Time is short today, so I'll be brief. Today is a partial preparation day, so we'll doing missionary things this afternoon/evening, and then on thanksgiving, we'll do our two hours of study, and our three hour planning session, and be left to finish our preparations and do other Thanksgiving type things.
We had several wonderful lessons this past week. President Cleveland has instructed us to try to have lessons with investigators in members homes. It's been extremely productive to people's progression. So, that's always really nice and exciting.
J's being goofy again. He stopped reading the Book of Mormon, and started going back to a church that he used to preach at. Several weeks ago we'd suggested that if he writes down all the times he's received a distinct spiritual "prick" (as he calls them), and then the way Heavenly Father wants him to go might be more clear. When we saw him on Saturday, we asked about the list and he said that he hadn't felt anything like that in a while. "The last time was...when I was reading the Book of Mormon." We told him sincerely that we want to help him on his spiritual journey to discover what God would have him do. We read scriptures about the Liahona...and they describe his situation perfectly. It's so obvious to us (not that we're biased or anything) what God would have him do. But he'll come around sometime.
And L is funny as well. He'll bike several miles to meet with us...but he won't come to church. But it's tricky 'cause of work. He'll come around too. We hope :)
On Tuesday, we were in the car before a lesson, and there were thousands of crows flying around everywhere! I've never seen anything like it in my life! And they pooped all over our car that we'd washed the day before. It was super eerie.
And another story. We're really encouraged to do role-plays as part of our companion study, but it's usually really hard to get motivated to do that. We role-played talking to R about his weird method of finding answers. It wasTuesday, and R's lesson wasn't 'til Friday, but I felt like we should go over it anyway. The role-play was really good. I asked R/Sister Tolman if she trusted the internet or her brothers more than she trusted God, and some other inspired things. Right after we finished the role-play, R called to cancel his appointment, but we were prepared with what to say to him. The spirit's purdy cool like that. And role-plays might be cool, too. I haven't made up my mind about that.
Because our ward is close to a University, there's a lot of young couples who leave to go be with family over the holidays. So I taught Gospel Principles, and Sister Tolman and I taught Relief Society yesterday. Both of which we were asked to do yesterday. It was fun. I like being able to talk about the gospel with people who already know it.
Along those lines, however, nobody wants to meet with us this next week, because of Thanksgiving. So we'll probably wander the streets ('cause we're without a car again) looking for people to talk to and service to do. It'll be a grand adventure :)
Hope everybody has a happy Thanksgiving :D
Love,
Sister Bowen
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