Week #19 - A Baby, A Bird, and 115 Contacts!

Monday, June 1, 2020

Sister Dangerfield and I getting reading for our Online Contacting!

HELLO!! 

Wow this week was amazing. So many wonderful things! We started the week and taught a good amount of lessons during the week, but this weekend is what made my week amazing. On Thursday our mission came up with a new challenge for the next couple weeks to focus more on the key indicators, which are: new people interested in learning more, people who attend a sacrament meeting, people who are on date for baptism, and baptisms. So to start it off we focused on contacts. A contact is when you share a principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ with someone and that person responds to it. This can be done either on the phone, texting, or video calls. And we did this on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Sister Dangerfield and I were thinking of a goal we could accomplish for contacting over these three days and we decided on 45. Then we realized  that we could definitely do more than that so we changed our goal to 115 contacts over three days and... WE DID IT!! It was definitely hard, but we had faith. One scripture we actually shared with a lot of people this weekend was Moroni 7:33 which talks about faith. It says, "And Christ hath said: If ye will have faith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is expedient in me." I LOVE THIS SCRIPTURE!! I love how much it helped me and my companion reach our goal and I love how important faith is for all of us. 

So Friday was definitely an eventful day... Nicole had her baby!! And this was the day we were gonna start our mission challenge. So I was able to video chat Nicole and my family that morning and meet my nephew Dawson, and he is definitely the cutest baby ever. 

My mom was wearing a shirt like mine on Monday, and so the "side-by-side"
picture lookslike I am holding him...sort of! HE'S SO CUTE!!!

Another crazy story: After that we were going to get started on our contacts and then my roommate went outside to our little patio to work out and then a BIRD FLEW INTO OUR HOUSE and got stuck in our cupboard in a tiny whole none of could get into and we could only see the bird by sticking our phones up the weird cupboard thing. So obviously Satan didn't like our goals of contacting over 100 people, but we got the bird out (and got some pretty fun videos and pictures) AND we accomplished our contacting goal!

The bird--we tried to catch it in a box...then it went down into
the crevice between the cupboards!

This is when we stuck a phone camera under the
cupboard to see the bird--it was stuck!!

We were able to have amazing conversations with so many people. We talked to so many new people who are interested in learning more and that is super exciting. Our friend Jim was able to come with us to an amazing family in our ward's house and partake of the sacrament and learn the importance of sacrament. It was awesome.

One funny story besides the bird story haha: So all of a sudden we were getting a random call from somebody and we answered telling the caller that it was the sister missionaries and she responded saying "Who?" and then we repeated saying we are missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She then said she had the wrong number, so I quickly asked, "Do you want to hear more about how we can find peace through Jesus Christ?" AND SHE SAID YES!! I'm telling ya, this never happens. So we start to share a scripture with her while we also look up her number... and it is someone the sisters been teaching for 2 weeks and we totally had no idea who it was when she called. hahaha! We had been all excited to have someone new be interesting in actually learning more about Christ, but we ended up having such an amazing conversation with this woman and we could all feel of the Spirit. 

This week was amazing. My dad asked me in an email how my testimony is, and my testimony has grown SO MUCH from being here for the past 4 weeks. I have been able to learn more about the gospel in my own language, which wouldn't of had happened in Brazil. I am grateful that I have had the opportunity to be here in Tempe to learn how to grow my testimony, so one day hopefully I can go back and I will be able to testify in Portuguese "JESUS CRISTO É MEU SALVADOR" (Jesus Christ is my Savior). I am thankful for the opportunities the church has provided us to continue studying our language of our original mission assignment. Portuguese or English--it is true!

I am so grateful for this gospel and the opportunity to share it!! I know that when we have faith in Christ, we can do all things. I challenge all of you to continue to grow your Faith in Him!! Love you all! 

♡ Sister Guilott 

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