It snowed this week and guess who is the designated driver... The missionary from Tucson... And it's supposed to snow tonight and all day tomorrow. Our cars will probably be grounded so don't worry mom, I won't kill anyone.
My new companion is Sister Crane! She's from American Fork, UT (3/3) but she lived in AZ for the first part of her life! She super nice and we are going to have a great transfer!
We had a really good week in Milford. We met with the Nairainswamys (Peter and Lucille) again this week and invited them to be baptized again and again they said no. We talked about priesthood and at first they didn't seem to see the importance. But as we read from the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I think their hearts began to soften. They said they are going to reread the scriptures we gave them and pray about the priesthood. We were pondering who we should invite to join us for their next lesson and we decided to ask Brother Duemmel. Brother Duemmel has a great love and appreciation for the Book of Mormon which is something we believe Brother Nairainswamy is developing. We thought that bringing him would help him understand the role and importance of the priesthood. We were supposed to have a lesson this week but I think with the snow storm they might cancel.
Our other investigator, Chrystal is I don't even know. We had a lesson earlier this week and we planned to teach the Restoration but she kind of directed the lesson. She told us the week before that this was going to be an educational thing to learn what the "Mormons" believe. That's how the lesson started was her taking notes and looking at pictures of maps of the world online. She had read up to 1 Nephi by the lesson on Tuesday. Then she asked about the scripture I posted on Facebook and who was Mosiah and how does everything line up with Noah and the Jaredites and everything and we tried to explain it all clearly and slowly so we think she understood. We met with her again on Saturday and taught the Plan of Salvation but we didn't get very far. She is looking for the truth but she wants Lots of proof for the truth we give her instead of listening to the spirit. Hopefully we can have a spiritual lesson soon.
We contacted some former investigators this week. One became our new investigator. One will be a new investigator next transfer just because she is so busy. One is so busy he can barely meet with us even though he is interested so we didn't schedule another lesson. Destiny, the one that became our new investigator, is really nice. She doesn't exactly believe in God but she doesn't want to say she doesn't believe that there is something. We invited her to read the Book of Mormon so for our next lesson we can talk about that and how we know that God is our loving Heavenly Father.
We also spoke in Sacrament meeting this week. Our branch mission leader asked us to speak on encouraging member missionary work. I shared some personal experiences I had with member missionary work before my mission and talked about how as we lean on the Lord for guidance and strength, He will give it to us. I hope someone in the congregation felt the spirit and maybe thought of someone they could share the gospel with.
I hope you all are reading the Book of Mormon! It's such a great way to understand how we can follow Christ. I know that as we read and pray about it, I can gain a testimony that Christ is our Savior. Have a great week!
Lots of Love!
Sister Van Buskirk
Wednesday we walked and it was sunshiney and we saw a tank.
Friday we walked and it was snowing and terrible.
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