Another great week over here in North Las Vegas
On Monday we all played at the Stake Center
Tuesday we were able to have a couple lessons with new
people and other investigators! We met with a man named Clenton, who said that
he got interested in the church when he went to the job center here and the
people were nice and helped him out. He seemed really sold, but his
granddaughter did not seem too happy that he was meeting with us - so we will
see! We saw Ms. Poole for a few minutes and prayed with her because she had a
doctor's appointment the next day. We also got to see Orion, who was a little
nervous about getting baptized, so we were able to talk about baptism and show
him pictures, and he felt a lot more confident after that. We met with Renae
and taught her the Restoration. It was pretty confusing for her, so we are
trying to break it down with her now. We also saw Kaycee and Debby. Kaycee is
really excited to get baptized later this month, we read the Book of Mormon and
talked about keeping God's commandments. She is the cutest.
Wednesday we had to do weekly planning early because we were
super packed this week. So we spent the morning planning and then had lessons
later that night. We got to have dinner at the Anderson
Thursday was Zone Training Meeting! We had dinner with
Sister Bacod, and then met with Adrian, a 9 year old investigator and read the
Book of Mormon. He was so funny, he wanted to read as much as possible. Then we
saw the Loveall's again and talked about the 10 commandments and taught Anthony
the hand signs for the 10 commandments to help him remember them. He loved it!
He does them all the time now.
Friday, Sister Smith and I got to go to the temple! It was
an incredible experience and a perfect day! We took pictures around the temple,
and did a session there, and had lunch. I love the temple and am so thankful
for it and the chance we have to go there. We got to see the Loveall's again
that night, and taught about fasting and tithing. Anthony was still doing the
10 commandment hand signs He is cute.
Saturday was General Conference! All the missionaries set up
camp in the stake center and watched while we took notes and shared food.
Conference was so good! After Conference we contacted some people and had
dinner and had coordination meeting.
Sunday's Conference was great too! After Conference, we got
to meet with some of our new investigators that we met this week, here's the
story:
So, Sister Smith and I were walking, and we saw this lady
about to get out of her car. She was taking a long time, but we felt like we
should slow down and wait. So we walked reaaaaally slow so that we could talk
to her. We said hello when she finally got out, and she stared at me and my
name tag for like, 45 seconds. It was so weird. She just looked up and said,
"Come in." We went inside with her and she told us that she and her
family had been meeting with the missionaries 20 years ago, and loved church
and coming to church, they got married so that they could get baptized, but
then had to move really quickly and were never able to get in contact with the
missionaries again. She said she thought of the missionaries often, and even
showed us pictures of them! It's a miracle that we were able to talk to her! It
was so cool! We are meeting with their family now! Her name is Yvonne and her
husband is Alex. There were 2 little kids there at the time and they were so
funny! We were talking to them, and asked them what they had done that day, and
the boy piped up and said, "We be playin'!" Sister Smith and I
laughed so hard.
We saw Renae the night after dinner at the Holly's house. We
read over Joseph Smith's testimony with her and talked about Prophets.
I love North and Sister Smith! Have a great week!
Love, Sister Coltrin
At the Las Vegas Temple
At the Las Vegas Temple
"We did our best with a 10 second timer"
Sister Coltrin
Sister Coltrin and Sister Smith
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