisonary friends have been talking about it, I felt I should also invite you all to check out https://www.comeuntochrist.
Love you!
Sister Bliss
PICTURES!
*We got to decorate a couple Christmas trees with some members and help someone put up her 50 or so nativity sets, so we're really in the Christmas spirit!
*Today we went to the church to eat lasagna with our district. But there were no plates and only two spoons, so we ate with trays, pan lids, and serving sporks!
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