SO this week is transfers and im STAYING here!! yay!!! sister weeks is leaving me.. i wont find out who my companion is until i pick her up thursday night.. so cross your fingers!
They are also closing down the Sturgis Elders so the closest missionaries to me will be 1 hour away. .. so theres that too!
i forgot my planner so i really cant remember what happened this past week,.. i know short term memory loss... lol;)
Pday last week was a blast and a half!! sister Weeks, the Sturgis Elders and I went to Deadwood and Leed!!!!! it was so much fun! we had lunch at a casino, walked around Deadwood, a guy tried to bible bash, drove around the small streets up in the hills. We went to the huge mine in Leed.. look down the big hole. We went and toured the Broken Boot Gold Mine in between those two cities! it was just a good ole fun day! and today we are going on a hike with those elders. we are hiking in Spearfish Canyon.. i am not excited.. haha a member just reminded me of all the cool little bugs and animals that are there.. so pray for me. hahah
We went on exchanges again this week. Sister Larson came here with me. :) it was a blast and a half!! we went and got icecream at culvers! we chalked the Plan of Salvation, BOM , and the first vision! we drove out to Fruit dale.. if you never heard of that .. thats all good. its a population of about 100 people. we had dinner with a member there.
update on Domingo: no calls no answer.. BUT he drove past us smoking.. soooooooo that was a stab to the heart!
WE got a new Gator!!! wahoooo
Her name is Becca(YEs finally a girl!)
Shes awesome! We are basically starting from scratch now. She doesnt know anything about Jesus Christ or our church. She seems pretty interested. She also has 2 kids and 1 is above 8 so i guess thatll be another one too! We got a few new potential gators too, so ill tell ya more about those next time cause we will be seeing them this week!
We read the BOM with Chris aswell. it was an interesting. We are sure where his commitment level is, so thats what we are trying to figure out. He doesnt agree with acouple of things but we will get him there. in the Lords timing!
We visited alot of members and Less actives. So something crazy... as we were looking over the ward list we noticed something so crazy.. if ALL of the less actives came and became active we would probs have to split the ward.
One of the cool lessons we have been doing with members is something i learned from a youth conference. its not as spiritual as it was there but we are working hard on it! so with yarn we create a few lines, that are in random spots in their yard, we blind fold them and give them a prayer rock, and tell them to go. they have to hold on to the yarn and find their way back home. If they get stuck or need help they raise their prayer rock and we lead them to where they need to go. its so fun!! so the whole point of it is praying! We are all children of God. He loves us and knows our needs, and He wants us to communicate with Him through prayer. We should pray to Him and no one else. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded, “Ye must always pray unto the Father in my name” (3 Nephi 18:19). As we make a habit of approaching God in prayer, we will come to know Him and draw ever nearer to Him. Our desires will become more like His. We will be able to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that He is ready to give if we will but ask in faith. i have gained such a huge testimony on prayer. in church yesterday, we had a fast and testimony meeting and i got up and bore my testimony.. (and young man and sister have just gotten their mission calls this week) i talked about how life, and mainly missions are so hard. like Why arnt people floking to the font! it is the truth!!! why is it so hard!? But why would we believe it would be easy for us when it was never EVER easy for Him. As im reminded by that from elder Holland. as i have days when life isnt so easy and the mission is so discouraging i try to remember that in those times i am standing shoulder to shoulder with the best life this world has ever known. through pray and Christ atonement i can be comforted and ask for strength.
I love this gospel and this time i have to be a set-apart missionary. i am 6 months in and 1/3 of the way done.. that scares me cause i dont want to be. i mean i miss my family and friends and i cant wait to see them again, but i dont want to leave this apostolic work.
i love you all so much! thanks for all the support!
Sister Taelor Florek
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