Week 54

Well....to start off...I saw a car this week..and it was a transformer!! ha ha my companion and I were taking a recent convert out to get some froyo and we were driving along and Sister Bost all of the sudden goes, "Hey look, that car is a transformer!". I glanced over confused. Saw the legit car and then I took off driving after it and I started yelling, "OH MY GOODNESS GET MY CAMERA, HOLY COW!!! ARE YOU GETTING IT?? IS THE PICTURES TAKING!??!?" hahah so I completely drove PAST the froyo places in an attempt to chase the car in front of me and the recent convert in our car was like, "BUUUUUT WHAT AAABBBOUUUUT FROYOOOOO!?!??!??" ha ha we were all just dying of laughter and luckily we got a good picture...so i'll have to send it!

So we had a slightly awkward, and very funny experience this past week. We had called a random less active woman, whom we had never met, in order to set up a time to come meet her. From our records it looked like her husband was not a member. So we call up this number and it was a man who answered the phone, "Hello Sisters!!! How are you? What can I do for you?" JACKPOT!! sounds like a very receptive nonmember. So we asked him if we could come over for an appointment next week and instead he offered to feed us. Awesome!! So we were quite excited. So the day of our appointment comes and we pull up to this gated community and we give the address to the gatekeeper, and a few seconds later...he comes back out with a phone and says..."Ummm...the owner wants to speak with you". So I get on the phone and the female says, "hello??Who is this? How do I know you"  "umm well this is Sister Quinton and Sister Bost! we talked to you last week and you'd invited us over for dinner...?" she replied, "I have no idea who this is..." . So we hang up the phone and we called the number on our ward list. The guy answers and says, "you're lost aren't you?". Come to find out...the person who we had called was the father of the person we had just tried to visit. The father is a member, but his daughter, who we had just tried to see, was not even a member!!! ha ha and the Dad lived about an hour away!!! It was really funny.

This week we talked about how each person has a "spirit voice". Whenever they feel the spirit people talk different. Watch for it at church :)

Anywho! have a good week!! love you all!! :)

Hey mom! Oh so with the You Are Special book, we first started talking about Hero's and who each of the kids Hero's are and why they are Hero's. Then we read the book and told them to look for who the main characters hero was. Then we talked about how our hero's aren't hypocritical people. Then we tied it into how actions speak louder than words and we did a fun demonstration. We had three rounds. We had three different kinds of candies and we had the kids all close their eyes and we gave each of them a "Smartie". We told them that this was some type of food and that it was very sweet. then we let them eat it. On the second round, again they closed their eyes and we had gave them each a war head. Before they ate it, we told them that this candy was even sweeter than the first, and that they were going to really enjoy it. So they put it into their mouths and half of them spit it out because they thought it was going to be sweet, but then realized we had lied to them and that it was actually extremely sour. Then on the final round, we told them they would really like it and gave them a small Cadbury egg and told them to eat it, and several of them said, "why? Is this one going to be sour too??" then they realized it was sweet. We went on to explain that they had trusted us at first because the taste was what we said it was. But because we had lied on the second one, they were a lot more hesitant on the third one.

We then talked about how we need to do what we are saying we will do. If we tell people that we're a Mormon and then go around school having a sailors mouth, then people will hold us in less esteem and they wont necessarily believe us. But if we practice what we preach, then people will believe us. Then afterwards we pulled out a cake and ate it :) ha ha it was really fun. We had to keep them interacting and entertained because its the 14 and 15 year olds and we knew they'd be rowdy! it was really good though.

We did not have any more alarm fiascos!! thank goodness!!! ha ha

Oh my goodness I didn't know that Ava was in dance!!! ha ha cuuuuuute you'll have to take a lot of pictures!!!