Wow, I feel like we didn't do much this week, but when I start thinking about
everything I want to write, I KNOW I won't have time to tell it all! So I guess
we did more than I thought! :)
So on P-days we have a little old woman from our ward take us to Walmart to
get groceries. She is THE cutest old lady I have ever met! She is 90 years old
and still going strong! She writes AMAZING poetry and will soon have a poetry
book published. I'll have to get one because she is so sweet. She is however, a
CRAZY driver. Sometimes I fear for my life ;) She tends to see red lights right
before we fly through them! haha so I'm exaggerating a little, but just know she
is so cute and so funny :) I'll have to take a picture with her sometime.
So I knew the day would come that I would not be so lucky as to "almost"
fall off my bike. It happened...Although it was weird, I was basically already
off my bike but we were on an incline and I lost my balance and got entangled in
my bike. I had a nice tire mark on my bum the rest of the day. It was just
lovely. My poor companion thought I was crying so she didn't know what to
do! However, I was just laughing SO hard, that it sounded like I was crying.
Good times, good times.
So this week I have begun to get a wee bit homesick. Sometimes its hard to
be on facebook and see everybody and know I am "missin" out on some things. But
no worries, I'm all good! This week I just had a few times where it was hard for
me to focus. Still haven't cried, so I think that's good.
My companion and I are sooo shy and terrible at OYMS (open your
mouth...aka street contacting). We get nervous and shy. But we did pretty good
on a particular day! We had an OYM at a bus stop and it turned into a lesson! It
was the first time we have taught a lesson on the side of the road but it was
really awesome and I think it was a confidence booster for us. The guy was
really nice, but he thought we were trying to sell something. He was a salesman
and he kept saying he really admired my perseverance and the way I went about
explaining things. So he took it from a salesperson perspective. He was really
impressed that we pay to do this though. Because he knows what it feels like to
be rejected daily. Anyway so that was pretty cool. Then we passed some people
moving into some apartments! We stopped and asked if we could help. We helped
move some heavy stuff (I'm so strong, ya know) into their apartment, and in the
end the daughter seemed interested! She asked if we worked there and what not so
we kind of explained what missions are and we gave her our card and said we
would check up on her later this week. So this week we will go back! The young
woman has a daughter and lives with her parents. Her daughter is SO CUTE. She was adorable and told us to be safe riding
our bikes home. Anyway so those were some good experiences. However, in the same
day, we had four people drop us :( Basically they said they were no longer
interested in learning and not to come back. Sad day...
But another happy moment! I asked one of our other investigators to be baptized!!! She put herself
on date for January 1st but we are going to push to do it sooner. She needs to
get married and stuff first though, so I think that's why she pushed the date
back. She is one of the sweetest ladies ever. She is like our mothers! She
always asks where we are going so she knows if she has to worry or not. Then one
night she told us we needed to get jackets cause it was going to be chilly! We
love her so much!! She has so much faith in Christ. She has financial struggles
but she puts her faith in God and doesn't stress and she knows if she keeps
doing what she is doing, then God will take care of the rest and help her. She
is truly so amazing. A man shot and killed her brother six times in the back and
she is not angry at all with him. She has forgiven him and she feels bad for him
and hopes he is doing well. Isn't that AMAZING!? I definitely think it is. She
has had a lot of struggles in her life but I know that meeting with us has
brought her peace.
Our little nine year old investigator finally got permission from her
biological dad so she will be getting baptized this week! Hooray! So exciting.
She is so great and she can't wait to be baptized. She has been over the top
excited for weeks now. We also got to have our first skype lesson! We met with
our recent convert and skyped her mom into the
lesson. That was pretty neat. It went well. We also have a new investigator. She always cancels on us but we finally got in this week! We taught
the Restoration and it went SO well. She was really receptive and she is going
to try to read as much of the Book of Mormon as she can before we come back next
week. She has a severely autistic daughter so she didn't want to come to church
this week, but hopefully next week she can work up to it. Speaking of church, my companion and I had to teach the Gospel Doctrine/Gospel Principles class
in one of our wards this week. It was kinda nerve wracking to teach a bunch of
adults who really know the gospel. All the teachers had a training auxiliary or
something so of course they asked us to teach.But I think it went pretty well.
We talked a lot about how they can help us share the gospel and we gave them all
pass along cards with our number on them that we challenged them to pass out.
Also, during church the fire alarm went off! It was right during somebody's
testimony and they were crying and such and then we all had to evacuate. Super
weird! haha but funny. It was definitely a new experience for me!
We made a cake for someone we are trying to get into teach! One of the members baked a cake for us and then
we used all her stuff and decorated it! It was fun :) She took pictures of us
and put it on facebook, she's a cute lady and she is always taking care of us!
I have officially been out for a month! I had my one month birthday on the
9th! Pretty crazy. The days are long but then soon, they turn into weeks and the
time just flies on by. Everyone in our apartment is getting sick though :/ I've
been good so far...knock on wood. The weather is still great though, although I
must be adjusting because sometimes I get chilly when its even 60
degrees!
Anyway I can really see God's hand in helping us. One day everything fell
through and we ended up going to somebody's house an hour earlier than we had
planned. However, that person had really needed us and needed to be uplifted.
Later we realized that God made it possible for us to be there at that time for
him. It just wasn't until later that we realized it. Amazing. That is my
challenge to everbody! Have a spiritual journal or something, and at the end of
each day, try to recognize when God has helped you or you have seen His hand in
your life that day. I promise as you continue to do this, it will be so easy to
start recognizing His hand quicker and you will be blessed. He will start to
bless you even more because you are showing gratitude and that you recognize him
in your life.
Sorry this letter has been so scattered. I wish I could just record my day
and send it to you so you could understand what I go through and how awesome it
is! Oh! It rained this week and it was so beautiful! We
stopped to take pictures and then we rode all over on our bikes in the rain. It
was awesome :) It reminded us both of home. Anyway until next week! :)
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