1/6/2013 A week of listening to the Spirit

Happy late birthday Dad! Did anything cool happen? sister Beckstrand is training a new greenie! sister Cumberland.  She's having a tough time adjusting so keep her in your prayers, but we are working hard on getting to know her so she can disfruten la mision! We also got a new district leader, Elder Brooksby, who is a super good district leader, he's a huge football player and tries to be intimidating, but he's helping us out a lot, and gives great encouragement, we've already seen a ton of miracles. 

Holy Cow! The Lord is teaching me how to do missionary work his way, and I'm trying to learn it, but sometimes it is hard to do what He wants you to do when the norm is different.  Sister Judd and I felt the Lord telling us to work with our members like never before.  We are supposed to have a "rounded effort" which I thought meant spending a good amount of time finding new investigators through the area book or knocking as well as visiting less actives and active members.  But we felt like we needed to just visit members.  I tested the Lord this  week and asked him to show me that straight up member work was really what he wanted us to do.  This was a difficult concept for me to grasp, how do we find new investigators if we don't contact new people by spening time out knocking/contacting potential investigators from the area book.  Well, sure enough I asked and the Lord showed me, and very powerfully.  Every single member we visited that day produced a miracle.  We strengthened a less active, we taught a non-member friend who the Lord had placed in the house of a member at the time we decided to visit, we got to meet a super-less active daughter and give strength to ther mom, our investigator decided to drop off food and rekindle our relationship, we got to visit a another investigator at less active family's home, and we found another new investigator at the home of a less active that we've never got to visit with before.  All in one day, and we received 4 meals from them and visited them at the perfect times.  The last one I told you about, was an incredible experience.  We found out that our new investigator has been taught by the missionaries and has been to church before.  He needs a lot of help with the chastity and word of wisdom.  I can't wait to update you and tell you what other miracles the Lord decides to bless us with.  I've really learned better how to recognize the spirit this week. Got to go!

Love,

Hermana Campbell