Trail Blaze ( week9)

So Me and my Companion (sister Atkinson) Trail Blaze a lot!

Trail Blazing: When one companion walks through a spider web and allows the other companion to walk through without walking into a spider web!

Basically I get the worst end of the deal, you see I'm a good 4 inches taller than sister Atkinson so even when she goes first I still get the tall ones that she misses. EVERYDAY you walk through a spider web, and then you become a really awesome ninja!

 I'm not sure what to write about this week!

We had two meetings this week. District meeting was on Tuesday (it's the smallest group of missionaries after a companionship.) Our district had 8 missionaries and now we have 12 missionaries including the zone leaders. On wednesday we had zone meeting, which is the next group of missionaries after district and there were about 40 missionaries there.

Our zone meeting was awesome!!

Any who, so if anyone is going to be baptized they have to have the desire to do so.

 this raises the question how can we help them develop the desire to be baptized...

We learned that as we teach of Jesus Christ their faith with increase. As their faith increases so will their desires to do God and Jesus will. As that happens they will be desirous to be baptized!

 AWEOSOME!

As we learn more about our Savior we become more desirous to do his will, and we realize that part of his will is to help other come unto him, so we do missionary work, and as we do missionary work we are blessed with more knowledge about our Savior. It's a perpetual cycle of wonderfulness!!!

I have realized that my mission is just preparation for the rest of my life. As my full time mission will come to an end one day I will begin my lifelong mission as a full time member missionary. I'm learning how to share the gospel so that I can do it in my everyday life and help build the Kingdom of Heaven!!

 I LOVE THIS GOSPEL!

Some pretty crazy things happened this week!

 We had a lesson this week with a guy we have been meeting with regularly now. His girlfriend and the mother of his two daughters is a member and he has been listening to us, but I think I have told you that before!

So we went over to their house to have dinner (love it when members feed us!) and have a powerhouse lesson. We planned to watch finding faith in christ and then talk about what the atonement meant to him personally. Before we could begin watching the movie his brother came over and was talking to us a little bit about his job and what not. Well our investigators walks in and his brother is in his chair and he starts to threaten him to get out of his chair. His brother doesn't listen to him like a normal little brother would so then he walks into his room and pulls out ... drum roll please... a pistol.

AAHHHAHHH.... Well lucky for us our investigator looks as tough as nails but is the biggest sweet heart you ever will meet. They joked around for a min. and then the brother finally moved and we began to watch a movie about Jesus Christ.

Then two days later we have another appointment with them (this was last night) So we are sitting down talking when their 5 year old girl heads to the kitchen to get something to eat. She sounds frightened a little bit and come back into the room to tell us there is a rat in the kitchen. YIKES... but we all thought she was joking or something so we send in the other sister. The next thing we hear is AAHHH it's swimming in the sink! At this point our investigator hops up and goes into the kitchen to find there is a field mouse, indeed swimming in their sink.

He gets the mouse out of the sink in a cup and puts a plate over it and proceeds to bring it in to show us... of course if you know me I'm wiggin out. Then he takes it and just lets it go outside on his front lawn. GROSS!

 SO I have decided that the children are pretty good at prayers here. I have two instances to support this one.

The first we were at a dinner appointment with members when they asked their 5 year old boy to say the prayer. In his prayer he thanked Heavenly Father for thunder, and lightning, jetts and fireworks. After we asked him if he liked those things and he gave us an adamant NO! in fact he hates them, but yet he is thankful for them...

Second we were at another dinner appointment and they asked their young son to bless the food, he then began to sing a protestant or methodist prayer. That was weird!

We met a girl on Saturday who is 19 and we had the whole first lesson, and she was asking really great questions! We talked to her for about an hour and a half and later committed her to be baptized in 4 weeks!!! :) in the very first lesson! AWESOME!

Love ya'll!

Love,

Sister Chambers