The new missionaries at the Atlanta Airport with President and Sister Foote
Hey Y'all!
It's Sister Welch from the Georgia Atlanta Mission! :D This first week out in the field has been absolutely AMAZING! We flew out on Tuesday morning, and on Wednesday afternoon we were assigned our new companions and areas. My trainer's name is Sister Kanangata'a (KAN-a-ga-TA-A), but since next to no one could pronounce her name, we all call her Sister K. :) She was born in Tonga and grew up in California, how cool is that?! :D She speaks fluent Tongan too, which is really cool, especially when she goes off on the Elders in our area in Tongan. She has been an amazing trainer, however, and I couldn't have asked for a better companion to start me out in the field.
Me and Sister K
So my first area is really not that far form the mission home. It's the Fayetteville mission. We cover the towns of Tyrone, Fayetteville, and a little bit of Peachtree City. The ward we are over is the Fayetteville Ward. You would not believe how amazing and nice everyone in the ward is. We have a few members that treat us like family! The Curley's are an elderly couple who are just the best people in the world! They LOVE missionaries and have us come over every week to share a message and talk. The Clarks are younger, but they also LOVE missionaries and have us over for dinner and a message all the time. They even want us to call them Mama C and Pappy haha! :D We really do have a pretty amazing ward that loves missionary work and missionaries.
Screen shot from Google Earth of their apartment
Since I jumped into the field at the middle of the week, we didn't really get a lot of lessons per say done with investigators. However, that doesn't mean we didn't get a lot done to find investigators. We have several investigators. One's name is Miss Cleo, she is an elderly woman, who is very strong in her faith, but after being given a priesthood blessing that healed her after what they thought was a heart attack, she opened up to us quite a bit. We visited with her a few days ago and really talked about the Atonement. Each of us bore testimony of the Atonement as well. Miss Cleo is still very sick, and we are hoping that she will be willing to take more discussions. Please keep her in your prayers!
A real miracle that happened a few days ago was also that we found a new investigator at a baptism! Two young girls were being baptized on Saturday and one had asked her non-member friend to come see it. That little girl took her dad. His name is Mr. Harvey! :) We didn't know who he was at first, until one of the members told us. We introduced ourselves before the baptism and got know him. During the Baptism, we looked over at Mr. Harvey to see how he was doing and he was crying! He could definitely feel the spirit! We walked over to him after and set up an appointment right there for this coming Wednesday! Harvey has three little girls and a wife who is Buddhist. I really hope they take the discussions as well. Pray for the Harvey family as well. :)
I have loved this last week so much! There have been so many miracles and blessings that happened and I only wish I could share them all, but that would take way too long! For now, however, I'd like to leave you all with a scripture and my testimony. It is in D&C 112:10 and it says:"Be thou humble; and the Lord they God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers."
I testify that when we come to the Lord with humble hearts and sincere intent to do his will, that he will answer our prayers and lead us to where he wants us to go. He knows us better than we even know ourselves, and through him we can become stronger and better than we ever could on our own. He is our Father and we are his children, he will answer our prayers and he will guide us. I know that is true and have seen it in my life so many times.
I love you all, :D
Sister Welch
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