Hey!
Stop rubbing it in that I don't have game night every week anymore :[ I miss it. We hardly bake cookies too and it's never from scratch :[ It's so horrible but people love them anyways. This past week was so fun! I guess you saw on fb already but LeeAnn came to sites! It was so crazy! Because at first the Sister at the front desk called up and said I had a package but I was on chat so I couldn't go down. Then a few minutes later she called up again and told me I needed to go down so we finished up our chat and went down and LeeAnn was there!!! I was so excited I might have thrown the phone and almost fell over but it was so great :]
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LeeAnn
LeeAnn
just got back from Kirtland where a miracle happened and I got to see my good friend Sister Mackenzie Maynard while she is serving her mission there!!! she is doing great and it was soooooo good to see her, love that girl!! such a great day!!!!!!!!!
Things are going pretty well here. We haven't had any promising chats lately. Most of them come on to just mess with us. We had a man come on who was atheist and he said he's spent the last 10 years debating with people about how there can't be a God because there's no proof... Uh duh. Then we wouldn't need to have faith. It didn't go anywhere and it was dumb but maybe something we said will help him someday. Who knows? Phone calls have been good though. I've been committing the members I call to make a mormon.org profile. I went to follow up with one guy and he said that his records are lost so they're trying to find them but we just got talking and he told me about how he's just kind of in a waiting period in his life right now where nothing is really happening and we talked about conference and I invited him to fast and pray to receive revelation and to have the desire to watch it. He said he would and he also committed to doing a few other things to strengthen his faith. I'm going to call back in a few weeks and see how everything went :] I love calling members. A lot of them don't like me calling them but it's just so fun to see what they liked about Kirtland and the missionary work they're doing back home! I can usually tell when people don't want to talk to me so I kind of force them to and they end up opening up more. It's fun.
Inviting people to pray and fast for inspiration is something Sister S and I have been committing families to do here and it's been really neat to see them get excited about it. I've never been excited about conference before now :/ I hate to admit it but it's true. Now I can't even wait! It's going to be so much fun and we'll hopefully be able to watch it at sites in the theater. It's going to be amazing. So I would like to invite everybody who reads this to do the same. Will you all pray and fast to receive inspiration (as a family if you have one) during general conference?? I definitely will and looking forward to it.
So not a lot is going on in our area. Our one investigator is having a hard time getting to church because it's just a huge miscommunication every week so we need to start doing things for everybody but it will work. He will be baptized on April 7.. Our other investigator who just showed up at church last week decided on Saturday he didn't actually want to be baptized and he thinks Joseph Smith couldn't see Heavenly Father and Christ.. Well, he did. And he won't even pray about it! He went from totally wanting to be baptized to not wanting to at all! But he will. We're working with him to resolve his concerns. If he would just read the Book of Mormon and pray about it he would know but people just refuse to do that sometimes. We just need new investigators. It's hard and we're doing a lot of tracting. It's starting to grow on me.
We've also been meeting with this one lady and she's been having a really hard time with ptsd from the vietnam war and both Sister S and I felt impressed to have her receive a blessing so we had our ward mission leader give her a blessing and it was so cool! He said things in there that she's only told us and the spirit was so strong and powerful. Wow. She woke up the next morning and called us and said she hasn't felt that good since before all of this happened and we're really trying to help her see that the priesthood is of God and that we're the only church that has that power and authority from God.. She's been meeting with sisters for a while so maybe something we say will help that click :] We just love her so much and want her to be happy and having the gift of the Holy Ghost is exactly what she needs.
So I got the packages :] Thank you so much! The shoes are perfect. I love them. And I wasn't even expecting a St Patty's day package! It was so fun. Thank you for thinking of me.
So you want to know more about Kirtland, huh? Well, last time I told you about the store front and how Newel K Whitney was an amazing businessman.. He was also really faithful. Him and Ann knew there was more to Christ's church than what they had. They read from the Bible and prayed as a family for more. When the missionaries came through Ohio they stopped in Kirtland and Ann knew right away that they had what she was looking for. Newel on the other hand didn't. She was baptized and not too long after he knew it was true too so he was baptized too. After this they didn't have a lot of direction because Joseph Smith was still in NY.. So they were praying for the prophet to come to Ohio. In the early winter of some early 1830 year Joseph and Emma traveled to Kirtland in a sleigh. She was pregnant with twins and as soon as they got there they pulled up to the store and Joseph walked through the doors and found Newel K Whitney behind the counter. He said, "Newel K Whitney, thou art the man.." Newel knew most the people in Kirtland and was shocked that this random man knew who he was. Joseph told him that he was the prophet and that Newel had prayed him there and so what did he want.. I'm pretty sure I've never gotten the prophet walking through my door as an answer to my prayers but I do know that Heavenly Father hears my prayers and answers them and it's still just as powerful as this experiance. And something really neat is the door that Joseph Smith originally walked through is the same door we walk through everytime we go into the store :] No big.. But I would just invite you all to pray. Then humble yourselves so you're able to recognize your answer. Most of our answers seem to go unnoticed because we're looking for something specific. Sometimes that happens but I've found that most the time it doesn't. Humility is huge. We need to humble ourselves and know that the Lord hears and answers all of our prayers.
I love you all and hope all is well. And everybody should write me.
Sister Mackenzie Leigh Maynard
7800 Kirtland Chardon Rd
Kirtland, OH 44094
Thanks for the support. I need it :]
Love,
Sister Maynard.
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