week 9- Family!!!

Hey family:)

This week was another amazing week here in the Beautiful MBM ( for those who do not speak BECCA,  Montana Billings mission )!

My testimony was really strengthened of one of most simple but important principles this week:

the gospel blesses families.

We have seen so many miracles in finding and we're currently teaching

lots of amazing individuals but FAMILIES are the "central unit in

society" right? So we LOVE to teach the whole family~!!

We've been working with a sweet woman named J. Her husband

is a member of the church that is not attending. They have 2 kids together and she has been

Meeting with missionaries for a long time, she likes it but….

We meet with her every week but her husband never meets with us.  We had been praying for him to join us and

then  we invited them to have family prayer each

night before bed.

The next  time when we invited her husband to

stay for the lesson he was like "yea actually I will!!" He ran and

grabbed his scriptures and came to sit with us. We had been praying

and praying to know what to teach that  and though it is not popular we came to the conclusion that the Word of Wisdom was the one.

So H  ( J’s husband) says~ "so I decided to quit smoking" WHAT?! WOOHO!

They both have been working hard to quit and their windows are open the room is lighter, the house is cleaner,  They are happier , the music has changed in the home and they are healthier and it all started with kneeling in family prayer.     It was incredible to see!.

H shared how the gospel blessed his family growing up

and how the things that they did as a family strengthened them and how

they can help us all.  Its beautiful to see him REMEMBER.  I LOVE working with this family!!

 

Mommy and Daddy I just have to say how much I really love and

appreciate you both. I have been blessed to grow up with the Gospel of Jesus Christ; Reading scriptures, praying, family time, late night talks

on the bed (when you could have been sleeping but instead, took the

time to help, laugh, teach et. all these

things and so much more have blessed and strengthened our family so

much. With everything going on right now it sometimes feels like the

emphasis and importance of family gets tossed out the window. But

FAMILY IS IMPORTANT! And I love you guys.

Also, on Saturday we did a zone "out of the box" finding activity. We did a free car wash! It was super fun. We waved signs and got to talk

to the people whose cars we washed. We handed out proclamations to the

family and talked about how families are ordained of God and a

blessing. We were able to bear our testimonies of the influence of the gospel on our families.

We had dinner at with the W family…The girls built a playhouse from Scratch they are so darling!

 

 Sorry it's scattered today! We spent preparation day at bro baileys

with Kirby making rings!  SO COOL!

 Love you!!! Sister Hodgson