I never ever want to stop being a missionary.

Hello my people,

 

I never ever want to stop being a missionary.  I'm late to email today because I was trying to help save a marriage.  This man from St. George, UT came to the desk where me and my companion were and he told us that he's following Elder Nelson's counsel to "Ask the missionaries."  So he did.  He asked us, "How can I have a better relationship with my family, especially with my wife?"  He asked us if there was a video or something that he could see.  Perfect, so we showed him the God's plan for is Family presentation.  Before we watched it, he told us that he's having a really hard time in his marriage.  My brain kept thinking, "Who the heck am I to tell a man how to love his wife?" But I felt the weight and power of my calling as a missionary and knew that he did come to the right place.  What kind of man asks perfect strangers for marriage help?  A smart, humble man does.  So we had a very inspiring time with him.  There's nothing like talking to a bald, middle aged man with crying red eyes in the hallway of a vistor center.  He decided on some specific steps to take to help his family; we just helped him get there.  He told us about the repentance process that he was going through and that he had felt the healing power of the Atonement recently.  He thinks he tries too hard to fix his marriage that he's making it worse.  We reminded him that he's not alone in this.  The atonement heals all pain, not only pain felt from sin.  So now the test is to apply everything.  I'm sure we didn't say anything or read any scripture that he hadn't already heard or read but all three of us knew that his plea to the Lord for help was being answered. 

 

Right before our bald friend, we had a good 'ole tour with 3 nice people from Vancouver and 1 young man from Indianna.  The tour went really well and they seemed to take in a lot of what we said.  They had a lot of questions and we invited them to learn more, as always, through local missionaries or online.  All of them brushed our multiple invitations aside and thanked us for the tour.  We got asked to play the narration for the statue of Christ so then we had to quickly leave our group.  As we were standing there, listening to Christ, we knew we needed to hunt the young man down and re-invite him.  He thought he was safe and alone at the water fountain when we found him and told him that he NEEDS a copy of the Book of Mormon.  He was really shifty eyed and nervous looking throughout our tour but we leaned on him to teach in our lesson because he already has strong faith in Christ.  He goes to a Presbyterian Church so he knew a lot already but didn't know anything about the Book of Mormon.  We were very blunt and honest with him at the drinking fountain and told him why he needs this.  We're pretty convincing people but I know that the Spirit was present in our re-invitation to him.  So, we're sending him a Book of Mormon in the mail and we'll follow up with him in a week or so to see if his life has changed yet.  We felt so alive!

 

That was all just in a couple hours today.  The rest of the week was amazing too.  I got to clean the Salt Lake temple for a few hours this week.  They let us in to see the assembly room where usually only general authorities go.  It's a lot smaller than it seems in the model.  We had a typical French tour on Sunday.  When I asked one of the French women if she wanted to learn more about the gospel, she told me that she's not dillusional.  That was nice and respectful of her.  In that tour, they kept confusing our religion to Amish. 

 

Last night we tried to call as many referrals form Conference as we could.  I talked to two people who are interested to learn more.  One of the girls that said yes calls herself a pothead.  She has smoked pot every day for the last four years so I couldn't disagree with her.  She was almost too open with me on the phone but she does want to change her life around and I told her that the missionaries would love to help her with that.  You know, why not?

 

We have so many amazing investigators online this transfer.  One old lady just committed with us to be baptized and wants to bring her grandkids to Church with her.  She just needs to go to Church now and find the elders in her area to get her wet. 

 

Okay, time is money.

CTR

 

LOVE, SISTER KATIEEEEE