Due to the new security measures requested by the Mission leaders, the names of all investigators and people that Sarah comes into contact with will be replaced with the name of a well-known character from a children’s movie. This will keep the identities of people safe as well as make it easier to keep everyone straight. The name given is in NO WAY intended to reflect the personality, looks, or circumstances of the individual(s).
COUNTDOWN: 73 DAYS
“Give ‘em
Heaven!”
March 24,
2014
Hello
everyone!
It has been
an AMAZING week in Northland Ward! Probably the busiest week of my mission and
it was absolutely fantastic! We added 7 new investigators, 4 of which are from
a family!
The Weasley’s
are a huge miracle. Mrs. Weasley’s husband is in prison and she has 6 kids, 4
of which are baptismal age. We had already added Mrs. Weasley as an
investigator last week, but we added her older kids this week. They are all so
excited to come to church! They don't have a car and when we invited them to
church they said, "Of course we will be coming! How long will it take us
to walk there?"
For the
record, it would take them YEARS to walk to the chapel. It's kind of out in the
boondocks.
We tried to
explain that to them and said we would get them a ride. "Oh no," Mrs.
Weasley said, "We don't want to be a burden. Just tell us when we need to
leave and we will be there. It doesn't matter how far."
I was so touched by her willingness to come to
church. Most people we have to drag and pull and bribe and convince to come to
church for the first time, but here was a family with kids ages 14, 13, 11, 8,
6, and 4, willing to walk, no matter how far, to be able to attend church as a
family. Now THAT is faith. THAT is willingness to follow the Lord. I can't wait
to meet with this sweet family again this week and teach them more about the
gospel.
Another
miracle that happened this week, happened on a little street called "Merced ". We were on a
neighboring street contacting a potential. We street contacted some men playing
dominoes on their front porch. They were blaring, "Sweet Home Alabama Merced .
They'll be nice to you there."
So off we
went.
We decided
we would contact everyone on Merced .
The first group of people we came to was a Hispanic family having a HUGE fiesta
in their front yard. I contacted a few of the teenagers who were playing
football in the street.
Not
interested.
Next we
passed a man tearing apart a garage. We started contacting him and turns out he
was from Rockwall! So we started talking about Texas ,
about his family, about religion, and how he met his wife, and we find out that
his wife was from Utah ,
and he thinks she was baptized as a kid. They now have two little boys and are
looking for a church. We asked if we could send the missionaries by in his area
and he was so excited! We got all of his information and sent his referral to
the Elders in Modesto .
If we had never gone down Merced ,
we never would have found him. Miracles.
The title of
the email is a quote from one of the members of the Stake Presidency here. We
had a welcome dinner at his house and after the closing prayer he yelled,
"Give 'em Heaven! It's much better than giving them the other place."
It's become our new slogan.
Funny story
for the week: For Pday we played soccer aka futbol with a bunch of the Spanish
missionaries investigators. I know it is really surprising to those who know
me, but soccer really isn't my sport. So I was out there doing my best to not
be in the way, when Sister Roberts yelled, "Come on Sister Burchett!
You're from Texas !
Show 'em how they do it there."
To which I
replied, "Um....we play the other kind of football there!"
The Spanish
missionaries got my pun. Sister Roberts didn't. That's ok. God thinks I'm
funny.
Hope y'all
have a wonderful week. Look for miracles, play some futbol, and if a Catholic
man tells you to go for a walk down a certain street, I highly recommend it.
Love,
Sister
Burchett
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