Hi!
So if you all don't know. I went senior companion this transfer and I'm also training. Sister Pfile says that the Lord has catapulted me from being Junior to senior and trainer all at the same time. Her name is Sister Sorenson. She was called to the Nauvoo mission and is doing her outbound here in Colorado for 6 months. She is from Orem Utah. She has an older sister and three younger brothers. Sister Baker, my last companion, is still in the singles ward with her new companion. The Lord decided to mix it up and now there are four sisters in the ward. The bishop is loving it!
As senior and trainer, there is a different weight load and responsibility. More pressure to do good and more pressure to get baptisms. I had a personal miracle this week. I've been stressing all week and praying like crazy for the Lord to help me and also wondering why I can't baptize. I feel like there are high expections for us up in this ward, since now we can teach families too.
I didn't feel like I was really getting an answer until Sunday. I went into the Sabbath pleading for help to guide us and for help on what we can improve on so that we could baptize. I know that my desire is not bad because in the scriptures it says a dozen times that the field is white already to harvest.
So the theme of the Sacrament meeting was Prayer. When the second speaker got up, everything she was saying seemed to be directed towards me and WOW did it hit me really hard. She talked about how we are all entitled to revelation but it is us that stops it when it doesn't come. God promises to help us, not always in the way we want or in the answers we need but He does. She went on to say that sometimes God gives us promptings that require us to think, and work. I was writing down everything she said and what the spirit was telling me. Then in Relief Society this woman came and spoke about how she didn't get married until she was 33. It was to help the girls out in the ward. She talked about the Lord's timing. Don't worry, I wasn't thinking about marriage but instead everything she was talking about was pointing me back to how MUCH the Lord loves me and how He is trying my patience. The strongest thing that the spirit said to me was to "WAIT, be patient and keep the commandments then will your time come. Then will your number be called." I just keep getting this overwhelming feeling that the Lord knows that I'm trying my best and to keep improving and IT will come. Whatever that is. I just have to not worry about what people may think of me when I don't get the results that they want or that I want. God's will is different than my will. I know that it is His will to baptize and bring His children to Him but I NEED to trust Him then everything will work out the way HE wants it. I feel like the Lord is testing me and waiting for the right moment to pour out that bucket of blessings that He has been holding over my head. When IT happens, I will recognize His hand more and be more grateful then I would have been earlier in my mission.
This experience I had at church just shows how important going to church is and to ALL three meetings. We receive revelation there. We receive answers to prayers there. So don't think that church is boring because if it is boring for you then that means you aren't trying to listen to what the spirit is trying to teach you. I love church more than ever! So don't just be active in the church but be active in the gospel!
Love Ya!
Sister Sumsion
Monday, October 25
Tuesday, October 12
Following the Spirit
Hi!
This week was very interesting and had a lot of dynamics to it. We had interviews this week, found a super solid investigator in which we had the most amazing experience following the spirit and we now teach families, as well, if we find them off of tracting.
So there was one day this week that we were wanting very badly to find an investigator because we've been a little dry. So we were praying really hard all day long to know the place where we needed to be. We would go to one apartment complex that we felt good about but after a few minutes of tracting there, we felt like this wasn't the place anymore. So we would pray and go to another apartment complex. By the end of the day, we still felt positive and more sense of urgency to find someone. We arrived at another complex and felt really good about being there. We felt strongly that someone was there that we were going to find. It would have been interesting to be watching us because we were almost running from building to building. We would stop in front of one and think for a second if God wanted us to tract there. If not, we would move on to the next building. If we got to a building we felt good at we would decide what floor. As we were knocking on a door, I looked across the grounds and saw this building and said, "We NEED to tract there!" So we ran over there and stopped in front of it to decide what floor. Instantly we both looked at each other and said, "Up!" So we ran up the stairs and started knocking. We knock on a door and this man comes out and says that he would be interested in listening to us. We start asking him some questions and we find that he has never been religious but because of the events in his life, he has started to pray for help. We talk about God's love and the Atonement and he begins to cry. He cuts us off after a few minutes and we set up a return appointment with him. Well, the morning of his return appointment, we get this random call. It is a member who is works with the guy we just tracted into. He says that the guy is super excited to meet with us and has read 17 chapters of the BofM already. WHAT?! That was a surprise. At our appointment, he tells us that for about a month, he has been praying for help and he says that we were an answer to his prayers. So we take him on a church tour and he tells us that he went and bought his first bible. We invite him to a baptism that another ward is having so he can see it for himself how it is done. A couple of minutes before the baptism, he calls and says that he doesn't want to come because he is feeling totally overwhelmed. We tell him that we are there to help him and to teach him, not to push. So he says he needs to be more open minded and to come. After the baptism, we talk to him and he says that he has been finding alot of answers in the BofM. He sometimes just opens the book and flips to any page and starts reading. Well, he came across a scripture that i would think would be really scaring but it was what he needed. It was Alma 9:12-13. Read it. Now we are trying to help him learn and gain a testimony for himself.
The church is true!
Love Sister Sumsion
This week was very interesting and had a lot of dynamics to it. We had interviews this week, found a super solid investigator in which we had the most amazing experience following the spirit and we now teach families, as well, if we find them off of tracting.
So there was one day this week that we were wanting very badly to find an investigator because we've been a little dry. So we were praying really hard all day long to know the place where we needed to be. We would go to one apartment complex that we felt good about but after a few minutes of tracting there, we felt like this wasn't the place anymore. So we would pray and go to another apartment complex. By the end of the day, we still felt positive and more sense of urgency to find someone. We arrived at another complex and felt really good about being there. We felt strongly that someone was there that we were going to find. It would have been interesting to be watching us because we were almost running from building to building. We would stop in front of one and think for a second if God wanted us to tract there. If not, we would move on to the next building. If we got to a building we felt good at we would decide what floor. As we were knocking on a door, I looked across the grounds and saw this building and said, "We NEED to tract there!" So we ran over there and stopped in front of it to decide what floor. Instantly we both looked at each other and said, "Up!" So we ran up the stairs and started knocking. We knock on a door and this man comes out and says that he would be interested in listening to us. We start asking him some questions and we find that he has never been religious but because of the events in his life, he has started to pray for help. We talk about God's love and the Atonement and he begins to cry. He cuts us off after a few minutes and we set up a return appointment with him. Well, the morning of his return appointment, we get this random call. It is a member who is works with the guy we just tracted into. He says that the guy is super excited to meet with us and has read 17 chapters of the BofM already. WHAT?! That was a surprise. At our appointment, he tells us that for about a month, he has been praying for help and he says that we were an answer to his prayers. So we take him on a church tour and he tells us that he went and bought his first bible. We invite him to a baptism that another ward is having so he can see it for himself how it is done. A couple of minutes before the baptism, he calls and says that he doesn't want to come because he is feeling totally overwhelmed. We tell him that we are there to help him and to teach him, not to push. So he says he needs to be more open minded and to come. After the baptism, we talk to him and he says that he has been finding alot of answers in the BofM. He sometimes just opens the book and flips to any page and starts reading. Well, he came across a scripture that i would think would be really scaring but it was what he needed. It was Alma 9:12-13. Read it. Now we are trying to help him learn and gain a testimony for himself.
The church is true!
Love Sister Sumsion
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