So I don't know if I told you right before I got here the Portland
mission boundries were changed. Portland is really small now. I don't
even think the airport is in our mission anymore. anyways, so our areas
are smaller. We just have the lake oswego ward boundries and it's cut in
half because we have two sets of missionaries in our ward. The lake
oswego area is a very hard area anyways. They are very wealthy here and
no one thinks we have anything that would make them happier than what
they already have. So the last two weeks we've been full prosyliting
sisters because the visitors center is closed and we've been starting
with no investigators or anything. So last week all four of us have been
sick and we didn't really get anything done. but while we were
contacting a referral which wasn't home like usual and so we decided to
tract the area because we had an hour until dinner. so the next house we
went to my companion decided it should be my first door approach. so i
knocked and told her who we were and asked if she'd heard of us. she
said "yes, been there done that. come in." wow my first door approach
got us in. nice work sister harris. so we talked to her for a little bit
and then asked her what been there done that meant. she was a convert.
she got married in the temple. but then her and her husband had a lot of
questions that no one would answer and so they started doing research.
We were there for like two hours and she was trying to shake our
testimonies and start questioning. Everything we said we backed it up
with something, but all we really could do was bear our testimonies. She
told us not one of the things she told us would make her leave it was
all of them combined. It was heart breaking. During the week some
members told us about a lady who goes to primary with her kids who isn't
a member who is a former investigator and that we should go talk to
her. We went and saw her and she goes to primary because she had no
religious background and doesn't know anything and that the lessons got
way too overwhelming. but she's ready to start taking the lessons again
once school starts. Yay! our hard work is finally paying off. We have
one investigator haha and then on sunday
a guy in the ward came up to us and said he had a friend who wanted to
start taking the lessons. The visitors center is opened on sundays so he
brought him to the visitors center and started with the first lesson
and the ward member took over and made it way too deep. we need to talk
to him about that. but now we technically have two investigators! yay
haha we didn't do much this week but we're getting somewhere. The church
is true my friends! There is no way Joseph Smith could have made any of
this up. Why would he go through all that he did and put his family
through it if it wasn't true. It brings so much joy to me, but there
will be hard times because of oppossion in all things. You should read
Safety for the Soul by Elder Holland. IT's amazing. love you all. miss
you. see ya soon
Here's a link to the talk she was talking about.Safety for The Soul - Elder Holland
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