On Christmas day we get to skype for 45 minutes so I don't know how you want to do that! I don't know if we can like skype everyone in or what but just so you know that's whats going on :)
I cannot believe it snowed so much in STG! That's unheard of! Crazy. I loved the pictures :) Dadersh is a stud!
This week. Boy oh boy. What a good week! Trust in God. He has a plan.
Church was cancelled for us in Clarksville too! There was no power in the building. Which is kind of a huge bummer because we were excited for some investigators to come to church. Next week! Weirdest thing ever though. Who knew church got cancelled sometimes. I didn't know that was a thing.
There was a pretty intense ice storm this weekend so President made us stay in all of Friday. It was the longest day of my life! We were very bored. Read a lot, prayed a lot, planned a lot, made lots of goals. I mean, there's only so much you can do! We had such a great day planned, too! Huge bummer, but Sister Gibson and I do what President says.
So many miracles this week I don't even know where to start! I'll probably miss some, but that's alright. Miracles:
Tabatha is getting baptized on Saturday and we are so stoked. She is so awesome. I want yall to meet her one day. We called them and told them church was cancelled because the power was out and she was so bummed! They said they had their own little church - watched general conference talks and read their scriptures together and prayed and sang. Such a proud proud moment! She's all spiritually grown up! She had a blessing to help her with not smoking and she said it was so powerful and it has definitely helped her. The priesthood is amazing. Mat was gone for the week and we told Tabatha to sneak a book of mormon in his bag so she tried to, but couldn't fit it. So she told him about it and he was like "if I'm going to take it, I'm going to take the whole thing" meaning the bible, BOM, pearl of great price and D&C. And HE TOTALLY READ! His company commander is actually in our ward so that's really cool. Like I said, everyone here is in the army. It's crazy.
Tuesday I was with Sister Talbert. She came out with me. She's super shy still and it was a pretty rough day because I was literally like a one man show, but! I learned a lot and it was great. We tracted because all of our appointments and backups fell through. We found TONS of new investigators. It was awesome! We are literally teaching like 1/2 the people on this street called Bedford Dr. It's probably going to be translated.
Wednesday I was with Sister Johnson! She has 4 months left on her mission and she is an AMAZING missionary. We had a BLAST together. It was so great. Lots of powerful lessons. We found tons of new investigators that day too just from talking to everyone. Miracles! Also, we were able to help a lot of our less actives know how to build their testimony. It was really cool. You can see the change in people and it is amazing.
We taught Carlos, one of our investigators, the first lesson and he was just all about it. I have literally never met someone so prepared. He has a baptismal date for the first of the year! He is awesome.
Courtney is super super interested and we are going to teach her the first lesson today!
We tracted into a Ondrea and Chris' house and they are super nice! They are Baptist, but it was so cool to see how they really opened up and were interested in learning more. Chris is very interested in reading the Book of Mormon. When the spirit is there, miracles happen and it is the coolest thing.
Ray, who is also super golden, had a lesson with us over the phone because he is super busy and he just loves it! We are teaching him the plan of salvation on Friday and we are stoked because he is so prepared. Member referrals are always the best!
We met Gloria and Quaticah who are also super interested and we have return appointments for this next week. The work is progressing!!!! I finally have understood the art of finding people to teach. They key = trusting in Heavenly Father to help us by the power of the Holy Ghost. He is amazing. This IS His work.
There were just a slew of people who were interested, but those ones are the most prepared to hear the gospel!
A few of our less actives are coming back into activity again!
Also, another miracle. Sister Gibson and I have very different.. work ethics. I have had to be the motivator and the one to help us get to each appointment. I really like being over the area and I really needed those exchanges I had! So that was really cool. AND when Sister Gibson got back from MLC on Tuesday she was so much more motivated and it was a lot less burdensome throughout the day! It was truly a miracle. She is great though and she really is trying her best. We just have different strengths!
This week is week six! Transfer calls are on Saturday! Crazy. I think I will be staying and Sister Gibson will be leaving. I am almost sure of it. I just have a feeling, but who knows! We will just have to see :)
Trust in the Lord. He will provide. (Matthew 7:7-11 and all he asks of us is... http://www.lds.org/
Also, if you ever want a spiritual reality check read Alma 5! It totally lovingly rebukes you and it's awesome. Alma 5:14 - "And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts?" I love it.
I LOVE YOU ALL! Sorry for my scattered emails. Emailing is kinda stressful because there is just so much that goes on! Just know that all is well, and the work is progressing madly. And I love you.
I love the Lord. He knows us individually and it is the coolest thing.
Love,
Sister Boren
PS- If you happen to have some spare mittens or hats please send them my way! :)
We had TONS of sisters at our apartment on Monday night because the Sister Training Leaders were going to Missionary Leadership Conference in Nashville that morning!
Sister Johnson and I. The worlds greatest missionary.
All of the trees froze! Everything around looked glassed over. Even the bushes! They looked like the candy land on willy wonka.
Our car was literally frozen solid. We rolled down the windows and had to punch out the ice! It was pretty fun. This was yesterday morning!
Last thing-
Sister Liebel and Allphin taught this guy and he is straight up from the south.
He told them he was gonna get them "an redneck edge-um-uh-cation (education)" and the window is a "winder". "It's not Lah-faye-ette, its Luff-ay-utt (Lafayette Rd). I just had to share. There's "a mile" and "a mile yonder" apparently if they say "a mile yonder" you just keep going till ya find it and a mile is a mile. They also always say "I'm fixin to leave" or "I'm fixin to make some supper". It's cute. He's hilarious.
I thought you'd appreciate it! You grew up pretty redneck :)
I can't believe brance only got an hour to email when he was out! President just says however long, but we like to keep it 2 hours. Crazy.
Sorry my brain is everywhere today.
Love you mama!
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