Week 6

Heres my weekly report! :D

 

First of all, you should all go and find some sour patch kids gum at Walmart. It is grand, and tastes exactly like sour patch kids.

 

Miracle #1One of the nights this week we had to eat 2 dinners since we had one at a members home, then our investigators Jay and Joceyln invited us over for dinner. It was....interesting trying to eat that much ha ha but our experience with our investigators went super well! We had a great lesson with them and then at the end Jay asked his 6 year old son, "well Brayden, should we invite the sisters over for dinner again, or should we just go to church with them?" my brain went "apwiu3y98awyt!?P@R!!!!!?!?" we hadn't even been talking about church, he just brought it up himself!

 

Miracle #2Another of our investigators, Mary Jane, is progressing so so sooo much! She hadn't ever had the word of wisdom taught to her, but as soon as we talked about it she told us all the things that she was going to give up right then! Mary Jane is a pretty quiet person and we thought that we were going to have to dig around a bit to find out what she needed help with since we already suspected a couple things, but she just came outright and said exactly what she needed to do! She prayed in front of us, which was a huge step for her! Then she came to church again!!

 

I think I met the cutest little boy this week named Harrison. He was 2 years old and you would think he was 3 or 4 by how big he was and he talked nonstop, and he had dandelion hair, and a bubbly personality and Im pretty sure we should hook him up with Avabug in the future;)

 

We officially got our iPad minis!...and on the way to our meeting to get them we accidentally left some elders back at their apartment for 20 minutes and had to drive all the way to pick them back up. It was pretty funny.

 

My companion and I set a goal this week. We recognized that so many people nowadays are so focused on "Oh when I get to college I can start doing all these things." or "oh when I get married, then Ill be happy". or "oh when I go on a mission, then get home, ill finally be ready to start living my life". So we noticed that as soon as we get to certain steps in our lives, we always push back having our 'Happily Ever After' or whatever. So we decided that instead of living in the future, and being focused on how good or bad our future would be, we would make every moment count. We made a sign that says, "live your fairy tale now...Don't wish your moments away by living in the future". SO super interesting to think about. We decided to try to take pictures every day and in the morning we would tell each other one thing that we were excited for that day. Then at night we would say 5 things that we loved about the day! Its been pretty fun!

 

We've had several awkward tracting moments this week. One person opened the door said, "nope! not interested!" then slammed the door, then we heard her say, "MORMONS!". Then in that same neighborhood we knocked on a door...stood there for a few seconds....and some very tall teenager walked up to the door, stare out the top window at us, then proceeded to leave and we weren't sure if he was coming back, so we stood there for a few minutes in hopes that he was just getting his parents, which ended up not being the case.

 

Miracle #3 In the same neighborhood as the previous paragraph, we found a woman by the name of Theresa who was super receptive to our message! We taught her on her door step and set up another appointment and you could see the light of Christ in her eyes! She has been prepared a long time for this.

 

Random Insight: During companion study, sister Richardson and I were discussing how the people during Joseph smiths time were probably super comforted when they read about Nephi in the book of Mormon. Nephi and his family also had to leave their possessions and their homeland and journey for a really long time. I'm sure they had children and people die as well on their long journey, but yet in the scriptures Nephi only has thanks for all of the struggles.

 

Another awkward moment while tracting this week: We were tracting in little townhouse things, so the doors were pretty close together, but We knocked on one house...and they didn't answer...so we went to the next house and as soon as we knocked, the OTHER door opened, so we started to walk back to that house...but then the current house we were at opened their door also! Sister Richardson and I both panicked and she says, " uhhhhhhh....you take that one!! Ill take this one!". So we went our separate ways and as soon as I got in front of the door my mind went completely blank and my brain goes, "....wait....my companion just ditched me....." then I ended up saying some really random things. Not exactly the ideal situation;)

 

Miracle #4! Sis Richardson and I were walking along the street and we were super tempted to not say anything since we were headed somewhere, but then we realized that we'd made a goal to talk to everyone...So we went back and talked to him and now he's our new investigator! The circumstances of our meeting were super cool though, because we ended up switching up our schedule and if we hadn't done that, and if we hadn't missed our turn, then we wouldn't have been outside at the same moment that he was walking home. CRAZY! It's super cool how much effort the Lord puts into each persons lives, and so many people don't recognize that!

 

Another awkward tracting moment was when we saw 2 teenage boys walking down the street, and we were headed somewhere, so we debated if we should actually go talk to them, then our brains got the best of us and we started chasing them down the street! Then we stopped because we realized that they were a little too far down the street and we would've had to run to catch them.

 

We also met a Russian Jew named Blair. If the word "mancave" was in the dictionary and it had a picture, then Blair's garage would've been the ultimate picture of exactly what a mancave was. It had weights all over the walls, a huge flat screen TV, a disco ball, a gun rack, a motorcycle and all kinds of other things. It was quite the adventurous place.

 

Also...I'm getting pretty swell at using chopsticks...but anywho, that's only a portion of the cool things that've happened this week! we saw so many miracles! It was great! Love you all!:)