Ask and Ye Shall Find

As I write this letter there is intense thunder and heavy rain in the
background. It is absolutely incredible and quite exhilarating to
listen to. I love the weather out here!
Not only do I love the weather but the missionary work is amazing!
We had a great experience with a referral from mormon.org. We received the referral about a month ago and went to contact her giving her The Bible she requested as well as the book of Mormon, when she said she was looking to add to the knowledge of God she already has. When we tried to set a return appointment she informed us that she could not meet for the next month because she was teaching a class on the Cherokee language. This past week was a month from that event so we went to her home for a follow-up visit. It was an incredible discussion and she asked question after question, leading us to teach her both the restoration and the plan of salvation in a brief overview. We are excited to continue teaching her and hope that she is as prepared as we think :) we had another investigator we taught a couple times this week who hasn't asked any questions. There was a large difference in the two. One learned a lot while the other didn't.
 I began to test the question tactic out in my studies. As I picked a
topic to study based on the people we were teaching, I also asked a question. It enhanced my study and helped me to learn a lot more
efficiently. Ask and ye shall find. :)

Little but Mighty

Adventure of the week - TORNADO WARNING!!! To be honest, it was really anti-climactic :( It was an awesome thunderstorm though!

Zone Training Meeting was fabulous, as always. We were trained on setting goals which I am so grateful for! A great principle of missionary work, and life in general! We have been better at applying it the past week and it has made the biggest difference! It keeps us more focused and on task with a purpose in mind. And then it is so fulfilling to accomplish them! Then, with that feeling of motivation you go accomplish another one :)

Interviews with president were this week and those are always a joy :)

We also learned that we are classified as a "hard" English speaking mission. Kinda cool, right? He explained it as such, "we are in the bible belt with the Southerners, the Baptists, the Indians..... and the mountain men!" ha! I felt like he was talking about our area specifically. We have a plethora of all of that! 

Short letter this time, but it was still a great week! Keep up the work that you each are doing. I love you!

We have amazing recent converts in this branch! We had lessons with Chelsie this past week and her enthusiasm for the gospel is contagious. Every principle she treats like gold. It's so fun to teach her! She was thrilled when she got Sundays off of work so that she could come to church and take the sacrament. It was a big deal to her.
She even attends church when she is out of town because of what it means to her. She is also eagerly waiting to go to the temple.
Yesterday she, with the other YSA's in the branch, drove to Atlanta to attend a YSA ward there and she shared with us a principle that she really liked. It went hand in hand with the lesson we were teaching her: obedience. We were expanding on the quote "When obedience ceases to be an irritant and become our quest, it is in that moment that God will endow us with power." - President Benson. She said, "That's kind of like missionary work! We can do missionary work out of a feeling if obligation, but the real power comes when are actively inviting - when we see it as a privilege to do missionary work" Isn't that so true? :) what a privilege it is to be a missionary: A full-time missionary or one with a "badge painted on your heart." Find the joy that comes as we take advantage of this glorious privilege to work with God in his purpose of "bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." :)