October 22, 2012:
Living the gospel doesn’t leave someone the same
Well this week was interesting as usual. We have been really blessed to be working with [an investigator], and she is making great progress! We thought that the Word of Wisdom would be a problem, but she just took it and ran with it. She has a lot of faith and is working really hard in reading the Book of Mormon which is fantastic. Active investigators become active members. So we are really excited for her! Her baptism is scheduled for two weeks from now, so hopefully that will happen. We are calling the hotel today.... (we need more members before we can start asking for baptismal fonts.... so hotels will have to do!) So keep her in your prayers. She is so great. Her and sister Dobiasova totally hit it off, and I'll email you this picture of them from this week when they showed up to our meeting totally matching. It was hilarious, because sister Dobiasova said that they were "Cats" which here means good looking ladies. Haha, so great. I was dying laughing. People are so funny. Especially in Slovak.
Another miracle we had this week was that we got to teach a family. Not just any family, but this ROCKSTAR family. Sister Brimhall and I had no lessons on plan one day, so we were trying to find investigators and people to teach. We tried different streets we hadn’t tried before, and there weren’t many people, so we decided to just go back to the main town square. Our hours of [working] were almost up, and we'd had no success. No one was interested. But then Sister Brimhall said, "Look at that alleyway, what’s down there?" and I turned to look, and without thinking I stopped this really cool looking guy with hip glasses so awkwardly and said, "Hi, we are Mormons, and we talk to people about God." AAAHAHA, so great. And guess what? He stopped. Talked about Mitt Romney and how he didn’t know anything. So I invited ourselves over to his place to teach his children more. He accepted! (Missionary work is so hilarious.) Come to find out, he has FIVE children. Five. And a wife! So not normal here. We exchanged numbers, and he went on his way. I called him the next morning, and I asked when we could come over. I heard him talk to his wife and simply say, "Hey when can the missionaries come over?" And we agreed for one o’clock. No busses really take us to where he lives, so he said he'd come get us by car. Great! I looped Sister Nye into coming with us, and there we stood, waiting in front of the Pope Statue we'd agreed to wait by for him. We were all so nervous, and Sister Nye said, "This is kind of like going on a blind date!" Haha. So we prayed to calm our nerves, prayed our guts out that we'd have the Spirit, and up the street he came. We piled into his little car, and I felt so comfortable with him, it was so weird. He is one of those people who just is so great and can make everyone so happy. Come to find out not only does he have cool glasses, but a cool everything. Seriously amazing. We got to the house, and there were the wife and the kids waiting for us. We all sat down, and the dad told the kids, "Children, a Mormon is running for the US Presidency, we don’t know anything about Mormons, so we are going to learn about them and what they believe in." We started with a prayer, and off we went. We focused on Prophets and the Apostasy. The Spirit was there strongly. At one point the wife turned to her husband and said, "I feel something" and wiped a tear from her eye. The lesson was in Slovak, and I butchered quoting the First Vision, because I was so nervous, but the Spirit was there and made up for our weaknesses. We challenged them to read the Book of Mormon, and the wife thought that maybe we could return next Saturday to teach more. We're praying hard that something will come of this! So keep them in your prayers, they need ya. After the lesson the wife brought us some homemade apple juice from her FOOD STORAGE, and we were off. It was a miracle. And I'm already out of time, give me a break! Sorry everyone! But this was a good story.
I really am trying to put my ALL into this. Every thought, every motive... I want to change. I want to be a different person than what I was when I got here. Sister Brimhall said that I am... which makes me happy. I hope so! I hope so. But then again, I must be, because living the gospel doesn’t leave someone the same. That's the magic of it. It's proven to work. We change, we become new creatures with Christ. I love that! I love being in Slovakia, stopping the most interesting people on the streets and boldly stating I am a Mormon. It’s so fun.
I love you all.
S laskou
Sestra Izatt
Living the gospel doesn’t leave someone the same
Well this week was interesting as usual. We have been really blessed to be working with [an investigator], and she is making great progress! We thought that the Word of Wisdom would be a problem, but she just took it and ran with it. She has a lot of faith and is working really hard in reading the Book of Mormon which is fantastic. Active investigators become active members. So we are really excited for her! Her baptism is scheduled for two weeks from now, so hopefully that will happen. We are calling the hotel today.... (we need more members before we can start asking for baptismal fonts.... so hotels will have to do!) So keep her in your prayers. She is so great. Her and sister Dobiasova totally hit it off, and I'll email you this picture of them from this week when they showed up to our meeting totally matching. It was hilarious, because sister Dobiasova said that they were "Cats" which here means good looking ladies. Haha, so great. I was dying laughing. People are so funny. Especially in Slovak.
Another miracle we had this week was that we got to teach a family. Not just any family, but this ROCKSTAR family. Sister Brimhall and I had no lessons on plan one day, so we were trying to find investigators and people to teach. We tried different streets we hadn’t tried before, and there weren’t many people, so we decided to just go back to the main town square. Our hours of [working] were almost up, and we'd had no success. No one was interested. But then Sister Brimhall said, "Look at that alleyway, what’s down there?" and I turned to look, and without thinking I stopped this really cool looking guy with hip glasses so awkwardly and said, "Hi, we are Mormons, and we talk to people about God." AAAHAHA, so great. And guess what? He stopped. Talked about Mitt Romney and how he didn’t know anything. So I invited ourselves over to his place to teach his children more. He accepted! (Missionary work is so hilarious.) Come to find out, he has FIVE children. Five. And a wife! So not normal here. We exchanged numbers, and he went on his way. I called him the next morning, and I asked when we could come over. I heard him talk to his wife and simply say, "Hey when can the missionaries come over?" And we agreed for one o’clock. No busses really take us to where he lives, so he said he'd come get us by car. Great! I looped Sister Nye into coming with us, and there we stood, waiting in front of the Pope Statue we'd agreed to wait by for him. We were all so nervous, and Sister Nye said, "This is kind of like going on a blind date!" Haha. So we prayed to calm our nerves, prayed our guts out that we'd have the Spirit, and up the street he came. We piled into his little car, and I felt so comfortable with him, it was so weird. He is one of those people who just is so great and can make everyone so happy. Come to find out not only does he have cool glasses, but a cool everything. Seriously amazing. We got to the house, and there were the wife and the kids waiting for us. We all sat down, and the dad told the kids, "Children, a Mormon is running for the US Presidency, we don’t know anything about Mormons, so we are going to learn about them and what they believe in." We started with a prayer, and off we went. We focused on Prophets and the Apostasy. The Spirit was there strongly. At one point the wife turned to her husband and said, "I feel something" and wiped a tear from her eye. The lesson was in Slovak, and I butchered quoting the First Vision, because I was so nervous, but the Spirit was there and made up for our weaknesses. We challenged them to read the Book of Mormon, and the wife thought that maybe we could return next Saturday to teach more. We're praying hard that something will come of this! So keep them in your prayers, they need ya. After the lesson the wife brought us some homemade apple juice from her FOOD STORAGE, and we were off. It was a miracle. And I'm already out of time, give me a break! Sorry everyone! But this was a good story.
I really am trying to put my ALL into this. Every thought, every motive... I want to change. I want to be a different person than what I was when I got here. Sister Brimhall said that I am... which makes me happy. I hope so! I hope so. But then again, I must be, because living the gospel doesn’t leave someone the same. That's the magic of it. It's proven to work. We change, we become new creatures with Christ. I love that! I love being in Slovakia, stopping the most interesting people on the streets and boldly stating I am a Mormon. It’s so fun.
I love you all.
S laskou
Sestra Izatt