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| JAX East Zone Conference |
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| With President Craig at Zone Conference |
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| Here's a bunch of the JAX YSA Branch at Ashley's baptism. Sisters Petramolo and Pasko (purple shirts on the right, in front of me) taught her. Jacob Rutland is in the back far left. He is the one who stopped working on the golf course on Sundays for church. If his life is the only one I change on my mission that will be enough! I LOVE all of these people so so much! |
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| Look what we found on the way to Zone Conference! Sister Hale has officially decided I am Rapunzel. (I have magical hair that glows..Bad lighting Sorry!) |
Feb 10, 2014
It was another slow week.
It was also another week full of laughs, but this week there were a few
more headaches if you catch what I mean. :)
But that's ok. Sometimes we need
a hard time to help us grow and to help us appreciate the good times. Aaron will not be baptized at this time, and
that's been hard for Sister Hale and myself, but we do have other investigators
that are progressing! And it's important
for me to remember that they all have their agency. All we can do is guide them to come closer to
Christ. They have to actually chose to
take each step or not.
A highlight of this week was Zone Conference. Since Jax East is the smallest Zone, we met
in the Fernidina building with the Kingsland Zone. Elder Young was one of the first missionaries
I saw there! He is doing great, and he
had some really wonderful comments during the meeting. Tell his family he is a great missionary
(including on Facebook!) At Zone
Conference every missionary got his or her own IPad Mini! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!!
Just a few of the benefits of having an
IPad:
-No sheets
of paper with important information getting misplaced, which means previous
investigators don't fall through the cracks!
-Our
planning book calculates how many lessons we had, and decides if our
investigator is actually progressing
-All of the
missionaries in an area can be in a conversation in IMessage instead of trying
to text each companionship individually
-We can show
videos in lessons
-We can
facetime or skype lessons: which means we can have a lesson with a single man
if we can't get another girl to come and we could even do a lesson when someone
is out of town or during a work break
-Someone
suggested pulling up to the church (for internet access) to see who's on
Facebook then asking to come by in a few minutes (wouldn't you rather learn
about your Salvation than waste hours on Facebook?)
-Soon
priesthood leaders will be able to get online and look at all of our plans and
teaching information
-If we have a referral for missionaries in
another area we can send it directly to them rather than going through the
mission office
The list could go on and on, and the best part is that
there are ideas yet to come! Our mission
is the third in the world to get them, so wish us success!
At the Zone Conference we watched a clip of President
Kimball talking about hastening the work with technology. He must have seen our IPads and not have
known how to describe them! He compared
radio towers to King Benjamin's tower which allowed people all across the land
to hear the gospel. I know that Heavenly
Father is providing means for the gospel to reach every corner of the
earth. I would encourage each of you to
use it for such a purpose! Post a
favorite scripture on Facebook, email a Mormon message to a friend... the
possibilities are endless!
Our miracle with technology this week was that we were
able to share a Mormon message with our investigator, Caitlin, when our
appointment fell through. She messaged
us back on Facebook and told us it made her cry. She then opened up about reading the Book of
Mormon! It was amazing!
Well, ya'll I wish you the best blessed week!!!
(Also, transfers are on Feb. 18th so please don't mail
anything that would get to me after Monday the 17th. So probably don't send anything after this
Wednesday to be safe. By the way, thank
you so much for the letters and packages!
They really brighten my days!)
Love,
Sister Murray
