As the title suggests we got to help a few people move this weekend!!! So I guess it was graduation for SUU here and so ALOT of people are moving away for the summer and others are leaving permanently. We were just knocking doors on friday when we got to move a young married couple out of their place cause they are moving up north. Then on saturday we arrived at one of our appointments with an investigator (family of at leat 14 people - Mom uncle aunt cousins brothers and sisters, one BIG family) and they tell us they have to be out of their house in 2 days!!! they are moving to Parowan (just a 30min drive) but now they don't tell us. Luckily we didn't have anything to do that evening so we went to dinner after sharing a short message then came back to help them out again. But because the family is so big no1 really knew where to start and was a bit of chaos. I don't know if we were able to help that much but we did something. I hope that heavenly father continues to work with them and that they can eventually make covenants with God. I know that is what we are hear to do as missionaries - help people make and keep covenants, whether they be baptismal or covenants in the temple.
Well other than that we still had a good week - could always be better but I think the work is progressing forward. we gota refferal yesterday for a 94 year old man I really want to teach him, and just goes to show that EVERYONE can repent and make covenants no matter how old you are.
So some events of last week that I omitted was I had lunch with a South African!! It was super! A lady from the Cape we had a great time just thinking about the differences, unfortunately she does not like the states at all and really wants to go home ASAP. But she quite likes it here in Utah because of the culture that is here with everything being so family orientated and THAT is one of the great things about this gospel!! We believe that we can be forever families! Though priesthood ordinances where we can make covenants or promises with God. I wish I had shared more with her and been more bold with her. I am however grateful that one of her work collegues is indeed sharing whathe knows to be true with her. she loves the salt lake temple and has really great questions! I love her. I hope to see her again. I am thinking of organizing a true SA braai with a south african family that I have heard so much about but I keep on forgetting to meeting them.
To introduce what happended this week here is a funny experience that has nothing to do with nothing but anyway, so we are teaching someone with a mental problem - we don't know what it is wheter it is scitzophenia or multiple personality disorder. But when sister Davis first met her she was NOT her normal self and we did not teach the lesson we had planned but rather read from the book of mormon cause we felt very uneasy in her home, but she would only read certain verses like 12 17 and 23, but half way through she says lets read out of the book of revelation... Ahhhhh scarry.... so we did. and didnt understand any of it... anyway.
So this week at Zone training we learned alot about the atonement and we started it defferently than normal, we started with reading from Revelations 5. (So Sister davis and I thought of the above experience Scarry I know) But it wasn't too bad we were able to think about the atonement a bit more. But here is my spiritual thought for you it is hymn 195 How great the wisdom and the Love:
1. How great the wisdom and the love
That filled the courts on high
And sent the Savior from above
To suffer, bleed, and die!
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2. His precious blood he freely spilt;
His life he freely gave,
A sinless sacrifice for guilt,
A dying world to save.
3. By strict obedience Jesus won
The prize with glory rife:
"Thy will, O God, not mine be done,"
Adorned his mortal life.
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4. He marked the path and led the way,
And ev'ry point defines
To light and life and endless day
Where God's full presence shines.
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5. In mem'ry of the broken flesh
We eat the broken bread
And witness with the cup, afresh,
Our faith in Christ, our Head.
6. How great, how glorious, how complete
Redemption's grand design,
Where justice, love, and mercy meet
In harmony divine!
I know just as Job knew that "My Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms shall destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God." (Job 19:25-26)
All My Best,
Sister Karen Hollander
St. George, Utah Mission
107S. 1470E. Suite 304
St. George Utah 84790
United States
