Oct. 2, 2017 "Accomplished His Purposes"

Accomplished His Purposes

Greetings from INDE, MO! 

Tracting story of the week: Our mission president challenged us to tract more... SOO Sunday between sessions, we decided to try it out by knocking doors around a less active's house we tried to visit who wasn't home. So we're like ok sure let's go knock on this door. And as we walk up the driveway and get closer to the door, sister A goes: "Sister." And stops dead in her tracks. The door was open and we realized there was a guy lying on the floor right by the door. Like not moving. so we just slowly backed away and hoped he wasn't dead. Probably passed out. 

BUT we gave a Book of Mormon to the man at the next house! 

Anyways, this week was pretty darn great! We were able to see a ton of little miracle tender mercies being able to contact some solid people!! Lots of part member families and kids of those families were way excited to talk to us! So we are going to get some awesome things happening! 

Another fun miracle was that my uncle showed up at the Visitor Center!!! It was SOO fun to see him! And be able to show him the visitor center and share everything I have learned! Such a neat experience and huge tender mercy  ️

A lot of other things happened like we tried to go to the Liberty Jail with our investigator and the Stake president, BUT she canceled, BUT she came to watch Conference. I also went on exchanges with Sister Davies who is like my soul sister she is awesome and we took an interesting tour where a couple members brought in their nonmember friends and they ended up bashing so that was awkward. 

BUT here's a sweet miracle. So last night we had some time before we we were goi to another appointment, and we felt like we should try a potential in our area book show e had t contacted before. SO it's getting dark out, but we go try their house and it's that awkward moment when they're are people in their car in the driveway as you walk up... soooo we walked up anyway and the guy in the car motions for us to come over and we ask for the guy we were trying to find and he's like what are you, are you cops? Hahaha were like no no! So we started telling us about how we're missionaries and what we do, and he's like oh okay! Come on inside! So we went inside to talk to him and his wife and they had ALLL these awesome questions and they were super interested and were so excited to have a copy of the Book of Mormon that was all their own! Neither of us have very much time but we told them we'd love to come back and share more and they were like oh yeah how about Saturday afternoon here's my number!!! So ya next week I'll tell y'all how our appointment with Nekita and Andre go! (Yes they are black) 

OK lastly I loveeeeedddd Conference! I talked to this lady from CA while doing online teaching, and told her about #LdsConf and told her that we get to listen to the prophets and apostles of our day, as they reveal to us what the Lord wants us to know. And she was like "NO WAY. Heck ya I'm watching that!!" Haha I loved her excitement! 

 I wrote down questions that I had and filled in the answers with different quotes as I listened and it just was a testament to me of how well our father in heaven knows us and how inspired the prophet and apostles are!! 

Conference is also a very humbling experience for me because as a visitor center missionary, our shifts overlap with the sessions and when people come into the VC, we gotta take em through. Even if Conference is going. So I have yet to listen to the first 3 talks of each morning session. So, as an imperfect human, I get upset at these members who are like "oh we were just gonna watch Conference later." And I'm like WELL I CANT REALLY DO THAT. Haha. However, I sucked up my pride and brought these families through. And I will watch it later, when I can. But as I put my pride and my desires aside, and remembered my purpose, I had an awesome experience with this family! They were moving from CA to UT and didn't have a place to live yet and so I was able to relate to them and the circumstance of moving out of inspiration and faith. 

Just constantly seeking to develop that love that Joseph Smith describes, "a man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his own life, but seeks to bless the entire human race." (Paraphrased). 

So basically I really love elder Eyrings talk and elder Christofferson and Holland and Uchtdprf especially. I loved the theme that we are never too far out of reach from our Father in Heaven. That we are divine Sons and Daughters. And we can live up to that! None of us has to be perfect, but we can strive to be with hope in the Savior. 

This week was just really great. The Lord was directing our paths. Even though we didn't accomplish everything WE wanted to, we know that we accomplished everything HE needed us to. I just really have noticed how the Lord is in the details. He recognizes our diligence and our faith, and consecrates our efforts to be according to His plan. Sometimes as we seek to follow our plan and go through our day, it can be easy to treat it all like a checklist of things to do. But as I have sincerely tried to remember what this work is really about - that I and my companion are first and foremost disciples and representatives of Jesus Christ - then we are more likely to follow the spirit and divert from our plans so we can minister to the one. Like choosing to stand outside our apartment before we went home, talking to a lady who had a hard day and sharing with her that someone loves her and died for her so she could have joy. That's what it's all about. 

Love you all,

Sister Bleak  ️ ️

Daynin the life at the VC
UNCLE JASON BLEAK CAME TO SEE ME! 😭❤️
President Cato and his staff.
50 CENT CORN DOGS
VC sistas
Exchanges with Sister Davies!! 🌺
Conference @ the VC!