Sister Danielle Heath: Training, Trio, Testifying, and Tidying

October 1, 2018

I met my new companion that I'm training on Tuesday. She is from Japan but speaks really good English. She went to BYUI before her mission. She is an amazing missionary. She doesn't even need to be trained! She is very musically talented too.

We were able to visit a returning member who just started coming back to church and he is pretty excited about it. We hope he can get active and we can help his family desire to know about the gospel.

That night we had an appointment with a lady the sister met on the street. She is super nice. She lets us into her house and was talking to us while she was making dinner. She doesn't really have a religious background but is searching now. We were able to share the Book of Mormon and invited her to read and pray about it. She said she would so that was great.

We did a lot of cleaning this week, it seems that no one has cleaned or gotten rid of things in a long time. And we will be moving to another place so we have to go through everything! We also have spent a lot of time studying, we have extra studies for new missionaries and langauge study. But we were able to visit and talk to a few people.

We had a lesson with someone that is recovering from addiction. He was awesome, we were talking and then he was like, let's start with a prayer. We read about the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the teaching pamphlets we have and he read most of it. We focused on Faith and Repentance. It went really well.

Later on we visited a 13 yr old girl who is preparing to be baptized this month. She has some family that we members I think. Next week we hope we can teach her Auntie and have them come to church.

Thursday we helped one of members put on an activity for an apartment with older folks. We made different kinds of Halloween bags and cards. It was fun and good to talk to others.

We had an appointment with a couple who is learning. The wife wants to be baptized on their anniversary and the husband said he wants to as well. They just need some help with the WoW. We told them about a program we can teach them and they are excited to learn! (Their son was baptized about a month ago.)

Friday morning we stopped by a member that hasn't been to church in a long time. After we were talking for a few minutes I got a little frustrated because she sounded like she was full of excuses but I prayed for help. She opened up to us and we were able to share the video Prince of Peace and I think it helped her. She is overwhelmed with a lot of things. It is amazing to see the spirit work within people.

Later on we read the Book of Mormon with the same couple we met with the day before. They were excited to start from the beginning and they really want to understand it which was great!

We visited another returning member and Sister Sakai followed the promptings of the spirit to share a video about Families being Together Forever. It really touched the members heart and she expressed the desire to be sealed in the temple. Sister Sakai also shared a scripture about angels being around her to help her because Satan wants to drag us down (D&C 84:88) The member really liked that scripture. It was a great visit.

We were able to do a missionary moment for the elders on Saturday for their baptism (a member in YSA). His mom and grandma came who aren't members and it was great to see their support. We prepared to share a video that is called Discovering Truth and it's from Elder Utchdorf. He shares a story and relates it to knowing truth through God and the gospel. We invited everyone to seek truth or help someone find truth. After the baptism was over the mom expressed thanks for all the support. The son was trying not to be emotional. You could tell he felt the spirit so strong! It was really special.

Afterward we went to a members house for a Potluck. It was for a missionary that served here about a year and a half ago and he came with his wife. I actually met him briefly before he left. He picked our group up from the airport. His name is Brother Lybbert. He was born in Moses Lake and I made that connection when we first met. Come to find out he moved away and his parents moved back during his mission. And his wife was born and raised in Moses Lake and was baptized last year by him... so cool! I was able to talk to her for a while. She did dance at the same place I did. We will both be at BYUI winter semester so I'm sure we will meet up!

We had a good Sunday as well. A lot if our returning members came to church but none of the people we are teaching that haven't been baptized... hopefully next week.

We went on 1 of the 1 hikes here in Pearl City this morning. It was pretty muddy but good exercise. There were 2 caves which was cool but one of them I couldn't see so I hit my head pretty good!

Well that's about it!

Aloha,

Sister Heath