Happy Memorial Day!
Funny story of the day: Today we visited the Miamisburg Mound again and this cute little boy ran up to us and chatted with us for awhile, and by the time he left he yelled bye to us and said, "Maybe I might see you on the creature trail!" I don't know where the creature trail is, but I sure want to visit it!
So, I forgot to share this neat story, but last week we had a neat miracle with prayer. We were making cookies for some neighbors of ours and they came out bad. Like, really bad. Like, we couldn't give them to our friends because we were too ashamed, bad. So we prayed. Yes, we prayed that the next batch of cookies would taste good, and after the prayer we both had the same feeling. Earlier that day, along with the cookie ingredients we'd also bought a cake mix in case we needed to use that instead. Rather than just make the next batch of the same cookies taste better, Heavenly Father gave us both the same promping to just make new cookies. Sure enough, those ones came out great and our neighbors loved them! It was a nice little thing, but it truly helped me realise that our Heavenly Father cares about even the little things in our lives and we can pray to him about anything, even cookies.
We officially have our first 16 reassigned missionaries coming into the mission this week! With this all happening I had a thought come to my mind this week that was reaffirmed during our Zone Conference zoom call. For the first third of my mission we had a "mission song". It was a great song made by Missionaries about the Ohio Cincinnati Mission and we all sang it together at every meeting and it really pumped us up because it brought us together and talked about serving the Lord as misisonaries in Ohio. In September our mission leaders went to a meeting where Sister Ensign felt strongly prompted that they needed to get rid of the mission song, because if we ever get missionaries from another mission we wouldn't want them to feel excluded. At that point we'd had maybe two or threemissionaries come from other missions that I'd heard about in all the time I'd been here, so it was hard to hear about this big change. But now, 6 months later, half of our mission is soon going to be Missionaries from other missions and they won't feel excluded because we made the change already so long ago!
Okay, so now about the subject line...
We got a member referral the other week who was golden. He met this member while playing League of Legends and the member mentioned serving a mission. So hey, for all you video gamers out there, go start sharing the gospel! So this guy, Daniel was interested in learning more and we started meeting with him but he quickly got antied and texted us to say that our teachings didn't feel right compared to what he knew to be true. In response we just told him it was great that he was looking for what the Holy Ghost told him was right and bore our testimony that if he would keep looking for that then if he would read the Book of Mormon he would feel that it was right. He told us he would read it after reading the Bible and we decided to ask if we could study the Bible and Book of Mormon with him... right after he dropped us pretty heavily.... and he said yes... and now we continue to meet with him to study and share stuff from the Book of Mormon as we read the Bible. And that is the story of how we somehow swindled a guy into letting us continue teaching him.
We got a neat training from our Mission President this week on the Doctrine of Happiness. He dove into 2 Nephi 5 and taught us about the roadmap to finding happiness in our lives. Chapter 5 is soon after Nephi and his family get to the promised land and Lehi dies. They've been through their travels in the wilderness and many hardships and they've finally made it. But Laman and Lemuel turn against Nephi and they seperate into two groups of people. I'd invite you all to read the following verses and look at how they learned to live "after the manner of happiness" and think about how that might apply to your life: 2 Nephi 5:1, 5-6, 10-11, 15-17, 24, 26-17 If you'd like any further thoughts on this subject feel free to send me an email and I'll share some more with you!
Quote of the week:
"When I think of Jesus I think of Cheese Salsa and Tortilla Chips." -Abby
Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Bliss
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