Hindsight?

July 7, 2014

Massachusetts Boston Mission Case Study: Sister Susan Fulcher

This case study is something I think should be circulated around a bit, as it can help missionaries be more effective. Some of this stuff I've picked up on throughout my mission. Other stuff, I didn't.  Now I wish I had realized it earlier on. 

Love y'all!

Sister Cornelsen

Summary at YSA Leaders.org

http://www.ysa-leaders.org/m/d/node/42

Full PDF at BYU.edu

https://theboard.byu.edu/media/attached_files/r_32199/susan.fulcher.study_18817.pdf

"It's Killing Me"

July 7, 2014

This will probably be a short email.

For the fourth of July we played Apples to Apples with the Pedroza family. And then we came home and watched "FROZEN"!!!! I fell in love with that movie! I was really surprised our mission president let us watch it, but he did!

Teresa dropped us. She said she finds her AA meetings to be more spiritual than church. That doesn't make sense to me because she received revelation every time she came to church. I expect she'll come back to the restored gospel at some point.

Abby brought a friend to the lesson we had with the Newcomb's. Her name is Eden, she's 9 years old and full of questions. She asked "that voice in my head that tells me what's right and wrong - is that God?" I got the biggest smile on my face and said yes. She has so many questions. Hopefully she'll be at the lesson tonight.

We had a sisters conference on Saturday. It's quite strange being told all of the things that you need to change as a missionary when you're going home so soon. I realized that even though my missionary time is short, I still need to change - that's what repentance is.

When a missionary goes home, the slang is that they're dying. Sister Kellar, being my last companion, is "killing me". Now relate that to real life. If I was 80 years old and didn't have that long left on earth, I'd be sorely tempted not to make changes. But repentance is the point of this life -  to change and become better. It's never too late to repent. So I've stepped it up once again. I can do it for 8 more days, or however many minutes dad said I had left. LOL

Love you all! Talk to ya next week!

No Countdown. Life Can Change in an Instant.

Hey, 

This week we had a MUCH better week. :D 

June 30, 2014

We were able to see Veronica again and introduce her to the Book of Mormon.

We talked with Theresa about the Atonement.

We're continuing to help Janice with the addiction recovery program. We reached the tough part, step 4, writing a moral inventory. It's the hard part, but she's working on it. It's one positive thing for every negative thing, and it's working.

We saw Ted as well. He says that when he does come back, He'll be coming back to this church, it's just a matter of when. Sister kellar said "how about this Sunday?" :)

A couple weeks ago two police officers were shot while they were having lunch. They didn't see it coming. One of them is LDS, and his family attends a ward that is in our building. There's one potential investigator, another policeman, who is dating someone in the ward, that knows both of the officers that were shot - he's in the same unit. We explained what we believe about the spirit world and resurrection. He's not looking to take lessons but it was a moment where I was so grateful I had that knowledge so I could offer something of comfort. 

We saw Angel! we were able to introduce her to the Book of Mormon as well, and showed her some chapters on what happens after death. Apparently she felt connected to me. So strange, because this is only the 3rd time I've seen her. I feel like my mission won't be stopping when I return home. 

Monique went to girls camp and loved it! I'm sure hoping that she'll be more interested in learning what we believe. She and her dad were at church yesterday :)

So yeah... lots of good stuff happening! Looking forward to another good week. Really hoping Ed's work schedule slows down a little. We did lots of studying to answer his questions. I want to be able to answer them before I go home. 

Love y'all!

Sister Cornelsen

No countdown as a request of dad.... i still have one at home. ;)