Another great report from Sis. Jarvis... and what a musical imagination!
Wu an! :)
Well this week was great, but was definitely harder! We were dropped by two investigators, I didn't have very much success in contacting, and we were dealing with LAs who didn't want to come back to Church.....sad story! :P yes, missionary work is hard and is not always the happiest thing, but it's always worth it :) For example, we had 4 investigators who came to Conference (including the Dad of the family we are teaching this week), had GC, found some golden referrals, have two new investigators, and had some great lessons. It's just the roller coaster of missionary work!
WJM came to Conference and loved it :) We knew we had some important and critical lessons to teach her this last week and so we studied, prayed, practiced, and fasted. We received a lot of guidance from Heavenly Father in how to help her and prepare for the lesson. Two weeks ago, I was really nervous about teaching this lesson, but when the day came this week, Sister Gibson and I both felt very at peace and knew we had been prepared. As we began, WJM seemed worried and nervous, but as we continued she felt the love of her Savior and Heavenly Father and was in tears. We had prepared a talk to give her by Elder Holland that addressed her concerns and she ended up reading the entire thing in the lesson. It brought so much peace to her - I'm so grateful for the words of living prophets and their ability to comfort, strengthen, and heal. We still have a few things to work out and go over with WJM, but she is on the road to baptism and is doing her very best to humbly prepare herself. The Atonement is so beautiful. I know that a month ago, even two weeks ago, I was not prepared to teach that lesson. But through the power of the Atonement, we as the mouthpieces and she as the listener were all taught from on high and prepared to teach such an important lesson.
We have this adorable college girl right now, ZJM, who is our investigator :) She is a member referral which makes it even better, and we have met with her twice. She doesn't have any religious background, but has felt the Spirit at the member's home and truly seems like she has a desire to learn. She is just really busy with her job so that occasionally gets in the way of us meeting with her (that is the number one reason here for people not being able to meet with the missionaries :P), but am so excited to see her progress and come to know she is a daughter of God. :)
So one of our new investigators is this beautiful 60 year single lady who owns a barbershop and it's where we had our lesson. All of the cute lady workers all wear matching pink or blue outfits that literally look like they came straight out of the "Hairspray" generation. All of these little old men were in there getting their hair cut, toe-nails trimmed, etc. It was the perfect set-up for a musical! I couldn't stand it! Here's my Taiwan barbershop musical.....our investigator bursts into song, gliding down the aisle....the lady workers come in as back-up, and the old men chirp in with some low "bummenem....menem bummenem" as they get their hair washed...I love it :)
I've been thinking the last few days about how I could be better about declaring the gospel more boldly. I love the talk that Sister Ann Dibb gave at Conference with the slogan, "I'm a Mormon, I know it, I live it, I love it!" This is such a beautiful view of who we are.....we know this is true, we live the gospel daily, and we are so happy because we love it! I also love D&C 33:9 "Yea, open your mouths and spare not, and you shall be laden with sheaves upon your backs, for lo I am with you." I know that no matter who we are or where we are, we can declare this Gospel with truth and power. We should be so proud to be members of this Church! I'm so grateful to have this opportunity of declaring the Gospel every day in a foreign land to an entirely different race of people. I KNOW it is true - I KNOW our Savior lives and is with us every day and I KNOW that we are all children of God and will all be able to return to live with Him. May we put all of our faith in the Lord every day and open our mouths in praise unto Him.......I hope you all have an incredibly, wonderfully,happy week!
Love, Sister Jarvis :)
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