June 10, 2013
Hello family!
How are you?
Things are wonderful here in Texas! As you already know we had transfers and me and Sister Schellhous got to stay! We were so happy! We have seen so many miracles this week!
It still hasn't gotten too hot, but maybe I'm just getting used to the weather. We've had quite a bit of wind and rain to keep it fairly cool here! You'd love the summer here mom! There are lilacs trees everywhere! They have the most beautiful flowers here! And the sky is huge!
We have 4 new investigators and again we've found them all through tracting! It's amazing how there truly are so many people prepared, you just have to find them!
First we have Eric and Vida, when we tracted into them they said we could come back but that they would be non-committal. We didn't think we would get too far with them because of that but our first lesson with them was amazing! They have so many questions. They are catholic, but they have questions about life that the Catholic church can't answer for them. They are very interested more particularly in the Plan of Salvation so we get to go back and meet with them again! It's amazing how prepared they already are! It was so wonderful to be able to sit down with them and talk about the gospel and they truly want to know more. They had some great questions and the spirit was so strong as we sat with them sharing and testifying.
Then we have Christine, I think I already told you about her but we went to visit with her again and she had read the Book of Mormon and loved how it coincided well with the Bible.
And our fourth one is Joel. We tracted into him and he mentioned that he had some friends who were Mormon. We gave him a Book of Mormon and then this morning we went to go see him again. He let us in and we got to teach him the first lesson. He is amazing, it already make sense to him that we would need a prophet on the earth today and we're really excited to go back and see him again this week. After we shared the first vision with him he said "I believe you guys!"
We are so grateful that the Lord has let us meet so many amazing people. We're not sure if we'll be the missionaries that bring them to baptism, we hope we will be, but we feel so fortunate just to be able to share the gospel with them.
Our other investigators are doing great! We didn't get to teach Joan because she had a doctors appointment but we talked to her briefly and she is doing really well!
Our last lesson with Dolores was pretty rough, 2 of her autistic sons were home this time and so she was really distracted the whole time. We're going to try a different approach and see if we can share more simple short lessons so she can stay focused.
Melissa is awesome! We get to teach her the Plan of Salvation this week and we're excited to get to know her more.
And Jerry is great! He has been doing so well reading the Book of Mormon and he always has such great insight! Sometimes I think he is teaching us more than we are teaching him! It feels that way with a lot of our investigators. They are so amazing and I learn so much from them each time we see one of them.
As you know on Wednesday we got to teach the youth for mutual. It was really cool! We talked to them about how they can do missionary work, and how they can prepare for missions. We did some role playing and then left the remaining time we had for them to ask us questions. It was a lot of fun!
It's been an awesome week! I'm excited to work with each of our investigators and how we will be able to help them grow closer to Christ. I'm so thankful for the opportunity I have to be here on a mission! With every lesson we teach I wonder how I got so fortunate to meet these people. I love my Texans! They are such good people.
I hope all is well at home!
I love you all so much!
The Kingdom of God or nothing!
Love, Sister Gregson
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