Woo! So you can tell by my subject that I have a funny story :) So last
week we were practicing our songs for the baptism and a Spanish guy came in
and asked who was over the first ward (that's us). He said there was a
family that he wanted us to go see. Apparently the family has met with missionaries
before and the guy thought that they were ready to see missionaries again.
So we stopped by a few times and their gate was locked and closed so
we couldn't get in. So this week we decided to try again and the gate was open!
So we knocked and this super sweet lady came out and was way
excited to see us. She said she wasn't feeling well so to come back later
in the week. So we set up a time and she called us angels and such. She is
Mexican so we weren't sure if she was going to want to be in the Spanish
ward so we just decided to go teach the first lesson and then ask her if
she wanted the Spanish Sisters to teach her instead. Well, we took a young
women with us and went later in the week. Ok, the lady is crazy. She talked
SO SO SO much and we literally could not get a word in. She kept telling us
all these different stories and would not shut up. Plus she was talking
Spanglish. But I think I was blessed with the gift of discernment because
even though I didn't know what she was saying, I could still get the point
of what she was saying. So she told story after story and we even tried to
interrupt a few times but every time she said, "Ok let me just tell you this
real quick." So finally after an hour and fifteen minutes, I told her that
we had to get going and that we would love to say a prayer with her. By the
way, this woman is hard core Catholic. So she said that would be fine and
we all knelt down. Well this ladies sister-in-law showed up half way through story time
and was there for this whole thing so of course she knelt down with us as
well. Well, Sister W asked the lady to say the prayer, but only in
English. So she said yes and started praying. Well it's getting to be a
really, really long prayer when she turns and says, "I'm going to start
over in Spanish cause it's better" and off she goes....So there is really
no way to interrupt a person praying!! NO JOKE, she prayed for 10+ minutes.
AND she would have kept praying but the sister-in-law finally just said,
Amen. But the lady kept praying so the sister-in-law said, "NO, NO, AMEN!"
haha so she finally stopped. We bolted out of there because we had been
there for an hour and a half. So that was super funny. Probably bad, but I
was literally wondering how we were going to get out of that one. I was
praying that she would stop praying! I even contemplated getting
up and leaving. haha I don't know how else to stop someone from praying!
Luckily, the sister-in-law was there to save us! haha. So ya, luckily we
get to pawn her off on the other sisters :) She was a super sweet lady
though.
So as you know this week was transfers so it was sad to say goodbye to some
awesome people in our zone. We had a zone lunch at a delicious Chinese
Restaurant. That was super fun because it was kind of tiny but they had
this odd little offshoot room that seated about six. Well we decided to
make things fun and cram 12 missionaries in there so that was awesome. But
really that was a great restaurant for us to go to because they were WAY
fast and the food was awesome. Even better to go with Elders because
whatever we didn't eat, they all passed around the table and finished for
us. haha. So ya I'm going to miss a lot of them.
We had a lot of good lessons this week. A guy from one of my first areas came
down and went on a few lessons with us! That was super fun to see him again. I have
been trying to convince him to go on a mission for such a long time and he
is going to now! So I am so excited for him! So that was super fun to get
to see him and we had some good lessons with him too.
We finally got to teach the girl whose mother just passed away. So she invited
over her sister and we were able to teach them
about the Plan of Salvation. You could just see the relief and look of
acceptance on this girl's face. It was so awesome! She committed to be baptized
too! Not sure she knows what that means, but we will be able to explain it
to her more next time. She wasn't able to come to church though because she
had to work :/
We also tried to help the relief society president out by looking for
people at a few addresses that she didn't recognize. It was way out in the
boonies so we took a "road trip" and went out there. It ended up being a
member's house that was active though. Apparently the person we were looking
for moved a long time ago. So since we were out there and there weren't
very many houses, we decided to knock on all the doors. We knocked on one
and found an inactive member. He had a grandson or something who is 16
(with mental issues) and a girlfriend. So we talked
to him and his grandson and shared a message with them. He had been baptized in
Washington and was active until he moved out here. So we asked him to come to
church and they said they would.
So Sunday was really awesome. We didn't think ANYONE would be in Gospel
Principles and it would basically just be us and one other person. Our most recent baptisms were
out of town, another recent convert had to work, and another recent convert
had some family emergencies so they all couldn't come. BUT, it turned out
that our class was really full! The inactive guy from Washington even came! I didn't
think he would, but I spotted him in Sacrament! He brought his grandson and his
girlfriend as well. We convinced them to stay for Gospel Principles and it
actually went really well. They participated and seemed to have a good
time. I talked to the girlfriend and she wanted to get the gospel
principles book on her ipad and such so I told her how to do it. I gave her
our number and she said they would come again because she has been wanting
to go to church for a while and until we came, they hadn't done anything
about it. So she was super sweet and hopefully we can start teaching her
sometime soon!
We were also able to take a less active guy to the Mission
Presidents Fireside. Some members from one of my other areas was there!!!
I have missed them so much and it was so good to see them again. Sister W
(one of my first companions) was there too and President was passing
by so Sister W snagged him and said, "Hey remember when you promised
you would put us back together again!" President just said UHHH and then
turned to shake someones hand to get out of it but Sister T said, "Oh I
remember!" haha so maybe we will end up back together ;) That would be fun.
One of our old zone leaders told Sister W last transfer, (in a mexican accent) "Sister
Schroeder will be Sister Training Leader next Transfer, and then in 3
transfers, you will be back together!" Haha he also told me that at
transfer meeting and said he prophecied that we will be back together at
Christmas. What a funny guy.
Anyway that's about it! Like I said, we had a lot of good lessons, too many
to count so I'll just stick with that :) I hope everything is well at home.
Things are awesome here and I'm still loving it. This is the best decision
of my life :)
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