On Wednesday, I got a ride to the mission office with Sister Hanks
(fancy seeing her again😊) and both of us picked up our daughters. 29
missionaries came in this transfer! That's insane! Half the mission is
training! Well, slight exaggeration, but still. 10 new sisters!
Afterwards, my beautiful baby, Sister Kinser, and I got our new car,
new keys, and new address and drove off the Lawrenceville. So both the
car and apartment had been owned by elders before. Yeah. It wasn't
pretty. We spent pretty much the whole rest of the day cleaning. There
was no way the Spirit could be in that apartment.
The next day we got to work. We had no ward list, no map, no idea of
the ward boundaries, no former investigators to work with, so we
tracted. All day. And the Lord saw fit to bless us for our effort.
This past few days I have taught more lessons and found more
investigators than I have any other full week of my mission. We have
found so many of the elect. Sister Kinser is already such an amazing
missionary. And in all honesty, she reminds me a lot of myself. Which
is a bit odd. And a bit awesome.
Two miracles of the week:
We tracted into this lady on he phone. She obviously was occupied and
wasn't in the mood to talk to us. We handed her a pamphlet, asked if
we could come back in two days, got a hurried, "sure," and left. We do
this a lot and it hardly ever actually happens. Two days later, we go
back. She opens the door and doesn't even recognize us. Not
surprising. But we introduce ourselves again, and she goes "oh! You
left the book!" and lets us right in. She had read it several times
and had plenty of questions. We had the most amazing lesson and she
accepted to hear the rest of our lesson because she was looking for a
church and she really liked what we taught of the priesthood
authority. So amazing!!
That evening, we got a text from the elders telling us they had set up
an appointment for us the next day. So the next day, over we go. Whoa.
The door opens, she ushers us in, and proceeds to say "the elders gave
me this book, asked me to read 2 Nephi 31, which I have done three
times to make sure I understood, and asked me to be able to answer the
question of 'Is baptism necessary'? Of course!" She then continued to
teach us the rest of lesson 3, then stopped and added, " I've also
read the introduction and the testimonies in the front, but I don't
understand. Could you explain who Joseph Smith is and what the Book of
Mormon really is?" Why yes. Yes we can. Such an amazing lesson. Modern
prophets and priesthood authority and further scripture blew her mind,
but it all made sense. She agreed to pray and read daily, and once she
knew for herself, to be baptized. I left on cloud 9. Sister Kinser was
practically dancing. Actually, she was dancing. It was kinda fun to
watch how the Spirit and teaching others really brings you so much
pure joy. Has been a good week to say the least.
The ward is a lot smaller and not quite as diverse as Johns Creek, and
a lot more southern, which is a ton of fun! But they are so amazing
with supporting the missionaries. They try to give us team ups every
single day, which is mind blowing for me! I LOVE it! I have a feeling
I'm going to love it here😊
Love ya'll!
Sister Garver
PS my new address is 9102 Holland Pl, Lawrenceville, GA 30043
PPS Sister Kinser likes frogs. So we found one :) And please don't
mind my P Day appearance. It's my one day to look however I want :)
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