3 of my 4 mission "children" or as I like to call them "my lambs" :) haha
This poor bear must be dying in the Thailand heat :(
This week...was a tad harder...because we didn't have too many appointments, which meant we had a lot of time to go contacting. Up until Saturday, we were pretty beat down from the constant rejection. So we thought we'd call up our Elders Quorum president to see if he could take us around and visit some less-actives or some members that needed to be served a little more. Such a good experience!!!!! And then, Sunday rolled around...and no one came to church....soooo sooo sad. We luckily had a few late stragglers who showed up, but they sadly all had to go after first hour. So ya, at this point, we're tired, we're hungry cuz we'd been fasting, and we have no one to teach...so we're getting ready to pack up and go out contacting again, when all of a sudden one of our RC's who hadn't come to church and an investigator called us!!! They both wanted to learn with us that very day! So our investigator เกรนด้า showed up first, but guess what...he also brought a friend!!!! So we got an amazing referral who was way pumped about the gospel and reading from the Book of Mormon. Miracle number 1! And then we went to our recent convert แสแก้ว's house, and she surprised us by having us teach her younger sister AND one of our investigators who we'd already been teaching. I guess they hit it off a little while ago, and so she created a perfect teaching situation for us, where we got to teach her, our investigator จอย and a new investigator, her sister ญิง. Miracle number 2!!!
And these experiences just stressed the importance of member referral work. When we teach friends or family members of our members, these people have an automatic support system already. And not only that, but our members get to have a taste of helping someone come unto Christ!!!!
Went on switch-off's with this awesome sister, Sister Yanisa, who is actually from my old area Bangkapi!
It reminds me of the scripture in 3 Nephi 18: 32 which reads, "Nevertheless, ye shall not cast him out of your synagogues, or your places of worship, for unto such shall ye continue to minister; for ye know not but what they will return and repent, and come unto me with full purpose of heart, and I shall heal them; and ye shall be the means of bringing salvation unto them."
At first, I thought this scripture only applied to missionaries and not giving up on our investigators. But I realized that this also applies to members, especially those in part-member families. Never give up because we never know when they will open their heart and desire to repent. And when they do, WE shall be the means of bringing salvation unto them. This is why member referrals are soooo sooo crucial to our missionary efforts! It's our families and our friends that we love so dearly that we want to take part in this beautiful gospel. And when they do, we can rejoice and be uplifted together :) so NEVER GIVE UP! Keep working hard and try to be an example to everyone you meet, and the Lord will provide an opportunity for you to share the gospel with them!
Group selfie!
Love and miss you!!!
Sister Lam
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