So you know the kid that was in high school that hung out
with your group of friends because one of their friends was cool so everyone
hung around the cool one while the other kid just shadowed that person and no
one talked to them? Yes that has literally been me my entire life and still
hasn't changed and probably won't change until the day I die. I'm just not cool
enough to be in a group of 19-20 year old missionaries either I guess.
I really get along great with stoners, I've noticed. I
don't know what that means but you know what, stoners need Jesus too.
So this week was speedy Gonzales, I don't even now what
happened oh my gosh. We taught and tracted and taught and tracted some more.
Once again, tracting is not the most successful way to do missionary work.
The good news is we had more lessons with less actives
and recent converts, my favorite type of missionary work.
One evening we went to contact one of our investigators,
and he wasn't home. We tried this less active across the street from him, and
they weren't home either. I said a pray out loud that we would be able to
contact our investigator soon as we got back into our car, and not two seconds
later our investigator pulled up into his driveway. We got out and talked to
him and scheduled a less for him later that week (and it was a bomb lesson
btw). So his name is Tito Togar. He is from Liberia, Africa and he has the
coolest accent ever. He wants to be baptized really bad and has been listening
to the lessons for only a couple months. Who knows, maybe this might be my
first baptism, knock on wood.
Ok so we have District Meeting every Wednesday right? You
would think because it's every Wednesday that it would be ingrained into a 17
month out district leader right? Wrong. Our district leader completely forgot
it was Wednesday so we were all at the church for an hour waiting for him to
show up. He finally arrived and apologized profusely and we talked about
villains and superheroes for the rest of the time. That might seem pointless to
you, but it gives me comfort because even though I screw up all the time and I
am incredibly awkward, I would never forget that it's district meeting.
Sunday was Stake Conference in Lincoln, and it was my
first stake conference I've been to as a missionary. An area of the seventy,
Elder Dube, came and spoke to us. We had an 8 o clock meeting with just him and
recent converts, investigators, and less actives where they could meet him
personally. It was awesome, Tito came and since Elder Dube is from South Africa
and Tito is from West Africa , they could understand each other and he was able
to answer Tito's questions. After the meeting Elder Dube pulled us and Tito
aside and spoke to Tito personally. He bore his testimony to Tito and said that
as long as he listens to the missionaries, he will be blessed and being
baptized is the best decision he can make. I GOT TO SHAKE ELDER DUBES HAND LIKE
THREE TIMES. That was the closest I have ever been to an area seventy, he
actually talked to me and said, "Thank you Sister." It was like
talking to a rockstar. I was internally screaming the whole time but I kept my
cool. Elder Dube gave a conference talk back in October 2013.
Go watch it or read it. It's amazing.
K I'm off to go do P-day stuff. I love you all and the
church is true.
Yeah I might not be the coolest or most interesting of
people. I might not be included in the "cool crowd" but who cares,
cause when Jesus is on your side nothing matters anyway. My job here in life is
to comfort the lonely and less fortunate. I can do that because I know exactly
how it feels to be lonely and less fortunate. I just know I have a father in
heaven who loves me and I need to tell people that.
I love you all. Please keep me in your prayers, I need
it. Talk to you soon!!
Love,
Sister Ginn
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