Tuesday: We had a lesson with Naim!! I love Naim! He read all the way through 1 Nephi in the Book of Mormon in about a week in Farsi/Persian. Teaching him is really an experience because he knows English but not THAT well so trying to explain to him who Jesus Christ is and what he did for us, when he thinks Jesus Christ is only a Prophet, is difficult. But he is now able to pray correctly and he understand the Atonement of Jesus Christ really well! It was really spiritual and I knew he felt that Jesus Christ did die for him. And I know he will be baptized!
We also taught Sofia! She is absolutely awesome! We taught her the Word of Wisdom and Law of Chastity and the importance of commandments! That went sooo well! She had so many questions when she had read the Pamphlet; "For Strength of Youth" so,we were able to answer them and clear up the views of the church and give her more understanding of the why and what of commandments! :) She says she wants to be baptized and knows this is a good thing, but she doesn't want to leave her mom behind and push her mom even further away! Hopefully this month her mom will let her get baptized! :)
Wednesday: it was sunny and hot and then after dinner it decided to pour rain! And, our afternoon and evening consisted of walking around knocking on doors in this random neighborhood we found! So that was lots of fun! (Builds character right! ;) After our evening in the pouring rain, we had a lesson with Elizabeth that night and we were able to read in 1 Nephi 8 and Lehi's vision of the Tree of Life!! She is a very visual person so we thought she would love the tree of life since we are reading the book together! She is very busy and so we just read the book of Mormon with her! :) She is awesome! I love her! :)
Thursday: We were able to meet with Alex for new member discussions ( Sofia's Dad) with his ministering brother and a sister from our ward! We talked about Christ and how much He is the corner stone of our religion! We were basically teaching William, his son! William commented on everything and said the closing prayer! Afterwards he said he can't wait to be a missionary like us! :0 he's so cute! only 11 years old! It's awesome because his dad, Alex is teaching him everything about the Bible and the Book of Mormon and the Gospel! He could be baptized tomorrow if his mom would let him.. Sofia as well!
Friday: We went to Gainsville for Zone Conference and it was really good, I about cried at the end when we sang "We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet". Zone conference was all about how we should use members to help less active and people we are teaching! It was also on how we are only able to be a missionary by and only through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Each missionary in the room was foreordained to be a missionary and if it wasn't for the Atonement of Jesus Christ we wouldn't be For-ordained! We have been running out of miles because this family-- Alex, Sofia and William, all live 20 miles away and we have to go there all the time!
Saturday: Walked and walked and walked and walked all day! met some cool people but no one new to actually teach!! Found Mathias Noah and Kevin! They are cools cats! hopefully we can teach em all soon! :)
Sunday: It was still crazy because we were almost out of our allotted miles on our car, but had to drive to Clifton (20 miles away) and go to church! Naim was able to come to church and it was a wreck of church meetings.... he's an older single guy and we talked about families. He barely speaks English and we talked and talked about the gathering of Israel and the Abrahamic Covanent. Train WRECK!
Always remember to emulate the Savior in all things and always outwardly express your love for him and others! <3
Love you all Bunches!
Always love,
Sister Callista Chaffin <3
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| The windshield and the cool sky!! |
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| OSITO <3 |
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| RAIN RAIN RAIN |
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| A members house had sooo many Greek statues all over their house and literally building a Greek column in his back yard behind his huge 12ft deep pool with at least 10 statues of marble spitting out water into the pool.. They have the coolest Halloween parties and missionaries come and help and people from all over the US fly in to see and come to this party.. synchronized swimmers and singers and all!! |
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| Tropical smoothie is our favorite place!! best food and smoothies! <3 |
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| Just imagining little armies going through here with guns and stuff! way back during the war on bull run! |
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| My cute little hiking buddy fell! :( ;) |
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| Creek going into river! |
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| HIKE |
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| This is where some people were in the civil war! kinda of cool history next to this river! I felt like I was back in civil war times! haha I didn't get a picture of the info of the history but should definitely look it up and read the history! |
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| Muddy shoes from our hike today!! It was wayy too muddy, we had to turn around and only had a tiny hike! I had to hold my shoes till we got to the apartment! |
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