Riceys Mission blog: The Turkey Nightmare

This week was crazy! It consisted of pure party planning, decorating, and meetings, exchanges with other missionaries, meeting with members and 1 lesson. But that lesson was the lesson that made this whole transfer! Guess what; the Kim sisters have a Baptismal date!!!!! It’s insane! We’ve been working with them a lot on that. They were less apprehensive and decided to make a goal date for them to prepare. It will be in January. We couldn’t do it in December because they have tests all up until Christmas Eve! No fun at all! We were planning on teaching them tithing, and the lesson was taken off course and we were teaching what the Lord needed us to teach. The older sister asked if Moroni was a prophet and we said yes, and Sister Moyer (which seemed random) said that Moroni is on top of the temples, which led us to show them all the pictures in the back of the Book of Mormon and explain about Joseph smith, temples, liberty jail. It was interesting for them and while we were telling them these things, I was like (in my head) this is so random! We aren’t getting to the tithing lesson today I guess! But then after that, we shared a scripture in Moroni 7 that they read and talked about how "by their fruits, ye shall know them" and related to what was just shared earlier about Joseph Smith and how the Book of Mormon isn’t a bad book. We know that Joseph Smith is a true prophet because of his fruits and because we’ve read and prayed about it. We then shared about the spirit and asked how we receive the spirit, which got them to answer baptism, which led us into inviting them to be baptized on a specific date. It was the spirit that led that whole lesson. The Kim sisters are so prepared and ready to make the necessary changes in their lives. They are already keeping the commandments so well. Ahhh I’m so happy and I know this is what Heavenly Father wants for them. The spirit has led us in their lessons numerous of times and if I deny it, I would probably be condemned!

About the Thanksgiving party!

More people came than expected! 50 people! There was a conflicting meeting in another area (music fireside) so we were concerned that no members would show. But many did and they were pleasantly surprised at the outcome! Our ward mission leader set a goal for us to bring 30 of our contacts, and about 30 came! It was amazing. Lots of stress beforehand though. All of Saturday we cooked, went to Costco, cooked more, bought more food, and prepped the final touches for decorations. Menu: pasta salad, mashed potatoes (which the members thought it looked like soup... woops ha-ha they were like “what the potato soup??" yikes, corn, rolls, turkey, ham, pumpkin pie, hot apple juice and members brought fruit! It was a lot of food but the turkey was in demand, the elders said it didn’t cook all the way, (last minute we decided to cook a real turkey... bad idea!!!) They only brought a little bit. But it was ok in the end; people got to try a little bit of it. The Turkey Nightmare. The members got super stressed and wondering if they should buy pizza or chicken at a store to make up for it. We were all stressed! Ha-ha. The elders didn’t seem stressed at all.... it was insane. Anyway, the people enjoyed the food; members were involved with talking with everyone and doing some amazing missionary work! Sister Moyer sang and then we taught dance! We did some line dancing moves and doing the doe- see- doe and they loved it! There were kids running everywhere to the music and a lot of members and non members participated! The ward mission leader was laughing and going all out! It was so funny. It was a good experience in the end and the ward members had a fun time as well! It was fun seeing everyone in a different atmosphere other than just going to church. We are all friends now! Ha-ha you can’t forget to have fun!!!!! In the words of our mission leader "when you have fun, that’s when the baptisms come!"

Love you!!