Another week gone by already? It's hard to believe that I've been out for over 6 months...
Yesterday in my personal studies, I was reading Mosiah 2 which is the section where King Benjaman is addressing his people in a final sermon before he passes away. In verse 32, he says, "But, O my people, beware lest there shall arise contentions among you, and ye list to obey the evil spirit..." I discovered the word "list" in that sentence and I knew that he wasn't talking about a grocery list, so I looked the word up in the dictionary to see what "list" is defined as. What I discovered was really cool! List means, "inclination; cause to lean to the side; move; tilt to one side; angle; slant; tip..." The word "listeth" is found in future verses another three times and they all are in reference to which spirit or voice we hearten to during this life. I found that to be really meaningful to me. We are being counseled to not even lean or tilt toward anything evil or negatively influential. It really emphasizes how narrow and straight the path of righteousness is!
This week we found found three new investigators! We've been in kind of a dry spot for the last few weeks and they are the first new investigators we've been able to find for a while! We found them all while tracting, which is great because there were definitely some days where we didn't feel like going out knocking doors. One of them is comfortable where she is right now but we had a fantastic conversation with her...(she was so funny!) and while she isn't interested now, we walked away happy that planted a good seed with her.
Another one of them is a girl named Lexie, who said she'd heard of our church from one of her middle school teachers. And when we asked her if she'd had the chance to read the Book of Mormon, she said, "I wish!" Haha we got so excited and eagerly gave her one, with a pamphlet in the front. We set up a time to see her again, which is actually later today! I hope the meeting turns out well!
Another of our new investigators, Cameron, had played basketball with members before so he was curious to know more about us. We asked him if he'd read the Book of Mormon ("no") and if he'd like a copy. He gave a hesitant "...yeeeeesss..." and asked what he'd have to do to get one. We both were beaming outwardly and inwardly laughing with glee as we handed him one and told him, "Nothing! We have one for you right now!" (We do not solicit these books, Sir!). We are excited to meet with his family his Saturday and see what their thoughts of the Book of Mormon are.
Many members from our ward left this weekend to help out with the flooding in Louisiana.
We were not able to see Jeff this week but we are planning on meeting with him this Tuesday!
Also this week, Allison texted us and asked to take us out to dinner. We wet to Cracker Barrel again and it was delicious. We had a super nice waitress, who is actually going to graduate school here in Tennessee for therapy. Sister Kronmiller got super excited and wanted to know more because she is planning to come back to Tennessee for grad school in drug rehab therapy as well! Afterward, the waitress thanked us to talking with her and cheering up her day. Turns out, she'd pulled a muscle in her thigh and was not having a very good day so far. You never know who you can influence!
What else did we do this week? Oh yeah, we had zone meeting! More changes are happening in the TNM. Our President has shortened our list of weekly and daily goals to motivate us missionaries to simply our focuses and place an emphasis on finding new people to teach. Also, he has asked us to do more service in our agendas so Sister Kronmiller and I went to the library to return a wifi router we checked out and while there, I asked about volunteer opportunities in the community. We are thinking of maybe helping out in the food pantry sometime in the near future.
Lots of appreciation for y'all reading this!
Sister Ririe
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