We were able to visit sister Bryant in the hospital a few time this week and she seems in good spirits. I am happy for the decision she made to move to assisted living. I just feel better that she will be taken care of and that she could make new friends and in her words "share the gospel with everyone she meets" haha :) she was discharged from the hospital on Thursday and she is planning on moving on the 28th. The place she is moving to is near where we live so we could still go visit her and share messages with every one who wants them.
One of our investigators is having a hard week this week. Her name is Alice and we met her once and she seemed pretty interested in our message. Whenever we tried to go visit her this week though she was never home and she never committed to the times that we have set up to go see her. Super bummer. :( I hope we will get to talk to her again some day and go over some of the concerns she has.
On Tuesday we had district meeting and I learned a lot. They discussed a lot about baptismal calendars and how to prepare our investigators for their baptism. Some things they brought up we're good to know like cleaning out the font before the baptism. I wouldn't have thought bout doing that until they told us what happens if you don't haha :) I am so glad they told us.
Also on Tuesday we were ble to go to the library and have Mormon.org time and that was neat. I watched some Mormon messages and picked out what I was going to teach for family home evening. I decided to give my talk on "the importance of sharing our gifts with others". If you go to lds.org and search "the extraordinary gift" you could watch this beautiful message about a blind person who plays the piano exceptionally well!
I have learned while on my mission that it is not okay to compare yourselves to other people who do things better then you. Each and every person has their strengths (in southern terms screnghths) and their weaknesses and it is best to utilize what Heavenly Father has given us in a way that will bless and enhance the lives of people around us. We are not good at everything and that is okay. In no way does Heavenly Father want us to dwell on how bad we did that or how much we failed at something. Instead, he wants us to thrive on the things we do well and try again if we mess up. That is why he provided a savior. If we mess up or completely do a wrong thing, we have the opportunity to repent and do better. Christ and Heavenly Father are waiting for us with outstretched arms waiting for us to come unto them and tell them of our concerns. They will help. If you read Ether 12:27 it states that "he will make weak things become strong" and if you feel like you are inadequate at something and am not professional at everything, Heavenly Father will help and make those things stronger. How amazing!!!! He can help all of us with things that we want to do better at and will help us remember how important and essential we are to him and his plan for us :) super cool
On Wednesday we had a good team up. We went to go see Amanda and we are back on track for baptism. It turns out that the friend she went to church with was her sister and her sister is a member of the church! So yeah we were worried about nothing. Haha :) we had no clue she was a member until that day. How funny.
We also had another lesson with Michelle and she is doing so well! She unfortunately has been fighting off some sicknesses and I pray that she will get better soon. She really wants to come to church with us!
Also on Wednesday me and sister Merriam traveled to Florence to go sleep over at sister Haslams and sister Wests apartment. We had zone conference the next day and we decided to car pool with them. Before we went though we made this really yummy fruit dip that reminded me of the frosting on moms cupcakes!! Mmmmm :) it was so yummy.
Zone conference was pretty amazing! President Hanks is the best and he gave us great insight about Christ and his Atonement and how we NEED him in our lives. I would go into detail but I don't know to. It was just really amazing and uplifting and wish that y'all were there to hear it.
I even got to see my first companion at zone conference! Yay! I was so excited to see her and catch up.
On Friday Sister Merriams family sent us a valentines box for "lock your hearts day". It was so cute :) they had a card in there and candy and it was so neat. Valentines day in Alabama is amazing! They go all out with decorations and balloons and cards and everything! Walmart was completely decked out with pink and red and they had balloons ALL oVER the place! Wow. It's so great and what a cool thing to reflect on Gods love for us. :)
I don't remember which day this was but while we were tracting, we knocked on this one persons door and when we did the woman yelled from begind the door "who is it?" And we stated "the missionaries! " she then she proceeded to open her blinds to look at us and then she said in a really loud voice "I don't know you!!! And then her phone rang and she closed the blinds again. That was the most interesting tracting experience I have had. Haha I just look back at it and ask myself, what just happened? Haha :) it was interesting.
One last thing before I close up for the day.
When we went to go teach Amanda on valentines day, her friends and all her kids were ther and so we had a movie party. We watched the restoration andThey LOVED it! You could tell that they were so interested in this movie and they even wanted a copy of the DVD at the end of it. Haha they expressed how they wanted to share the video with every one they knew :) it was way fun.
We invited them all to be taught and they all accepted :) awesome!
Other then that I think that's all that really happened this week. Things are beginning to slow down a little bit. I hope y'all have a great week and enjoy the weather! We are in a freeze state right now so we can't go out on the streets at all until the ice clears up. Hopefully that will be soon because the mission president doesn't want us out there doing missionary work until it warms up. (Mainly because they don't do anything with the roads in Alabama when it snows and there are a lot of accidents. ) It will be interesting :) haha.
I love y'all :) have a great week
Sister Ralph
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