I love the stories and experiences you share with me. Thank you. I am so happy and grateful for the example you set for me of scripture study. I remember waking up in the morning and going to get some brakefast and seeing your bowl of cereal out with your scriptures open next to it. :) I will never forget that. It was such an example to me of consistant scripture study.
I know Taylor will do good on his mission and sure the MTC will be a wake up call and it will be tough, but if it is not then you know there will be another humbling experience coming your way just around the corner. It was so humbling to me when I went to the MTC. I remember going in thinking, "Ya I've got this! I can teach people the gospel" but boy was I wrong. I am not even to do the teaching. I am purely there to help create the right environment to where the spirit can be felt and the investigator can teach themselves. I love missionary work dad! it is great! Have you been able to do any lately? I know it can be quite hard in Utah but I'm sure it is still possible. Just pray for those opportunities and they will come.
We definitely go tracking a lot. We have had some success with it. We just have to know what time is the best to go and where are the best areas. The greatest is when we pray before our nightly planning and we both look at the map and a street jumps out at both my companion and I. I've had that experience before. I even had a dream the other night of a street that I feel we need to tract and it was a street that Sister Crookston also felt we should do. It is quite a ways away. It will take us an hour bus ride to get there but it is worth it even if just one person were to listen to what we have to share. I will let you know how it goes when we tract it.
We definitely run into a lot of other ministers. Just like with you most of them are kind but we get a few that just want to bash. We've even seen 2 Jahova's Witnesses going around tracting doors. It was funny we had a nice little chat with them.
Well I love you so much and hope your week goes nicely!
Love your missionary- Alyssa
This last week started out interesting. I was feeling quite agrivated last p-day for no reason. I decided I should go into the other room and council with the Lord. As I did I very strong impression came to me that I should fast. Inside myself I could feel my natural man fighting to give into my spirit. But as I finished my prayer I knew what I needed to do. I started my fast to allow my spirit to be more in control and have the Lord leading and guiding me in the work. I know how important the spirit is and how with out it not only shall we not teach, but I would even suggest that we can not teach. Our words become jumbled and our thought prosses starts to twist and turn in ways that we can't keep up with. I knew not only did I need to have the spirit in control, but our investigators depended on us to have the spirit leading and guiding us. The second I decided to fast, I instantly felt calm. I knew I had taken the Lords advice and followed the council He gave to me.
I have loved serving with Sister Crookston so much and have grately enjoyed serving in Kendal. I feel it has been the gratest learning periods in my mission thus far. I pray for you as you go into the week of transfer planning. I pray that you will will recieve the revelation and guidence you need. We all rely on you to call us to the areas where the Lord needs us. President I know you are called of God and I thank you for living worthy of that call.
I feel I am finally starting to grasp how to do missionary work, it only took me a year to get there. I have a vision, one that came to me when I first stepped foot in Kendal. I just know the branch will grow. The time is now. There are so many prepared individuals we are working with. One of which was the investigator referal that you met when you came up to Kendal. His name is Craig. Yesterday in fast and testimony meeting he got up and bore his testimony. WOW! President, it was amazing to see someone change, and have the spirit prompt them to do something and have them act on that prompting. I can't wait until I get to experience this again.
When I first came on my mission Sister Chuo asked me what I wanted to accomplish while on my mission. I told her I want to see hearts change. I saw it. I've seen it many times and it is such an amazing feeling. I know that hearts can only change as they allow Christ to touch them and heal them.
I know my Savior lives! I know that the Atonement is real and that it is available to anyone that humbles themself enough to ask for help, believing that help will come. I know that if they are sincere the help does come.
Love Sister Alyssa Ann Longmore
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