Oh hey.
So this week has been good, but
nothing tooooo exciting.
Teaching is hard. I guess I have
figured out how I am not as good as a teacher I thought I was or told I was.
It is hard to talk to people like they know NOTHING. We have to
simplify EVERYTHING. They don't know what the priesthood is, or what apostasy
is or all that mumbo jumbo. So.... that is hard.
We tried to tract a lot this week
because our zone leaders yelled at us because we had low numbers. but
like I told you last week, the members in our ward have been hounding us to get
all those less actives checked out and invited to meet with us (which is THEIR
JOB, might I add) anywho, so perhaps we were not focused on OUR purpose, so
yeah we got yelled at. But we redeemed ourselves. We tracted on Tuesday. It
was SO hot, and the lord totally knew we were miserable. the wind was blowing
and so it helped keep us cool. it would stop and then we would feel like we
were going to die and then the wind would blow. GUH SO NICE. TENDER MERCIES!!
Also, dumb story but I was way
happy. We were invited to a BBQ at a member’s house, it was for the ward, but
he told us there would be some LONG time investigators there, so he wanted us
to come. One of those investigators being his wife, she is catholic. We
already had someone signed up to feed us that night but it was a long BBQ so we
made it in time. We met the investigators, they could care less to talk to
us, but we shared a message, and we talked to some of the members. Well, Alice,
his wife has NINE CATS. Umm hello? Where
are they? Let me pet!!?? So she was like “oh yes come in”, and she is
showing us all her cats and I was like AHHHH!!! I miss my cats!! And she had
one that she rescued, he was a little kitty, orange tiger stripe, and she let
us hold him, he didn't want to be held but I HELD him. So cute. I was soooo
happy. Best part is, she told us we could come back. So we were like uhh.
Holla! Yet another tender mercy because I was reaaally missing my cat.
hahaha
On Tuesday, the same day we tracted,
I noticed a woman sitting in her front yard, we still had a couple of houses
before her, so we didn't immediately go talk to her. But no one answered
the doors before her so we were walking down the street and we were still a
ways a way and she was like HI!! And so we started talking to her and she was
like so what are you girls doing? And we told her who we were and what we were
up to and she started asking all these questions. Long story short, she
invited us back, but she also invited the Jehovah witness back...grr. But hey,
we believe in happiness and they don't so I think it will be fine. :-)
New investigator! Whoot!
There is an elderly woman in our
ward. Sweeeetest lady. Sister Lacaden. we went over to her home to pick
something up from her and she just out of the blue was like you girls are so
beautiful and it comes from the inside, you are where you need to be, and you
are with each other for a reason, the strength you give each other will help
you in the rest of your mission and with the Christ like attributes, you both
have, when you come together, you will be unstoppable. She cried all the way
through it, so of course sister LeBaron and I were in tears. Man. the spirit
that came into that room was incredible. I was like I needed that. She needed
to tell us that. We cried for like the next hour hahaha. But I wrote that down
and Sister LeBaron always says "let's go be unstoppable!"
If I ever have to be a trainer, I
have made a list. A LIST of things that I like and dislike that sister Lebaron
does hahaha I think of how I want to do it. I don't know why I think about it
so that's not a good sign. hahahaah
Oh and yesterday we tracted, and the
LAST door. THE LAAAAST. DOOR. of course. After having people reject us
all day, and then one guy was just a perve and anyway. We get to this one
house, and this one girl was just visiting, and she was walking out so we
talked to her. She has had an eventful past, and she had a really bad ear
infection that spread to her brain and nearly killed her. She had to have
surgery and she has 2 kids and some permanent damage, she had to relearn how to
walk and talk and all that. So we told her we offered free service and she was
like well i might put you to work. But the last thing she said was
"look I was baptized and all that and I believe in god, and that there is
someone looking over me, but I also know that is was not a coincidence that we
met. I was only here for 2 minutes." Unfortunately for us, she is
not in our area, so we don't get to teach her. But she hasn't contacted us and
she didn't give us her info. But it was still cool.
People look at you funny. they see
your name tag and they go inside, or they look the other way. Sometimes when
you knock on a door and they answer they are like oh hi girls!! What can I do
for you! And then they see your name tag
and they are like...oh. what do YOU want? It’s funny how that works
Anyway. That is it for now I guess.
Adios.
