So..last week was major suckage.
This week is major awesome.
It's miracle time :-)
Okay so first off our mission came
out with this new vision thing...so we have set some goals for the next 3
months, so in the next 9 days, we are going to find 400 investigators as a
mission...stuff like that. And so that is pretty cool.
SO remember Valarie? I think I told
you guys about her..if not go to the blog and read back a bit or maybe I'm
crazy.. I can't seem to remember what I have told people. ANYWAY. We tracted
into her and I thought for SURE she was gonna be mean to us, but she was like
super nice and was like Oh hey!! And she gave us hugs. And so after that it was
hard to get into contact with her. so last weekend, we were on exchanges and I
stayed here and led my area...crazy.. anyway, I wanted to go see her and she
didn't answer the door of course so my comp was like leave a note on her door, so
I did, and she freaking called!! What the?!?!?!? so we actually had an
appointment with her and it was weird but I was like YESSSSS!!!!
This past Friday, Sister LeBaron and
I decided to make a sacrifice because of a story she heard while on exchanges
about a missionary that was like the bomb and then he went to this area and
nothing was happening, there was no spirit in that area, so they made a
sacrifice and had lots of cool things happen, so we did the same thing. Our
commitment was to be happy anyway REGARDLESS of the situation or how we feel. we
are GOING to be happy, (maybe that one was more for me...) we were going to be
obedient, and be BOLD and talk to EVERYONE we see. so on weekly planning day,
which is Friday, we always like to snack and eat, so we fasted instead. This
week we found 5 new investigators, got referrals like crazy, and less actives
that wouldn't come to church came (both teaching them and not) , investigators
that struggled coming to church came, it was freaking amazing. No joke, I was
like I have never in my life seen this congregation so full. It was insane. We
were like grinning from ear to ear, we were like HOLY CRAP so and so is here!! Look
there is that person! We were like flipping out. BUT WAIT!! THERE'S MORE!
last night, we went tracting, and we only knocked a few doors till we got
to this one house, these was this girl sitting outside, and her dad was working
on a car and so we said hello, and she was like hi! and she smiled so big at us
and came over and started talking to us, her name is Ashley, she is a 15 yr. old
girl and we talked to her about religion and stuff obviously....duh....but she
said she said she isn't sure if she believes in a god but she believes in a
higher being, a lot of the stuff she was saying we were like yeah that is what
we believe and she just kept saying she loved how we approached her and that we
were so welcoming and open and just like normal people and we weren't trying to
shove anything down her throat, and we were "cool" and so we taught
her mostly about god and who he is and the characteristics and stuff, and she
was saying that she believes in spirituality and energies and things, and so we
taught her about the holy ghost and so she was wondering about how we receive
answers and stuff and how the spirit talks to you, and so I read her Helaman 5:30
(one of my faves) and I looked up at her after I read it, and she just
hesitated and was like...I just got shivers, I feel so good I feel this way and
we were like freaking out on the inside and we were like that's the spirit! she
kept saying that the whole time while we talked to her, anyway, we gave her a
Book Of Mormon, and got a return appointment with her, and invited her to pray
to heavenly father to know if the things we taught are true and if she is his
child and loves her and all that, and so I was like you know can we say a
prayer with you so you can see how we do it? and she was like that would be so
cool, so I said a prayer and she was like totally crying and stuff and I was
like umm you're gold...get baptized..okay didn't say that to her face, I just
told her again that she was feeling the spirit and she was like that is so
cool, this is so cool. Then we left and we walked back to the car and I'm
crying and sister Lebaron is flipping out and we get back to the apartment and
start like screaming and rejoicing and what not… we do this thing where we hug
and jump up and down and then we stomp on each other’s toes and then we laugh
really hard and anyway...it is stupid but fun hahah so we did that , and then
yeah! Cool beans!! Whooooooot!!!
Alicia & Dad - I have converted
one of my investigators to the 'okay byeeee!" HE TOTALLY DOES IT!!! hahaha
oh man we left the other day from an appointment with him and he shut the door
and then opened it again and was like oh! Okay byyeeee!! HAHAHAHAHA LOVE IT!!
HE IS CONVERTED!!!!!
OH!! We ate dinner with this one
family, we had breakfast for dinner, ummm she made us waffles, and she puts
sour cream and strawberries on it..SO good. Just sayin.
We had a lesson with a less active
member we have been teaching and it was awesome, he calls us like 3 or 4 times
a day asking what he should read or he will just tell us these random things
and we are like uhhhhh..sooo what do you need then? hahahah anyway, we wanted
to teach him about personal revelation and how he can do it so hopefully he can
find some confidence in himself. the spirit talks to all of us differently so
something I give him to read might not touch him the way it did me…so we wanted
to teach him that. So we go in and are teaching and sister Lebaron and I just
struggled, like we didn't really know what to say but at the same time it
wasn't terrible, but we knew we had to teach something else and we didn't know
what. But then he started telling us about his wife (the lady we made the card
for, go look at the pics- she hates us so bad and it is WAY funny.. anyway) and
how she is less active and wants to leave the church. and that bothers him and
there is something he shared with us in his patriacrchal blessing and so he was
like why isn't this happening, and so we taught him about being an example, and
we read alma 17:11 with him and he just stated crying and the spirit was like
flooding into that room and so we were like ahh okay. Thank you Heavenly Father
we were gonna start to panic, but it is awesome how that just works out, the
spirit truly can take what you have prepared to teach and morph it or direct it
into what needs to be taught. so cool.
In regards to last week and this
week being awesome, sister Lebaron was like it is always darkest before the
dawn! She said Satan knows, he knows! we are supposed to be here, and he
knows that we have a great work to do and he is gonna do that, so when you feel
like crap and want to give up you just KNOW there are miracles around the
corner! Pretty cool.
I GOTTA HOLD A BABY SQUIRREL GUYS!!!
IT was so flippen cute. holy. fetch.
I think that is is for now! okay
Byyyeeee!!
