THEY CAME TO CHURCH - MAY 1, 2017

 

4/30/2017

 

 

Hey family!! Guess who came to church this week?!? BRENDA AND JORGE

AND ALL THE NIÑOS!! Greatest ever. The niños we're running around a

lot during sacrament meeting.. but they enjoyed all the classes and

everything! And the members were super good to them. This branch is

the best :) and Brenda even called us this morning to tell us that

Abby (the 3 year old girl) was telling her all about how much she

loved Primary. Haha! They're hoping to be able to go next week and

keep going :) it was awesome, we gave them a little tour before church

starts and we saw the baptismal font. Abby asked if they were going to

take a bath there, and Brenda said "yeah, someday we'll be there

taking a bath" :) I know it was a huge and hard step for them to take,

but they're already seeing the blessings of church attendance.

It was a funny Sunday, I actually spent the last two hours in primary.

Haha! The primary President knew I knew a little about music so she

asked my help with the Mother's Day songs next week. So I went in

prepared to play piano, and then she left and turned it all over to

me.. haha so I played the music on the iPad and taught them the songs!

I drew on the board to help them learn the words and they told me I'm

a bad artist. Hahaha it was fun though :) mom I wish you were here to

help them! You are THE primary music lady, you know.

This week was really great, though! Nice and busy :) we had a bunch of

appointments and two exchanges! One sweet miracle we saw was when we

went to Noches de Columbia with sisters Fernandez and Hernandez and

I love these sisters. We had a great exchange!
4/26/17

this random worker walked over and said "so who are the Mormons? What

do you guys believe?" And he was genuinely interested! He's looking

for the true church!! So that was cool :) we got his info and we plan

on telling him all about what we believe! Then this guy that was

probably not very sober asked us for a Book of Mormon on the street

and that was funny. Haha people are funny. We also had a really good

time drawing the Plan of Salvation in a busy park in Englewood :) it

was super fun!

We also did this great new service on Wednesday morning where we went

and cleaned up this community nature preserve. It's a bunch of old

retired hippie people who love the earth and gardening. Haha and the

old ladies just adore the elders. So that'll be fun to keep going! It

feels so nice to be outside and in dirt and stuff. Yay nature!!

We had some awesome lessons this week, one in particular with an

investigator in a member's home. That's the dream! They connected well

and he learned a LOT. We're excited to talk to him again soon. We also

met this new investigator in a park and the lesson went well! We're

trying to figure out how to teach the Restoration and help people

understand what a big deal this actually is. We've come to the point

of telling them really clearly "this is THE church of Jesus Christ on

the earth again and we're the only ones with the right authority to

baptize people to be able to be saved." I don't know how to say it a

lot clearer than that.. but sometimes they still don't get it!! Silly

gooses. They just don't understand their eternal salvation is in the

balance. Man.

This week I had a great time reading in the Book of Mormon! I finished

2 Nephi this morning. I'm probably way behind.. but I love that book

so much. It's amazing to think about Nephi and his family and that

they were actually real people with real lives and feelings and

friends and situations. And yet Nephi especially was SO faithful. He

put the Lord and the commandments first in everything he did. And he

was so blessed for it! And I think sometimes I lose sight of what's

really important. It's not what other missionaries think of me or what

members think or comparing myself to my friends at home that are

married and having babies or whatever. This life is so much more than

a lot of little things, it's a journey back home to our Heavenly

Parents. It's doing our part day by day to receive the grace of the

Savior to be able to live with all of them again and have peace and

success in this life. It's amazing how the Book of Mormon helps us put

our lives in an eternal perspective and understand what true happiness

is. Keep reading it, folks :) it's trueeee!!

Have an awesome week! See you on Skype soon 🙃

Hermana Millington

New Jersey Morristown Mission