Sister Edholm - week 5

3 is the Magic Number

We have had some great experiences this week. A lot of the experiences I have had have been during my personal study time. I have learned so many things from the Book of Mormon, every time I read it I have a new and better understanding of the concepts that are being taught.

Earlier this week I was reading in 2 Nephi and I think it was in chapter 2 somewhere earlier in the chapter, but it might have been chapter 1... I don't remember and I didn't bring my scriptures to the library so I can't look it up, oh well. Anyway it was talking about how we need opposition in all things, I read the Book of Mormon with the institute manual because it goes verse to verse and breaks it down further, so I read that and then I looked at it in the manual and Bruce R. McConkie had a quote in it and he said that sometimes when we have opposition, we think that it is because we are being disobedient, but when we aren't being disobedient, it is because Heavenly Father wants us to grow more and that is how we grow, by having opposition. I thought that was so cool, I knew that that is how we grow, but that if we think about it this way, how much easier will it be for us to go through our struggles, if we know this exact concept. Anyway there's a little spiritual message for this week, ENJOY!

Now to explain the title of this weeks email. We have not been reaching our goals for qualified appointments at all, we haven't been seeing much success and all of the appointments we have set up have not gone through. On Saturday night we were talking to our District Leader and he told us to the next morning say a prayer for daily planning like usual, but then when we see how many finding hours we have, to say another prayer to ask for help and ask Heavenly Father how many qualified appointment we should put down. We had 4 finding hours. We said a prayer and Sister Truman got a number, but I didn't, so I said another prayer, still nothing, said another prayer and I got the number 3, she said she had the number 1, so we said another prayer and we both got 3. We wrote it in our planners. Anyway we went through out our day and time kept getting cut away from our finding time and we really didn't think we were going to get 3 QAs. At the end of the day we didn't, BUT we have only had 1 dinner appointment since we have been here and 1 lunch appointment. That day we got 3 dinner appointments and one of them is with a nonmember. So see 3 may have seemed like a high number to us, but we ended up getting 3 dinner appointment instead of 3 qualified appointments.

Also on Sunday, a missionary that had served in this area was visiting with her family and gave us a lot of really helpful information! We also went by a less actives house last night and we are going back over on Thursday night to have a family night with them, pretty exciting week planned ahead!

Anyway, sorry this weeks email was so long!

Love you all and have a great week!

Sister Edholm xoxo