Howdy meine Freundin!!
What is up?? We have some wonderful stories for y'all this week so get ready.
Facebook Finding
Okay...this part of the work is awful haha. We message like 70+ people and only the creepy ones answer haha! But there were 2 baptisms in our mission found on Facebook so it does work, it's just all about the weeding out. Plus, we get our day made every once in a while from crazy things that people say haha. I've attached some screenshots of the best conversations I've had the last few weeks so I hope you enjoy (;
Working As A Zone
So we do a LOT as a zone, especially on our facebook page @followers of Jesus Christ in Saginaw #pleasegofollowus. Mostly we make some BOMB videos. I thought about attaching them but you'll just have to follow our page to see them (; anyways, this last week we made one based off a scene from Brooklyn 99 where the suspects sing "Want it That Way" by the backstreet boys. If you havent seen the scene you should look it up cause it's freaking hilarious. We haven't posted that one yet so stay tuned cause it will be great. But ever since we've shot that video, the whole zone has had that song stuck in their head so now whenever we're all together we'll just be sitting there and you can hear someone humming it or singing it or something haha. It's pretty great. Also we had some fun with the costumes so enjoy the pictures.
Service!!
We did a LOT of service again this week! We weeded someone's yard for like 7 years. Jk it was only like 3 hours. But while we were working on this members yard, their nonmember neighbor came over and started chatting with us! We got a time next week for her yard and hopefully can give her a good message too! We also helped some of the spanish sisters move into their new apartment which is SO nice. It seriously looks like a hotel. It was super fun working with everyone though, we all got pizza after and it was a party. We walked some of the members dogs and they were CRAZY. Like literally they were walking us the whole time. Then we ran into another dog and that one chased us and the other dogs for a little bit. It was quite the party haha. After we walked the dogs back to their owners house, the owners insisted we come in for a drink of water or something. So then 2 hours and a bajillion stories from the members later, we finally went home haha. They are from Ireland and WOW they had a lot to say. It was super fun though to get to know some of the members!! Anyways, we're staying busy with lessons and service so it's been pretty awesome!
Teaching
Okay, so Frank and his wife Elyne and her sister Ines have been taking the lessons for a looonnnngggggg time apparently. Like since 2013. So we extended baptism again to Frank and Ines, aaaand they danced their way around saying no. Frank says he'll be ready in January but he also said in July that he'd be ready in October. I'm convinced he just likes the company but we're gonna try some new things this week and see how it goes before making any big decisions. Elyne is more just excited about their new baby (his name is Junga and he is the cutest thing ever) and her and Frank really want him to be blessed. I'm pretty sure thats her only motivator to listen to us cause she doesn't pay any attention unless it's something about blessings. Which is great! We just are having a hard time teaching her what is so special about these blessings and why they're different than the blessings in her church. Ines is...very stubborn. She was taught a while ago and when they asked her to be baptized she said yes and got baptized in some other random church. And now she's confused why that baptism doesn't count. So we're working a lot with them about the priesthood and why that sets us apart.. And then there's Nelly! I can't remember if I told y'all about the miracle that we had with her but here it is anyways haha. So we first called her a while ago and she told us how worried she was that she hadn't found a job after months of looking. After we had a quick message with her we challenged her to pray about it and ask for help in finding a job. Well the next time we met she had gotten a job!!! We were so happy for her!! We've had a couple lessons since then and she loves them. She loves what we teach her and loves talking with us. Buuuuut since she found a job she doesn't have a whole lot of time to meet with us...so we're gonna go to lunch at Chipotle (where she works) and track her down haha (; we really hope she'll keep wanting to learn about the gospel. She already loves Christ so much and wants to build on that. We've also got quite a few new people were reaching out to but no lessons quite yet. We're working hard to set dates but everyone is always so busy!!!
Weekly Spiritual Dose
This week, I've been sort of smacked in the face with the reminder of the Lord's timing is different than ours. When I came out to Texas, everyone and their dog told me to get comfortable here for a while because Germany wouldn't be soon. Well, this last Saturday I got an email about visa information for Germany. People are leaving for Germany!! Just because I got an email doesn't mean I'll leave any sooner, we still have no idea when I'm going. But it was sort of a wake up call that I'm getting comfortable in Texas and the Lord doesn't like comfortable haha. Anyways, I encourage you all to think about your level of comfort in your faith. Faith should make you comfortable in the uncomfortable parts of life, but you should never be comfortable when you're trying to grow your faith as we've been taught to do. As Elder Holland said in this last general conference "Christianity is comforting, but never comfortable." How comfortable are you? Or in other words, how idle are you? Just as Christ did while He was on earth, we should spend every minute of our day strengthening and maintaining our faith. Even when He was resting, He was doing it in a way that made His Father proud. Or He spent it in ways that helped others. I think we all know people that remind us of Christ, I encourage you to work hard to become like Him.
I love you all so much!! I hope you have the greatest week!!
Sister Rogers
Pictures (sorry there's a lot lol):
1. It was cold at pickleball
2. Some GIANT dogs with saddles on!!
3. Most of the zone helping some sisters move into their new place!
4. Torches Tacos haha
5. Most of the zone out bowling today!
6 & 7. Our wonderful Halloween decor (shoutout to my mom and Nicole for the crafts)
8 - 11. Facebook finding at its finest
12. Elder Mennear sporting his costume for the video
13. I can't remember the order of the videos but one of them is when we were walking someone's dogs and passing out some cards haha.
14. The other video is Elder Longson following the Halloween dress-up guidelines (we were told we can dress up as missionaries so he was all of the missionaries).
