MIRACLE OF THE WEEK: Let me first start off by saying I
love Mutual (A weekly gathering or activity for Mormon teens during the week)! Always have, always will! :) Thank you to all my leaders for
making mutual a wonderful experience. I know it is not easy. BUT it is powerful
and definitely brings blessings and miracles.
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| Hermanas Crotzer y Newman with a recent convert who moved from Texas |
We have been working with the
Rivera family for a very long time. They are doing well, but need to be putting
in a little more effort. They are a part-member family. The mom is a less
active and the girls are our investigators. We have been struggling knowing how
to help them progress. Well, Mutual was the Key.
We invited them to Mutual and
wanted them to get involved. The first week, we invited they didn’t come. Second
week, same thing. The third week... they came. And as a result, they went to
the Young Women’s campout this weekend and came to church on Sunday! One of the
girls was telling me all about church and what she learned and how much she
loved it. She is excited to come to Mutual tomorrow and start volleyball with
the branch this weekend. MIRACLE right there.
This helped my testimony grow of
ward support. When the branch/wards are involved, that’s when things happen, that’s
when the work moves forward and people can progress. Don’t know how to do
missionary work? Invite a friend to church or an activity! Easy as that. They
will feel something just from being in the church or being around members. It
works! I promise. People have agency and can and will say no sometimes, but it
never hurts to try and more often than not, people are willing to come to do something
fun or learn something new.
Challenge: Give it a try this week! Invite someone
to church or an activity. Let me know how it goes :) I am excited to hear your
miracles.
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| Hermana Newman ready to pull some weeds! |
I have been asking a lot of people about General Conference lately
and what themes they noticed, which talks were their favorites, etc. Conference
is amazing and everyone likes different talks by different people, which is
good because we all have different questions and need different things in our
lives. But I noticed a lot of people mentioning how much they liked Elder Dube's talk. That talk was really hard for me to understand because of the interpreter
in Spanish and the dubbing was not done super well for his. I decided this
week I would go back and reread his talk. And yes, it was pretty great! :) The
message in all was great but a few things stuck out to me that I would like to
share with you all.
"In the sight of the Lord, it is not so much what we have done or where we have been but, much more where we are willing to go."
"In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve, but how.""The past is to be learned from but not lived in.""Our common goal is building the Kingdom of God.
I wrote these quotes down and really have been thinking
about them a lot this week. Where am I willing to go and do? Am always looking forward or dwelling
on the past? Am I learning form the past? How am I building up the Kingdom of
God? These are just a few of the questions I have been asking myself, and I
invite you to ask yourself as well and evaluate accordingly.
Time is up so I better go. Remember I love you and am
praying for you! Thanks for your love and support :) Have a wonderful week.
Smile and laugh lots!
Con Amor,
Hermana Newman :)
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