Chapstick

It's been a while, but I feel like I'm ready to get back to sharing through this blog. Today will just be a short post, but I hope it helps someone.

This year, our church has started a study program that focuses on learning in the home and then bringing what you learn to church for discussion and group learning. It's been a wonderful experience to really study on my own time and then get perspectives and opinions from others at church.
Here's a link to the manual. We're studying from the New Testament, so it's applicable for other faiths as well (although some resources reference modern-day prophets and the Book of Mormon for further light and truth).

As I was reading in John 2 for this week's lesson, it asked to consider how Jesus Christ uses simple objects to teach lessons. Then it invited the learner to look at common household items and draw their own connections. It just so happened that I had chapstick sitting on my desk in front of me and a few insights immediately leaped to mind...

  Firstly, while chapstick will help if your lips are already dry, it works much better as a preventive measure. We can always repent after we've gone down the road of sin; but if we can catch ourselves as we're starting to eye that thorny path, we're much better off.

Chapstick (at least for me) should be used regularly. I put it on whenever I notice it (I applied it before starting this post). That's how repentance should be. Whenever we think about it, we should repent (something I will do after this post).

Finally, chapstick is sweet, smooth, feels good, and helps keep my lips healthy.
All I have to do is apply it.

Letter To Mom, Dad and Kelder: August 29

My companion really likes the name Drew and is going to name her son Drew :)

¨Fear is unworthy of a child of God¨ (Bib Dictionary)

Two quick knock knock stories... One man said Do you know who I am? Yes, you´re Juan. ¨I´m an archangel, but you can still visit me.¨ Okay....

Same day, another man asked Do you know who I am? (Uh oh, I thought). ¨I´m from the profesesia (his word).. I´m Anti. ... But you can still visit me.¨

Okay! We´ll see how those lessons go.

Love you all!!

Sister Tova S Biesinger

Argentina Buenos Aires South Mission

Knock-Knock Story and Quote

Knock knock story of the week:

We rang a bell for a referral. After about 3 minutes, she came out. ¨Did you ring the bell?¨ ¨Yes¨ ¨It doesn´t work.¨ Then she closed the door. We weren´t sure if she was going to come back out again, so we waited for a while, and then left when she didn´t come back out :S

Cool quote from Pres. Monson as quoted by Hma Walters-- our sufferings can be opportuinies to grow or they can just be sufferings.. depends on our attitude.

Knock-Knock Mission Jokes

So I put stars in my journal next to things I want to share, and there was a really funny day last week (Sunday) so I put a lot of stars next to it.

I SHARED EVERYTHING WITH YOU GUYS EXCEPT FOR THAT DAY! :S

Bueno, here´s that Sunday:

We knocked on a door (old investigators from the area book) and someone inside asked their friend ¨Who is it?¨ ¨It´s the missionaries¨ ¨Oh¨ ¨Do you want me to get rid of them for you?¨ :(. Apparently they didn´t know we could hear them. Hopefully they didn´t hear Hma. Walters and me laughing. 

We couldn´t find a contact, so were knocking on a door (inside it was dead quiet) to ask if they knew where our person was, but when we knocked someone yelled ¨Quien sos?!¨ Followed by a lot of people bursting into laughter. But when they opened the door, they were surprised to see us. Apparently they were expecting friends... and found us! :D

(stories that happen while knocking on doors are now known as ¨knock-knock¨ stories ;D)

 

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Dad had his own reply:

"These are funny stories. I have a knock knock story. We were tracting in a lakotelep, those large russian-made apartment buildings. We knocked on one door and heard:

-Who is it?

-Elder and Biesinger and Elder Vail

-Who?

-Elder Biesinger and Elder Vail

-WHO?

-Elder Biesinger and Elder Vail. We are missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

-WHO?!

-I don't think you know us.

-And I never will.

And they never did. Because they didn't answer the door. And it was a good thing because we thought it was pretty funny and were laughing. "