Taking the Shots: "THE QUEST OF A LIFETIME!" (Week 47: 7/25-8/1)

First of, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY COUSIN EMILY!!!🎉🎈HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY
FRIEND LAURYN!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY GRANDMA, "MA"!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TO SAM AND ABBY POTTER!!hopefully I didn't miss anyone! I hope you all
have a wonderful birthday!! 😘😘💕

Where is time going? Don't you ever just feel like time is going super
fast? It honestly feels like I was just able to email you all
yesterday! There is a saying, I believe I shared at the beginning of
my mission, but I'm going to share it again.....

"The days are long, the weeks are short and the months fly by!" It is
so crazy to think that this month I will be turning the big 2️⃣0️⃣!
That is soo crazy to me. As I think to myself that no other 20 year
old would sacrifice their time to serve the Lord for a church, it
makes me so grateful for the opportunity to share it. The work of the
Lord is hastening! Well missionary life of course is great. It's been
kind of stressful this week, it really really great.

Sister Roundy have been trying to find a lot of new people.. We just
feel as if our investigator pool isn't really progressing all that
much, so we decided to seek out some new people! It's always an
adventure.. Especially in the humidity and heat! But hey that's
alright. More people feel sorry for us, but we love it! There's
nothing else that I would rather be doing with my time then sharing
the gospel! :)

We found a few new people that we have some set lessons scheduled
with. They were basically referrals from Ward members. Which is always
the best! Investigators from Ward members is like candy! So amazing!

One awesome story was while we were helping with sorting for the
bishop storehouse on Saturday, a member came over to us being super
excited and said that someone wanted to learn about the gospel. She
went on to say that she thought this was a "white" church, and didn't
know that all colors were welcome. We then went to find her and she
was heading out the church building. So we chased her down and asked
her if she wanted to learn more. She nodded yes and we got her
information, we then invited her to church and she said she could come
only if it was early in the morning, so we said that we had one at
9(the elders Ward) and one at 11 (our Ward). She said she could come
to the 9am one, so we said we would go with her. The next day we
texted her reminding her that we were going to be there and SHE
CAME!!! It was so awesome! I know the Lord prepares people. She didn't
understand a lot due to a language barrier, but she new a little. She
speaks Spanish so we handed her over to the Hermanas.

One scripture that I just want to leave with y'all is

Mosiah 2:17- "And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn
wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your
fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."

I know that when we are in the service of our friends and family and
others, we are truly working as instruments in the Lords hands to
bring love and charity towards them. I invite y'all to be in the
service of your fellow friends and family! Be an instrument in the
Lords hands!

I know the Lord prepares people's hearts for the gospel. I know that
the work is in full force. I know this gospel brings true happiness
and I know that without a doubt that the Plan of Salvation is real and
that we can be with our families!

I am so grateful to be serving a mission! It has been the best quest
of a lifetime! I wouldn't trade it for the world!

I love y'all! And I hope you all had/have a super awesome week!

Love,
Sister Pewtress