Anyway about my week here in Independence South. By the way, I'm staying for my 5th transfer! Whoop whoop! We saw so many miracles and wacky stuff this week I'm excited.
We were able to have a lesson with Tom. He has been very busy so we haven't been able to set something up with him but he comes to church every week. The whole ward really loves him and if he's ever out of town for something and misses church, they always ask about him. We had a lesson last Sunday about the law of chastity which is something Sister Neuffer and I sensed he might have a problem with. When he met with us this week he said he loved the lesson. He said a few weeks ago he had the impression he had a problem with that and needed to change. He said he couldn't remember what he was doing or what he was reading but he knew he needed to change. We talked about the Holy Ghost and how it speaks to us in different ways to tell us what we need to know. As we talked about it, Tom said that was what he has felt at church and specifically in the Gospel Princeples lessons on Honesty and the Law of Chastity.
On Wednesday we saw the Judge! And guess what! President and Sister Randall came! That was amazing. We talked a lot about Jesus Christ and what He has done for us. It was probably one of the more focused lessons we have ever had. President also said that it was a lot better than the one he went to about a year ago with the Judge. Also, the Judge is coming to church! Hopefully. We have been slowly but steadily trying to commit him to church. One of his judge friends is actually the stake president in one of the other stakes in our mission and so he might come to stake conference on sunday. If he does, President said we could go with him! A
On Saturday, we set a goal to invite 20 people to church. Sister Neuffer had an impression to go to Fairmount, the wealthier part of our area, not our favorite part so we are hardly ever there. We went and talked to some people but no one was very interested. So we headed to our appointments. Later that day we ended up having to drop something off at home with only about an hour and a half left till our next appointment and after that we would be done for the day. We still needed to invite about 13 more people to church. We went back to Fairmount and invited about 4 more people. We really didn't have very much time left but we wanted to reach our goal. So we said a prayer and went to work. We stopped 5 people in about 3 minutes. None of them were interested but we kept moving forward. We were able to then exceed our goal by inviting 24/20 people to church. As we were heading to our appointment we saw a man standing on a corner and we decided why not. So we met Nicholas. He had been to temple square and seen a video about the Church but that was basically all he knew. He was really interested in learning more and we were able to set up a lesson with him for Thursday.
Saturday we also had another very odd lesson. Sister Garner, I hope you know who this is about. This was a very odd lesson. John called us the day before and asked us to come over and we could have a lesson and then we could eat because it was Veteran's Day. John wanted to pick up where the sisters left off last time. We read Mosiah 5 but when John reads the scriptures, he just shouts. While we were in the lesson an ecclesiastical leader came over because John had called him earlier. John wanted him to bless the food. So he came, blessed the food, and then left. We had to go but John was upset that we couldn't eat with him. So he packed up some food for us to take home. As we were leaving another ecclesiastical leader showed up. Both of those men were very confused why we were there. We were also confused why we were there. Ruth, John's mother, was very lovely. She liked reading the Book of Mormon.
Sunday, we decided to knock the street of our referral. We received this referral a few weeks ago but never had time to knock the other houses around. While we were knocking, a woman walked around the corner we said hello and then introduced ourselves. Immediately, she burst into tears. She said she knew that God sent us to her today. We were able to teach her about the Book of Mormon and set up another appointment. The best part is she lives in another apartment in the same row home as our referral. I feel like Heavenly Father has a sense of humor sometimes.
I know Heavenly Father answers our prayers. All we asked for was to reach our goal on inviting people to church. He gave us those people even though they weren't interested. After we worked our tails off He led us to Nicholas who was prepared to hear our message. Heavenly Father doesn't usually answer our prayers in the way we want it, but they are always answered the way they should be. I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Lots of Love!
Sister Van Buskirk
Sister Van Buskirk
We made some defense systems against our mice! P.S. we caught two more.
All my companions! :( This was at their departing temple trip and since the temple is in our area I just "happened" to be there. Okay actually my companion was there so I had to go pick her up.
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