Hey my family :)
We've had a busy week. For part of our week, we packed up our trusty air mattresses and road triped to Northern Ireland to stay and work with the different sisters in that zone. I always love the chance to be with the sisters. It's such a blessing. I know our assignment is to help them and train them, but wow, they help me in so many ways! I learn so much on every exchange. The sisters here are inspiring! They are doing amazing work and are so humble.
Our teaching pool is starting to increase which keeps us busy for the days we are in our area. Our days in Terenure are packed with appointments to catch up with our investigators! We're teaching a few Irish people and then the rest are people from different parts of Africa. People from Africa amaze me. They are so open to learning more about the word of God and how they can come closer to God- such humble people. I love the Irish as well- they are so friendly here- not quite as receptive to the word of God but really good people.
This past week was a miracle week for the Terenure ward. Together with the elders in our ward, we really set high goals of pushing for member present lessons. Our combined efforts came to an end result of getting 31 joint teaches last week! It was an absolute miracle. Especially considering that our ward is about 60 active members. It took a lot of coordiation and planning and finding but wow- it felt so good!! The longer I've been on my mission, the more I've realized that our job is merely just being on the sidelines of things- it's really about bringing our investigators together with the members. Like last night, we were teaching one of our Irish investigators named Ray and we had Sister Long with us as a joint teach. He felt so comfortable with her and just opened up his feelings with her and just told her how he's enjoying coming to teach and he feels good, but he just doesn't believe that God and Jesus Christ would appear to Joseph Smith. Sister Long told him she understood how he felt because she was Catholic as well before joining the church and she continued to bear her testimony about how she came to know that Joseph Smith's experience was real and true. Sister Shead and I just sat there watching them conversing back and forth about it and we were just so happy. It was such a ground breaking lesson with Ray. We needed Sister Long! She was the key. And Sister Long ended up inviting Ray over to have dinner with us and her husband for our next appointment. So perfect. There is just a real power behind member invovlement. That was just one of the many member situations that went well this past week. With the African people we teach, we bring African members and they always bear testimony of moving to Ireland and looking for truth and how they tried out many different churches and then met missionaries and they bear their testimony of how they came to know the chruch is true. And our African investigators just love it. They soak up everything the members tell them- it's just so relatable for them. Ahhh I love it. I love missionary work!!! I need to go, we have a lot of things we need to type up and prepare for this week. It's going to be another busy week. It's zone conference week and President has asked us to train with him and the assistants so we'll be travelling to the different zone conferences in Ireland to train and then on Friday we'll be flying to Edinburgh for our monthly meeting. We won't be back to our area till Saturday. Busy, busy. Being a missionary is the best thing ever :)
Love you all!
Sister Knab
We didn't get an email from Tiff on the 19th. We got little short personal responses to our emails, but not a mass one.
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