November 13, 2018

It was a great week! A few downsides were that we didn't get to meet with Mary and  Vienna but we are really hoping that we will hear back from them today. Last night we had family home evening with the Normans who are one of the ward missionary companions in the ward. The elders had Bayne there, who they are teaching and who we will be teaching after there are no more Elders here in Bridgewater, so that was awesome.we did a lesson about prophets and the spirit was so strong  I just know  that President Nelson is the living Prophet today  and I am so so grateful  for that . Also Theresa was there! Theresa came to church on Sunday with the Normans she is Sister Norman's niece. We are teaching her tomorrow and are super excited. a long time ago and she left in BC she read the Book of Mormon and said that she'll never forget that feeling, she didn't pursue it at the time but now she wants to! 

Last week we had exchanges in Halifax and we got to do a booth downtown haha that's always crazy. sister Barlow and I were contacting together and we met a lot of cool people but I think the coolest person was Aria. we introduced ourselves and told her we were doing a booth about the Book of Mormon and she was like oh cool I'm reading that book right now! We were like what!?! So after us freaking out we asked her more about where she got it from. she said her uncle had given it to her and told her to read it he is just very into religion. I will have to follow up on some more to see if they have been able to meet with her again yet :-) and I tried to meet up with ximena who I taught in Dartmouth but the lesson ended up falling through but I will not give up on her! I know that she can be baptized! We then got to teach Bobby who is in Halifax right now. She is pregnant and due any day. Something cool that we talked about is guilt. often times when we think of guilt we just think of the negatives of it but we got to talking about how guilt is a good thing because when we feel guilt that means we want to repent and we want to change. That means we expect more of ourselves and that we are not desensitized to the spirit. And so I'm grateful that I can feel guilt and that I can always be improving. 

So exchanges were on Wednesday and then on Thursday we had the new missionary conference which was awesome! The best part was getting to do a session at the temple and guess who is at that Temple session... alayna! I got to sit beside her in the temple and that was just one of the best moments of my mission and probably of my life! I remember sitting beside her on her couch in her living room meeting her for the first time and her telling us that she didn't want to pray and didn't feel like reading the scriptures. to go from that two sitting beside her in the temple just filled my heart with too much joy I couldn't hold back the tears. Another lesson that I relearned this week is that God will magnify our best efforts to do what we know is right. There were two occasions this past week where, because we talked with everyone, we were led to opportunities to serve. I know that if we do what we know is right God will lead us to where he needs us to be :-)

We are starting to teach all the members a lesson to introduce light the world this year! I am so stinking excited for light the world and Christmas!

 Love you all and have an amazing week! love sister wood