This week was a good one! Crazy, but good. So last week I forgot to tell you something that was pretty funny. We got a referral from church headquarters to bring someone a bible, so we went to the address and it was a jail...... So we called the Elders and were like uhh, we can't go there! Bahah, so they got ahold of the person who requested it and they had to mail a bible to this guy in jail. I thought it was pretty funny.
Also I am slightly upset because for the past few days it has been in the high 20's and it feels SO warm. I never thought I would say or think that! Hahah. Monday night all of our appointments fell through so we were left at 7:00 at night with 2 hours left and nothing to do. OH and 4 degree weather PLUS windchill. Yeah-it was like negative 20. But it's not like we can just go home, so we went tracting! Most people didn't even answer, one guy let us in and we had a nice conversation about family history and one guy told us we were crazy! I thought- yes we are, but what can you do? Bahah, being a missionary is so weird.
Wednesday morning there was a Worldwide Missionary Broadcast, and they said there were 75,000 missionaries watching live. It was SO cool. I learned so much, the apostles and general authorities are just amazing. I love learning from them. It really inspired me to work harder and be better and just do so much more! I loved it. It was really cool knowing too that all the missionaries in the world were watching.
There also is this nice member that took us to this delicious fancy restaurant called the grapevine. It was so yummy, and then she had us over again sunday night to make earrings! She makes jewelry so she taught us how to make our own earrings. It was so fun, and I made some way cute ones. You'll never guess what color they are.
Wednesday night we felt like we should try this one potential, so we went to her house and once we got there we realized we had met her earlier and St. Vincent's (where we do service) so yeah she was TOTALLY placed right in our path. She was talking about how she loves God and wants to listen to Him, and how she loves when he puts things together for her (like this!!!) so we pointed out that we were led to her, and we told her a little about the BOM and she said she already had one and wasn't interested... So we talked about the plan of salvation and then she got way off topic talking about how she decorates cakes. She told us about it for like 30 minutes.. so finally we brought it back to the gospel and she told us she doesn't believe in organized religion and she only wants her relationship with God to be between her and she doesn't need a church.. so that was a bust. Hahah, she's in the area book, so maybe later we can try her and maybe someday she will come around!
We also met another really cool couple that invited us back to teach them. We taught about the restoration and the BOM, we have this cool little BOM map that explains where it came from and what it is and all that, so we did that with them. And they said their church highly discourages them from reading anything but the bible so they wouldn't even take a BOM. we bore our testimonies and asked if we could come back, they said not for now but then told us about their baby that had passed away, and how God helped them through that, but then it was time to leave so i gave them a plan of salvation pamphlet and told them to call us, so I hope they do. Or I hope they at least read it. That's another one that might come around later. We meet a lot of people like that. Hahah.
We were really worried about the B's for a while.. they cancelled 3 appts with us and didn't come to church last week and they wouldn't text or call us back so we thought they were dropping us and we were so sad! So we called S one night this week and just asked how she was doing and talked to her for a bit. She had finals this week so it was a busy and stressful week for her. She then said she hadn't been reading the BOM but!!! She has been praying for help all week with finals and she said it worked, and she did really well and knew that the prayers helped!! Wow I was so excited! So we committed her to come to church this week and she did! Her, bro B and her sister W (who hides when we come over) came to church!!! IT was so awesome! Bro B was even sick, and he still came. They had to leave after sacrament to take w to violin, but I didn't even care. And the sacrament talks were all SO good. It was all about the youth theme this year, so pressing forward and all that good stuff. Just what they needed. And S said she loved one of the talks. Oh it was the best thing ever. We have an appt with them tonight, so I hope it goes well. (my comp is really discouraged about them and just thinks nothing will help them so I am nervous about that) hopefully we can have the spirit with us as we teach and help them know how important this is!! I know they can do it. It's just going to take a lot of work.
So yeah, it's been a good week. Crazy, we had so many cancellations at the beginning of the week so we just prayed so hard that our other appts wouldn't fall through and once we did that, nothing cancelled! It was cool. We were so busy saturday and sunday, it was great. I hope we can keep that up.
We are also doing a church tour later today with a lady that won't come to church bc she doesn't feel worthy, but she is so excited for the church tour, and so are we! hopefully we can show her that you don't have to be perfect to come to church, that's why we go to church, because we aren't perfect!! i am really excited for this lesson. I think it's going to be really good.
Well I think that's all. I love you all and hope you have the best week ever!!
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