Big news! I'm now a wedding planner! Haha! Sister Wilson and I are planning a wedding for the 4th of July! Our investigator is finally getting married to her boyfriend of 7 years. It has been so special to watch their progression together as he is coming back to church while also teaching her and bringing her with him. She is preparing for baptism soon, but we couldn't set a date until after the wedding. Everything just fell into place this week, and so we are planning last minute to make their wedding special. They don't want anything big, but we still want it to be nice and memorable. We couldn't be more excited for them! Today is filled with wedding preparations, tomorrow is Zone conference, Wednesday is another leadership meeting for Sister Wilson, Thursday we will set up for the wedding, and then Friday is the BIG DAY! :D
I forgot to mention last week that...we got a car! There were two elders moved out of our branch, due to lack of enough missionaries coming out in the mission, and too many going home, so we got to take over their car as well as part of their area. Now there are only 2 sets of missionaries in our branch, us and the Zone leaders. It is nice to have a car so that we can cover more area more quickly and efficiently, but it is also a struggle. We had forgotten how hard it is to get contacts and meet new people when you are always driving from one appointment to the next. We will have to do much better at taking time out to talk to people between appointments from now on. We really need to meet new people. It has been nice to not have to walk everywhere, but we had gotten a good system going. We would take the public transportation to an area and then walk from appointment to appointment within the area before moving to a next area, etc. In the maxi (the vans they use for transportation) we would split up to talk to different people and each try to get a contact before we reached our stop. It made it nice to be able to be talking to people as we traveled between areas. Plus, the exercise from walking was good for us too! :P I guess we will just have to utilize our exercise time in the morning better.
I got to ride a bike this week on trade offs! haha It was fun, but really tiring. It left my bottom sore, but that is a small price to pay for a cool experience. I forgot to mention last week that...we got a car! There were two elders moved out of our branch, due to lack of enough missionaries coming out in the mission, and too many going home, so we got to take over their car as well as part of their area. Now there are only 2 sets of missionaries in our branch, us and the Zone leaders. It is nice to have a car so that we can cover more area more quickly and efficiently, but it is also a struggle. We had forgotten how hard it is to get contacts and meet new people when you are always driving from one appointment to the next. We will have to do much better at taking time out to talk to people between appointments from now on. We really need to meet new people. It has been nice to not have to walk everywhere, but we had gotten a good system going. We would take the public transportation to an area and then walk from appointment to appointment within the area before moving to a next area, etc. In the maxi (the vans they use for transportation) we would split up to talk to different people and each try to get a contact before we reached our stop. It made it nice to be able to be talking to people as we traveled between areas. Plus, the exercise from walking was good for us too! :P I guess we will just have to utilize our exercise time in the morning better.
One tender mercy that we saw this week was when we got a call from a woman that Sister Wilson and Sister Munafo had contacted in passing a few transfers ago. They simply introduced themselves shortly, explained what we do as missionaries, and asked if they could share more with her sometime. She agreed, and gave them her information, but it was a very short exchange. They tried calling her, but never got through, so she went out of their minds. Then, a few days ago, this woman called us. She had saved our number, and kept thinking about us until finally she felt ready and gave us a call asking us to come by her. So on Sunday we did, and she has great desires and potential. The Lord truly prepared her to meet the sisters when she did, and the spirit prompted her to call when she felt she was ready. The Lord works in mysterious ways! I am so grateful for experiences such as this to help me remember that the Lord is laboring in his vineyard with us.
Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Bratt
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