Happy Fall! It's starting to get dark earlier, and it's brisk in the mornings--where did the summer go? It's been an amazing week though. Elder Bowen from the Seventy came to tour our mission, and our half of the mission met with him on Tuesday. He is AMAZING. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to learn from him! We talked a lot about knowing who we are and what we do because of it. He reminded us that we are nothing without the Lord (see Alma 26:12 and Moses 1), but inspired us to have confidence in our ever-important message of the restored gospel. How great is our calling!! I love being a missionary. :) Elder Ballard is coming to Kirtland next month for a 10-year anniversary event. That's probably what Sister Palmer was talking about. We're so excited! :)
Exciting things are happening in Kent. We started teaching 3 new investigators this past week! One is Nikki, who we found tracting. It was the last door we knocked, of course, and we almost passed it--but I felt like we should stop. I'm so grateful that we did! Nikki is so sweet, and so open and willing to learn about the gospel. I love her already. I also love the baby kitten that she just got on Saturday. When we went back for our return appointment, the little kitten slept on my lap the whole time. So cute. :)
Our other two investigators are a Muslim couple named Hussain and Arwa. They are incredible! Sister Bell taught them last year, and we decided to go back and see if they were interested in meeting with us again. They are the kindest, most devoted people I've ever met! I've never taught anyone of the Muslim religion before, and I'm not very familiar with their beliefs, so our first lesson was so interesting for me! I'm amazed at how devout and dedicated they are to their faith. It inspires me. They don't believe that Jesus is the Christ, which is something I've never encountered before. It will be an interesting experience to teach them, I'm sure. I've never had to defend Jesus as the Savior before--but there are lots of truths that I've had to defend and testify of on my mission that I've never had to beforehand. There are so many things, simple and deep, that we believe that I took for granted before my mission. I never questioned that Joseph Smith was a prophet, or etc, or etc--but meeting people who have never heard of him before has given me the opportunity to strengthen and deepen my own testimony as I teach and testify. I have to be able to explain not only what I believe, but why I believe it. What a great blessing. :)
I'm out of time, but I love you so much! Please tell everyone hello back for me, especially "Grumpy Grandpa" and Max. :)
Love,
Sister Wygant
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