Hello everyone! Hope you
had a great week!
So for me, on Monday we
didn't really do much. We did have a fun experience at the store though! So we
were cleaning out a closet and found a jar of pennies...so we went to the store
and bought about £5 of stuff with just pennies! Don't worry, we went to the
machine because we're not that mean! But it was funny and we left feeling bad for
whoever used that machine later in the day because the only change it would
give would basically be pennies...but other than that, we just hung out around
Durham and didn't do much. After PDay ended, we did some street contacting to
meet a new member who just moved in and her roommate was there. So like all
good missionaries, we taught them the first lesson :)
Tuesday we went to read
a talk with Emma in the morning and then had a first lesson with a lady named
Margaret! She is so sweet and really took in everything we had to say! Then we
went to see a less active before companionship study at the chapel because the
STLs wanted to Skype in for it. Then we came home for tea!
Wednesday we had to wake
up super early because district meeting was in Gateshead. So we had district
meeting early and then went as a Zone to do service at Saltwell Park. We were
in charge of painting benches again! Then we came back and had another lesson
with Margaret and scheduled her for baptism! After the lesson, we went on a
long walk and got lost, but found our way eventually and made it for tea with Emma
before coming in for companionship Study.
Thursday we taught the
Restoration to a recent convert named Denise and invited her to do the lesson
for FHE with her family this week! Then we did some knocking and met a few nice
people and even one who was interested in us coming back! Then we had tea and
companionship study before going to see Margaret again and then headed off to
Ward Council!
Friday we had weekly
planning all morning and then our district leader called in to our
companionship study to do a training model with us. Then we headed out! We did
some knocking in a funny town called Pity Me...then we went to have tea with a
member and they invited Margaret to come as well! So we had tea and then
explained to her what happens at church and why we have three hours!
Saturday was hard. But
it started out great! So we went to do some service at an animal shelter. And
literally all they wanted us to do was to go play with kittens for an hour so
they're used to humans...it was so fun! Then we had lunch before going to see
Chris, the guy we met knocking on Thursday. So we showed up and he wasn't there.
But as we were walking away, he called us and apologized and said he would be home
in five minutes, so we still taught him! Then we were on our way to see
Margaret when she called us and said that her family wasn't ok with her meeting
with the Mormons and even though she's in her fifties, she feels like she has
to listen to her family and so she asked us to not come over anymore...so that
was really sad. But the work had to go on! So we did some more finding! Then we
had tea with a member and it was awkward. They wanted to watch the news of the
storms in America, so they left us in the dining room since they knew we weren't
allowed to watch it and then just came in for a quick thought. So I didn't even
really get to know them...
Sunday we had church,
and it was really good! None of the people who said they would come came, but
it was still good! Then we went to try by those people, but they were on
opposite sides of our area and neither were in, so that took our whole day!
My Spiritual Thought for
the week is from the devotional called "I Will Give Myself To Him" by
elder Russell T. Osguthorpe "If God’s will is to be done by us and through
us, then our will needs to be the same as God’s." I think that's pretty
self explanatory but it is so true! We can't expect to do His will if we
disagree or fight with His will!
Love you and hope you
have another great week!
Sister Hope
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