Dear lovely people,
So yeah, I probably should've mentioned...we have Facebook now! We had
a massive training on it and we're really excited about how this is
going to help us with finding and teaching. So, I'm supposedly going
to be posting inspirational stuff, but not communicating with others
unless it's gospel related.
Sometimes it takes a lot of failure to realize you need to change some
things. This week, we've been trying to get more creative. We
researched some service opportunities, we're in the process of
starting a scripture study class, and are working with the Elders to
become more unified with the ward. A lot of good things are coming out
of the woodwork! One of our investigators we've been struggling to
contact, just moved into an apartment about two minutes away from
ours. We also taught a Hispanic man in a broken combination of our
languages last night. It was amazing how much more powerful a lesson
can be when it's simple like that.
We have several less active women we are working with who have a hard
time with the other women in the ward for whatever reason. Sister
Vaughn and I talked together about how we could help Relief Society be
more unified. We had a golden opportunity yesterday to teach RS and we
got permission to have class in a large classroom instead of the
chapel. We had everyone sit in a circle and invited discussion. There
was so much more love and vulnerability and safety in that room.
Something I've been pondering a lot about is why church is so
important--what's the doctrine? I was studying in John 20 when it says
"the disciples were assembled" on the first day of the week. They were
at church. What happened? Christ appeared to them and everyone was
able to see and hear and know that it was the Savior. Everyone except
Thomas, who didn't believe what the others told him. It wasn't until a
week later when they were again assembled that Thomas could know for
himself. When we come to church and partake of the emblems of Christ's
sacrifice, we can know for ourselves who Christ is.
Have a great week!
Sister Johns
So yeah, I probably should've mentioned...we have Facebook now! We had
a massive training on it and we're really excited about how this is
going to help us with finding and teaching. So, I'm supposedly going
to be posting inspirational stuff, but not communicating with others
unless it's gospel related.
Sometimes it takes a lot of failure to realize you need to change some
things. This week, we've been trying to get more creative. We
researched some service opportunities, we're in the process of
starting a scripture study class, and are working with the Elders to
become more unified with the ward. A lot of good things are coming out
of the woodwork! One of our investigators we've been struggling to
contact, just moved into an apartment about two minutes away from
ours. We also taught a Hispanic man in a broken combination of our
languages last night. It was amazing how much more powerful a lesson
can be when it's simple like that.
We have several less active women we are working with who have a hard
time with the other women in the ward for whatever reason. Sister
Vaughn and I talked together about how we could help Relief Society be
more unified. We had a golden opportunity yesterday to teach RS and we
got permission to have class in a large classroom instead of the
chapel. We had everyone sit in a circle and invited discussion. There
was so much more love and vulnerability and safety in that room.
Something I've been pondering a lot about is why church is so
important--what's the doctrine? I was studying in John 20 when it says
"the disciples were assembled" on the first day of the week. They were
at church. What happened? Christ appeared to them and everyone was
able to see and hear and know that it was the Savior. Everyone except
Thomas, who didn't believe what the others told him. It wasn't until a
week later when they were again assembled that Thomas could know for
himself. When we come to church and partake of the emblems of Christ's
sacrifice, we can know for ourselves who Christ is.
Have a great week!
Sister Johns
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