To start I want to wish my mother, grandma,
& aunts a extra happy Mother’s Day next week! I know that I am no
where close but I hope that you have a great Mother’s Day!!
Also
transfers have come again. I will be getting transferred. I will be
spending my last 6 weeks in the Folsom stake. I have never served there
before so it should be filled with lots of new adventures. My new
companion is Elder Chen! I am excited for the last couple of weeks so I
can go out with a bang!
This week was a pretty
exciting week!! I put two explanations to put some extra emphasis.
Anyways this week started off pretty good. We were teaching a new member
lesson to a recent convert named James. It has been so cool to see her
journey as she has come into the church. We talked a lot about agency
& trials. It was cool to see her understanding change and grow. She
said the closing prayer and said “thank you god for the hard things.”
When she said that it made me have to take a look back. All of the hard
things that we go through are for our good. To help us become better
people for our future. I thought it was amazing to see the insight that a
new member had.
We went and met with a YSA
who is going to a family ward. We went and invited him out to the YSA
Ward. He said that he has come before but the 1st time no one really
talked to him. So he didn’t have the most enjoyable experience. As we
talked we were able to get him to give it another chance which was cool.
He did end up coming and seemed to have a more enjoyable experience.
It’s amazing to see the difference it makes to have a friend at church.
With Maka & Filisi the two Tongan boys working to May 19
had a lesson just focused on president Nelson. We shared some
experiences to help them get to know him better that they might be able
to have a stronger witness of president Nelson. It was cool even for me
that as I studied and prepared to teach them that I was able to have a
strengthened witness of president Nelson. I love president Nelson and
know that he is a prophet in the latter days.
The
other day we were walking out of our apartment and we saw our neighbor
and said hi. She was being polite and said hi back. We asked what her
name was to be nice and get to know her. When she saw that my name was
Elder Berry she lost it. She went on to tell us that she is wikan. From
what she told us is like a witch with poisons and things. Apparently
elderberry is a very powerful berry. So the Sacramento needs to watch
out for me for at least the next 6 weeks. I don’t think she is an actual
witch. And I am getting transferred so I should be safe.
I
had a humbling experience as well this week. I was asked to be apart of
giving a baby blessing to a 3 day old baby that was fighting for its
life. I couldn’t even describe what I felt. So much empathy for the
single mom. There was not a whole low that I could do beside to give the
blessing. I hope that it was enough. But to see the family all come
together for the single mother really made me know that you can truly
call on family when you are In Times of need.
To
finish up we were out finding on Saturday. Most of the day people were
not home or really did not want to talk to us. About 70% of the way
through our plans of really not seeing any luck we came across a former
investigator named Krystal. She was not really interested in meeting
with missionaries before. But she has had a few things shake her
relationship with god that made her want to reconnect. It was cool as we
followed the spirit god took us to the people he is preparing for
baptism.
I hope you have the best week ever! And to all the mothers have a great Mother’s Day!
Love,
Elder Berry
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