It's been another great week here in the WA-TAC!!! Even though the flu hit and we were down a couple days, we still had tons of miracles. The biggest would have to be Heather!
We met Heather one day while we were knocking doors. FYI: Knocking doors in Belfair is walking for 15 minutes then hiking to a house, where people usually aren't home, and then walking another 15 minutes followed by another hike to an abandoned door.
Anyway, so we were knocking and we ran into Heather. She is in her 20's and she's the sweetest little thing ever!! She has a 1 year old son named Hayden, who is stinkin adorable, and she's engaged to a guy, not our biggest fan at the moment, who is in the Navy. We met her Wednesday and set up to give her a church tour on Friday. She came and loved it. She kept saying, that makes sense, yeah I can see that! Then, she asked if our church did any fun events during the holiday season, and we were like......oh do we? And we told her about 4 of the upcoming events and then she asked if there was anyone in our church that liked to craft or do quilting or stuff like that, and we wanted to just say,
"Heather, you've found the perfect church for you, we're full of crafters and we love having huge events with tons of food!! Get baptized now and forever hold your peace!!!"
But we restrained ourselves. She came to church yesterday and loved it. Our ward was way awesome too, she got invited to 2 different dinners, and invited to all of the playgroups the mothers have. Man, the Belfair ward is just taking off with this member missionary work, and its only just beginning.
Our area, if we were to activate the whole ward, and bring people into the gospel as well could become a stake.....thats our goal! It obviously won't happen super soon, maybe not even while I'm here, but we can shoot for it! We have 78 Less-active, Part-member families, thats like 156 people right there if they all came back to church and their significant others joined the church!! It's possible, Elder Holland in conference said, if ever member invites 1 person to an event between now and Christmas, millions will be baptized. He didn't say if they come to church, or if they teach them something, or if they introduce them to the missionaries, but if they just invite them to an event. One of the millions of potlucks that go on all the time work perfectly, I mean who doesn't love FREE FOOD!! haha
Ah man!! I love being a missionary. Its incredible to know with no doubt that what we are sharing is true. I was able to this week finish reading the Pearl of Great Price. For anyone who doesn't know my goal on my mission is to read all of the standard works (Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, D&C and Pearl of Good Price). I've completed the Book of Mormon (4 times so far) and Pearl of Great Price. I can do it. I think the Old Testament will be the hardest, I've skipped to short stories at time, b/c leviticus is so hard to get through with all the rules and weird customs, but I have learned things about myself and about the temple that have been really cool! I've also learned that God is really funny sometimes. For example, with the walls of Jericho falling down. He just is so funny with how he goes about it, it's almost like he knows he has the power to have them obey him, so he has them do funny things like walk around the city and then scream and it will fall......what? I just love God so much!! He truly is my father, thats why I must love his humor so much!
My Book of Mormon reading has been great too!! I love just how faithful Nephi is, he's just so incredible, I wish I could be that faithful, and I know I can be. One thing I learned is that its all about perspective. If you look at the story Laman and Lemuel did everything their father asked, they just complained about it, while Nephi did it without complaining. Unfortunately I fall under the Laman and Lemuel category lots of times, when I complain and don't do what I need to as joyfully as I could. Its something I'm working on!!
Oh, exciting news!! I found out today that I'm a grandma!!! Sister Downs is training so I have a little Brazilian Grandbaby down in Brazil!! So fun, too bad I'll probably never meet her.... :( I'm so glad you got to meet Mama Nanto!! I love her so much, she helped me through alot as I'm sure she mentioned!!! I'm glad you liked her, she said she loved all of you!!
Well, I think thats all I got this week!! I hope I made sense!!
I love you all and miss you!! I can't believe its almost Christmas and I'll get to see your beautiful faces soon!!
Have a great week and pray and read your scriptures every day! I promise it will bless your life!!
I LOVE YOU!!!!
Sister Brittany Thomas
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