This week was a life changing one. I feel like the amount of things that have happened this week (interviews with President Porter, exchanges with Sister Wight, Mission Leadership Council, and of course, General Conference) could have comprised a month of my mission rather than a week! So, I'm going to suffice by telling you one of my favorite parts-- our conference miracles :)
1. We have been working with the Fugate family. They have so much potential and such a sincere desire to learn, but have been having a really hard time getting to church. Many Sundays in a row they have committed and then not shown up and it has been a bit discouraging. This week they committed to come to Conference! We set a time to meet them at the church, but the day before and morning of they wouldn't answer or respond to any of our calls/texts. To our great surprise, when we pulled up to the church, there was the entire Fugate family!!!! We almost died of happiness. Never doubt the Lord! He has humbled my doubtful thoughts many times this week and I have learned, once again to live my favorite scripture, "Doubt Not, Fear Not!"
2. We watched the Saturday afternoon session with Katrina at the Lighthalls! She is as wonderful as ever and we later found out she watched ALL of conference! She watched the other sessions on her own at her house. Wow! Not even all members can say that ;)
3. It's starting to get dark pretty early, before we go home, and no one likes you coming to their house when it's dark so the nights have been a little tricky this week. Saturday evening we only had 30 minutes left and had absolutely no idea what to do or where to go. We eventually decided to stop by a less active's house. We've been trying to visit him for weeks, but haven't been able to get a hold of him since the initial day we met him almost 2 months ago. Well, he answered the door and invited us in right away! We couldn't because there wasn't a woman home, but he was more than happy to stand and talk to us on the porch. We told him about conference and he told us he wouldn't make any promises. Then, we bore our testimonies of a modern day prophet and the experiences we have each had with conference and he said, "Well, I think that is something I better do." He agreed to watch AND take notes so we could talk about it when he invited us over for dinner that week with his girlfriend!!! Holy cow! This is a huge deal for this guy! And it gets better, I know his mom from the Eastgate ward! It is such a small world in the church.
4. Sunday morning, Bo and Brittany were going to attend with us. We showed up to pick them up (with a member) and Bo had completely forgotten and Brittany wasn't even there. Bo agreed to get ready quickly and we agreed to wait. We started talking to his friend, Austin who we have met a couple times and basically has no interest in anything to do with religion or God whatsoever. He actually just got out of jail the night before (he was just in for a day.. nothing too serious, don't freak out mom). Sister Bowers and I each felt impressed to invite him to attend conference-- he politely declined. As we left with Bo, we invited him one more time just to be sure and... he said yes!!! During conference, they slipped out to sit in the hall and listen. The Elders acted on a prompting to follow them and had a really good heart to heart. As we drove home from conference they each expressed how questions they had had been answered and they asked if they could come with us next week!!
5. After dropping them off, we headed back to the church for a luncheon some of the sweet members had put together. When we walked in, there was Deanna sitting amongst them! This was a bit of a shock because we haven't heard from her since she moved. She was happy to see us and stayed to watch the next session of conference even though her boyfriend didn't want her to. Another of our investigators, Dave, who was there, just happened to be her old next door neighbor! Oh and Dave informed us that he would like to be baptized :)
I could literally go on and on about the miracles we saw this weekend. Heavenly Father just opened the heavens and poured them out. It made conference and even more wonderful and sacred experience than it already is. All in all, we were able to help 10 of our friends hear the words of the living prophet and increase their faith in Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for the restored gospel. I'm grateful for inspired leaders called of God who are such a light in this dark world. I am so grateful for this opportunity I have to be a representative of my Lord, Jesus Christ, and help others learn about these wonderful truths. And I am SO inexplicably grateful for my wonderful family who support, uplift, and encourage me. Like Elder Callister, I can never express my gratitude for my prime gospel teachers.
May we continue to stand strong and strengthen others. For simply knowing the truth will not change our world unless we ACT on it. Let's stay in the Old Ship Zion together! :)
All my love,
xoxoxox
Sister Rolfe
Pictures:
My daughter (sis Wight) and granddaughter (Sis Holtz)
On the ferry on the way to leadership council!
We decorated for Halloween :)
Sister Parker (my mom) is going home :(
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