The Cubs was a baseball team that hadn't done very well for a long time (if someone can find the year and how long I will personally write you a thank you letter for real. Haha I asked my mom to search on Google but no such luck). October was the playoffs, so they coined the phrase "Made for October." This was their month. And that year, they made it to the playoffs. Then they won the world series for the first time in a long time. They were "Made for October." I don't know the first thing about baseball, but our district leader told us this story in district council and I loved it so much.
Our zone has been struggling to find people to teach and struggling to set baptismal dates. So we started "Made for October." This was our month. Our month to start the rest of the months. Our month to find and set dates. Our month to change our mindset, exercise our faith, and put in massive effort. So in the area I'm serving in, we decided to make some plans. Every day, we think, "Who can we find today?" And make plans for that. We made a calendar for October, and each day we write down who we find that day. Although we can't control the outcomes, we can control what we do. We can control if we asked for referrals from everyone. We can control how frequently we follow up on people. We can control how hard we work and how dedicated we are. The miracles followed. This week we were blessed to find 3 new people to teach which is a start!
Some sweet experiences:
As many of you probably already know, missionaries have local pages that help us find people online. There was a girl from Taiwan who moved here recently that came across this page. She wanted to find a church to attend and so we got in contact with her. We called her on the phone and taught her how to pray. She's familiar with Christianity, so we asked her to offer the prayer. She offered one of the most tender prayers I've ever heard. She was tearing up and was asking God to please guide her and direct her. That she wanted to find the way. We then invited her to general conference and she wanted to watch! After conference, we talked to her about it and she really loved the talk about angels. And then we taught her about the Restoration. We introduced her to the Book of Mormon, and she said she already had one! One of her friends (who was not a member) was given the Book of Mormon by some of her friends who are members who then gave it to her! We invited her to read the introduction, and we'll talk about it next time!
Another lady we found this week was the mother in law of a friend that we taught before. We came by one day and introduced the Book of Mormon. She accepted and wanted us to come by and read it to her!! She has a hard time reading, but she wants to learn.
Also, every day when we go running, we see this lady who walks her 2 dogs. We've talked to her before and she says she has her own religion. She doesn't speak very much english, but Saturday morning, we saw her and starting inviting her to conference. She didn't understand so she pulled out her Google translate. We typed into her keyboard what we wanted to invite her to, and she said all, "ok, where can I see it?" So we typed the address for her. And then we were just trying to invite everyone we saw this last week to see it. Just gotta go send it.
Other sweet things that happened this week:
We met this lady in the laundry room, spoke to her in our broke spanish, and got her phone number and now the spanish sisters are teaching her! During the Saturday morning session of conference, we heard the door bell ring. We opened it to see this sweet lady and her husband! She had brought us empanadas she made!! Let me tell you, these empanadas are far above any empanadas I've ever eaten. This lady knows how to cook.
THEN this week was 中秋節 (midautumn festival) and every year we will eat 月餅 (moon cakes). I was talking to my mom last week and she was saying how this 中秋節 I'll have to spend it without 月餅。 But guess what mom???? This friend called us on night (the other friend we made this week) and was like, "我有月饼给你们，我们可以在那里见面呢?" (Basically he had just bought us moon cakes and was like how can I give the them to you?) Ah my day was made. How cute!!
Lastly, general conference! I hope everyone was listening to the spirit as they wrote down impressions. 2 of my favorite talks were by Sister Craig and Elder Renlund. Love mercy and see people deeply. We also had a friend who watched conference and absolutely LOVED it. He was the one who committed to live the Word of Wisdom last week. I would love to hear all of y'alls thoughts from general conference!! Have a good week!
Also, side note, what's the weather like for all of you in Utah? Haha it's still hot here. I didn't not expect that.
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