New investigators!

Our Mondays are some of the busiest, which is hard. ): Get all the temporal things done so we can be spiritually minded during the week and all that... Sometimes (most of the time) it doesn't feel like an hour is enough to get everything I want to say to everyone...

We’re trying very hard to get members more involved; in a lot of places the members are super helpful, but in a lot of places they also aren't... Hard to get people to be gung-ho. Our meal calendar gets passed around here, but we have no meal coordinator, so no one tries to fill in the significant gaps... Maybe one or two meals a week here, in an area with a lot of members. Hm. (we try to feed the missionaries in our ward about once a month – the calendar is always full…the coordinator is very good).  We've been counseled to call members ourselves to find time to meet with them (since it’s not really about feeding us; it’s about getting into their homes and meeting them and getting to know them and getting them excited about missionary work)...

Speaking of which, we've had missionaries in our home many a time, but I can't really remember anything that they shared or any of it really sticking with me. What are some memorable things missionaries have shared? Why did they stick with you? We want to get better about sharing things with families that get them to think, to reach, etc. Thoughts?

We got 5 new investigators this week. Two Catholic couples and a woman who sat in on a lesson with one of our other investigators (she's a little along for the ride - good). One of the couples is from Africa and speak French and Ewe (I'm not sure I can explain how that is pronounced). They're both super active in their church, but were so dedicated to God and following him that they essentially said 'We will do whatever God directs us to do". Super powerful experience I think. There are some people out there who are just SO willing to do whatever the Spirit directs. I wish more people were like that. The other couple was a little more quiet. It seemed to be a pretty surprising assertion that God called a prophet again on the earth today and that they would need to look into it more... Curiosity perhaps, but it may go from there. Now the trick is to see them again. \ o /

I was reading a Marvelous Work and A Wonder and I loved it; finished it this week. I'm fascinated by the assertion that either the Catholic church or the LDS church is true, because if the Protestant movements are correct in their assertion that the Catholic Church (their mother church) was apostate, then essentially they inherited that Apostate condition and reformation isn't going to put it back exactly the way it was (especially if the number of protestant churches is any indication)... So they're pretty much automatically not the correct church? Woops. And it (in the intellectual sense I guess, since this doesn't really include revelation from God through prayer, etc.) comes down to, did Peter pass his authority on to his assistant (I forgot his name! ;-; The one that the Catholics believe their authority through.) or did he not? And I think that the revelations (literally the book of Revelation) given to John (the apostle with the most seniority of the surviving ones- wasn't he the last remaining one by that point?) instead of the other guy is rather telling? There’s so much more on the logical argument honestly, but that’s really not what a testimony is founded on anyway. 

We're trying a local cream soda I was telling you about last time around. Apparently bottled by the Amish community here. Sounds like heresy but delicious all the same.

Thank you for the miso recipes! :) (as requested…they wanted to make a wonton soup that we made at home before she left.  LOTS of miso paste left over, so I sent a few recipes).

<3 (heart….love)

Christine