September 8, 2012
What did Obama say when his wife left him? "Don't leave me, I don't wanna be obamaself." That, my friends, comes from our wondrous hours of teaching people the gospel on mormon.org chat.
Since we're concentrating on tightening up the screws in our missionary work, we need to have a baptismal date set for all our investigators no later than the second lesson. Our friend, Sambo lives in New York and has been meeting with missionaries on and off for a couple years. He's read the Book of Mormon more times than me but when we invited him to be baptized at the end of this month he said no. Actually, my companion invited him and her poor little new missionary heart may have been crushed. Sambo doesn't think he's ready for baptism and we told him that he would be ready with our help by the end of this month. I wish we could teach him in person so that he couldn't run away from us so fast but the Spirit still works over the phone. We are going to get to the bottom of his concern this week because we know the eternal blessings that come from committing to the Lord. The other hard part about teaching over the phone is that NO ONE EVER ANSWERS THEIR PHONE! Seriosuly. I don't blame them because I ran from people on the phone all the time when I was a regular human. We are ready to teach people and commit them if they would just answer their phones.
We are getting a lot of intrerest from people on the square and online because of Mitt Romney. Of course there are always many crazies but some people are genuinely interested to learn about the Church because of the could be new Pres. We took a precious Hindu couple from Seattle around the square last week who new nothing about the Church and wanted to learn. The thing is that people don't know that the gospel is for them. Temple Square is the perfect place for them to find that out. My other favourite from the square last week was Matt. We managed to acompany him to the Assembly Hall on the square and had a really good conversation with him. He told us that he wasn't sure if God exists. We taught about prayer and the power of the Holy Ghost and asked him if he would get on his knees that night and ask God if he was there. Matt's response was, "Maybe I already have my answer." Darn right, he does! He just needs to keep doing good things and he won't forget God in his life so easily.
Sister Savelio and I LOVE working at welfare square. It's similar to the Beehive House because it's a place where people come to learn or re-learn about the gospel only it's diguised like a formal tour. It's so easy to teach there too because you cannot deny the love that exists within the Church beccause of faith. When there are no guests for tours, we serve people who need our help getting food in the Bishop's storehouse. People come there who are in financial need and basically get free food from the Church. Both members of the Church and non-members come for assistance and are invited to give service somewhere on welfare square in return. This program is genius. Someone asked how many hours these people need to give in service to make up for the cost of the food that they got but there is no answer to that. Essentially, they will not get close to making up for the amount of food they received but it gives them those skills and that hope so they can provide for themselves one day. It is easilly compared to everyone in the world and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We can give all we can because of the things that the Saviour has given us but we will always be indebted to Him. And that's okay because it's part of the plan.
Conference is already in the Temple Square air! We have a daily challenge to get us pumped and ready for the 2 day conference marathon. Instead of having a large number goal for how many portential investigators we can receive from members, we will set a goal of how many baptisms will come from those member referrals. It's genius. I mean inspired. This way, the temple Square sisters (i.e. me) won't be so desperate to find any random name to call, we will focus on getting quality contacts so that these souls can be baptized.
And for the name drop of the week: Sister Savelio and I went on the elevator in the Jospeh Smith Memorial Building last week and had a nice conversation with an elderly couple. He asked my companion about a few people who live in Samoa and when we got off the escalator, he shook our hands and told us he was Elder Groberg. That was followed by a, "Kolipoki." Yep, no big deal, we had a regular conversation with John H. Groberg (The Other Side of Heaven).
I love this work so much!
LOVE, SISTER KYYYYLE
Also, my new favourite videos are a 3 part series with Elder Bednar. Check them out...
September 1, 2012
Hi friends, I love my life.
My new companion is a Samoan dream. I have the pleasure of training Sister Savelio from American Samoa and I love her. She's a lot like me except more knowledgable about the Bible and more afraid of heights. She grew up Baptist and joined the Church when she was 16 so basically she's the man. We get to serve at Welfare Square twice a week and the Beehive House 4 hours/week. We hit the schedule jackpot but it is a lot of historical information for my new companion to learn. I'm mostly excited to befriend the transients that come and go at Welfare Square as well as drin the chocoalte milk there. Since Sister Savelio is new on the block, we got 2 half days to explore the Church sites. When we got bored of the Church buildings, we took breaks to watch Church movies so it was a party. I could not be more content with my job here. The field is white, being harvested.
Love, Sister me
me and my Samoan
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