Hello
everyone! What another great week it was here in the mission field!
So
Monday we spent our PDay at the chapel with the elders and we played chair
football! I don't know if you guys remember me telling you about this game, but
basically everyone has a chair to protect and we're all trying to get each
other out. So if the soccer ball touches your chair, you lose a life and flip
the chair upside down. Then if it touches it again, you flip it over again and
sit down. You can get back in if you catch the ball and throw it at someone
else's chair and it hits their chair. So you steal one of their lives. It gets
pretty intense. But the funny thing is that I was the only sister playing, so
they didn't want to get me out unless they needed a life. So I just defended my
chair the entire time and then when it was just me and one elder, I'd get him
out. I only won one game with that strategy...but I won! Anyways, so after PDay
we went to try by a less active, but couldn't get her gate open and she didn't
answer the phone. So we were pretty sad because we could see their lights on,
but the gate was locked. So we got on the bus and ran into a member, so we
talked to her for a bit. Then Sister Tanielu realized she forgot something, so
we went back into town and headed out again. We ran into this family we had
talked to awhile back and this time they said we could come back and teach
them! We were so excited. We stayed on the bus talking to them, getting their
details and such, and totally missed our stop...so we had about half an hour to
walk back home...
Tuesday we went back to the care home to
have a lesson with that member and visit her. Then we went to an appointment,
but she wasn't in. So we went in for lunch. After lunch we did some finding in
a neighborhood. After a little bit of no luck, we decided to take a break, so
we had some fun :)
Then we went back out to
do some more knocking. Still no luck. So we went in to do companionship study
and tea. Then we went out to Ward Coordination and had a great meeting there.
It was a little funny though because our Ward Mission Leader couldn't be there,
so he phoned in and we just had the meeting on loudspeaker. So that was unique
:)
Wednesday
was...interesting. So we had district meeting in the morning, which was pretty
good. Then we got lunch and I went to take my driving theory test. Well I
passed! So that was a huge relief! Then we went to try by someone, who still
wasn't in. So we went to the library and I scheduled my driving test...scary!
And then we went to visit a member. She'd been really lonely and having a hard
day. So we were thankful we were prompted to go see her, even though we were
probably there too long. Again...but then on the bus to our tea appointment, we
saw one of our investigators we hadn't been able to get ahold of in ages. So we
stopped to talk to him and that was such a tender mercy! Then we went to the
tea appointment and it was a little, or a lot, weird. So this member, who's
like one of our favorites, had an accident yesterday that we didn't know about
and she hit her head really hard. So she has amnesia and can't remember
anything from the last 7 months of her life and so she had no idea who we
were...so it was an interesting tea appointment and we helped her fill in some
of the blanks about what's going on in her life and all the things we'd talked
to her about in the past four weeks. So yeah...it was strange.
Thursday was pretty
good. We had a lesson with this one lady we popped by since the Ward had asked
us to. It was a very lovely conversation. She's really ill, so she's unable to
come out. But she's just so happy despite all her hard times and it was such an
upliftment to us! Then we went to have lunch with an elderly lady in the ward
who loves having missionaries! We had a grand little chat with her :) then we
went to try by a few more people and had tea in town with a family Sister
Tanielu used to teach in Huddersfield. They were in Hull for the weekend and
wanted to meet up. So we went out to eat and played some games at the table.
Felt like a proper Family Home Evening! Then we had Ward Council which was amazing.
The Ward is super excited about all the people we've been able to see and help
and were even giving us referrals. I think it made the elders a bit jealous.
But whatcha gonna do?
Friday was super short.
We had weekly planning in the morning and then we tried by a few less actives
and formers. One of them let us in...but she only speaks Swahili. So, it was a
really hard conversation since the only Swahili I know is Hakuna Matata...but
her nephew was there and he translated. But he was just visiting, so I don't
think we'll be able to go back. But then we went to have tea with a member and
then had a lessons with Jayne, one of the recent converts, about temple work
since there's a temple trip in a few weeks. She's gonna try and go, so we're
super excited about that! Just sad we can't go with...
Saturday we did
something crazy...we decided we wouldn't visit anyone and just concentrate on
finding. We set a goal to find two new people to teach. So we knocked for about
two hours in the morning and the first person we talked to said we could come
back! So we got her info and set a time for next week. Then nobody else was
interested. So we got lunch and then did more knocking and street contacting.
We did get a little distracted as we passed a Ghandi statue though. Just as we
were about to go to our tea appointment, we found a lady who was curious about
God...so we're seeing her next week too :) then we had our tea appointment and
the husband of the family wound up giving the message...which was way better than
what we had planned, so I'll share it as my spiritual thought for the week! ;)
Sunday went pretty well.
We had church and it was a homecoming meeting. Which meant we had cake after
the three hours. So that was great! But in all seriousness, it was an amazing
Sabbath. Then we went to have lunch with a part member family and then came
home to grab some things and went out to visit a family who wasn't at church to
make sure they were ok. Then we came back in for companionship study and tea.
So another quick, but great day!
My Spiritual Thought for
the week is, as previously stated, from a member in our ward.
So in St. John 20, when
the disciples went to see the empty tomb they said
"6 Then cometh
Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen
clothes lie,
7 And the napkin, that
was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a
place by itself."
And back in those days,
when a carpenter was working on a project, they would wear the same napkin, or
headband, during the entire project and when the project was done, they would
wrap the napkin neatly and place it on top of the project so the person who was
buying it knew it was done to the best of their ability. And Jesus Christ was a
carpenter. So after He was resurrected, he put his napkin neatly by itself to
symbolise He had done His job to the best of His ability and it was finished.
When we finish our
missions, or our careers, or our callings, or our lives, will we be able to
symbolically fold our napkin neatly and show we have finished to the best of
our ability?
Sister Hope
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