Hey everyone!
So missions sometimes are hard. Timothy who was going to get
baptized on Saturday kinda went M.I.A.! from Monday to Friday we weren't able to
get a hold of him... calling... texting him... tried to stop by and his mom
wasn't the nicest. She antied us pretty bad by telling us that we are wrong and
she hasn't been pleased with her son and how with him coming to church with us
he will eventually fall and realize that they are right.... then she prayed for
us in tongues which is not of the spirit at all and in fact the spirit wasn't
there when she prayed. She kept saying how sad she was that we believe in
something so false. Well when things happen like this I just don't feel good and
I wanted to cry for her sake and believing this way and for Timothy and him
having to hear this when his testimony is not very strong. I was able to say a
prayer for Timothy to find the strength he needs and all I could do was cry....
but that's okay because finally on Saturday... well so we told two members to
try to get a hold of him because Timothy knows them and had lessons in their homes and we couldn't and one called him and got a hold of him and had a good
conversation with him. So we decided to drop by again and called him first but
didn't answer so we left but he texted us and said we could come by and had a
good conversation with him... this is why members are so important! He was
going to come to church and then didn't so not sure why but I did have a feeling
to text and remind about daylight savings and figured it will change on his
phone so didn't and so I'm wondering if he realized it too late and so didn't come
because he would have arrived late or maybe something else but he still wants
to be baptized just needs more time...
Also Jennifer is doing awesome! She loves to meet with us
and is so excited. What is cool is that we have a lot in common- she has 5
brothers and no sisters (well I think she only has like one or 2 full blood and
the rest are half) and a sister that passed away. Also another cute story is
that Jennifer was sad talking to her friends as they were talking about their sisters and Jennifer was sad because she doesn't have any but then she said
wait no I do have sisters! I have a lot of sisters! Oh so cute! (meaning us and
the sisters in the ward) and she has been really trying to stop smoking and
drinking caffeine which isn't a part of the word of wisdom but she wants to
because she doesn't want to put anything over God... (it was cute because
Sister Pike said to me man she is doing better than me because she has been
drinking caffeine to try to kick a headache) and she got this awesome
priesthood blessing yesterday from our WML (Ward Mission Leader) that she will
have the urge to smoke go away and something about faith.... but it was pretty
powerful!
Also in Gospel Principles we watched the newly released
First vision video and it is powerful and if you haven't watched it yet I
encourage you to watch it! Well thanks for everything and I just love serving
as a missionary and watching people literally change their lives by living the
gospel!
--
Sister Beck
Pic at zone meeting!
Sister Pike and I reporting our numbers of how Elma is doing.
Singing around the piano!
The Elma zone with President and Sister Blatter
Sister Pike and I
Then us again with the zone leaders wanting to be apart of it (Elder Droubay and Bosshardt)
Pic 2 this is from a little bit ago and can't remember if I
sent this out but with Sister Sorenson, Pike and I!
Pic 3 and a member got this for us and changed it to Boom
Sista Pop! so cute!
Pic 4 me at the Artesian well in Olympia
Pic 5 and Sister Pike at it
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