Before I forget I need to tell you that I
need a bag, and scripture case..both of mine are broken...like
bad...haha I have little clippy things holding my bad together, and the
handles on my scriptures are broken haha, so that would be good for
Christmas.
Ok now to what has happened this week. Well in the beginning this week was rough, on Monday
night we taught a lesson to one of the ward missionaries and his wife,
well it was absolutely awful, I wanted to cry. The lesson did not go
smoothly and it was a disaster. After that lesson, we realized maybe
Heavenly Father was humbling us, well we went to a less active who we
have tried like 3 times and rescheduled appointments, and we decided to
visit them. Before we got out of the car, we prayed and Sister Austin in
the prayer asked to be humbled..and believe me it came. We got out of
the car and knocked and the less active told us that they were ok with
where they were, they did not want to hear our lesson, and we need to
stop coming. Humility or what...gah it sucked. Then on Tuesday
morning our landlord's dogs were trying to eat our breakfast, so we
locked them out of the kitchen, well after studies we are looking for
our phone everywhere. Sister Austin went outside for it, and came back
in with a chewed up, ruined, slobbered on phone. About 4 of our speed
dials worked, and we could receive calls, but that was it. The screen
was broken and the phone was mangled. We laughed like crazy, because it
was pretty funny, but at the same time we both almost burst into tears.
We had to go to the church to call the mission office and they sent us a
knew phone, that we received on Saturday.
Having to tell the mission home what happened was pretty humbling too,
they did not lecture or anything, but I still felt stupid having to tell
them the dog got a hold of our phone.
Luckily by Tuesday
night the week started to improve, we went over to the Jaure's and
taught them the restoration. Well we tried to again, haha. It did not
really work, but that is ok because we got to the main point which was
baptism. They, especially Levon wants to be baptized but like I said he
is nervous because of past experiences. Well we did not set a date but
talked about baptism, and Kordillia, who is his 5 year old daughter
(Kordy) and their 2 year old son Ezra. They were all over me and I could
not teach, and Sister Austin would not, like I don't think she knew how
to get into the lesson. So I just did my best. The member who was with
us helped a lot. I kept feeling like I needed to ask Alicia if she
wanted a blessing, so finally I did, and she said yes. I think that was
why we were there that night, because she needed a blessing. Finally we
left, after Kordy has drawn me like 4 pictures haha, she is like my
little buddy. She kept trying to sit on me, but that is not allowed, so I
just had her sit next to me haha.
After district meeting the next day, so Wednesday,
we all went out to lunch at the best little Mexican restaurant ever!!
Was like 4 bucks for a huge quesidia, I got tacos though, and they were
phenomenal also. Anyways we went to the Jaure's with the elders and they
gave them blessings, and we tried teaching, and it did not work haha,
apparently we were not supposed to. They said they would be at church Sunday though.
On Wednesday
we were able to teach a lot of lessons and it was awesome, but the most
interesting one was at a less active. Well she is active but is going
through a hard time, but her sister lives with her and she is less
active. Well they had a friend over who was Muslim. Sister Blackwell who
we originally went to go see read us this talk that one of the apostles
gave, and it was super cool, and we were discussing prophets, then her
Muslim friend, Janet, peeps in and says "Well we don't have prophets."
And then it turned in to a argument, not a heated one at all, but she
was trying to prove her point and Sister Austin was trying to prove
ours. The spirit was not there and the best thing to do was to leave,
but Sister Austin was having fun. Luckily slowly Janet started saying "I
believe" rather that "You're wrong" and so it turned in to a
discussion, but it still sucked, because while it was interesting to
learn about, the spirit was not there. I hated the whole thing. We
finally left and the last thing Janet said to us was "study it out" and I
could tell we obviously had not made an impression. We were in there
talking for an hour and half! I was happy to leave. Next time I will
change the subject and get out, because there is no use in trying to
convince her...
On Thursday
we taught Sam, the girl I wrote about, and how she is golden. Well she
goes to the college branch, and so the other sisters have been very
obnoxious and telling us we need to turn her over to them. So we had
them come to a lesson on Wednesday
and it was so amazing, so spiritual and I was ecstatic. I left the
appointment saying how great Sam was, and the only thing the other
sister said was"Where is her record? She is ours, we need her paper
work, oh and we are bringing a member with us next time, and well 5
people is too much" EXCUSE ME!!! I was pissed (I know you hate that word
mom, but it is the only word to explain how I felt) gahhh, so stupid.
All they think about is her as a number, and it made me so mad!!!!
On Saturday
we had another appointment with Sam and we went anyways, and we had a
great lesson, Sam was crying, and I hope that made them think a little
more. We told Sam that we would not be teaching her anymore and she was
so sad, and so when it was time to say prayer she asked me to say the
last prayer with her :) Awwww, I love her. We decided we are still going
to visit her anyways, not teach, but go visit sometimes however if we
still feel prompted to teach her we will.
Now to the best part!!! Yesterday!!! Yesterday, 1st off we
made a jeopardy game on the third lesson to play with Dacey who is
getting baptized, her brother who is 13 Jaden was there and played with
us also, he was just baptized in a different church and it was a good
game because we talked about the right authority and when we need the
Holy Ghost. The game was so much better than the other lessons we had
and they learned so much. It was a blast, and after the game Jaden got
us ice cream sandwiches, and then Dacey taught us Ninja destruction,
which I have played before but it was a blast playing with her, in our
skirts...hahahaha oh well.
At church we had 7 investigators show up, and 5 less
actives!!!! How amazing is that! That is the best I have had my whole
mission. I was so excited, and the ward was too. They all jumped at the
opportunities to help. The ward really stepped in and it was so
awesome!!! Levon came, but his wife had to work. He brought Ezra and
Kordy though! So cute! I just love those kids. Then we had the Shellys
there, which is a part member family and less active, and we had Brenda
and Anthony and Anthony's girlfriend Renee, I believe I have talked
about them. We also had many others there.
It was amazing!!! Best church meeting ever. So many members were
excited like I said, and during Relief Society our dinner calendar for
this month and next month were filled!!! How awesome is that? The high
priest group leader asked us for our calendar before anyone else saw it
and signed up for Christmas haha. He is so cool. He gave us a ton of
referrals also. They have a son in Portugal.
So we have Sister Black, the other STL ( sister training
leader) with us right now, she is on exchanges again, because of the
ipads they have to do 2 exchanges this transfer. Some of the Sisters made us late for our appointment with the Jaure's. They didn't pick up
the STL that was going to go with them, we had to bring both stls with
us! Anyways the Jaure's went well. Alica was still at work, so it was
just him, and we talked about a date for baptism, but he has to have a
interview from up high cause he is on probation, so we rather set a date
for his interview and when he is approved we will baptized him right
after! Wahooo! Kordy became my best friend and was pretty much sitting
on me, I tried to not let her, but it doesn't work all the time. She is
so stinking cute. After the lesson we finally were able to drop Sister
Session off with the other sisters and then we went to a less active,
who when we met her she was like "I'm so busy," then I asked if she had
time right then, and she did, so we got to know her. Well she happens
to be a preschool teacher!!! So we talked for like an hour, and we also
taught the restoration, and by the end she was so comfortable with us.
It made me so happy. The other sisters didn't talk haha, just me and
her, because they didn't really relate, but it was so fun!!!...anyways
this week all and all has been amazing..I learned humility
though...hahha I love you all so much and I love reading all of my
emails. mom and paps I love you! I am so excited for Christmas to be
able to talk to skype you!!! love you :) have a great week :)
-Andrea
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