So on Wednesday, I got to Fresno at about 4:15, and then we stayed in the mission home for the night. President Mackay is amazing. And Sister Mackay is the greatest. They really made us feel comfortable being here that first day, and we can really feel their love in every interaction. It's the best.
And for those who've asked, no, I can't read email during the week at the moment. Because our mission doesn't become a smartphone mission until April 12th, they're holding onto our phones at the moment. But I'll have it again after that. I'm really looking forward to having Gospel Library again, and not having to use a slide out keyboard.
On Thursday, we did a bunch of training, and I met my trainer. Her name is Sister Grammer, and everyone was telling me the night before that she was a perfect fit for me. And they were right! It has been awesome learning from her. We jumped right into the daily schedule, which has been a little bit crazy, but so good. I'm starting to really love this work.
I'm in Visalia right now, and it's interesting because the ward boundaries just got reorganized and renamed about a month ago. Before I got here, the ward council gave the sisters a huge list of about 50 households that they had no information about and asked us to try and figure out if they were less active or moved, and if they should assign them home and visiting teachers. We have stopped by so many these last few days. Granted, a lot of the time, they aren't home, but whatever.
It has been really awesome though. On my first evening in the area, we stopped by this less active house, and the woman who answered the door recognized us and said that she knows she needs to come back to church. And she wants to. So hopefully she'll be assigned visiting teachers soon and they'll come back to church. It's crazy to think that I can actually make a difference in people's lives.
And that leads me to a truly amazing experience we had on Saturday. We were contacting these less actives in the morning, and we decided to visit this one household first. When we walked up, she was just about to get into her car, and she saw us and was super excited! She said that she'd never had sisters, missionaries or visiting teachers, come to visit her before. And she was so excited! We talked to her for a while, and later she mentioned that this was the first day off she'd had in years, and she's in Porterville most of the time. Of course the one day we decided to visit her was the one day we actually could make contact with her. God really does have His hand in the details.
We had an amazing lesson with our investigator Robert on Saturday, and we read Mosiah 18 with him and invited him to be baptized, and he said yes! He said that he could feel that being baptized into our church was different than being baptized into another church. And he still has a ways to go, but he has a strong faith in Jesus Christ and a desire to change, and the cool thing is that I can picture him in the temple. It would be a bit, but I certainly hope he makes it there.
There are a couple other experiences that I wrote in my journal that I'll attach pictures of.
Anyways, it's definitely been an adjustment, but I'm loving it here. It's amazing to see people come unto Christ and choose to make covenants with God. It definitely makes me appreciate them more.
Love you all!
Sister Cate
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| Here are the two other experiences promised. |
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