So last week after emails we did the usual....went grocery shopping, then went home and wrote some letters and then we were trying to find a place that we could do our laundry.... We decided to call the Regans and luckily they were home and said we could come over and do it! :) So we headed over to the Regans and did our laundry and then they invited us to have dinner with them! :) And when we're with the Regans that almost always means a trip to the beach... :D So we ate dinner, then went to the beach and walked around then came back and had ice cream and a little fhe lesson :) It was a great night! :) Tuesday we had zone meeting and interviews with President Stoker! That was awesome! In zone meeting we talked a lot about becoming Christlike! Preach My Gospel chapter 6 is all about Christlike Attributes and so we focused on this chapter. There were lots of good things that we talked about but we did an activity where each companionship read a story in the Book of Mormon like ours was 1 Nephi 17 and then we answered questions about how Nephi showed faith, or what he did that was Christlike and how it relates to us.... So, It was really awesome because this chapter talks about how Nephi was commanded to build a ship! So when I flipped open to read it I remembered there was a cool analogy to share relating to this. There's so many cool ways to relate the scriptures to our lives but I really like this one...... so Nephi was commanded to build a ship....and so are we! We are all commanded to build ships... relationships, friendships, companionships, discipleship, workmanship, worship.......... :D Isn't that cool?! So we talked about that and how Nephi was Christlike and showed so many Christlike attributes...he had faith and diligence and did the Lord's will. Then later after sharing about that I decided to study it more... so I looked in the dictionary and was looking more at what the suffix -ship means and it was just saying how it's a state, condition, quality; office, dignity, profession; art, skill; something showing, exhibiting, embodying a quality or state. interesting.......... so when it talked about quality it reminded me of Doctrine and Covenants 4 and how it talks about qualities that we need and how "faith, hope, charity, and love, with an eye single to the glory of God, qualify him for the work" Okay so this is a bunch of random thoughts that are still running through my head and trying to make sense...haha but it made sense to me at least of how it all relates..... so a quote I love is "God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called" and that is so true! Of course none of us are perfect...but we are striving to become and it's a gradual process. So back to the ship... building a ship is a process... for Nephi and for us! So when we are commanded to build ships it involves these qualities or state of being which qualify us and help us to become! I love how the scriptures teach us that whenever the Lord commands us to do something He always provides a way for us to accomplish it! I just love Nephi's example of courage to go and do and such great faith to do whatever he was asked! In chapter 18 it talks about how Nephi prayed often to know what he should do and that the Lord showed him what he needed to do and how to build the ship. I know that we can turn to our Heavenly Father in prayer and He will help us to build our own ships! And as we work on these things and involve Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ in the process then we can become more like them! God has more of a "to be" list for us than a "to do" list! :) I love that! It seems like there is always so much to do..... and of course there is! but we need to remember what God wants us to be! :) We just need to take those small steps every day that will help us in the process to become more Christlike! Anyway, there's a few of my thoughts about that... haha :)
So! also on Tuesday we went to the Hafen's and had dinner with them and then Victoria came over and also Tiana a recent convert who just came back for school and Katie who is here for school too! We watched a few Mormon messages with them and talked about the Book of Mormon! Tori said she wants to move forward so we are hopefully going to meet with her more and help her to get closer to baptism! :) She was able to come to all three hours of church yesterday which was great!
Wednesday we went to breakfast with Marsha and Helmar and then got to go to Footprints since we didn't have district meeting! :) That was really exciting! :) Then we did our studies and then later had dinner and then bible study! Thursday we went and had a lesson with sister bock and then tried to see a potential investigator Ralph who was taking the lessons in Somersworth but had a stroke and is in rehab in Portsmouth now but still wants to meet with missionaries! So hopefully we'll be able to see him this week because his schedule didn't work out this past week.... We went home and tried to figure out what else we could do and we decided to go see a less active named Belle.... so we drove to her house and knocked on the door... an old man answered and I asked if Belle was there... He couldn't hear very well so I had to yell it like three different times haha and then finally he said nope I'm Jim! So I said well I'm Sister Tait! and he said Come in and meet my wife! :D haha! well alrighty! So we went in and met his wife Nikki and she was really nice and said she goes to the Greek Orthodox church which is right across from our church! We asked if we could share a message and she said sure! So we taught the restoration and it went really well! :) Jim just sat and looked through the pamphlet himself since he can't really hear but she sat with us talked and she said she understands Greek better...so we said we could bring her a Greek Book of Mormon! :) They were super nice and said we could stop by anytime :) So on Saturday we stopped by and gave her the Book of Mormon! She didn't want to meet because she had visitors over but she said she would read it! So hopefully we can meet with her again and talk more about it :) After that we went to the Keele's to pick up some music so that I can play the piano for a musical number for Sister Keele's Relief Society lesson on Tuesday! Then they invited us for dinner :) So we had a great night with them!
Friday we did weekly planning outside because the weather was so perfect! :D and then we visited the Foggs for a little bit then went to the church to practice the songs, then had dinner with Mary and Mandy and FHE with them that Mary prepared about seeing others as Christ does :) It was awesome! Saturday we walked to Nikki's gave her the Book of Mormon, then we visited Janee a potential investigator and shared a message with her! Then we went to Sister Bromfield's and read the Book of Mormon! And then visited some other members that night! Sunday we had church and then practiced the songs with sister keele! She's singing and playing the cello while I play the piano :) And then after that we went and had coordination with Brother Hafen! then we went to the Millett's for dinner! Oh and we also saw Brother Momna! :) So it was a great day! And that was our week! :) Now we are off to our third transual district olypmics! haha should be fun!! :) Hope you all have a wonderful week!! LOVE YOU!! :)
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