Well this week was definitely the craziest of my life! Bahah, so many crazy things happened but also an amazing miracle (:
So first off last Monday we went bowling with the Elders in the Green Bay area and that was such a blast! I am really terrible at bowling but it was still a lot of fun(:
On wednesday we witnessed a legit drug deal so that was.. something... We pulled up to this ladies house we had an appt with and right before we said a prayer this super nice dark black car pulled into the driveway and this guy sprinted out of the house we were going to and got into the back seat of the car and they sped away. We were like uhh.... so we went and knocked on the door and then this car comes back around the block and the guy hops out of the back seat and runs up to us and says yeah, let me get Tonya for you. We were like ok.. cool... we were in a super scary part of town so we wanted to get out of there quickly... the lady was sick (probably from drugs...) so we rescheduled and left and were like ok let's not come back here, except too bad we have a ton of investigators all around that scary part.. Who knew Wisconsin was so scary!
Then Thursday we had our miracle!! Actually Thursday was the worst day ever. Bahah. It was weekly planning which is the worst so me and Sis Gifford were just so ready for the day to be over. We went out tracting and people were SO rude to us, that happens sometimes but like every house on this whole street was just so mean and this one guy threatened to call the cops on us so that was cool.. so pretty much we were so discouraged and just done with the day. We decided to try one former investigator that we had written down and when we got there Sis Gifford felt like we should bring the survey which was weird bc we knew everything about these people from their teaching record and the survey is to help us find out about other peoples beliefs and what not so we can begin teaching them easier. Anyways, so we brought the survey and the former investigators didn't live there anymore and this cute lady opened the door and invited us right in!! We were so excited. We did the survey with her and she had so many questions that the gospel will answer. So we answered a lot of her questions and told her we had lots more we would love to share with her and she was so excited to set up another appt with us. She has 2 cute little boys and a boyfriend- but he doesn't live with her which is a miracle. Anyways she just really opened up to us about a lot of things and she's looking for a church and she used to be a Jehovah's Witness but she thinks they are crazy also so good. And wow it was the best first lesson and she is so cool. We are just so excited to go see her again. OH and when we shared a verse from the BOM she ASKED for a copy! No one ever asks if they can have one. Wow it was so cool. We are going to see her today to drop of the Family proclamation because she really wanted to read that too! Her name is D, she is so cute and so prepared. We cannot wait to keep seeing her. So that was our wonderful miracle that turned our day completely around(:
Then Friday we were tracting and another lady let us in and we were so excited! We walked into her house and she had taxidermy racoons, squirrels, deer and everything.. I asked her if she liked hunting and she said oh no, this is all roadkill! We were like uhhh..... ew... So we were sitting around her table getting to know her and actually having a really great gospel conversation with her and then she goes oh, just so you know, don't be alarmed but I do have 6 live ones running around the house too. We were like LIVE WHAT?! and she goes racoons! I find sick ones and rehabilitate them back to health and then let them go back into the wild! There's one hiding in the couch right there, one in that cupboard and 4 more in the basement! I was terrified!! Oh my gross. So yeah that was insane. This lady was so nice but so psycho... We had a really great conversation and taught her a lot and it was great, and she said we can come back anytime so we definitely will, just hopefully the racoons don't attack us!!!
So then Friday was another crazy experience! There's this family that was baptized like 2 years ago in this ward and they moved to Texas in the summer with their 2 grandsons bc their mom was super into drugs and was in and out of jail and just had a lot of problems.. So they came up this weekend to clean out her house and take stuff with them to texas bc they are selling her house since she's in jail. So first off, we get there to help them pack stuff up and there's like 4 cop cars outside and we are like great. So we drive around the block once and then come park and go inside and luckily we had just missed the chaos! The dad had walked in on his son in law and some other guys shooting up and he was about to kill them, so the cops came and took those guys off to jail. So one of the rooms was off limit for us to pack up bc there were needles everywhere and drugs.... So yeah. They had us do the dishes which hadn't been done in months and pretty much the only things on the dishes were drugs... not food. We washed a tons of ash trays and weed was on everything.... oh my goodness. Then they found boxes and boxes of stolen e-cigarettes in the basement that their daughter had been selling to buy other drugs.... they found so many boxes of needles and all sorts of drugs and oh wow it was crazy... so that was an interesting night also...
But anyways! It really was a good week! hahah. We have a goal as a mission to share the 1st vision with 2 new people everyday and it's been hard but it's been so cool! The spirit is always there when you share the first vision and peoples hearts are really softened. It's been really cool and I am excited to see more miracles come from this!
Also we gave a Korean BOM to that crazy Korean lady... She kissed it when we gave it to her- she was so excited. But for real she is insane so we probably will go back like once a month is all... bc she probably won't progress much other that reading the BOM..
Also the B family is SO AMAZING. I love them so much. The parents are about to start taking a temple prep class and the kids are learning so much and gaining wonderful testimonies. I love that family so much, it's ridiculous. I just can't wait for them to make it to the temple(: They are so amazing. The gospel can really change people and turn their lives around. They are all so much happier and they even get along with each other more, just their whole countenances have changed. It's amazing.
This gospel is incredible! it can bless lives so much. I have seen so much this week how much we all need the gospel! Look at the people I have met that aren't living the gospel! Their lives are going so downhill and they are just in really bad places.. but with the gospel you can change and grow and learn and have so many blessings. I am so thankful for this gospel!! I love you all tons and hope you have a great week(:
Korean Book of Mormon
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