That same
night it was dang COLD. We didn't have any set appointments so we were
riding our bikes around and we OYM'd this guy riding his bike as well.
He was higher than a kite! He was so drugged up and kept saying weird,
weird things. But even though he was insane, and we probably should have
been scared of him, I didn't feel danger at all and we ended up really
making his night. He could not focus and didn't really care about what
we had to say, but he loved talking to us. Believe it or not, we
actually ran into him a few days later too. He was ecstatic to see us,
and he talked to us for a while again. We kept trying to slip gospel
things in but he is too scatterbrained to even comprehend what we are
saying. So that was super funny and it was nice to know we made his
night/day and helped a wayward soul ;)
So here's another funny story for ya. Sister W and I are
trying to reach the Standard of Excellence each week which requires that
we get 16 member present lessons. We asked a young woman to go out with
us and we decided on a time for after dinner and she also texted us her
address. Well we were late to dinner (because of the high guy) and we
didn't know where they lived so we looked up the address on our iPad.
Wellllll, silly Sis W took us to the young woman's house instead of
dinner. So she opens the door all surprised because we are an hour
early. She tells us to come in and Sis W makes a comment about how it
smells good or something. The father of the home then asked if the
daughter needed to wear a dress or if she could just go in casual
clothes. By then I figured out we were at the WRONG house and this was
not dinner. I tried to whisper it to Sis W and she finally figured it out
too. While we were awkwardly trying to whisper to each other the dad
kinda figured it out too. He asked if he was supposed to feed us and of
course we said no. He said, "uh, are you sure?" Sister W
awkwardly replies,"Uh no! We were just stopping by to make sure 6:15 was
still good and to make sure we had the right address! So we will be
back later! Does that sound good?!" haha I was laughing SO hard. It was a
terrible cover up ;) We ended up finding dinner and it was a good laugh
there as well. The young woman ended up coming out with us later and
she had a super good experience! She was there when we asked someone to
be baptized (a former investigator that we have never met) and
the girl said yes! The young woman just started crying and it was just a
really good spiritual experience for her and she seemed like she had a
lot of fun! So that was really good.
Anyway so like I said we had one SUPER good day. That was because
we talked to a ton of people on the street and basically all of them
said yes we could come back later or listened to a lesson right then and
there from us. We got like 9 lessons just on the side of the street or
outside people's houses. It was awesome! Soooo hopefully they all work
out!
So honestly I fell off my bike TWICE this week....the struggle is
indeed real. I hit my tire wrong on the curb and just fell right off.
Luckily no cars were coming at the time so it was all good. I fell onto
the sidewalk (but no injuries/i half landed on my feet) but my bike was a
little bit in the road. It gave Sis W a good laugh :) The second time
we were on a secluded street and we were looking up an address on our
iPads. I was sitting on my bike and Sis W was standing and her bike was
leaning against her. I was balancing myself on her bike (my foot was on
her frame and my other one was kinda on a pedal) Anyway, she moved and
there was no way for me to catch myself because her bike fell, my foot
got stuck in the frame and I fell on top of her bike and my bike fell on
top of me! Literally SO funny. A car, of course, turns the corner while
I'm laying there with bikes strewn about me and stops to see if I'm ok. I
was fine, but I was laughing so hard they probably thought I was
sobbing. How embarrassing.
Honestly the rest of the days were pretty rough. I have been
getting a little sick so I'm extremely exhausted each day. I think its a
little bit of the flu and a cold so I'm just really achy and weak. So
that has definitely been draining! So we got all those potentials that
one day and everyone was saying yes, well the next few days EVERYONE
said no. We got comments that we were a cult, that Jesus said the Book
of Mormon wasn't true, and one woman yelled at us saying, "DON'T YOU
GUYS EVER GET THE HINT!?" So it was hard to have all that success in one
day and then nothing else worked out and those people that said yes,
haven't really gotten back to us/have been busy and we couldn't visit
them again yet. We did get to go to the Christmas lights with an
investigator though! Sis W has been teaching him for
a while. He is basically the only investigator that they had/ that I
came into the area with. His uncle and his girlfriend are
also investigators but they aren't as dedicated and they don't keep
commitments very well. Hopefully we can get them on track too though.
But we asked did ask our investigator at the Christmas lights to be baptized! He said yes! We
are shooting for the 28th so hopefully he goes through with it and is
ready for this next step! We are definitely so excited for him and that
was another good moment of this week.
Lastly, we had our Christmas Conference this week! SO FUN! So it
started Sunday night with the Mission President's fireside. The whole
mission was there, plus investigators! That was the night I had to play
the piano and I was SO nervous! But it ended up going alright. I played
with violins so hopefully you couldn't hear my mistakes too badly. The
next day we were at a church ALL day. We even had breakfast there. We
had a bunch of talks and get to know you activities with the whole
mission! It was super fun. Then we had a huge testimony meeting that was
like two hours long. There are so many people in our mission though so
not tons got to bear their testimony compared to how many of us there
are. Then we had a Christmas dinner and family home evening! We had a
ton of musical numbers and then Santa came!! They read a few people's
names from the "naughty and nice" list. Most of the people on the
naughty list were people who have wrecked cars or their bikes got
stolen and stuff. It was super funny. Then we had some delicious dessert
and went home. It was a long day, but a great one. It was awesome to
get to know more people from the mission! Also we found out some
fabulous news! Elder Holland is coming! He is going to be down for an
ASU event so he is going to have a meeting with the missionaries as
well! How exciting right? It will be January 11th so we are all super
pumped for that.
The last portion of our Christmas Conference was the temple trip
today. Everyone in our mission got to go! We split up into different
times and then took a huge mission picture at the end. BUT, the best
part was that President and his wife were waiting in the Celestial
room and they were giving out hugs for Christmas! Soooo I got to hug
President T! It was the best part by far. I love that man. He is
such a big teddy bear! He is such a big guy. It was like hugging a huge
tree trunk. My arms only fit basically to his hips and he had to bend
way over to reach me. It was so great though! It made all of us miss our
families but it was so awesome! Also, it started to get really cold and
then all the sudden today it was 75 degrees! I was sweating while we
were trying to get our mission picture! It definitely does not feel like
Christmas! It'll be weird to have hot holidays.
Anyway have a fabulous week everyone and remember the true spirit of Christmas is to focus on our Savior, Jesus Christ :)
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| "Crazy" dress at the Goodwill |
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| Our Christmas Tree! |
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