Hey guess what?! The entire mission is going to the Nationals baseball game on August 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!! The only way it'd be better is if the Mariners were playing. But I don't even know if the Mariners and the Nationals ever play each other. I can't remember. We get to go because it's the day of service or something like that. I don't really know why. All I remember is that I got to the mission in October and everyone was talking about how they went to the Nationals game a few weeks before I got there- I felt jipped! I guess the missionaries behaved themselves last year because we get to go again! My mission president is so cool.
This week was a bit tough. We are struggling finding new investigators. And it's frusterating! But we're learning how to be patient with the Lord and His timing. Everyone is really nice, just uninterested. Oh well. We're being diligent, so we'll be blessed with people to teach sooner or later!
Our district meeting this last week was the best of my entire mission. Our district leader, Elder Ekins (who reminds me SO much of Spencer it's not even funny. His voice is exactly the same as Spencer's!) decided that for the last meeting of the transfer, we needed to have a testimony meeting. The spirit was so strong. It was really uplifting to be around seven other really great missionaries and to hear their testimonies of the Savior and his atonement. It was the spiritual pick me up I needed! I talked about God's love and how He knows me by name. He knows me better than I do! I'm so grateful that He does.
We live in the Marque apartments and they are REALLY nice. It's the nicest place I'll probably ever live on my mission. There's a front loby area, a theater room, a farmer's market every Thursday...and I decided taht we needed to be taking advantage of it! The sisters before me in this area started a Book of Mormon book club every Wednesday that we always have in the lobby. We also asked around this week and got special permission to set up a table at the farmer's market to pass our fliers and talk about our church! We also got special permission to use the theater room-we are going to start showing church produced movies on the weekend and invite everyone at the Marque to join! The Marque used to only be a 55+ apartment, but there were a lot of empty rooms so they opened it up to everyone. There is a set of missioanries on every floor, so everyone knows who we are and what we're all about! It's a great little community to live in.
I've been studying the latest conference Ensign and I LOVE it. I read a talk this morning called, "Are You Sleeping Through the Restoration" by President Uchtdorf. Something President Riggs always talks about is how when we die, people from past dispensations are going to ask us what it was like living during the time that the Lord hastened his work. We're going to be asked what we did to help the hastening. President Uchtdorf said something that really hit me as I read his talk. "There is too much at stake for us as individuals, as families, and as Christ’s Church to give only a halfhearted effort to this sacred work. Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all."I want to be able to tell people after this life that I gave it my all! What are you doing to help the Lord hasten His work?
I love you all! Have a great week. Be sure to look for the little every day miracles that the Lord is blessing you with!
Love,
Sister ANderson
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