My 11th week of being in the field (last week)

How are you all doing? Email me your experiences of showing acts of kindness this past week!

Car Report: We had to give our Chevy Malibu to the elders because they were too big for their car which is a 2013 Chevy. We now have their 2013 Chevy and I am driving it. I do not like how different it is compared to the 2017 Chevy, but I guess I was spoiled for the week and a half that I got to drive it.

Food Report for what Sister Lewis has been able

to bake this week: No bake cookies, brownies from scratch,Chicken Nacho Dip

Weather Report for Pace,Florida: Hot and humid;thunder and lightning showers;hot;humid (I made this up based on what it has been like this past week).

We have had to do a lot of tracting this week because our teaching pool is really small. We have also had

an investigator call us to say he can't meet with us right now. So therefore, we need new investigators. Tracting

has been hard because we have not been able to tolerate the 83 degree weather with 100% humidity for long periods of time. So we do it in 30 minute spans, to an hour. We have been able to get better at teaching a 2-3 minute long restoration message at the door though.

This week, we have committed another investigator to baptism, her name is Alissa. She is a really nice girl,

and wants to come closer to Jesus Christ. We met her in the end of March when we were trying to visit a less active part member family. We just opened our mouth and asked her if we could share a message about Jesus Christ. It's amazing how the Lord prepares people for us as we work hard.

On Saturday, we had 30 minutes before our dinner appointment, so we decided to go tracting. The first door we

knocked on, a lady in her 40's answered. I started to tell her a 2 minute restoration, and she sat and listened.

When I was done, she said "thanks, but we go to a Baptist church in Pensacola." So I said, " that is

awesome, we also really love to sit down and read the bible with people." She said, "It's okay." She

then began to ask us where we were from and how old we were. When I told her I was from Utah, she started asking us questions about the "big giant church" that is in Salt Lake City, referring to the temple.  We talked to her

a bit about that and then she had a question about something she saw there that involved Abraham. We weren't sure what she was talking about, but we were able to talk to her about Joseph Smith and from there transition into an introduction about the Book of Mormon. She had lots of questions. We gave her a pass along card, and a flyer for the Joseph Smith Fireside on June 25. We also offered her a Book of Mormon, but she said no thanks. She was just interested in learning what we believe because she is going to school to study religion. Even though she was not interested, you could tell, that she knew the truth behind what we told her, and if she accepted a Book of Mormon, she would know that this is the true church. I truly believe that we had planted a seed in her, but that now is not thetime for her to be taught the fullness of the gospel.Heavenly Father just needed us to plant a seed in her heart. She was a very sweet lady. She even gave me and Sister Fox, a pair of sandals each because she could not wear them. Theyare brand new. 

This week, I studied in Helaman 5 about the type of missionaries that Nephi and Lehi were. I love how this

chapter talks about how they taught the Lamanites with power and authority, as well as they tried to teach "the word of God among all the people". This chapter talks about how much desire they had to preach the gospel, and how much more faith they had then fear; especially when they were in the prison, and people were trying to persecute them. I think that these missionaries are the perfect example of a "Preach My Gospel Missionary". They had so much courage, faith, and strong testimonies. I love this chapter.

Will you all study Helaman 5, and share the gospel with someone you know this week? I know that as you

do this, Heavenly Father will help you to be able to do it and He will bless you beyond measures as you help His lost sheep return to Him.

Love you!

Love, Sister Lewis

P.S. Yall know how I love to take pictures so here is some more! One is of a bug we found on a porch.

One is of me and these 2 sweet ladies who took me and my companion out for ice cream.

 One of them is a member and one of them is not ( the nonmember accepted a Book of Mormon).

One is of a trailer with a ghetto "Keep Out" Sign.

Two are of a library that they have in all of the parks here. We love to put Book of Mormons in the libraries and pass along cards and then go back and check on them a few days later. One of  the libraries that is in Floridatown park, we have found that somebody has been taking the Book of Mormons out and then reading through them, sometimes keeping them, but marking them. However, we have not had any calls requesting that they want to be baptized haha.