Hello,
I hope that everyone has been able to have a good week! This week was pretty good! Elder Maynes asked me a couple weeks ago to help out with English during the summer and help review the BYU lessons that have been sent to us from them so I have been working on that along with meeting people. It has been fun and I enjoy being a part of it. We are reviewing these lessons to be taught not only in Mongolia but they will be used for the whole Asian Continent and will help in getting missionaries into areas that are not allowing them right now so it has been cool being a part of that work. We were able to skype with Jessica McGovern who is at BYU and works at the ELC the English learning center at BYU. Elder Maynes invited me to the meeting to share some of my ideas and thoughts that I stated in a previous meeting so he asked me to share them with her so that she could make some changes at BYU that will help the future missionaries coming here more. I am happy to be helping out with the lessons. Basically they are having a group, about 4 us review all of the lessons and make it nice and look good and that it makes sense to be prepared to teach this coming school year and then to be sent back to BYU to be prepared to use in other countries. Elder Maynes put me in charge of creating the booklet that will go along with the power points. It will be a book that explains all the activities and basically the teacher’s manual so yea that is what I have been working on! We were trying to figure out a more efficient way to train the missionaries and help prepare them more for what they will be doing here in Mongolia. They are making a lot of changes and keep improving it so it is really cool to already see how much it has changed since I came out here! The work is going well! Bayrjawhlan and his family are doing great! We are actually meeting with them tonight and then we just have a few lessons left and their interview should be Saturday or Sunday and then they can be baptized next week! I am so excited for them. I just think about how their little boy is now going to have the chance to grow up in the gospel and to be able to receive blessings that he wouldn't have been able to have before. He is going to be able to have a father who holds the priesthood and as I thought about that, I thought about what a huge blessing that has been for me to have a worthy father who holds the priesthood and how important that is. Even though our other investigators are not doing so great right now, at least we are able to have this family who makes us be able to see that this is what our work is all about. It is about finding the one family who will listen and have their hearts changed. I am grateful for them and I love that family so much!
July 18, 2016
Well this week has been great and we were able to get a lot of work done which is always good, right? haha
This week was really cool because I was able to experience a great blessing. So on Tuesday of this last week, my companion and I had a small disagreement and were going to teach a lesson in our farthest area and the lesson wasn't the best and didn't go well and so I was dreading the next lesson that we were heading towards but as we were walking to this next lesson, my companion was walking ahead of me and I was a little behind and we walked past this woman and her two little kids carrying water. Now they live in a ger district so there is no plumbing or anything like that. They have to go get their own water in these huge barrels and bring it home so I know that what they were trying to roll on this little cart thing was difficult for them and they kind of looked like they were struggling. I thought about helping but didn't say anything and we kept walking past them. I looked behind at them again and got the feeling, you need to help them. But me being me I was stubborn, not happy and didn't want too. Anyways, the second time I looked back I was like no we need to stop and help so I let go of what I was feeling and stopped my companion and told her that we need to help them. We walked back and asked them if they need help and they said yes. We started walking with them and helped them carry the heavy load and the mom asked us, "What kind of people are you?" and asked "Are you Church people?" My companion then said yes and we started talking a little and getting to know her. Then once we got to her house we explained how we were missionaries and asked if she was interested in learning about our church and guess what! She said YES! So the next day we set up an appointment with her and we taught her family. She has two daughters that are 9 and 13. Her husband was at work but our next lesson we plan to teach him as well. We were able to get another family just by helping with this act of service. At the end of the lesson we invited her to come to church and guess what! They all came to church! This was such a huge blessing and made me realize what can come when you let go of yourself, stop focusing on your own problems and turn to others in love and service. Even if this family doesn't get baptized (I hope they do) but if they don't, I am happy knowing that I made the decision to let go of pride and to serve them. We wouldn't have been able to meet them and they wouldn't have heard this gospel if we didn't take the moment to step out of ourselves and serve. I am glad that I listened to the prompting that the holy ghost was giving me and for the loud voice in my head that told me to stop and go help them. It was a voice of quiet urgency and to me this lets me know that this family is ready. We were able to teach them a great lesson and it was really cool to see the mom be so excited and think that everything we shared with them was so cool!
But yea that is the miracle for this week :)
One more thing! I have a baptism this coming Saturday!!! Bayrjawhlan and his wife will be getting baptized! their baptismal interview was yesterday and it went well! So yay!!!
Anyways that is all! Have an awesome week!
Sister Kerby
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