07/05/10

Hello hello,

Another great week here in the TSAM (Texas San Antonio Mission). The Jones' arrived on Wednesday and the Cutler's left Thursday. Wednesday night President Cutler sent all of us a message that read "Elders and Sisters, the Jones' have arrived safely. They are wonderful. We love you all and you are in our prayers. We are now signing off...God be with you til we meet again! Love Pres and Sis Cutler and family." My pillow got a little wet that night.

We get to meet and hear from the Jones' this Wednesday for our first Zone Conference of the month/transfer up in Austin. President Jones already sounds great. Because of the holiday weekend the library is closed and we hadn't heard from our Zone Leaders about using members computers or not so we called President Jones. He was very nice. I'm looking forward to seeing him in person.

One of our investigators Ginger Griggs, got really sick on Friday. She's on Oxygen and she's also in a wheelchair. She has C.O.P.D. She's told us several times what it is but it still hasn't clicked yet. It was really humid on Saturday and we'd planned to have a church tour with her before Sunday but she called us during our lunch and told us she wasn't going to make it because she was having a difficult time breathing and the humidity would make it worse. A thought came in my mind to ask her if she wanted a blessing but I didn't and we hung up. I kept thinking about it and I thought "why not?" I said a quick prayer asking for the right words to say and help for her to understand and I called her back. (Only a few minutes had gone by). I asked her if she wanted a blessing and it went silent. She said she didn't know what that was so I explained it briefly and asked her again and she said "That sounds good." We called people in the ward and several men were available and willing to help out. They showed up within the hour and were able to give Ginger a blessing. The Spirit was nice. She's doing better and we have another appointment with her tomorrow.

In our weekly missionary meeting we talked about setting goals in our companionship that will help us be better this transfer. In our companionship study Sister Christensen and I were praying about it and we opened up the scriptures to Jacob 1:19 which says: "And we did magnify our office unto the Lord, taking upon us the responsibility, answering the sins of the people upon our own heads if we did not teach them the word of God with all diligence; wherefore, by laboring with our might their blood might not come upon our garments; otherwise their blood would come upon our garments, and we would not be found spotless at the last day." This is good incentive to not be lazy:) and it's now our theme for the transfer and hopefully for the rest of our missions. It's really helped us to refocus and try a little harder.

On Saturday Sister Christensen and I went knocking in a neighborhood we haven't really working in much. We had been knocking for about and hour and we only had a few more houses left when we met three college-aged guys Colby, Ben, and Cameron who were outside. They had just gotten back from the lake that's not too far from here and everyone always goes there. They told us that they'd never talked to missionaries before but Ben has an aunt who is Mormon. Colby's father is a Methodist minister and Cameron was raised Methodist as well I believe. They allowed us to share more with them and we said a prayer and began to talk about the restoration. They like most people were surprised to hear that we have a living prophet on the earth and hadn't heard about him until then. We invited them to pray and promised them that if they did with a sincere desire to know, Heavenly Father would help them. I love the Spirit. I love that I can open my mouth and speak truth and that truth can be carried to all who hear it. My heart is growing.

Hope you all had a wonderful fourth of July holiday. Yesterday was a bit tough because everyone was preparing to be with their families for the day. Sister Christensen and I were able to meet two sisters who were cleaning out their car at a gas station and we talked to them for a few minutes. One of the Sisters Lydia, has two sons in prison and the other Sister Nina, just lost one of her daughters. They're not from here but they let us pray with them and we shared the Plan of Salvation pamphlet with them as well. We tried to reassure them of our Saviors and Heavenly Father's love for them. I can't wait to see what will come of all the pass-along cards, pamphlets, and Books of Mormon that have been given to people.

It's been a great week.

Love you guys,

Sister Green