This week we have had so many opportunities for ourselves to "aprender y mejorar" (learn and improve). However, we have also had so many opportunities to help others on their path as well! No insanely crazy stories this week, I'm running out of things to lose or break ;) BUT! Stay tuned because there's some good spiritual insights coming your way.
Monday: Today we had dinner with the Sprague family! They are an older couple and they LOVE the missionaries. We had lasagna and they gave me some clips for my hair how sweet is that. I love how giving people are here, even when you know it was hard for them to afford that. After that we had an AWESOME lesson with the Bley kids and put them on date for the 16th! Two of the we shall see if they want to get baptized for sure, but, Emily is so excited to get baptized and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Tuesday: Today was an action packed day! While we were contacting I had this impression that we needed to visit one of the people who we had been talking to on Facebook through our ad. It was a long drive and we were running low on miles, but we went. Shirlee answered the door and she needed us right then and there! We talked about prayer with her and she practically jumped out of her chair when we gave her the Book of Mormon. Aren't we glad we listened to that prompting?? After Shirlee we played some basketball with the youth, and then headed off to exchange number 1 for the week!
Wednesday: I GOT TO GO WITH SISTER LUSK!!! I miss that cutie, and I loved going back to my old area. But, the coolest part of that whole thing was seeing how fast she's grown just in these 4 weeks, it was a proud momma moment for sure. We got to go help Linda Ence with some service and I think I convinced her to paint me a mural with the Nauvoo temple and I'm kind of excited. But, the best part is that we got to teach her husband who isn't a member, and get him excited for their trip to the Pocatello Idaho temple open house later this month. We had dinner with the Ferris family and it was fabulous. I loved knocking doors and just catching up with my cute companion. After that I went straight to another exchange!
Thursday: Sister Black and I got to serve in the Portuguese branch today and it was a blast. I can kind of, get the gist of the message in Portuguese but not enough to get the entire conversation. Kind of exciting though! We ran around like chickens with our heads cut off but it was super fun. Sister Black was my STL a while ago so it was fun to see her again.
Friday: Today was such a good day! We had a meeting with Elder McKay of the 70 and the two area 70 in the other mission!!! We counseled together about ways to make the mission more successful. Elder McKay is one of the best speakers I have ever heard and I hope one day to speak with as much power and love as He does. We went straight from there to a lesson with the Bley kids! Sadly Evie and Jack aren't quite ready to be baptized, but Emily is getting baptized next Saturday! We had a great lesson about the plan of salvation and I am so glad we got to meet these cuties. After that we had dinner with the Bergin family and cute Wallace who loves quinoa! All in all a fabulous day full of motivation to do better and be better.
Saturday: Today was our first chill day in 1 million years. We got to go out knock doors, contact so many people and just be led by the spirit. It was amazing. Especially after our pep talk from Elder McKay. Sadly not a ton to report but we enjoyed doing the work. Also, spiritual thought time! 3 Nephi 18:21 is one of my new favorite scriptures because it talks about the blessings of praying always. Go give it a read, then act on the promptings you receive, I promise it'll be worth it. If you need a Book Of Mormon let me know ;)
Sunday: Today we had an awesome stake conference where we got to hear from our English, Spanish and Portuguese members of our stake. I loved how everyone was able to speak in their native tongue. I love hearing Spanish and the spirit was so strong in the meeting. The temple president and matron are amazing and made me want to go to the temple! Sadly none of our friends came but we had an amazing lesson with our woman Wanda!! She is seriously elect. We walked in and the first question she asked is how does she pay tithing because she knows there's big blessings she's missing out on!! Literally crazy. We didn't commit her to be baptized because she really wants to pray about it but next week.... hmmm. She loves God and is so excited about everything we learn. Basically a miracle.
Here are some amazing pictures from this week, ft. The afro duck from the park, hot chocolate when it got cold (don't worry only 70 degrees), smoothie bowls because we are obsessed (our punch card is almost full guys), me and Cali messing around with filters on her birthday, a rainy day in Henderson, Handel's ice cream and Sister Lusk!
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