You will never beleive what I am about to tell you! Brace yourselves!
Elder Ballard came to a stake confrence and invited us to meet with him afterwards!!! What the?! I know. It was so incredible. We found out last week that he was coming to stake confrence, but it wasn't in our stake......We were so bummed that we weren't going to be able to attend. We talked all last week about how we wish we could go and how cool it would have been for our investigators to hear him speak. THEN! on saturday morning we found out from our mission president that we were invited to hear him speak to the missionaries. Aw man I was dying with excitement.
There was only about 50 missionaries that were invited to this. He was incredible. We all were seated in the relief society room, reading our scriptures and listening to our 1st counsler in the mission presidency play the piano. Then he walked in.....It was like a wall of the spirit hit us. I just wanted to cry the whole time. He talked to us about how to be good missionaires, the importance of our calling, and how we can help the ward members do their missionary work. It was amazing. I am still in shock that it even happened. But the absolute craziest thing that happend is yet to come. If you didn't pass out from shock of the previous news this just might do the trick.
We found out that in the adult session of Stake confrence Elder Ballard mentioned how great our area (like the area that I'm serving in, like the one I do missionary work it....Yeah i'm being serious) did last week. Yes.that.really.happened!!!! Between the elders and us we had 50 lessons. 27 of which were member presents! He (Like elder ballard, like an apostle of the Lord) told the people there that our ward gets it. That this is how missionary work should be done. We have the most incredible ward ever! We had 9 investigators at church. We brought 3 and the elders brought 3 so that means the ward memebers brought 3 investigators to church. Aw man it was so wonderful. Why does god bless us so much? I have no idea! Wow we are so lucky.
Well I'm about to get kicked off. I hope everyone has a wonderful week and remember throughout your days that I got a shout out from elder Ballard. We are like best friends now. No big deal. Well I love you all!! Have a wonderful day
Love you!!
Love sister jones and elder ballard
(we sign our names together on everything now ;) )
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