We are keeping fairly busy. We have a new director coming into sites and so we are all preparing for that. Sister Larson and I are freaking out because we will have to help the new director get settled and into a groove of how the VC works but we don't even know what the director does. Soooooo this will be interesting. Thank goodness for revelation! We have been busy planning training meetings an the investigator firesides. Our area isn't all that large. Our ward is huge but split into three areas so that's nice. We have a lot of Jewish people in our area, so Friday night contacting get a little rough. We found a couple new investigators this week. Howard, Irene, and Alex! They are all awesome. One of our investigators came to church and had an awesome experience. It was weird going to church so early, and having a whole day to work in our area.
A message to the ward? hmmm that is a good question. I think that a lot of the experiences that I am having come back to my faith in the atonement. We have been focusing a lot on finding the prepared people in our areas and in our mission so that we can build the kingdom and President Vellinga has promised us that if we show faith in Christ and His atonement and have confidence in the promises he gives we will build up the church. The whole plan that Heavenly Father has provided with us centers on the Atonement and our purpose as missionaries, whether full time or member missionaries, is to invite others to come unto Christ by helping them use that atonement. Heavenly Father blesses us to find those who are prepared, I believe what it says in Alma 13:24 that angels are declaring it unto many. There are not only people prepared for us as missionaries but for us as members of the church. So I guess what I am saying my message to the ward is that Missionary work is amazing and the love that we get from sharing it comes from the same love that the savior had when he performed the atonement. A desire to share the gospel comes from a conversion to the gospel.
Winter has hit here in the Ohio. It has been super chilly, but thanks to my sleeping bag coat I am staying nice and toasty. It makes for happier tracting. It has been a wonderful week. I serve in the most beautiful place ever. I love, love, love walking around snow covered Kirtland thinking of all the wonderful things that happened here. We saw a lot of miracles this week. We had two really neat experiences. The first one was on Friday, we were out doing our weekly cocoa contacting and we met Ben Sr. We offered him some hot chocolate which he accepted, we started talking about what brought him out and he said he owned a calligraphy studio just up the street with his son. He told us we should go visit his son Ben Jr. and give him a cup of cocoa. So we did. We sometimes do awkward things as missionaries, including walking into random businesses with cups of hot cocoa to talk to random strangers. It's awesome! But anyway Ben was awesome. We talked to him for a good 20 minutes about what we were doing, who we were, and why we where here on a mission. At the end of it HE asked how he could learn more. Both of us were just like WHAT!?! these things really happen? So we got his information and passed it onto the Chardon sisters. Then there is Alex. We met Alex after we got flamed by one of our appointments. Alex is a Jewish man who believes in Jesus Christ. Confused? Yeah so were we. We talked to him a little about his faith and his relationship to Christ. Invited him to learn more. He was busy so we set up a return appointment for a half hour later at Wendy's. We taught the full first lesson. Which ended with him and tears, and almost committing him to baptism. We'll definitely get him next time. This man needs the gospel in his life, he is what we like to refer to as a prepared soul! This work is sooo good. Oh gosh I could go on all day about the miracles we have seen this week.
Welp I love you all! Thanks for everything! I pray for you. The gospel is true. Love it. Live it!
Love,
Sister Hillman
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