How's it going everyone!?!?
So my week has been a blast. We taught so much the zone leaders called us this morning to compliment how hard were working! So it's been exhausting, but so so SO good! We spent P-Day at a members hours and watched Disney Movies and had lunch! :) Josephine and her son joined us for lunch too which was so cool because we were able to talk to him as a normal human being! Then we met up with Darren and had a FHE with him and the O'Grams on tithing, fasting, and offerings. It was so good! We had a lot of fun and when we ended, he said "I really want those promises!" So it was obviously effective 😀👍
Tuesday was busy! We had a lesson with Michelle about the restoration and her kids actually listened pretty well! She's concerned about coming back to church because she's not sure why her mom stopped coming, and she doesn't want to start a family feud...but she wants to learn everything again, so that's good! Then we had lunch and a member took us to have a lesson with our little Bethany, but she wasn't there, so we taught her dad instead. Then we came back and had a lesson with Jackie and then Ben! Ben is Josephine's son that came to church on Sunday. He asked us a lot of questions and one of them was "how often can I have lessons?" So we were really excited! We wound up having a great lesson and scheduled him for the first of October! But with college starting up again soon, we're just hoping we can meet with him often enough! Then we had a tea appointment and did some more finding before language study! I was asleep before she finished her hour of study. So a long day to say the least. 💤😴💤
Wednesday was also crazy! We woke up early for district meeting and then had to wait for an hour in town to get a bus. So we got lunch and walked around the mall there. Then the bus finally came and we took it to go visit Bethany! We taught her the Restoration and she is coming to church! Oh the faith of a child! We are so excited for her! Except her dad is planning on teaching her "the science side" after church. We're not excited about that. But he believes she's old enough to decide...which she is but still!!! Then a really nice former investigator came and picked us up so we could go teach a lesson. It went pretty well! Then we did some street contacting and dropped in on a member to see how he was doing and then more contacting. So funny story. There's this house that always has the front light on, but nobody ever answers the door. So this has been going on for weeks before I got here. Sister Calles was convinced someone had died in there. So we decided Tuesday that we'd close the gate that's always wide open and if it was still closed, we'd try and open the door. Well the gate was closed. So we knocked and saw cobwebs on the handle. So this seemed to confirm there was a dead person in there. So she pushed a little hard on the door and it opened. We quickly closed it and went running out the gate. Then we talked to this guy on the street about it and he was like "well the police station is across the street" so we decided we'd try and open the door quickly, peek inside, and if we saw something, we'd go tell the police. So we did and the door led to an alley between two different houses. So we felt a lot silly, but there wasn't a dead person! So that's what's important!💀😱😅
Thursday was quite an adventure. We taught this family who the parents don't want to know for themselves, but want us to teach their kids. Their kids are 5 and 7. So we told them they have to be in the room while we're teaching. So we're hoping we can slyly teach the parents while we're teaching the kids. It'll be an experiment for sure but we're ready to try! We decided we may be known as the sisters who build up the primary...anyways, then we went home for lunch and met up with Darren. We had a great lesson with him about the 10 commandments and sabbath day holy at a members house and it was so good! Then we caught a bus and went to say hi to Michael. No members could come with us, so we just said hi through the window and knocked his area. No luck. Then we had a very interesting tea appointment and went to teach Andy! Jane was gone, but that was ok. We taught in his garden about prayer and challenged him to pray as King Lamoni's father did and then to read the Book of Mormon and look for something personal for him. We're so excited to hear how that went 😰😃
Friday's are always a short day due to weekly planning. So we did a little knocking in the afternoon after planning and then went to have a lesson with Darren. We took him to a members house to just answer questions and our member went SO DEEP! So it was a scary lesson for us, but he agreed to still see us Saturday. Which was a relief! Then we caught the bus to the Harvey's house and had tea with them. Then we came home for language study and planning! 😅😳
Saturday started with disappointment. We had lunch first thing in the morning and then went to do some more knocking. While we were knocking, we got a text that Darren had decided he didn't want to keep meeting with us 😒 so we pulled ourselves together and went to teach Ben. We taught him all about the Restoration and he understood so much! The only frustrating thing is his mom doesn't want to push him too fast, so she told him it was ok if he didn't go to church and aimed to only go every fortnight....WHAT?!?! Anyways, he said he knows he can't this week, but he wants to try and go every week after. So cool! Then he even said the closing prayer!!!! Afterward, we rushed to Jackies house. We shared another Mormon Message with her and then told her we were tired of her saying she'll never come to church, so we were just going to come pick her up. She didn't argue because she could see how serious Sister Calles was! Then we had to rush off to see Sister Stevenson. We had a delicious tea with her and spheroid us she was going to bring a friend to church and she expected us to talk to him. HECK YEAH WE WOULD!!! 😏😎
Sunday was a beautiful day! We went and picked Jackie up like we promised and she was ready on time! Then church was so great! We met Sam, Sister Stevensons friend, and sat with Jackie. Almost all the testimonies shared were on how they came to know the church was true and conversion stories. I think the ranch was just a little giddy there were two investigators there. But it was perfect! Then since we knew there would be 2 people there, we changed the gospel principles lesson from tithing to prayer...but since we asked for it to be changed, we got to teach it. So that was a blast! Then we went home for a nap, then had a mini lesson with Ben going over the principles of Christ's gospel: faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. It was so good! He had a friend over and she even joined in on the lesson and asked if she could sit in next week too! So that was really cool! Then we popped by Jackie again to see how she enjoyed church, which she said she actually enjoyed it! And then rushed back to Sister Stevensons for a lesson with Sam. We got to know his background a little bit and then finished with talking about prayer and challenged him to read from the Book of Mormon. And he said the closing prayer!!!! Then we had tea with them and rushed home for the night. 😃💒😊
So that was our very busy, very productive, week! I am so thankful for P-Day because my little legs are tired from all the running around! We have a very crazy week coming up because of exchange and meetings and such, but it should be so good still! I love you all and just thought I'd share my favorite quote! Christ's not waiting for us to be perfect. Perfect people don't need a Savior. He came to save His people in their imperfections. He is the Lord of the living and the living make mistakes. He's not embarrassed by us, angry at us, or shocked. He wants us in our brokenness, in our unhappiness, in our guilt and our grief...we need Him and He is ready to come to us, if we'll open the door and let Him."💕
Stay strong and keep smiling!💪😃😬
Sister Hope
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