helllo! sorry it's so late in the week! the library wasn't open on
monday and then tuesday we had zone conference near st louis so we were out of
town most of the day! but now it's only a few days until another monday!
it was a verrrry good week here in Salem! I hit my 1month mark! it feels
like i barely left Mesa! craziness. this month has been the hardest/best month
ever, but i wouldn't trade it for anything and i'm soo grateful that i get 17
more of them!
last monday night was probably my favorite night of my mission (so far).
there is a less active lady named holly here in salem and she is married to
gary. so we have been trying to visit holly for weeks, the first time we tried
our gps wanted us to drive in the middle of the corn field and so we just
assumed that it wasn't the right address. then we got the right address and
when we went over there she was asleep and the kids were being crazy so it just
wasn't a good time. THEN the third time we went, she was home. along with all
of her kids, husband, sister-in-law and nephew. at first her husband, gary,
wasn't in the room and then when we started the lesson we invited him in and he
was so reluctant to come in. he looks at us and says, "you have two
minutes." so we started teaching. everyone else in the family was super
engaged in the lesson but gary just sat there looking at us. we finished the
lesson in probably 15 minutes (he stayed the entire time) and then he looks at
us and says "are you done?" I really thought that he was going to
start pulling out anti-mormon literature and a bunch of stuff. but the Lord
provides! he looked at us and says "I want to know what makes your church
different than others and i want to come to your church on sunday." I'm pretty
sure my jaw hit the floor. I don't remember what the lesson was on but the
spirit touched gary's heart so much that night and you could see a visible
difference in his eyes. missionary work is awe$ome.
yesterday we had zone conference! SUCH a good meeting. we were given
training on how to be converted into the gospel and how it'll help our
investigators. holy smokes. sometimes i feel bad saying i'm a convert to the
church because i still have so much work to do to be converted to the gospel,
and it'll be an everyday thing for the rest of my life! in the training i
realized that i need to be more grateful, full of love, meek, humble and
basically every other attribute of the Savior. and all of that comes through
the Atonement and praying diligently. read Moroni 8:26. it's my new favorite
scripture.
well i love you all and so does Jesus! remember to always be smiling and
that if you have a bad day it's probably because we needed to learn something!
love
sister oberfield
mom and tim- i hope you had a good anniversary and mom a good birthday!
and thank you for sending the stuff and candy!
dad and becky- thank you so much for the package! the popcorn is was my
favorite part!
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