GOOD MORNING AMERICA
Okay, so it´s probably not even morning anymore cause we got on so late................
We had to travel practically half way around the world and
back to go to my companion´s dentist appointment this morning, and then
got a little distracted in the journey..... so we didnt get back to our
area till now. yep. sorry about that. But before you get too upset, feel
a little of my pain in spending about 3 hours of pday standing on
crowded buses, butt to butt with dirty strangers just to go to a dentist
appointment. YEP. suuuuuper fun huh?
thanks for your emails...........
WOW. Holy MILAGRES this week!
Might not have had as many miracles here this week as I wanted, but you guys sure are having miracles at home!
Yep. Miracles are real.
Well.
since
we got here super late, and I spent almost all my time reading my
emails from you guys............... dont have much time left now!!!
SORRY.
This week, in a nutshell, was......................... a disaster.
basically everything that we planned our got all excited for fell through....
Play day at the park last pday??? didnt happen
Members that signed up to leave and work with us??? also didnt happen
Taking
Kesia and family to the temple??? Didnt happen.... and we didnt even
get to see them this weekend cause they were so busy....... ahhhhg.
SO, we tried out a lot of new ideas to try to find new
people to teach.... Using the area book a lot more to find names of
people that other missionaries taught or talked to, using the ward list
to find less active members to visit, teaching about the restoration to
members to try to help them to HELP US more...... And in the end, we had
a little success.... But it was a frustrating week. We found a few
people that have pontential, got let in to teach in a few houses, and
learned a lot..... hopefully it´ll help us to get somewhere in our work.
ha.
As of right now, still feeling like we have NO IDEA what we are
doing, and trying to figure out what we are doing wrong, and what we
need to change..... i´m pretty much out of ideas right now....
Highlight from the week-- we visited a lot of recent
converts and less actives this week and THREE of the people we have been
working with for a while came back to church this sunday. That would be
our first little miracle. Now i just hope we can help them to keep
coming strong.
Secondly- We found an AWESOME girl in our area book named Thamires.
She is fifteen and lives on our street (which also happens to be the
street the chapel is on! wooo!) We taught her the first lesson and it
was SO GOOD. she understood everything really well and accepted
everything really well. After I told about Joseph Smith and said the
first vision, she got goose bumps. YEP. The spirit was there helping out
for sure. We marked a baptismal date and everything, and she was
really excited to start preparing to be baptized. Only problem--- she
didnt wake up to come to church like she said she would, and some of the
people in her family dont like us very much and tried to make her give
back the book of mormon we gave her. We were standing at the gate while
her aunt was handing her the book of mormon and telling her to give it
back to us and "resolve her problem". LUCKILY, this girl is pretty
strong so far, and didnt say anything about it to us, and we marked
another day to come back and teach her. YEAH. Take that aunt that hates
us!!!
THIRDLY, we are gonna have a family night with a bunch of the less
actives and recent converts that we´ve been working with at our AWESOME
stake president´s house. He is SOO cool, you all have no idea..........
I´m hoping this family night business will become a weekly deal, and I
am soooo happy about it. It really will help so much, cause our poor
ward is practically dying right now..... I hope that this will give back
some life and help everyone to get to know one another, and work
together and help eachother more.
Well.
Definitely gotta leave now
I love you all so much!!!!
Hope you all have the best week!!
and hopefully next week I´ll have some better news for you all!
LOVE
sister ward
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