Heyya folks!
This week has been a super good week! Most of this week has been getting used to the OTC, so I'll kind of explain what it's like! (If that's super boring then just skip to the pictures lol) So the OTC is a small building full of 12 sister missionaries sitting at computers. Sounds scary, right? It's actually super fun. Whenever someone calls the number from LDS.org or sends a chat to "chat with missionaries", one of the 12 of us pick up the chat. 9 times out of 10 it's either someone trying to argue with us or waste our time (#wastehertime2k19). So chats and calls aren't very helpful in our missionary work. What usually allows us to work with people is when we get bible or Book of Mormon requests. Whenever anyone requests a free bible, we have to call them so we can verify their address and ask if they would mind if we had missionaries drop it off. Most the time we are able to bare our testimony and also send a Book of Mormon which is awesome! Usually if it's a bible request they won't let us send missionaries to them, but I know that if they read the Book of Mormon, they won't be able to deny the spirit and their hearts will soften :) When we get Book of Mormon requests we basically do the same thing, and also ask why they're interested and usually they'll let us send missionaries which is awesome! This week I even knew one of the missionaries we sent to deliver a Book of Mormon, sister Proffit from my BYU YSA ward!!! IT was cool to see a familiar face :)
Another cool thing this week is we have the amazing opportunity to teach Frank and Kingsley, who live in South Africa. Since they are half way across the globe, we have to teach them at 8am NZ time, which means I haven't had breakfast for the past week ;) Honestly the OTC in general messes up our eating schedule, because sometimes we have a 6-9 shift and don't eat dinner until 9:30. Anyways back to Kingsley and Frank. They really really want to get baptized! But there are no missionaries close to them. Or members. So we have been calling bishops and branch presidents and district presidents and mission presidents trying to find someone to baptize them. It will happen eventually!
I don't have any really cool spiritual thoughts this week, I just love Doctrine and Covenants 93:24 which reads: "And truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come". The truthfulness of this gospel is mostly felt in the testimonies we hold in our hearts, but more importantly it is a knowledge that we have of this gospel. Every time we bare our testimonies and say we know the church is true and that we know Jospeh Smith was a true prophet of God, Heavenly Father blesses us because of our faith, that can withstand any trial that is placed in our way.
That's pretty much been this week in a nutshell! I know that Heavenly Father is using us to hasten his work, and is not afraid to use technology to do so! I am so so so blessed to be able to serve here in Hamilton New Zealand so that I can be a sister in the OTC! What an amazing gospel this is.
Have an amazing week, share your testimony with someone!
Much love,
SK
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