"Well i have to break the news. The tests came out positive, my lower back hurts, I am cranky, so it must all be true...
I am going to have a baby... I am so excited! I get to train this transfer! Having
a baby is mission lingo for training. Elder Thornton, my trainer, is my Dad and his trainer is my grandpa. I do not know anything more about it but I find out who it is on Wednesday morning at 8:30am. It
is going to be fun. If any of you have trained please send me a quick
email before Wednesday with tips! I will need all the help I can get!
Ok so Tuesday... Today was District Meeting and I had to give a
workshop on Saving People. I thought it went ok. I had great participation which is good. We had a good time and I was able to get Elder Sorensen to dress up like a Ninja and use my Katanas. It went
great! We went to the VC to teach Iesha (ok, I thought he was just not capitalizing the "l" but it is a capital "i". Chan cleared that one up for me so thought I'd pass it along incase any of you suffered as I do, haha!) the Plan of Salvation. She seemed to be super great! It was an amazing lesson and lots of interaction, positive feedback and great questions from her and then
since that lesson we have not nor has our ward had any contact with
her. She does not respond like she used to and it is sad. We think she
got anti stuff. We are trying to get in contact still. We watched Meet
the Mormons yet again and I love that movie! They show it at the VC
and encourage the missionaries to bring people and watch it. We had
dinner that night with a recent convert, his fiance, and his future
family. It was delish! We also taught the gospel of Jesus Christ as
part of the new member lessons and it went super well. he is an
awesome guy!
Wednesday... Today was a decent day. We have been given a list from
Bishop of people to try to find which is super fun to do... I dislike
sitting in the car forever! But we did that for a while, weekly
planned, and did online time. It went well. We went to the institute
class towards the evening and it was great! We stole our investigator
back from the Chinese elders. haha! Her name is Cheryl and she is so
nice! she loves members and is loving reading the BofM. She is one of
the most happy people I have ever met! We had a good talk with her and
invited her to a lot of different things. She is not going to make it
to church this week because of friends coming into the country from
China but she will be there next week. It was a great night and the
ward really stepped it up and did a great job fellowshipping!
Thursday... today was good! We had to drive for a long time to get
over to Bethesda to put a bike hitch on our car. It is now on and the
car is now photo cop resistant. Which is super nice. We had to wait
for a while but when it was done we drove home and went to a
retirement party for a ward members dad. He called and invited us
because he had some workers who were interested in family history! Are
you doing it? Yes YOU reader... DO IT!!!! Anyway it went well and we
helped a few set up some stuff. We hurried over to dinner later with
Manny and Carla. They are great! Just got engaged and the way he
proposed was cute. He showed us the video. He was very proud of it. We
finished teaching the Commandments and he agrees with them. We are
going to have a group fast for him this week that he will get his
answer on when and if he should be baptized. So we set a specific
time, day, place and everything so that we did our part all we need
now is the Lord to help his continue on this path! Then I got the call
that I will be training!
Friday... We had a training meeting this morning. It was nothing
special but nice to get some info on what we all need to do to help
them. The end goal is to have the kid in a place to where he can train
right when he is done. So we will see how this goes... We were at the
VC for this meeting and others for a good chunk of the day but still
made it to our late lunch apt at Sister Mays. She is so funny! She was
wearing a shirt that said, " Black Queen" on it and it just made me
laugh with all of her sass. She is an amazing cook too! I walked down
her hall and nailed my head on a light that was hanging from the
ceiling. That is one thing here I ALWAYS have to duck under doorways
and lights because everything here is shorter! I am going to get a
concussion if I am not careful! We continued to work on that list that
Bishop gave us and had Dinner with Timothy. He is a member and we had
amazing homemade pizza. He is super smart and is going for his Ph.D.
in Economics. He is also writing a 3 book series on some really cool
fiction story.
Saturday... Today was a little slower but good. We had our normal
morning and taught a RC earlier at like 10:30. he is great. He even
came to church this week! Then we came home and were putting new names
on the map for new people. We finally have it all 100% updated! That
was a long process but it is done. Then we had interviews with
President Cooke. He is great! It is fun working with him and he is a
great leader! It was a short interview but good. Nice to see him in
interviews every transfer. Then we had more exciting times checking on
a lot of referrals. We were able to make contact with two of them and
one is too young and not interested while the other was the girls mom
who is a former member. Her daughter is not and she is encouraging
them to get active so this will be good!
Sunday... Amazing day until like 6:30pm. I will just say it once and
it is done. The Packers lost and I did not even get to watch one
football game this year... I am having withdrawals... But other than
that it was great. We had super productive meetings and then at church
we had 4 people come! It was so good! They loved it and we are going
to be seeing them all this week. We also got like 2 new potential
investigators and 1 new one! It was so nice to build up our teaching
pool before my son gets here! (we are expecting him any day now) haha.
We had great enchiladas with bacon for dinner and then a great turnout
for Why I Believe. The meeting was great and I got to see a lot of
DC3rd members again. Love that ward! So ya. Today was the best. We
met or exceeded all of our goals this week and taught a lot of people.
I love missionary work! Mason you will love it! Kailan you too! All of you guys!
So that is what life is like here in the greatest mission in the
history of life.. Thank you all for your love and prays! You are the best!
p.s. Could you all email me some salsa recipes.. I am out and am in
need. Thank you all! I have a lot of stores so close so i can get ingredients fairly easily so all i need is to know what to get! Love
you all!"
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