Hey, y'all!
Happy (belated) Father's Day!
This week has been nuts! Where do I begin?! We had exchanges on Tuesday, and I went with Sister Vaughn to Charlestown. The humidity here is no joke! I was sweating buckets as we were walking around talking with people. We had a funny lesson on the Word of Wisdom with one of their investigators. We thought that she said that she was drinking green tea for health reasons, but it turned out to be herbal tea. It's green in color haha!
We had a great Zone Conference and received really great trainings. We cried our eyes out as we watched our goodbye video to President and Sister Brough :( I'm so sad to see them go! I'm excited to meet President and Sister Hughes who arrive on July 1st.
We spent most of our day on Friday tracting an apartment complex that we found the night before. One of our potential investigators gave us a fake address, but it was a blessing! We found a new investigator and a part-member family/less-active!
On Saturday, we got transfer calls. I will be leaving Corydon to serve in Shelbyville. Back to Kentucky! I have loved serving here even though it's only been five short weeks. I feel so incredibly blessed to have the opportunity to serve with Hermana Parra. We have become really great friends, and I will miss her so much! We're the oldest hermanas in the mission, so it's been nice to have someone to struggle up the stairs with. Basically we're the grandmas of the mission. We weren't expecting to be separated this soon. I was sure that I would see her to the end of her mission. I'll go where you want me to go.
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The hardest part of this week was our lesson with Kyle and Megan. Sadly, we had to drop them. We had a lesson with them on Saturday for which we were really nervous. We had shared "My Words...Never Cease" by Elder Holland, "Testimony of the Book of Mormon" Mormon Message, and another article about evidence of the BoM (I was unsure if we should share it with them, but we did anyway. Probably not the best idea). We followed up with them, and they had made a bunch of notes on what we shared. They, mostly Kyle, had researched a good amount of anti-Mormon literature, so we got lectured for two hours. I felt prompted to stop him about an hour into it and reiterate that he was saying that he doesn't believe that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet. He said "no", so we testified and stated our purpose as missionaries. He spent the next hour lecturing us about the lack of knowledge of the Bible. He invited us to study with him because he "could see that we are unsure about our beliefs." We testified and got the heck out of there. It was a really hard experience for us. We weren't sure whether to cry or yell or drive back and tell him what we thought of his accusations. We ended up yelling out our frustrations to "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up" by Josh Groban. If anything, this experience has taught me to fear God and not man. It has helped me to grow my faith in the Book of Mormon and of the light that we are promised to receive from the Lord when we ask in faith with real intent.
Love y'all!
Hermana Boyson
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