Whats up fam? I hope all is well. I still love being a missionary and I love my area and my companion and just everything.
🙂 Plus I've finally been able to email my mom so BLESSINGS!!! Isn't she just amazing? 🙂The beginning of this week was kind of slow but then Wednesday came. Lemme tell ya. We had dinner at 6:30 in Radford (VA) and it takes us 30 minutes to travel from Dublin to Radford. So it was 5:30 and we already tried all of the people we could think of so what do we do? Tract. That's right folks. We started tracting and nothing happened and it was going to take us about 10 minutes to go back to our car and it was like 5:45 so we decided to knock on one more house. We knocked and this crazy dog runs up against the screen door and starts barking SO loud I thought it would burst though the door and eat us. But then this older lady comes to the door and starts telling us how she is a Southern Baptist and how she ONLY reads from the Bible and that she wasn't really interested. We hear that like 7/10 door approaches and we learned that we just testify hard core. So we did. We taught her about the Book of Mormon and then we got into the Plan of Salvation. She began to ask really deep doctrine questions about the Millennium and all that jazz, we testified more. We noticed that her heart began to be softened and she excepted a Book of Mormon, we left her with Alma 40 to read and we are going to teach her again on Wednesday! I can't wait I am so excited! People are so amazing here.
To my fellow missionaries I would like to share something that my Mission President shared in his email. He shared the scripture in Matthew 15 about the Disciples giving the multitude the 7 loafs of bread and a few little fishes. President said that Jesus only asked for the loafs of bread but the Disciples gave Him the 7 loafs of bread AND a few little fishes. They gave Jesus everything they had and because of that, Jesus took what they had and turned it into a miracle into the multitude. We need to be like this as missionaries. We need to give everything we've got into this missionary service. This includes the members of the church as well. We are ALL responsible for doing missionary work. I know that if we seek out an opportunity to share the gospel, Heavenly Father will give us that opportunity, even if he people say no, Heavenly Father will still consecrate our efforts for trying. I know that doing missionary work will bless the lives of those around us and because of that we will be able to bring our brothers and sisters unto salvation.
This week Sister Van Tassell gave me french chocolate and then later Sister Niel gave us European chocolate. Chocolate from other countries is truly a blessing lol.
On Thursday we had a scripture study in Radfod, we normally don't go unless we have an investigator that is going to be there. This week Sister Bandy (our 80 year old German Investigator) came with her friend Sharlet (I don't know how to spell that name lol). The scripture study was spiritual and great. The adventure however, came after the scripture study. We where traveling back to Pulaski (where our home is) and we just casually got 2 flat tires along the way. No one got hurt or anything but we pulled over into a low-key sketchy gas station and they said that there might be a leak in two of her tires. So what they did was they pumped air into them. They pumped 50 (literally 50) pounds of air into the tires when the tires where only suppose to get 32 pounds. So we had to deflate it a little. And then we made it safely home...at 9:30pm. Its all good though. Car problems are not fun, right Sister Van?
😉We had interviews on Friday, that was awesome, I love President Lindhardt. Then we went to Panda Express (blessed).
Sunday was super duper awesome. Relief Society was my favorite because Sister Kimble taught the lesson! She is a super fun, outgoing and talks really fast kind of lady. Her lesson was based off the talk by Elder Bednar called 'Return and Receive' Her main focus though was making goals and plans. She said that our goal should be to return to live with Heavenly Father and to receive blessings of making and keeping covenants. Our goal should not be to get married or to have a good education. Those are short term goals. Our goal should not be to be perfect either, sorry but that just isn't going to happen. We need to do what we need to do in this life so that we can return to live with Heavenly Father. Whether that is reading the Book of Mormon or going to the temple. Whatever it is, do it.
Sorry for the super long letter. I love you all so much and thank you for all of the love and prayers you have given me.
Love always,
Sister Rodabough
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