dear people i love-
I hope your new years day was nothing less than fabulous :) mine was fabulous--but everyday is fabulous so no biggie :P
This week was transfers! yay for sister cho's first transfer day experience everrr! so Tuesday morning we got a voice mail from the zone leaders and they listed off all the names of the missionaries and said if they were staying or leaving. And then we all gathered at the mission office on Wednesday to find out where everyone was going! Sister Mousseau and I are staying in West Valley but Sister Thompson got transferred to central salt lake where they teach people from nepal and burma! we miss her but she'll do great wherever she is :) we got a new companion straight from the MTC and she is absolutely amazing. her name is Sister Yates and she's from Virginia and she is so fun and fearless!
So President Winn gathered all the companionships with new missionaries and after we had lunch, he explained that we were going to do what they call Extreme Street Contacting. each companionship got assigned a street by temple square and we talked to everyone on that street! IT WAS SO AWESOME. i absolutely LOVEEEEE street contacting!!! i hope we do it in korea! and we had so much fun! we walked the same street over and over again but it was so neat to meet so many people there! there were people going to see a concert at the energy solution arena, people who were going to work at fast food places, and a ton of people waiting for the bus! (i didn't realize that there were so many people who take the bus!) there were really nice people who listened to us and said they would read out pamphlet and there were really not-so-nice people who kept walking faster and faster as we tried walking with them and talking to them. but each of us got to hard commit (extend a baptismal invitation) and you'd be surprised at how many people said yes they would get baptized if they knew these things were true! it was a neat experience :)
As if the day couldn't get better, we experienced a HUGE MIRACLE that night! we had a few lessons that evening and we introduced Sister Yates to the people in our area. then we decided to check a referral cuz one of our lessons fell through. so Sister Mousseau felt like we should go check this referral we got the night before at a dinner appointment. we got to the neighborhood but couldn't find the house because the directions we got weren't clear; the lady told us it was kiddy corner to her house somewhere but we couldn't figure it out so we decided to ask the lady again. but she wasn't home :( so we were going to go back to the car but we decided to just go to both the houses that were kiddy corner and just check. and we got to one house and it wasn't the one BUT WE GOT A RETURN APPOINTMENT AND ADDED HER (her name was star, how cute huh?!) TO OUR TEACHING POOL! awesome huh? BUT IT GETS BETTER. so we went to the other house and it also wasn't the referral but a man answered the door and said he wasn't interested and was about to shut the door but Sister Mousseau asked me to share a scripture so i was looking for this scripture in 3 nephi that i thought would be good for him BUT I COULDN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE! so after a minute, i just shared a scripture that popped up into my head and it was mosiah 2:41 (consider the happy state of those that keep the commandments..). He was like "oh i like that... can you book mark that scripture for me? wait, you're going to give me that book of mormon right?" HE SAID HE WASN'T INTERESTED BUT HE WANTED THE BOOK OF MORMON! but it was our copy so we said we'd go get him one and we ran back to the car but we realized that we took our supplies box out of the car so we could fit all of sister Yates' luggage at transfers! saddddd right? :( BUT GUESS WHAT? Elder Bednar spoke at the MTC on christmas and told everyone to buy a copy of the book of mormon and read it with a question in mind so sister Yates was obedient and had just bought one that morning! it was on the top of her luggage--easy access right? and so we got it and gave it to him and we set up another RETURN APPOINTMENT AND ADDED HIM AS A NEW INVESTIGATOR TOO!
seriously. tender mercies are everywhere. I think Elder Bednar said in a conference talk that "The Lord's tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving kindness, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive from and because of and through the Lord Jesus Christ. Truly, the Lord suits "his mercy according to the conditions of the children of men."" I'm so grateful that sister Mousseau listened to the prompting to go check the referral and share a scripture, and i'm grateful that the Spirit directed me to share the scripture that touched the man's heart, and i'm SO SO grateful that sister Yates was obedient to Elder Bednar and bought the Book of Mormon. Gahh, isn't that so cool? we just need to be obedient to the promptings of the Spirit and miracles happen yeeee!
have a fabulous week :)
sister cho
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