This week was so exciting! Prepare for a long and overly detailed email:
On Monday night our president had an important announcement! He made the announcement that WE ARE NOW IN PHASE 1! WOO HOO! That means that we can now go to member's homes for lessons and dinners, and we also can do exchanges! Which is so exciting! We have two back to back exchanges this week, and a lot of dinners set up!
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This week was pretty good! We set a goal to find 1 person a day! To start, on fast Sunday we both fasted to find people this week and then to reach our goal we set aside an hour of "dedicated, spirit led finding" and we just pray a lot and then call a ton of people! It was so amazing!
So, Monday night we messaged our cool friend Lonnie (who we found when I was climbing out of the dumpster), who was excited last week to read the Book of Mormon, and this week we sent him some stuff, but he wasn't having it. All week he was sending us Bible verses and getting mad when we sent him Book of Mormon scriptures. So, he was one of the people we found, and then dropped.
Another woman we found is named Vivian. She was in our area book as a former taught, and when we called she just said "call me tomorrow!". Well, we called the next day and she hung up on us, but then we called again later that day and she was chill and let us talk to her and send her the Book of Mormon app! We gotta call her again...
Our coolest find this week was a man named George, who was referred to missionaries in December, but the sisters were never able to contact him. When we called he said he is very interested but doesn't want to meet because of Covid. When we told him we could call over zoom he was so excited! We have a lesson set for next week!
And we also got 2 referrals!!
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We also have been trying to use geneaology more for finding, which has been cool. I've met some really cool people from it, and found some distant connections! It's help me learn more about my geneaology!
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We had a lesson with Erica and she is getting baptized this week! She is so excited! She is so solid and so excited! Her husband is a member and the district leader told us that it was a super easy interview! She is so excited! It's sad though because we can only have 10 people at the baptism so we were trying to decide who to kick out. Luckily it wasn't me.
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We had a district council this week and then a zone leader conference. Sister Menlove and I decided to make a cake for the occasion, and we made it really cool by putting a ceramic Manti temple on the top. it was fun.
These elders are all super into fishing, and so we decided to do our next council as a fishing council. The elders all doubted we actually would and one elder told us he doesn't want to do that because he knows he will just have to help us the whole time. BUT NO. we are fishers of Women. We bought our cheapo 10$ poles today and had to call the elders to know what type of hooks to buy, but we are gonna go practice. While exersizing one morning the elders were also at the park fishing and they had an extra pole and I had to put the live bait on the hook. it was so gross. But we are going to just practice with bread and hopefully we won't catch anything while practicing because we don't have pliars to get the fish off, and I hate doing it with my hands. Stay tuned, we are excited.
On Friday we had a lesson with Jaxson, and his mom is a member, and the sisters have been teaching him for a few months now. I remembered the sisters telling us in DC it was hard to teach him, and so I was a little nervous. I haven't taught someone like him before, he doesn't think God doesn't exist, he thinks it'd be really cool if he did, but he thinks very logically and doesn't have any proof that God does exist. He won't read the Book of Mormon because he is learning from different sources. It was so interesting to talk to him, because he loves the church because of the people and sincerity of them, but doesn't believe anything. We committed him to reading the Book of Mormon, but he doesn't believe in prayer. We don't really know what to do with him, so if anyone has any ideas, let us know.
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On Sunday we got to go to church! It was so crazy! We have two wards, so we got to go to both sacraments. The first sacrament we had 42 people, and everyone had to sit a row apart. For the sacrament we had a separate tray to collect cups with, and we weren't allowed to sing. Looking at each other must be illegal too because we were excited to meet members, but no one really wanted to talk to us. We just helped clean and welcomed people. haha.
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Our mission has been doing a Book of Mormon challenge, where we are reading the Book of Mormon in the month of June. I was hestitant at first because we have to read like 8 chapters a day, but it's actually been really awesome! While reading I have been focusing on marking passages that talk about God's love and blessings to the people, and it is so amazing! I am beginning to see more how much God's hand is in the Book of Mormon peoples lives, and in mine! It shows so much humility that the people credit so much to God! Our mission has also seen so many miracles since we have started! It is amazing!
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Corona is spiking again, which is just so great. Some people have told us we will probably be in phase 1 for a while then go back to isolation once the fall hits. I didn't think my mission would be THIS hard.
So many missionaries have been transferred to our mission from out of country missions, and they all have been a little shocked. Once they get over telling us how our mission is a party because we can play games, hangout together on p-day, have phones, and washing machines, then they accuse us of being lazy/apostate missionaries because our numbers are lower than in their last mission. Then, they are calling us for help on finding and teaching people because ALL MISSIONS ARE HARD and they are all hard for different reasons. Don't disvalue someone else's mission because it's different. It's all exhausting and it's all God's work. HURRAH FOR ISRAEL.
Love, Sister McKee
Pictures:
My dad kindly teaching me how to tie a hook to show up these elders. I'll let y'all know how the fishing trash talk goes
Sis. Menlove posting a question, answering it, and liking it.
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