Constantly Improving!!

My goodness this week went by so fast. Phew!

With the exception of last monday, every day has been sooo busy and we've had no time to even think. Thank goodness we have two hours of study every morning but even that doesn't seem like enough. I am learning so much as I study and as I learn about the people here that I am teaching. My trainer is sooo wonderful I love her to death.

So this week we started meeting with some members and taught them about member missionary work. A lot of the people here have concerns about sharing the gospel and we hope to help them through them because we know that they have so much to offer their friends and family.

We dropped a couple investigators this week :( but we also gained a few! One is named Michael and he lives in an apartment owned by one of the members, so that's how we met him. He's on house arrest so I think he initially let us talk to him because he had no one to talk to. :P But we've taught him the Restoration and he wants us to come back. I hope and pray he will read and pray about the Book of Mormon.

So, I've done A LOT of improving this week because I have practiced tracting and ITLing (Invite to learn) so I have definitely improved on my confidence. :P And my testimony of charity has improved sooooo much. These are my brothers and sisters and I know that they need what I have. If I remember that, my desire to share it grows and it is so much easier for me to ask them to hear our message. Funny thing that happened this week was one of our investigators was being told by her friends that we missionaries are trained to love people and don't actually care. We just want to get people to join the church. So she was telling us this and we shared with her our testimonies of how this gospel has brought us so much joy and helped us get through any trials that come up in our lives so because we love her we want to share this gospel with her and help her move toward being baptized so she can experience that same joy and strength through trials.

So, I'm turning old on saturday.... and it's the same day as the branch picnic so we're inviting tons of people to that in hopes that everyone will get to know the members and build relationships with them so they won't be afraid to come to church. Everyone's afraid and nervous to come to church. 😶 I don't know why. (That's a picture of a confused blob) Soooo we're working on that.

Here goes my last week of being 19! 😰😫🙇

Ok, I love these blobs. Can you guys see them? They're now my favorite thing.

-Sister Miller