This week I had fiz for the first time. I'm not a huge soda fan, but I got the "frozen butterbeer" which was excellent! We also got our first SNOW! In September. Last week I was melting every day. This week I wear a coat and scarf every day. Elko weather!
We had so many miracles this week! A less active member named Curtis just showed up at church all on his own. We didn't recognize him, but we introduced ourselves to him after sacrament meeting, and he ended up staying for all 3 hours. The members really reached out to him as well, which was amazing!
We've also seen miracles inviting ourselves over for dinner. One perk about being a missionary, is that so many people are more than happy to feed us. They actually get excited when we ask them for food! So, rather than letting the 15 or so members that feed us all the time fill up our dinner calendar, we have been calling other families that we have never eaten with before. We have been setting up dinners with YSA members that don't normally sign up, active YSA's that go to their home ward, recent returned missionaries that haven't come to the branch yet, and even some less active members. It has been super effective!
Last Monday we were in charge of FHE for the branch! We talked about missionary work (of course!) and watched the video "Dare to Stand Alone" with everyone. We had all the members share the video on their smart phones during the activity. We talked a lot about how they can invite their friends to come to activities. At the end of the activity, we asked everyone to "invite" their neighbor to come play tag at the park, so we all went to play tag! It was great!
--Hermana Nielsen
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