Hello everyone!!
So....Larissa's home. Thanks yall for rubbing it in my face!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH my goodness its almost Halloween....not that it matters to us :p
So you know you've been in Texas too long when your reading the Book of Mormon and read "you shall... " as "y'all shall..." . . . . . . . wow I'm retarded! Who does that? Pretty sure not even Texans do that...or do they....
This week went by a little slower...I wonder why *cough Larissa cough* cuz I knew she was home! Awful, I know! But we still got a lot done! :) First off, I am doing great! I am almost done with Doctrine and Covenants and am rereading the Book of Mormon again. I mentioned that President Ames challenged us to read the BOM in 2 months before Elder Cardon came. Well one thing that he also told us and that is soooooo true is that without the Book of Mormon, and prayer, we suffocate spiritually. After I was done reading the Book of Mormon from the challenge he gave us, a couple days later I was just like "ok, now what?" I felt a little empty not studying it. Weird that that happened. So I started again!! And its AWESOME!! :)
Something that is also increasing, besides my testimony, is this sista! It seems like everyone just wants to feed us fast food now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHATTTT THE HECKkkkkKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!! Im suppose to be on my 6 month sexy right now and boy it aint working!!!
This week we had awesome opportunities to teach new people. We had a potential that when we went to her house she told us that she found her Bible, pulled it out to show us, and as I was looking at it I saw the word "Stake Center" written on it.... say what? So I look closer and it was from our church!!!!! Donna (the potential) had gotten in about 5 years ago at a book store and had never looked at that. Well she was astonished! so were we, trust me! She was soo amazed and kept saying "I don't think this is a coincidence!" Nope, Donna, it isn't!!! Well lets just say, she's fixin' to become a Mormon ;) The only thing is that she is a home nurse 7 days a week and takes care of this old lady every day from 8-12pm so we have no clue how she's going to be able to come to church...but she said she'd try to figure something out. So I'm hoping God helps her with this!
Virginia is my other favorite part about this. So actually Donna takes care of Virginia nights as well. But we were at Virginia's house this week and talking about Donna's Bible we also started talking about Joseph Smith as well. Virginia is totally a basher when it comes to that but Donna was saying that she believed it was true and Virginia was like "YOU BELIEVE IT??" Donna: "yeah I believe it!" Virginia: "Well I think....im gona bite you!" Hahaha what?? It was the most randomest thing ever! Gosh I just love that lady!! :)
Next we were able to have a great week with Charlie! We read "Blueprints of Christ's Church" by Elder Callister and he loved it! Ok. Y'all need to read that cuz it is Ah-Mazing!!!! It helped him understand so much better the reason there should only be ONE true church and what "true" meant. He's been better with not drinking but still is falling every now and then. Don't worry, God's got this!
Chuck is back to "needing more time" because he see's it as a big struggle to quit coffee but his sister Jessie said she'd work on it with him this week. Come ON CHUCK!!!! I told him that he's getting baptized before I leave and told him im leaving nov 12th so he best be baptized by then! :p Hopefully that helped? haha
We also met with Marilyn as well (LA) and it was such a great lesson we had. A couple weeks ago we were impressed to teach her the Word of Wisdom but were unable to get to it because she had other needs and questions. Well we taught it to her last night and she started telling us of some things that she was struggling with that we didn't even know would be a concern. She has been smoking since she was 14 and can NOT seem to stop, no matter how hard she tries. Well something that I learned from President Sagers was I asked her to grab her cigarette pack and I grabbed a picture of Jesus Christ and put them side by side and she couldn't look! I asked her what she loved more. She has such a big desire to quit and that seemed to hit her hard. The Spirit was strong and she could feel it for sure!! LOVE THE SPIRIT!!!!!! :D So we made a plan with her that when she has the urge to smoke or when she needs to smoke, to first say a prayer and read a chapter out of the Book of Mormon. She agreed! So we're hoping it helps her get rid of the urge and addiction. I know she can do it!!! :) I love this work for sure!
Well that's about it for this week! Hope yall are having the time or yalls life!
Sister Tilton
pics:
my 'not scary jack skelington'
All our pumpkins!! :) its always so nice when our ZLs tell us that we have to wear our pros clothes to pday activity...and then everyone is wearing normal clothes...I was mad! -_-
the most randomest things on my desk: pepper, peanut butter, and hot sauce!
this made me question why Adam partook of the fruit. I could've totally delt without thistles and thorns! Note to all: NEVER walk in Texas grass barefoot....or in sandals!
what happens after church in Decatur? the kids go dumpster diving!
my favorite! Sister Van Wagoner! We had a member family teach us the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we were the investigators. Ally (Sis V) also sat with us and she was acting muslim. Caught her in action! Hahah! It was the funniest thing ever!!!!
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