Dear Mom,
I don't
have a ton to say this week. I do have
some stuff though. First off I got you package :) thank you! I can't wait to
give everyone their gifts. The Gunther's loved the calendar and the note, they
told me that is a very sweet note and they loved it. Second, I am so sad to
hear about Miriam. That is crazy!!! She
will be okay though, I hope she doesn't have a bad case of MS. My thoughts and prayers are with her.
So this week
has been interesting. Sister Barkdull has been very sick. We went to the Doctor
and got her some pain meds but then they reacted weird and she just started
puking. I have really been learning patience, because I did have a headache
too, but normal headache medicine worked for me. I have really had to have
patience. I feel bad for Sister Barkdull though cause she was really sick, and
she stuck it out really well though, but sometimes that is where I got
frustrated haha, she has been calling me mom a little because she says "Oh
I'm fine I can do it" and I have had to tell her no, and to rest and stuff
and she gets frustrated with me, but oh well, I think if she rested earlier she
would be a lot better by now haha. But she is finally getting better. :)
Wahooooo
This week a couple things happened. So at
the beginning of the week we visited with the Smiths, So Jacob is a member, but
he is not active, and his wife Serena was the atheist, and I say was, cause she
is not anymore! We got a call earlier from them and they asked why we always
bring a member with us, and we told them it is so they know people in the ward.
They were so relieved because they thought that they had done something and so
we could not go over there alone haha. So we went over the next day for our
appointment and we did not bring a member. Best choice ever. They opened up so
much more!!! Serena, we found out went to read a copy of the book of Mormon,
that she thought they had and it was just a bible. So she asked us to bring
one, and so of course we agreed. We also found out they have been thinking
about their little boy Malachi being baptized. They also love the ward and want
to know when the next potluck is and the Halloween Party. We found out the real
reason Jacob would not come to church. He finally admitted that there is a guy
in the ward who he used to work with. Jacob 3 years ago was in an accident and
now suffers severe daily migraines and so he can't work. Well this other guy in
the ward really started to be mean to him and be cruel. So Jacob has not wanted
to come. We told Jacob that this guy actually does not come, he had not been to
church in 25 years, and that he just recently started coming back, but the last
couple Sundays has not been there. Jacob then felt so much better and said he
would try and come! They also said they wanted their kids to get to know us and
so we are going over there this Sunday for dinner!!! We did not have an actual
lesson, but we just shared a message and it was the best thing ever to just sit and chat and get to
know them, rather than just be the people that come and talk about church every
week. I think we made so much progress with them :)
I swear I
told you about the referral Jeff, who we just felt like we really needed to
talk to and finally after like a month got a hold of him and gave him a Book of
Mormon. Well we checked up on him and he admitted he was not too interested,
but then we offered service and I also was able to tell him how we found him,
the crazy story. And it made him feel really good. It was cool I told him that
we are supposed to talk to him, and that Heavenly Father found a way for us to
talk to him. It was really neat! I felt so good after we left, he was not even
interested but yet I felt so good after cause I know that we did exactly what
Heavenly Father told us to do, and I know we planted a huge seed and when the
time is right I know he will be a member of the church.
This week we
went to Belt Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The whole purpose of being in Belt
was mainly for people to just see us and to talk to people. We have like no
investigators in Belt. But it was cool because our first night in Belt we went
to a former investigator's house, Jason.
He took the lessons in 2008. When
we contacted him a few weeks ago he didn't seem too interested, but then we
thought we should go back so we did. He was not home, but we left a note on a
mormon.org card. Then we walked down town (the like 6 bars in Belt) haha and
within 20 minutes we got a call. He
called us back and was like "hey I saw you walking down town and then saw
the card you left and I want you to come over again! That is saying something
because no one ever calls us back from a mormon.org card, ever. We told all the
elders and they were freaking out haha cause the ones who have been out like
almost their whole time have never got a call back. He told us he would love us
to come back, and so we said yes and set up an appointment for the next day.
Unfortunately we ended up moving our appointment and then he did and so we have
not seen him yet. But by him calling us back we know he is interested! We then
taught one of our investigators in Belt. Cheyenne, she is 15. Hee grandma
passed away recently and we taught her the plan of salvation. She started to
tear up, and after the lesson she told us, "That was the first time that
when someone has talked about my grandma I have not gotten frustrated or just
wanted to change the subject, I felt warm" AWWWWWWW we seriously almost
cried. It was the sweetest thing ever.
On Saturday we helped Amy and Gus Olsen (your
friends with Amy on facebook), we helped them paint and hang lattes, well I got
the paint job, which seemed great, but it was a sprayer paint thing, and so my
job was to hold up cardboard so it did not get on the house. It was fun, but I
did not know I would be doing that, so I got paint all over my boots and my
hair, it felt like a can of hair spray was in my hair, cause like I said the
paint was put in this sprayer thing. Everyone was joking that the paint just
blended in with my freckles. But anyways my boots are covered in splattered
paint....so I either need to buy some more or you could send me some.
Well that is
pretty much what happened this week. Today we hiked the GF for Great Falls, and
it was straight up a hill, and I seriously am so out of shape, and then at one
point we were hiking down I totally biffed it and scraped my knee! We hiked up
there before sunrise so we could watch it, but we couldn't see it, because of
the clouds, but we had a very nice devotional, and of course I was called on to
bear my testimony, that happens a lot actually, and so I know I probably
sounded really scattered because I had three seconds to pull my thoughts
together haha. But I really have learned to love bearing my testimony, it used
to scare me so much at home, but I love it now. I LOVE being able to testify
and tell others that I know Jesus Christ is my Savior, and my redeemer, that
because of the atonement we can have a friend who completely understands us and
can help us. We can also have a way to change for the better and get back on
the right path. I am so thankful for this gospel. I am so thankful to be raised
in it. I love my Heavenly family and my family here on earth, who are also part
of my Heavenly family. Anyways after the
devotional we ended up losing our phone, Sister Barkdull lost it, and it look
forever to find, but thanks to a prayer we were able to find it and after that
we said a prayer of thanks :) I love being a missionary.
-Love
Andrea
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