Book Of Mormon Challenge...Who's with me? 4/28/14

Hello!

So l don't remember what I said about last week, but it was kind of rough. This week though has been wonderful. I think it has a lot to do with the switch up of being in a new district. We had a good district before, but I feel like we were able to get some really helpful advice for our area this week.It reminded me to focus on what really matters. The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion, and I need to be treating it that way. I need to give it more priority in my teaching. We saw how much that helped us this week, especially our attitude in general. We were happier. 

We were able to teach Jenny this week, we watched the Testaments with her and afterwards asked her how she felt as she watched. She said she felt peace and just good. Jenny has read the Book of Mormon before and knows A LOT about the church, where we don't know how much she has felt and known by the spirit about the gospel. That is one thing that is hard about inheriting investigators who have been taught for a long time, where we don't know what they have learned and what they know except from the Area book, which doesn't always tell you everything.. ok back to the point. We  invited her to read and pray about the Book of Mormon to know if it is true. I feel like we are going to be able to help her as she recognizes the spirit. 

We had some amazing lessons with members yesterday. Where Sister Baker and I haven't had any investigators to teach this helped us to practice teaching in unity and we both learned alot. We taught one family and had them act as investigators, which is where we had the most insight on explaining the apostasy. The other family we taught had invited their neighbors over for dinner as well as a new family in the ward. We taught the Restoration to them and we felt like that really helped the members strengthen their testimony, especially the new family in the ward. The best part though was that when we got there they were all talking and having a great time. It was seeing the members do missionary work.

Yesterday in Relief Society the lesson was on Richard G. Scotts talk Personal Strength through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Ah, I love this talk. I wish I could explain everything that I love about it but you probably don't want to hear it all and I don't exactly have time. But read it!!!

Also I am going to be starting the Book of Mormon over on Thursday.. I wanted to do a little challenge and have people read it with me. I was trying to think of how to do this, but I decided that I want to read it by my birthday.. and I only figured out how many days that was because I had to figure out approx. how many pages to read each day. so 531 pages in 135 days.. about 4 pages a day. but more than just reading, find verses that help you in your life, then write them down. Who's up for reading with me? Think of it as your birthday present to me. 

My time is up, but I love you all. Thank you for all the prayers and your examples to me.

Love,

Sister Kellee Gardner