Riceys Mission blog: We are going to go pancake proselyting

This Christmas was so great, the day was a proselyting day and we served served served! First, the elders planned a ping pong event so we played at the church with our super athletic 50 year old friend who is pretty much good at everything! Ha-ha then we had a delicious lunch with a family of the church and got to sit down for a bit and relax and talk with them. They told us of how they met and the fun and the hard times. She fed us stuffed squid, spaghetti, marinated meat, fruit salad and pie! That was our Christmas feast! Then we went to the church to aid our English class member who needed help on a singing and dance audition. She wants to either be a rapper or be a doctor when she grows up! (About 15 years old). She is so cute and we plan to teach her in the near future. We wanted to visit one of our investigators who said that all she wanted for Christmas was to eat pancakes! But we didn’t have time to visit her that night, but the problem was, we had already made pancakes... so we were like, "ok, we are going to go pancake proselyting!" so we wrapped them up in bags with a flyer of a Christmas Mormon message on it and ran out to our closest friends! It was the best ever! We got to

make all our close friends who were working that night a little bit happier and share the light of Christ with them the night he first showed His light!! I loved Christmas this year; I wouldn’t have wanted to spend it any other way!

This Sunday, the new elders that came into the area baptized the referral we gave them! It was a Christmas miracle. We sang at the baptism and he is the new member of the ward!!

I want to share that I know that if we are listening to the Holy Ghost, It will guide us to what we need to say and do. Last night we had planned to teach a principle of the gospel to a less active member, but after we said the prayer to open the meeting, my companion and I both felt that it wasn’t the lesson for her. Instead, we just said, we want to just simply talk about what you need and what you would like to talk about. That led the whole discussion. From an outside perspective that may have seemed like we didn’t come prepared, but how many times is it that we prepare and we teach something completely different than what we prepped? Like when you go up to bear your testimony in sacrament meeting and say nothing compared to what you were thinking before you got up there. Same thing! And being able to meet her needs and understand her was exactly what was needed because we were able to share about family history. I know the Spirit was bearing witness to those members that their temple work needed to be done! (Korean families have huge volumes of books listing their history and thousands of family names). We love that family so much and I know that the spirit was guiding that lesson.

Love you family! Thank you for sending the family history stories!!! (In fact I read some of those stories at dinner right before we had that lesson with the less active family, it was inspired!!)

Sister Wright