Week #54, We are on fire!

Sooooo.... Last week was transfers. I got a new companion named Sister Bolton. We came out together last year and served with each other for a few months in South Manhattan. She is wonderful! I thought she would
be very quiet and shy like she use to be, but the mission has changed her, and now she is conversational and bold in her teaching! And, Sister Bolton is totally kicking my trash.....AND I LOVE IT! She is so focused, so driven! Our missions standards for excellence entails 21 lessons each week, a high goal. But that goal is not high enough for her. This week she said to me: "Setting small goals accomplishes small things." So, instead of  21 lessons a week, we have 54 lessons this week as our goal!  We are trying to double or even triple the high standard the mission has already set! It is awesome!

I was stunned by her faith and her drive, but we are seeing it happen! We had 9 lessons on Monday, and 8 yesterday. With today being Pday, she is STILL pushing to meet our high goals for the day! Wow! I am sooooooo grateful for an extremely motivated companion who understands her purpose as a missionary. We agree on almost everything...we are very similar. I love this companionship!  We are still working on becoming good friends, but that will come over time :) She is great! I am very excited for what e future brings!

Earlier this week we tried an experiment-to pray for inspiration as to what streets we should tract to find new investigators. We did that, wrote down the streets we individually felt inspired to tract, then compared our lists to see which ones were duplicates. We decided to tract those and went to work. We found a brother and sister out playing basketball on their street. We felt awkward approaching them, but we did it. We showed them the awesome Mormon Message "Because of Him" and asked about their faith in Jesus Christ. The spirit was so strong! They want us to come back! YES! We are so excited to go back and teach them! The Lord answered our prayers! We found another new investigator when we went to teach Alyson and Samantha earlier this week! It has been such an incredible experience as we simply have tried opening our mouths more!

Even this morning at the grocery store we wanted to teach someone there, and we had a man named Donald talk to us as we were about to head out. He was getting some meat cut by the butcher, so he talked with us for a bit. He ended up not being interested in God at all, but said he had read the Book of Mormon to fill his thirst for knowledge. After we bought our groceries, the butcher who had helped Donald with his order saw me carrying my boxes of bagels and asked if I needed help. I didn't, but after a second of thinking about our prayer to find someone to teach, I accepted his offer. He walked us out to the car and we talked about the weather, where we were from, and started leading into a gospel discussion. We did not get far before he had to head back I to work, but we made an impression. We were so excited for the opportunities a God is giving us to open our mouths! Miracles are happening, and we are on fire!

Love Always,
Sister Weyandt