So we got a call late last night from the assistants telling us that we are now doubling-in to Frisco 3 as well as keeping The Colony. I am not going to lie, we were a little overwhelmed a first because the work in The Colony is on fire! We teach anywhere from 21 to 28 lessons a week and we have had lessons during our preparation day the last two weeks. We work with a ton of less actives and we have plenty of investigators. It will be tough to add another area to it. My prayer is that the work in The Colony will not slow down even though we will have to split our time into another ward. Plenty of missionaries have two wards, but usually that is because they are both slower wards...But I am so grateful that the Lord trusts me with another ward and I know that it is His will for us and it is His work and He qualifies his servants. Our ward mission leader in The Colony is upset, but we are determined to prove to him that the work does not need to slow down even though we have another ward. We will excel the Colony work and excel Frisco 3 (we hear it is a slower work).
The Texas Dallas mission is doing a family history initiative! We are teaching a Sunday Evening discussion with the youth in The Colony and we are going to talk about family history! We aren't sure yet how we are going to implement it into Frisco 3 because as of right now we know nothing about the area, but I am sure we will figure out some good creative ways to excited the ward about the initiative =) I am so grateful for the timing of this initiative because in The Colony we are preparing a few recent converts and a few people that are returning to activity for the temple.
Sister Terry and I are doing great, we had an embarrassingly funny experience on Saturday. We offered service to the members that we live with and they asked us to weed their backyard, so Saturday morning after studies we dressed in pants and t-shirts to go and get dirty in our own backyard. Since it was the house we live at we left our phone and keys inside. We weeded for about 20 minutes when we heard Sister Warner say: "oh we forgot to lock the back door." I looked at sister Terry for a second and then jumped up and ran to the door to stop her but they were already driving away and we were locked into the backyard. The fence is super high and was locked as well. We weren't sure when they would be back home so we finished weeding and they still weren't there. We waited for another 30 minutes, playing on their play-set =) thinking they might have just gone to run a quick errand. We wanted to go out to work and got impatient so we pulled a chair up to the fence and I still wasn't tall enough so Sister Terry boosted me and I got over and then she is taller so she was able to get over with just the chair. We walked to a different members house a few blocks away so we could call Brother Warner to get the garage code. We definitely learned a lesson there! We will always have our phone and keys on our persons! =) We enjoyed a good laugh about it though!
Daniel is taking a week or so off of our lessons to have some time to experiment and try out the gospel and work through his problems on his own, so we are praying for a miracle!
Sister Jones is progressing right toward her baptismal date! =)
Our other investigators are doing well. We had five less actives back at church for their first time in years on Sunday!
Debbie and Ben are preparing to do proxy baptisms! Ben was ordained a priest on Sunday.
Sister Terry and I sang in sacrament meeting this week, a missionary medley. It was fun! It is easier to get people to church when you tell them they need to take the sacrament AND we are singing ;)
Happy Valentines Day!!! <3
Love,
Sister Jones
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