Week 65

This was a super weird week, which always makes it go by so much faster. We had zone conference on Wednesday, which is when the mission president and the assistants to the mission president come up and train us on what will help us become better missionaries. It was so good and I always love learning from them. At the end they gave us each a proselyting copy of the Book of Mormon with the challenge to read it in 65 days (the amount of time it took Joseph Smith to translate it) and to mark all of the times it talks about the doctrine of Christ. So any time it mentions faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, or enduring to the end, or examples of those things. It was really cool to then watch conference and hear how many times they emphasized the doctrine of Christ. It made me realize how much we need to know the basics of the gospel to retain our testimonies.

So for conference, we watched three of the four sessions at the stake center. We watched the last session with this adorable older couple from our ward. It was nice to watch a session on a couch - not gonna lie. I love conference. If I am being honest, this was my third conference on my mission and I still can’t tell if I like watching conference on or off my mission better. But I learned so much for myself and for the people I teach. My favorite story that was shared was when K. Brett Nattress shared the story of his mom reading the Book of Mormon to him every morning. It made me think about the converting power of the Book of Mormon and again how important it is to go back to the basics. I am in love with reading the Book of Mormon. I just finished day three of reading while highlighting the doctrine of Christ and it has been so nice to use a fresh copy of the Book of Mormon and to focus on a topic. It really changes what you get out of it.

The only picture I have from this week at the sisters' meeting

I had one exchange this week with Sister Fisher. She is so fun and it’s always so nice to get to learn from other missionaries. She came into my area (so my poor companion was on a bike on the rainiest day we have had so far – it poured buckets) and we got to have a lot of lessons. The elders called us about half way through the day and said that they had set up a Spanish lesson for us for that night. Luckily we didn’t have anything set and we were able to find a member to go with us last minute. But it was SO much harder to teach a Spanish lesson with no help from my companion. That was my first real “lesson lesson” with a Spanish investigator without help. The member was awesome - thank the heavens he could come! But I made it through and the family is awesome. Their little boy is the most polite 12-year-old I have ever met in my entire life. It is so cool how they got introduced - his teacher gave him a Book of Mormon as a Christmas gift and then he wanted to learn more about it so we got to teach him and his mom. I love them!

Other than that, we had some lessons with really awesome people. We are trying to get our ward to visit the less active members so we can focus on finding and teaching the people who are hearing about the gospel for the first time. It has been going pretty well because we are finding a lot more people to teach! #blessed

I hope you all had a great week. I pray for you alllll the time. Love you all!

Sister Doxey