Tuesday Marsha and Helmar took us took breakfast and then we went to the food pantry! Then after that we went and did some service for Mary! We had dinner with the Lyons and the Storaces! We talked about the restoration with them and it was neat seeing how the gospel has impacted their lives the Lyons have been members all their lives but Brother Storace and his kids are recent converts and it was really cool to have them all participate in the lesson and share their testimonies!
Wednesday we had district meeting and then bingo and then it was a really nice day which was awesome because we had planned to do some street contacting! We walked around Portsmouth and hung up some posters for the blood drive we were having at the church on friday and then we came back and went to sister whitney's for dinner!
Thursday we went and saw sister bock and we read 1 Nephi 1 with her and talked about how it relates to the message of the restoration and parallels to the first vision! We had a great lesson with Steve! He is so awesome! We read Mosiah 18 and talked about baptismal covenants and also really focused on service, missionary work, temples and family history! He's really excited about family history work and the temple! He is really getting involved and has already started going on family search, has already invited people to come to his baptism, and is signing up for everything! He even signed up for tithing settlement and then had to ask us what he was even signing up for :) It was so cute to hear him talk about it all and just his excitement about everything! We went and walked around Portsmouth for a little while again and then had dinner with the Meads!
Friday was pretty much weekly planning and then we were at the church all day doing the registration for the blood drive! Then we went to dinner with the Mitchells!
Saturday we made chili for the chili cook off! We went and saw sister bromfield! She is getting rid of a bunch of stuff so we helped her de-junk a little and then just read a little in the Book of Mormon! Then we had to hurry home to get our chili so we could go to the church for Tori's baptismal interview and we were making some phone calls to invite people! We called Amber who we saw the other week and she said they were having a date night so they couldn't come... then a few minutes later she called back and said that they actually wanted to come so she asked for the address and she and her husband came! It was a really awesome night! Tori had her interview :) So Saturday it is!! The chili cook-off was really fun....even though our chili didn't win...haha!
Sunday we went to ward council and then had a lesson with Tori and went over the same things we did with Steve about covenants and she is just so excited too! Now we really need to get finding and building up our teaching pool since our two investigators are going to be members soon!! :D We had the primary program and it was so awesome! So grateful for all the cute little primary kids and their sweet spirits and testimonies! It was so good! I'm so grateful for the theme families can be together forever!
oh speaking of being grateful... that's kinda been one of the themes we've had as we've visited with members this week...seeing as how it is November and thanksgiving is almost here! We've been talking a lot about gratitude and inviting people to have a prayer of gratitude and it's so powerful to be able to hear some of those powerful, simple prayers! Last night we went to the Hafen's for dinner and one of the little girls said the prayer and it was so sweet just saying thank you for everything! There was a talk I read a little while ago that I really liked that talked about when the Savior healed the 10 lepers and how the one came back and said thank you...it talked about how interesting it is that is says "thy faith hath made thee whole" he didn't say "your gratitude hath made thee whole" but that's what it was...it was his gratitude that healed him...gratitude is faith! another thing that I read that I think is interesting is that faith is not just a feeling, it's a decision...so as we decide to be grateful and acknowledge the Lord for all our blessings then we can show our faith and we can be healed and strengthened. I think that is so cool and I am going to work on that to show my faith through my gratitude! "And now I would that ye should be humble, and be submissive and gentle; easy to be entreated; full of patience and long-suffering; being temperate in all things; being diligent in keeping the commandments of God at all times; asking for whatsoever things ye stand in need, both spiritual and temporal; always returning thanks unto God for whatsoever things ye do receive. And see that ye have faith, hope and charity and then ye will always abound in good works." Alma 7:23-24 So much to be grateful for! Love you lots!! Have a great{ful} week! :)
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