Week 9

This week has been great!

 

Virginia drivers are truly crazy.

 

Well....It snowed twice more this week. We keep thinking that it'll finally turn into spring time, then the snow decides to pull another prank on us. Although hopefully after last night, we will have no more.

 

Preaching the gospel on facebook can be terrifying. Several times I've randomly started up a conversation with a friend back home and they'll answer a couple times and then they just stop. It would definitely be easier in person, but hey I'll keep on trying! Hopefully someone soon will decide to take facebook missionary lessons...

 

This week we went over to a members house for dinner and they were Hispanic and the parents barely spoke any English at all. So we were teaching them and randomly in the lesson sister Richardson says, "well...this is really random...but the thought keeps coming to my head so I guess I should say it...buuuuut sister Quinton might be willing to bear you her testimony in Spanish at the end". this caught me completely by surprise and my brain went completely blank and all the Spanish I've ever learned just went completely out of my brain. So I told them I would say something in Spanish next time...but I decided that we should just teach them the restoration lesson next time and I would just memorize the first vision in Spanish...so, I memorized it and I can testify, but I guess we'll see how it actually goes! I will probably sound very white when I say it, but hey I guess its the thought that counts hahaha

 

So funny story, the other day my companion was really tired and decided that in order to function she needed to take a nap during our lunch hour. She went to get something from a different room and while she was busy, I sprinted out of the room and climbed into her bed and bundled all of the covers around me so that it looked like there wasn't a human in there. I heard her yell, "good night!" out to where she thought I was still sitting, then she walked into the room and started to put some pjs on. When she finally decided to climb into bed, she went to grab her blankets, only to jump back in surprise, scream and fall the other way when she realized that there was something there! I could not contain myself and I burst out laughing at her shocked face and I'm pretty sure I scarred her for life!

 

My investigator Mary Jane is doing so well! I'm going to try to get a picture with her this week, but she's doing great! She's getting baptized on the Saturday before Easter, so the 19th and I'm super excited for her! She hasn't been drinking coffee or smoking for the past several times we've met with her and bishop gave her, her first blessing!

 

It started pouring down rain a couple days ago. We decided that we would go tracting that day and a couple minutes into it we were completely soaked all the way through. We probably looked very similar to drowned rats, but we met some great people! One of them we saw her grabbing her mail and we walked up and I started talking to her about prophets and I asked her if she thought it was possible that there could be a prophet on the earth today and she said, "well I definitely believe that's possible." I was completely shocked! I can tell that she is ready for the gospel! She accepted a book of Mormon and we told her about conference!

 

Another cool thing happened this week. We were at church and there was a woman there that had came with another family and she really wants to learn the gospel now! She was in the gospel principles class with us and she was adding good insights to the lesson and asking members questions when she didn't understand what something meant. She even emailed a ton of female members and asked them all to come to her house so that she could get to know them all better!! Its been amazing to see.

 

Almost every week in church we have women from the ward before us, walk up and give us hugs and beg to have us send sister missionaries to their ward. One of these women even said, "well It cant hurt to ask, so I'm going to put in a request!!" ...not sure how she'll manage that...but hey whatever works!

 

Anywho that's about it for the week! love you all ! :)