18 Month Journey to Michigan Detroit!!!

1 Year On My Mission- Feb. 29, 2016

Hey everyone, I hope you are all having a great week!!

This week has been great. The first of the week the weather was great. nice and warm.. Then it snowed. But anyways, we were able to meet several new potential investigators. We went contacting and met a lady named Sharon. She has met with the Sister Missionaries before but then they lost contact. She was really excited to meet us and told us that she will call us this week. It was great. Bill Rose is doing good. We are almost about done teaching the new member lessons. He is remembering them so that is good. He is reading and understanding the Book of Mormon more and more. He likes to read it out loud with us. He says he understands it better. Bill and Laura are doing alright. We had a member present lesson with them this week and talked about Church. They don't want to come to church until they are ready and they just pretty much want to learn our beliefs. It is sad because we know how this can bless them. We are going to keep trying to get them to come.This week was also my 1 year mark. Time goes by too fast. We had a cake, went to Hungry Howie's for lunch and had Tim Horton's Timbits. It was good. We also met with one of the Recent Converts Erik. It was his birthday so we shared some of the cake we made with him. He liked the cake. On Sunday we had a young man named Jake Huffaker give his farewell talk. It was great. It was on the Atonement and Gods love for each of us. It was great. We also were able to teach Sister Robertson with her visiting teacher. We talked about her ponderizing a scripture each week. She really liked to do that. She opened up a lot about how by studying it, it helps with her day. It was a great lesson.

I would like to invite all of you to ponderizing a scripture each week. It really helps to think about and have when we are down or need a lift up. I know it can help each of us. It has helped me to feel of Gods love for me and to feel closer to him.

Ponderizing Scripture:

Helaman 5:12- rock of our Redeemer,

This scripture is great. It talks about building our foundation on Christ, We need to have a sure foundation so when Satan tries to pull us down we can be lifted by Christ.

Well I hope you all have a great week!!

Love you all!!

Sister Alisha Carol Betts