Dictated from a voice recording that Corinne sent this week. (Thanks, Aunt Barbara!)
Hi Friends and Family. I just thought I would make a voice recording this week because my little fingers are just so tired of typing so I thought I’d give you the chance to hear the sweet sound of my voice on this p-day.
Anyways, this last week was a little bit of a hard week, it was a good one but it was still hard. We started out the week with all these appointments lined up. We had a great planning session. We had some service appointments with non-members, some eating appointments with members where their friends would come and we would teach them. The week looked so good and then about two days in, me and another sister got sick. So we had to cancel most of our appointments. We did do some things like Facebook finding. We did have splits which was fun. I was with Sister Hepworth which was fun.
Mona is doing good. We did get one lesson with her. She is doing good.
This is the last week of this transfer which is weird because it is my last transfer. Things are going good.
I had a cool experience earlier in the week where we had a video call lesson. I have been thinking about my testimony and stuff. We always say we know the church is true but sometimes we stop and think, “Wait, do I actually know. How do I know?” It feels crazy but it is proof as to why you have to keep going on it and reading your scriptures and praying so your testimony can stay strong, and doing the things every day so that when you do have questions you can get the answers to your prayers.
Anyways, I was having these questions so I was praying and thinking I know you have told me a billion times, but can you help me remember and tell me one more time that it is true. Just help me to know this is true and what I am doing is good. And He heard the prayer. It wasn’t immediate and I prayed it several times. Then we had a lesson with some critical people. It didn’t seem like they wanted to really wanted to be taught but just listen and then tell us why it was wrong which is kind of frustrating and annoying at times. We taught the restoration, about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. We talked a lot about Christ’s ministry and how that all ties in. It was a really good lesson with lots of questions and testifying that we can’t prove all this but we can invite you to come to know on your own. At the end one of the guy’s that it was his first lesson, said he had one more question. He asked, “Why are YOU a member of this church. Why? If you could just give me a short summed up answer. I don’t want anything big or fancy. Tell me why you are a member. Maybe you were born into it but you probably have a different reason now. I want to know why.”
We all looked at each other and thought how do we answer that. We know why. We obviously love it and we have had all these great experiences but how do I tell this person. It’s sometimes hard to express it and share it with people. I looked at my companions and they looked at me and I went first. I started talking. I realized that was the question I had been having all week and wondered how I was going to answer it so I just started talking. I was born into it and stayed in it because it was good. I had good experiences there and good things came from it. I was happy. My answer just came out of my mouth and I hadn’t even thought of it. I told him there came a time that I needed to find out for myself if it was true or not. So I did just like the promise we just read to you. To ponder over it and ask if it is true. You’ll come to know. I haven’t had one big solid experience but I have had many little experiences that have helped me to know that God is aware of me and this is the true church. I can’t prove it to you but I have received a very personal answer that this is the truth and because of that I am going to live this gospel for the rest of my life.
The spirit hit me so strong that there was the answer to my prayer. I don’t know if my answer had an impact on those we were teaching but I knew the spirit was telling me that this is true and you know it. And you need to stick with it.
It has been a good week and being a missionary is fun and really cool.
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