I hope you are all doing well! I am so excited to announce that I have been asked to be a part of the Book of Mormon experiment! Only three missions in the whole world get to be a part of this!! What it is is that they set up Book of Mormon displays and the missionaries dress in normal clothes (incognito) and we invite people to read a page of the Book of Mormon and highlight all the things that talk about God and Jesus! It is a way to get the Book of Mormon into more peoples' lives! I even have to go by my first name and will not be wearing a name tag! This will be going on all this week! Last night I got to be in a special conference call with the aps the missionaries president and his wife and all of the missionaries who will be involved! we will have special people coming down from Salt Lake to help us with this! I am so excited! wish us luck this week!!
When we were knocking doors we couldn't get anyone to listen to us. Which made us pretty sad, then this really cute cat came over and let us pet it. Then it followed us around through out the whole neighborhood and let us pet it, as we continued to knock doors. It really made our knock out go so much better!
Sadly, I need to repent because I forgot to invite you all to do the "Light The World Challenge"! If you haven't already heard about it from all the other missionaries. Its 25 ways to serve people in 25 days! The service ideas are really simple and there is a video for each day! It started December 1, but it is never too late to start. They got all the Elders and sisters together form last year and asked them to share stories that they had with "Light the World" last christmas.
One elder told his story about their recent convert.... she was a single mother who was barley making ends meet. She had promised to take her kids to a movie. Well she was sitting in the movie and her tooth started to hurt. It was bad enough that she had to get up and walk out of the movie. When the movie was finally over she was driving home and realized she needed to fill her tank up with gas... she didn't have the money but you need gas so she went to the gas station any way and filled up her car. A random guy walked up to her swiped his credit card and paid for all of her gas. Then said "Light the World" and walked away... she was shocked. Later that night she gets a text from one of her old high school friends, asking her how she was doing. She told her that she had a really bad toothache and probably needed a root canal but couldn't afford it. Her friend said well my husband is a dentist and he is just getting out of the temple. I'll give you his number and I'm sure he can help you out. The husband texted her and invited her to come down to his office and he would talk care of all her dental needs for free. He wrote #light the world at the end of the text. Because of these people sharing Light the World with her she was interested in the church and started taking lessons from the missionaries and is now baptized in the true church! I promise you that serving people is one the easiest ways to bring our brothers and sister closer to our savior. If jesus was here he would be serving everyone.
I would just like to invite you all to serve the people around you this Christmas because I know that there are people that only you can touch!
I love you all, Sister Howard
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