Dear family,
This week was so, so amazing!! I
loved it! We had a lot of success and a lot of lessons. It seems like forever
ago that last Sunday when I was struggling was and yet it feels like yesterday
that I entered the MTC...time is weird here in the mission field.
So on Monday, we taught T FHE
at the Ss' home. We taught about obedience and prophets and church
attendance. To be honest, it was kind of a boring lesson, but our lesson for tonight
is going to be a lot of fun! I'm excited to teach it. T enjoyed it and
two of her sons were with her. It was good to see them. We just need to figure
out how to engage them more. We also had FHE at the G family's home. they
are great. I absolutely adore the family. They are awesome. We talked about the
Plan of Salvation and I shared my favorite poem--Footprints. I love that poem
so much. We then saw J S. She is a less active who just hit her year
mark a few days ago of being a member. She is one of the sweetest girls ever
and she wants to serve a mission! I love her. She has been reading the Book of
Mormon and she loves it. I'm glad we've gotten to help her.
On Tuesday we had district meeting.
It was really good. I loved it. We went to see I. She is really sweet. She is
a recent convert. She struggles with some things in the gospel but we did teach
her about patriarchal blessings and I think she really wants one now. I shared
my experience with my patriarchal blessing. Without it, I wouldn't be out here.
Then we saw Sister R. She is a less active that is really sweet. She
loves us and I hope we are helping her. We also ate dinner with the S
family. I love them. they have three of the cutest little girls ever. And
Brother S served a mission in Japan! Also, he lived in Idaho for a
while growing up. His family moved when he was on his mission though. We had
MCM and talked about E's baptism, which unfortunately did not happen on Sunday.
But it's okay! We just rescheduled it so that we could have more time to
prepare. It will happen this Saturday at five Cali time. I'm so excited!! She's
so ready. We saw her after MCM and reset her date. We taught her the last part
of lesson five so she's done with her lessons! We do still need daily contact
with her this week--Satan will attack.
On Wednesday, we ate dinner at the
Ss house with E. Sister Arruda's birthday was the next day and we were
celebrating with them. She made chicken scampi which was actually a lot better
than I thought it would be. then we had homemade ice cream! I love homemade ice
cream. We stopped by T..and invited her to be baptized on May 2!!! At
first, she was a little iffy on it. I didn't want to be pushy but I just had
this feeling that I needed to be bold. So I was. She wanted to be baptized in
August but the more we talked about it the more open she seemed. And...she
texted us the next night and asked if May 2 was still available!! She is
getting baptized on May 2! Which is right before transfers so God's hand is
definitely in this. I am so grateful for it. I love T so much. I know I
was meant to be in Hanford for her and for E at the very least. We saw
J again and talked about the Book of Mormon and what she had learned. It
was great!
Thursday we had zone conference. It
was so fun! I got to see Elder Nielsen. I haven't seen him in a really long
time. I talked to him afterwards. President Clark talked a lot about how our
mission will be in direct correlation with our activity in church after our
missions. I am determined to make it the best seven months of my mission--I
don't have that much time left and I need to make it count! We saw an inactive
that we found a couple weeks ago. His girlfriend isn't a member and
we are going to try to teach her. They just had a baby. She's adorable! (We'll
have to teach the law of chastity...) Then we had dinner with the Ms. They
are a cute Baptist couple that love missionaries. They are great. they took us
out for Italian food! We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was great.
E's interview was Thursday too. she passed! She's ready! Then we saw the
Ss. They are the sweetest old couple. I love them.
On Friday, we went to the soup
kitchen. they were really sweet and bought pizza to celebrate Sister Arruda's
birthday. They also got ice cream for us. It was so sweet. I love the people
there. Then we saw the relief society president Sister Barth. She gave us some
less actives to go see. We saw T and taught the Word of Wisdom. She
drinks coffee but she told us she doesn't need it and we commited her to live
the Word of Wisdom starting this day! It was really awesome. Then we saw the
Ms. They are a less active family. They are great though and they lived
in Idaho too! It made me so happy!
Saturday we helped set up for the
Mormon Prom. It was fun! We helped with food and Sister Henderson and I
decorated the food table. It looked really cute afterwards. The lady in charge
was a little crazy though...super perfectionist...worse than me...I think. We
went to see a less active, B G. She called and asked us to stop by.
She's super sweet. I love her. Then we saw a recent convert/less active named
L. We read from the Book fo Mormon with him and he said he would come to
church!
On Sunday, we had FOUR INVESTIGATORS
at church. E came, T and her son K came, and T, a ten year
old we're teaching, came. It was so cool! I was so happy! I want to always
remember the feeling I had during sacrament. K loved church too! he's
eleven and we were nervous. We saw E and taught her about prayer. She is
just so ready to be baptized. We saw J and talked about the things she
had learned. She told us she wants to serve a mission. We ate dinner with the
Haroldsons/Mataaliis'. He's our ward mission leader (Brother Mataalii). Then we
went to the Ls. They are sweet. They have a gorgeous house that I love. I
hope they weren't offended we stopped by. Then we saw K and B again.
We taught the Plan of Salvati0n and B had a lot of questions. New
investigator!
It was a really awesome week and I'm
so grateful for that. I love Hanford. I'm trying really hard to completely love
Hanford. I know two reasons I'm here. I'm grateful for them and I love them.
I love you all! Thank you for your
support!
Always <3,
Sister Abigail Reese
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