Hi family!
How's life? Life's good here. We had a pretty good week, which I'd
mostly attribute to our ward/relief society, who we're pretty sure
started praying for us and our investigators this week! We have 2 new
investigators! One is named Venus, who met with the missionaries once
like 7 years ago, and finally was willing to meet with us this week!
She's in her mid-20s and pretty friendly. She said she doesn't think
much about religious stuff, but is really curious in general and is
willing to continue to meet with us, even though she has finals coming
up! We also started teaching this girl named Anjali who's around our age
and really cool! She's actually in Pennsylvania this week for
Thanksgiving-- go figure. Her English is probably better than her
Chinese-- from her Chinese and English accent it's clear that she's
studied in America for several years. She has this really cool
religion/belief system called Baha'i that comes from some Iranian
prophet from the 1800s. Even though it's not Christian, it still seems
like it has a lot in common with the gospel. The investigation of truth
is a really important part of their beliefs, so they learn about a lot
of different religions and read from lots of different books of
scripture to help them more fully understand God, as they believe that
all religions are different manifestations of God's word. She's super
nice. She didn't feel comfortable praying about whether our message is
true or not yet, but she said she'll start studying the Book of Mormon,
and plans on seeing us again after she gets back from the States.
We also met a less-active member when we were less-active visiting
this week, and met with her yesterday, and it turns out that she's been
wanting for some time now to have a new start in her life! Yay! She's
been wanting to come to church for several weeks, but because of some
insomnia issues hasn't made it yet. The Lord is blessing us a lot this
week to find these people! We also visited a family in our ward that
came back into activity a couple of years ago who have a 13-year old son
who is still kind of inactive, so we made an effort to bond with him,
which we did over soccer, and shared a message that reminded him of when
his dad gave him a priesthood blessing when he was really sick and how
he got better so quickly, and after inviting him to come to church every
week, he came to church yesterday! Yay! His dad wasn't there when we
visited because he works really late sometimes, but he came up to us
after church and thanked us for visiting his family. It was really neat.
Their family seemed to appreciate our visit much more than we expected!
In other news, Sister Aliaga and I are kind of running 2 different
thanksgiving dinners this year, one on Thursday for our zone, and one on
Friday for our ward. Suffice it to say, we've been feeling a bit
stressed over that, as you can't mess up thanksgiving! But I think they
will go over decently well, especially our ward party, where everyone is
going to make pilgrim and native American hats and we're going to have a
turkey hunt wherein one of the young men dresses up like a turkey and
everyone chases him. It should be pretty entertaining. Haha.
I'm grateful to have the gospel in my life, and to have this
opportunity to serve the Lord for a year and a half! And for my whole
life! We tried a gratitude experiment this last week that Sister Hawks
recommended to us at our last zone conference, where you spend the whole
day in gratitude, feeling true gratitude for everything you see, touch,
smell, taste, experience, hear, etc. It was a really happy, full of
blessings type of day! We were way more in tune with the Spirit too. Try
that out this week! It's worth it! Our attitude really does determine
our happiness.
Love you all! Happy Thanksgiving!
Sister Heaton
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