Hey Everyone!
Ok so this was a really fun week! Tuesday we had exchanges with the
Phenix City sisters. Phenix City is right across the river in Alabama. I stayed
here with Sister Miller and Sister McNeely went to Phenix City with Sister
Waycott. It was really fun! Sister Miller is super brave and seriously talks to
anyone! Her goal was to get better at contacting but honestly she is better at
it than I am. She is really good at working gospel things and her testimony in
while she is contacting. By the way I totally feel for Madison because I also
dislike street contacting. It's just so hard to walk up and talk to random
people on the street! I am a lot better than I used to be though. Our motto is
"it's only awkward if you make it awkward." All of our appointments canceled on
Tuesday so we did a lot of tracting. We did run into this really creepy old man!
He wanted us to come in so he could show us one of his tattoos and we were like
"well we have an appointment so we have to go." He was pretty strange. Then on
Wednesday we had a really awesome lesson with Destini! Marshall was there (he is
the one leaving on his mission in August) and we introduced the Book of Mormon
and talked about that. She had read the pamphlet we left and she had marked
chapters in the gospel principles book she wanted to read. She is pretty
awesome. We also watched the Patterns of Light mormon message videos with her by
Elder Bednar because I love how he talks about the difference between the Light
of Christ and the Holy Ghost and how we can recognize different spiritual
promptings. It was a really good lesson. She was going to come to church
yesterday but then she got sick so she didn't make it. Then we had a lesson with
Brittani, we had also assigned her to watch the patterns of light video so we
talked about that. She is different to teach just because she has never been
religious so she doesn't really know anything about God or Jesus Christ which is
very different from the people we usually run into. It's fun to try and figure
out how we can help her feel and recognize the spirit so we can help her find
her answers. Then we went and apologized to Shamiracle's mom so she likes us
again. Then on Thursday we had MLC (missionary leadership conference) in Macon
and it was so fun! Sister Wood was there so I got to catch up and hear about how
things are going in Augusta! That was so much fun. She caught me up on all of
the happenings. The meeting was really good. We talked about being busy vs
effective and how we can help our investigators want to come to church.
President McCoy gave a training on motivation which was kind of scary and then
President Cottle talked about "locking your hearts" because I guess there is
flirting going on with the missionaries. I get to train on that at Zone
training, it should be fun. We also talked about numbers and other things like
that. It was a really good meeting! Very inspiring as usual. Then Friday we
pretty much planned all day. Planning is like the bane of my existence.
Seriously. Then Saturday was a good day. The Elders had a baptism, this guy who
is a lawyer whose friend is LDS and basically one day this guy called up his
friend and said he had been studying about his church for the last couple months
and he wanted to join! It was really cool. We had a lesson with Cheryl who is a
mess but she is funny. She finally read from the Book of Mormon like we asked
her to and she seemed a lot happier! We also had a lesson with Shamiracle and
basically just reviewed things. We moved her baptismal date to June 21 but they
didn't come to church yesterday so we aren't sure what happened because they
were all set to come Saturday night. Then Sunday we had a really good lesson
with Yovette! She is really funny. She is concerned about coming to church
because she doesn't want to feel lost and out of place which is totally
understandable so we are going to set up a time when we can give her a church
tour and have some members meet us there so she feels more comfortable. She
seemed to love that idea. Yesterday in church they talked all about the
priesthood and how authority was restored. Then after church we got a call from
the branch president of the Auburn YSA branch who had a referral for us who
lived in our area. He says she has been going to their branch the past few weeks
and wants to meet with the missionaries but since she lives here it's too far
for the YSA sisters to travel. We are going to stop by and try to meet her
tonight, she sounds pretty cool. We have been getting a lot of referrals lately,
it's pretty awesome! I really love being here in Columbus! I could totally be
here for a long time, like five transfers or something. I hope Sister McNeely
can squeak in another transfer here. We are giving a training on unity this
Thursday at zone conference and there was a scripture I really loved in Alma
when he is talking about the success the sons of Mosiah had with the Lamanites
and it's Alma 29:14-16 "But I do not joy in my own sucess alone, but my joy is
more full because of the success of my brethren, who have been up to the land of
Nephi. Behold, they have labored excecedingly, and have brought forth much
fruit; and how great shall be their reward! Now, when I think of the success of
these my brethren my soul is carried away, even to the separation of it from the
body, as it were, so great is my joy." I really loved this scripture because
Alma is rejoicing for the success his brethren had, he wasn't just worried about
the success he was having. I just love it because sometimes we get so caught up
in wanting "our baptisms" and not being happy when other people have succes and
we forget that we are all on the same team! Oh and I forgot one thing! Sister
Cottle called us last Monday and said that at the Macon stake conference they
wanted a missionary choir but the Macon zone doesn't have enough sisters so all
of the sisters from our zone get to go sing in the choir! Pres McCoy and his
wife are going to rent a giant van and drive us down Saturday and then we get to
have a sleepover at the mission home! It's going to be so much fun! I think that
is all of my news. I love you all and appreciate you prayers and support! Now
it's time to pray that I don't die in the heat! Ha ha. Love you all!
Love,
Sister Price
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