Well,
it's Monday again, so I guess it's time for y'all to get a rundown of my week!!
We had a pretty good PDay
Monday. Sister Kirk and I basically just ran her last minute errands. Then we
went to the chapel for Zone PDay. We basically just talked and emailed, and
there was a pretty fancy BBQ, led by the Zone Leaders! Anyways, we went to see
Eileen and shared the "Principles of Peace: Faith" with her and then
went to see the Griffiths. We were going to share the Easter Video with them on
our iPad, but they decided they wanted to watch it on their fancy Smart TV, so
they pulled up YouTube and got it going...and then the previous years' Easter
Videos started showing after. So we watched 3-4 Easter Videos with them. It was
like a missionary movie night!
We did
street contacting in town Tuesday morning and then we had a lesson with Kurt
and he taught us the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He did so good! He just wants to
redo it one more time without notes! He's going to be such a great missionary
soon! It just makes my heart so happy! Then we had lunch and companionship
study and went to see Sharon Wylie and Heather before going to the Redpath's
for tea. After tea, we went to see Jennifer Thompson and read "the First
Easter" with her from the Book of Mormon! Such a great lesson! Lots to
think about!
Wednesday
was a strange day. District Meeting was moved back to the afternoon since one
of the Elders had a doctor’s appointment. So we went to our chapel and had
companionship Study and practiced the piano. Then we had lunch and went to
District Meeting. The elders were still at the doctors...poor guys! But this is
the part of our district that did show up!
But
District Meeting was really good and on asking inspired questions to overcome
concerns. Then we wound up staying and talking all together way too long. But
it was because I needed a blessing and the Alnwick Elders wanted to talk. But I
got a blessing and am still hoping for continued relief. This pain is getting
to be a lot! But anyways, after District Meeting, we went and made a pit stop
in New York!
Then we
came back to our area and did a little Finding before tea at the Broadfoot's
house and then saw Heather at the hospital and then went to meet a less active
named Gwen. We had a really good conversation with her and it was so good to
get to know her!
Thursday was so weird. Literally
everyone cancelled or wasn't in. And Sister Kirk and I would have the same
impression to go visit somebody, so we'd turn around and go. Well, they still
weren't in! It was so strange! We literally saw like nobody! We had a full day
planned and then didn't get to see anyone until the end. So we saw Kayleigh and
read the Easter Story from her children's Book of Mormon and then went to see
the Browns. We read the Easter Story with them too and they're planning on
coming to church! Such a miracle! It was really funny because when we told them
we were going to read from the Book of Mormon, so they'd need their Book of
Mormons, they decided to turn it into a "race" so the mom was yelling
at the daughter to hold her husband back and it was hilarious! I guess you had
to be there...
Friday was another weird day. So
I did weekly planning by myself while Sister Kirk packed up her suitcases. It
actually went pretty well as I didn't disagree with any of the plans! ;) nah,
in all seriousness, she did help me plan what to teach people while she packed,
I just put in when we'd see them or try by them. Then after lunch, we tried by
a bunch of people. None of them were in again...except this one Former
Investigator who previously was really nice to us and so we stopped by and she
started off on all these conspiracy stories about religion. Sister Kirk handled
it pretty well and I just soaked up the knowledge from my senior companion and
stayed silent so I wouldn't start arguing and make things worse. Anyways, then
we went to the chapel and practiced the piano for our musical number on Sunday.
When we recorded it, we realized we had a lot more to work on than we thought.
So we spent time doing that and counted it towards part of our companionship
study and then went to try by some members before tea.
Saturday
was a pretty quick day, honestly. So we had missionary coordination first thing
this morning and it was pretty good. Then we came home for lunch and travelled
to Morpeth. We saw Winifred and Fred and then went to try by a member, but couldn't
find her house. So we asked some random people on the street and they turned
out to be members from another Stake visiting their mom. So that was pretty
interesting! Anyways, the member wasn't there. So we went to see Heather, but
she was too tired, so we went to do some street contacting and then piano
practice. Then we had a lesson with John and Shannon. Anyways, then we went to
see Sister Zywczok. She needs some service done, so we did that. We took apart
an armchair for her into small bits that can go into the bins. It was hard
work, especially in skirts and with dull tools. But we did it! Then we came
home for tea and I got an interesting call from President Turvey. I'M TRAINING
AGAIN!!!!!! WHOOT WHOOT!!!
Sunday!
Wow! Such another strange day! So today was Sister Kirk's last Sunday here, so
we did a musical number of "The Lord is My Shepherd" which was great.
We had a lot of goodbyes which was strange for me in a sense. But it was still
good. Then we had lunch/tea with the Hamilton's and headed up to Newcastle for
a Music and the Spoken Word Fireside that Sister Berg and her family did. It
was all about the last week of the Savior's life and it was so spiritual, I
loved it! Than we came back and did companionship study for the last time!
Crazy!!!!
My
Spiritual Thought for the week is from this Conference again!
"Heavenly
Father is anxious to gather and bless all of His family. While He knows that
not all of them will choose to be gathered, His plan gives each of His children
the opportunity to accept or reject His invitation."
-President
Henry B. Eyring "The Gathering of God's Family"
Heavenly
Father has a plan for each of His children to learn about and choose to accept
the Gospel. Sometimes that Plan goes well the first time we think it should,
sometimes it won't be accepted until the eternities. But we must be in a place
ourselves that when Heavenly Father tells us one of His children, who we know,
is prepared for the gospel, we can act and we can change their eternity for the
better!
Love you all!
Sister
Hope
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