Hello everyone! This email will be short. Skimmers, feel free to just look at the pictures. I have been working on time management for 16 months and I still can't seem to save enough time to write this email. I try not to be jealous of iPad missions, but.... We worked hard this week! We were able to do lots of tracting and lots of service. Yall, this retirement home is wonderful. This week we helped out with their Birthday Bash, delivered mail, and cut fabric for quilts. We have lots of new friends and great opportunities to live the Gospel we teach :) Because we were going out to see Gloria lots this week, we were able to go to the Mississippi Food Network twice! Yall know how much I love working with those convicts in dirty warehouses. So much fun! And the weather is cooling down so it's even better! One of them recently got released and is staying in a halfway house somewhere in our area. She asked us to find her and we plan on it! I love being busy doing so much good :) but we did a lot of driving this week. So we decided to be 'stop and smell the roses-y' and pull over or slow down for pictures. Examples attached below :) It's pretty fun!
Paul is progressing well. Keep those prayers going!
I took Sister Makin out to Canton on Saturday :) It's a friendlier town and I wanted her to experience going door to door somewhere like that. And guess what? Not a single rejection. We were both very happy :) Hooray for humble, goodhearted people. I want to be like them.
This morning I had an interview with President Olson and Sister Makin and I got to meet with Sister Olson, too! President and Sister Olson are seriously inspired, I love them both so much. Sister Olson had a cool challenge for us to apply to ourselves and our investigator's scripture study. She wants us all to receive more revelation from our Book or Mormon and Bible studies. She invited us to have a notebook ready and before we study say a special prayer. In the prayer, ask Heavenly Father to testify to you the truth of what you read by the Holy Ghost. AND THEN ask Him to tell you what you should do, change, or who you should help. As you read, pay attention to thoughts that enter your mind. They might not even be related to what you are reading! But because you have invited the Spirit, payed attention, and put forth the effort, you will receive the revelation you need :) As you act on what you receive, you will receive more! Do this every day for 15 minutes and watch your life change.
And then let me know :)
I love you all! Have a blessed week!
Sister Bartsch
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| Mississippi state Capitol! |
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| It's really the south! We found a cotton field!!! |
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| Jackson, MS |
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| Some of our friends at the Home Place having a jam session |
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