Ciao tutti!
So this week was a little weird, or it seemed like it was to me. We had a really great week though. We are still trying to find some new investigators. It’s looking up and I am really excited about this coming week. We have a lot of good plans and it should be an awesome week. Last Wednesday we had a zone blitz the night before Zone Conference and we had the zone do English Course finding so we can see an influx in our course and get some new students. It was a good use of a blitz and we had the missionaries at the Metro stops in our area.
We also had Zone Conference last week and that was really good to hear some things that we can apply to our work to improve as missionaries and I am really excited to try some of the new stuff out. It was really nice and a good spiritual conference. We had some plans this weeks and they fell through, but we are just going to keep on going.
We had an amazing lesson with a new investigator last week, and he is really awesome. I am super excited to continue to work with him. He said something that really struck me. He said he prays everyday and he believes that God listens and he said, “I pray for my brother, my mother, and my family. Then I pray for what I need.” It struck me that he was so selfless to put others in his thoughts before he put himself and I thought that was really cool. So this week in my study I am in the Alma chapters and I had read in Alma 46 about the title of liberty and it really stuck out to me. These are Alma 46:12-14
12 And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it–In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children–and he fastened it upon the end of a pole.
13 And he fastened on his head-plate, and his breastplate, and his shields, and girded on his armor about his loins; and he took the pole, which had on the end thereof his rent coat, (and he called it the title of liberty) and he bowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren, so long as there should a band of Christians remain to possess the land–
14 For thus were all the true believers of Christ, who belonged to the church of God, called by those who did not belong to the church.
It really impresses me how they stood fast for what they believe and know to be true. They didn’t shy away from it at all and they professed what they believe and were willing to lay their lives for it. They then took that title and hoisted it all over the land.
36 And it came to pass also, that he caused the title of liberty to be hoisted upon every tower which was in all the land, which was possessed by the Nephites; and thus Moroni planted the standard of liberty among the Nephites.
This is what stuck out to me to share with you all. they were people that really had Christ written on the heart and I was really impressed by that in my study’s this week. Sorry this is a short email, but I hope to be able to have more to report on next week and write a little longer. Thanks everyone for the support and I love hearing from you.
Love you guys and hope everyone has an amazing week!
You guys should also all look into the Indianapolis open house. It will be a really awesome experience to be able to go through the the temple before it is dedicated. I am really excited about that temple and it really looks amazing and the grounds look really beautiful. It will definitely serve the people in the area really well. Here’s a link to the Indianapolis Temple page.
Anziano Garrett
[Sister Waddoups posted the following photo on her mission blog. President and Sister Waddoups visited Rome 1st Ward yesterday (July 19th) and had this picture taken with the missionaries serving in that ward (the Roma 1 District)]
President and Sister Waddoups visited the Rome 1st Ward on July 19, 2015.
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