This last week we had so many fun activities!! Which is SO GOOD because as missionaries we are really trying to push activities to invite people out to! We started it off with a fun FHE activity at the church. We invited a bunch of families with young kids to come and bring chalk and had some treat assignments. We drew the Plan of Salvation and had so much fun! There is a man in the ward that makes things out of balloons and the kids loved all the fun hats and animals he made for them! So fun! The next day, we had the ward potluck!! We as missionaries sang and I was able to sing a solo and duet with an Elder in my district. It was so fun!! There was a great turnout and we are going to do it every month now!! We were also able to help with the food drive this week and have a fun ward corn roast after! Wow!! So many fun things!! ....just realized I didn't take any pictures...so sorry about that.
We had a fun miracle this last week that I would LOVE to share!! We were visiting with our sweet investigator Julie, single mom of 5 kids, and were talking about ways that we could help her sweet kids to learn better about the gospel. Two of them are dyslexic and they all pretty much have anxiety and depression and it's just a hard setup for the sweet family. We learned that Jessie, the oldest, used to take piano and Julie mentioned that she was happier then. Now, she won't even go to school. She refuses. SO that was on our minds, and when we left the house, we decided to go across the street to drop by a potential. Her name is Julianne and she is a preacher for her church. Not only was she made a new investigator from our visit (that's right. A preacher, and she is open to hearing our messages that will CHANGE. HER. LIFE) but as we visited, Sister Giles was prompted to ask if she teaches piano, noticing a keyboard in the corner. She said no, but that if we knew somebody who would like to learn, they were welcome to have her piano. Just like that, the Lord blessed us with a piano for Jessie! We were able to pick it up on Saturday with her mom, and the look of gratitude in her eyes and the feeling of love that was in the room, I will never forget!!
Speaking of pianos, a cool insight this week was given to me from a speaker in sacrament meeting *aka one of the best times of the entire week* He went and played a C and a B (right under it) together. Kind of a sour tone. And he said that that in music is called dissonance. That it just sounds off. But, he said, when you add some more notes, or information, (playing a C chord with it CEGBC) that it makes a beautiful sound. It's similar in the gospel. Sometimes we hear something that just doesn't resonate with us. It makes us kind of cock our head and wonder about it. But as we pray and sincerely seek to know what is true, searching the scriptures and the resources that God has provided us with, that we will receive the answers that we need and it will become beautiful to us. So cool!So true!!
A fun quote from President Eyring resonated with me this week.
"You hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine."
Wow. What do we hold in our hands? Obviously it could mean the Book of Mormon. We also hold our phones...generally. What could you share with someone this week that could bring them that complete eternal happiness that comes from the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ? :)
I love you all so much! Keep loving and serving!!
Sister Van Valkenburg
Sorry this is the only pic I've got this week...but at the ward potluck, the balloon man made me a set of wings! Haha so funny!
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