P-Day: We finally played chair soccer with our zone. Well it turned out to be just our district this week as the North Pole District decided to go hiking for P-Day. We also did Carmel Apples for the holiday and for FHE, we made sugar cookies and decorated them for Halloween. In the picture, I decorated the cookie with red food dye and had a little bit too much fun.
MLC: So we flew down to Anchorage this week for our missionary leadership council meeting. We stayed with the Oceanview sisters with the Colony sisters coming again as well. All the same sisters, plus Sister Burdick. We were tired in the morning, but made it through all of MLC. We had training's and talked about mission stuff, but had a fun activity. We played keep-the-balloon-up and played it with different rules. We eventually divided into two teams and had to toss it over President Toone's head. One elder couldn't do it to save his life and our team won with flying colors. We of course applied this to missionary work and had a discussion come from that. When we fly back, Sister Richards and I had dinner and just talked about our futures when we go home. Makes it kinda stressful to think about, so I usually try not to.
Car Probs: We finally winterized our car. No sooner time than before it snows. Our car needed a block heater so we took it to the dealer and had them put one in while we took a spare truck around to work. We took Rachel to our lesson with Mack and this friend of his came over and started telling us things he was very passionate about and cussing here and there. The funny part about it was Mack was cringing every time he cussed. So funny. The next day we had an appointment to get our tires studded. They put winter tires on for us a week or so ago but we realized there were no studs in the tires so we had to go back. Everything is ready to go, through, for the winter.
Try the tracted: We tracked into this guy named Sam a few weeks ago and every time we tried to go and share a message with him, he was always about to leave the apartment. This time we got him home and he wasn't planning on going anywhere. We visited with him and he shared with us that he wants to consider himself agnostic but is atheist. Having that religious background, we made sure we explained everything about the Restoration as simply as we could and asked him questions to make sure he was understanding. The lesson was going so well and he completely was understanding of it all, but then when we asked him to read the Book of Mormon to see if what we are teaching him is true and he said no and wanted to do his own research. It was like a knife puncturing my heart. It is sad that we can present the gospel to people, but people can use their agency not to accept it. We did tell him the websites he should go to learn more. Just like any English research paper, you don't get your information from Wikipedia. The same is with the truth of a religion - you have to go to the right sources. We told him about lds.org and mormon.org. Any other other site is most likely going to be anti material and not a valid source of information. Hopefully we can visit with him in a couple of weeks to see what his thoughts are then.
DJ: We received a text from DJ on Sunday saying that he has gone through some hard times in his life recently and that he wanted to drop the lessons with us but now feels like he needs them more than ever. We visited with him right after that at the library and he just laid it out to us what has been going on and his feelings about things. It is hard to tell people that Jesus Christ and His gospel can help us in our lives. It is one thing to say and testify of it and another to show them. It takes effort on people's part to receive Christ's help. He is always reaching out to us, but it is through our actions that distance ourselves from Him. Repentance is turning us away from our old life and towards the life Christ wants for us and to see us truly happy.
Sent from ALASKA!
Sister Shelley Willden
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