What is up
everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful day and you all had an awesome
week! I know I did haha.
Monday was pretty chill. We didn't do anything to
crazy. We pretty much spent our day doing shopping and just relaxing. For
dinner a family from the ward took us to Cafe Rio which is always great!. After
dinner we had a lesson with Betsy! We taught her the last lesson, so she is
pretty much ready for her baptism. We are very excited! For that lesson we also
brought some priests along with us so they could help fellowship Betsy's 17
year old son who has been starting to come back to church with his mom. It went
really well.
Tuesday we
pretty much spent the whole day calling people and checking on less actives
since our meetings were canceled for the week due to the missionary broadcast
that we watched on Wednesday. It was a pretty long day.
Wednesday we
watched the world wide mission broadcast which was really well done. They
shared a lot of good things. It was a good reminder of the preach my gospel
basics. After the 2 hour broadcast we went to our weekly appointment with
Harold. He told us of a storm coming and he insisted that he buy us some
groceries. So we went to the grocery store next to his place and picked up some
food for the storm. Elder Bentley and I knew of the storm, but we hadn't known it
was going to be that big. After we were done with Harold's we went to dinner
with a family in the ward. Their names are the Padilla's and yes they are
related to Brent Padilla who use to be in AF 10th ward. Haha small world. When we got out of our dinner
appointment it had started to snow! It was awesome! that was the first snowfall
this season that actually stuck to the road. Anyway we had an appointment with
a referral that we had gotten a couple days before. Her name is Millie. We
knocked on her door and she welcomed us in very kindly. She let us sit down and
share a lesson with her. At the very beginning of the lesson she asked us to
make it quick because she had to make dinner for her kids. So we shared about
the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. Millie really enjoyed it. She loved our visit
and she just kept talking to us and asking different questions. The lesson
ended up being just over an hour long. She is very interested and we committed
her read and pray about the Book of Mormon. She accepted that with no problem.
We are very excited for her. When we got out of our appointment it was still
snowing. It took us an hour to get back to our home and usually it would only
take 30 minutes. You would have thought that there was a foot of snow on the
ground, but there was probably less then two inches. I was the one driving and
I was weaving through cars. The average posted speed was 45 mph. Most of these
cars were going 15 or less with their hazard lights. It was pretty funny. We also got a call out from President Cooke telling us a
little bit about the storm coming and how they put $20 on each of our cards and
how we need to go shopping because we would be stuck inside for a few days.
On Thursday we
went shopping, getting ready. The looting had already began. A lot of the fresh
produce was gone and the shelves started to look a little empty. After we had
finished shopping we went home and did some weekly planning. After weekly
planning we had dinner with a family in the ward. After dinner we went on
splits with the Young Men's President. That evening was awesome! We were able
to get in contact with one of the referrals and we set up an appointment with
him for the next day and we were also able to get a hold of Igor. We have been
trying to get a hold of him for the past month with no luck. We were giving him a call to see if we could come over
and teach him a lesson. While on the phone I was praying so hard that he would
answer the phone. My prayer was answered! Igor answered the phone and we were
able to teach him about the World of Wisdom! Part of the reason why it has been
so hard to get a hold of him is because he as moved a couple of blocks out of
our area. Elder Bentley and I are very sad about this. We loved teaching Igor.
He is such a good guy and he has so much potential. During the lesson we
started to talk about switching missionaries to him. Igor was also sad about
this. He told us a little bit about his back story and the feelings he was
having. He came from Brazil to America with nothing and with nobody he knew. We
knocked on his door just a couple of weeks after he had moved form Brazil to
America. He told us that when we called him to ask if we could come over, at
first he was a little hesitant, but as soon as he saw us, something inside him
told him that he could trust us and that we would be friends. He then told us
that we were his first family in the US and he wanted us to stay in contact
with him. It is going to be very hard not to be able to teach Igor all the way,
but we will for sure stay in contact with him. After we had finished with Igor,
the Young Men's President had to get gas for his care.He literally stopped at 3
different gas stations because they were all out off gas. People had been
lining up all day to fill up their cars and gas tanks. Needless to say we got
in pretty late because of that.
Friday we
quickly went to our appointment with the referral that we contacted the night
before. We then when shopping for a couple last minute things and then at 12 pm
we were locked into our apartment because of winter storm Jonas. We have been
locked in for almost 4 days now. We had to be a little creative to keep our elves from not going insane. But overall we have had a lot of fun. We spent
some time reading, we have been learning how to do some back flips on the ground. We
even got into a Dance off with some other missionaries in the mission. Haha it has been a great time. The total snow fall where
we are at is about 32 inches.
Thanks for the emails!
Keep them coming!
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Have an
awesome week!
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