This week was amazing! But i had a hard time also. I have a pinched nerve in my shoulder which made my whole right arm swell up and my fingers. i couldnt do anything with it for three days. it just hung there. it was annoying and i was in so much pain. But i went to the chiropracter today and i am already feeling better!
Mon- we had a zone pday with two zones. it was boring. me and sister barton just wrote letters the whole time. and we got referrals for the elders that are in beaumont casue we just talked to everyone about the church while everyone else was doing ransom sport stuff. We got a referral from mormon.org and so we went and checked it out. we thought it was going to be a fake one cause it talked about 9 kids. but we had nothing to do so we went anyway. well it was a woman named michelle and she told us this story about how she ordered holy water on line from some preacher guy and after she sprikled it in her house bad stuff started happpening. her husband lost his job, her baby came premature and their car broke down. and they really do have 9 kids. so she said that she found our website and she prayed before she did anyting and she felt good about it so she requested missionaries and then we showed up. so we prayed and the oldest who is 13 wanted to go to yw.
tue- we met with michael and we taught him the law of chastity and he was really open with us about his past life. it was weird. sister trahan was weirded out. but we are used to him now. then we met with savannah and invited her to be baptized for the third time and this time she was more open to it she just had a bab experience last time she was baptized so she is worried. but she promised to pray specifically about being baptized. it was a really good lesson. then we had dinner with bihop and his family. theyare so awesome. then we met with brother boise. i love him so much. he is so cute. and he started coming back to church!
wed- we had zone conference so we were in orange texzas all day. it was a really good meeting. our pres talked about how we are the swift messengers; hunters and fishers that is talkes about in the scriptures. we are the generation of missionaries that the prophets saw years and years ago. it is so awesome to think about how the prophets looked trhu time to our generation and saw all of us 19 year old girls serving missions and being those swift messengers that the lord has sent. it really made me want to work harder and be even swifter and to really share the gospel with EVERYONE!!!! This was the day that my whole arm went numb and my fingers looked like sausages, not fingers. it was weird. we went to yw with keisha, the 13 year old. she loved it. when we were leaving she asked us what she needed to do to join the church. and she decided to go on a campout friday and satruday withthe yw. it was awesome!
thu- we met with michelle and we taught her a L1 and we committed her to baptism! she told us how after we left monday that the evil spirit was gone from her house and it was calm and peaceful. she knew that we were sent from the lord, so she knew that whatever we were teaching must be from the lord also. she said that us coming was a Blessin' (black lady voice) we taught michael and he is ready to be baptized this weekend! its so exciting! we had dinner with the beveridges and did our hour of power with them. we got one return appt from it and two potential gators and placed one Bom. it was very successful. we also passed out a ton of pass along cards to some little kids. they were cute.
fri- we met with michael again and he started crying when he talked about his grandma being in heaven and how he wants to get back there with her. it was a side of him we had never seen before. it was good. we were supposed to meet with savannah again but she cancled and was crying, so we are thinking that her mom is not ok with her joining the church. so thats too bad. we will have to pray for her mom to soften her heart towards the church. we had dinner with a family and when we were giving the lesson their little girl smacked the mom in the face with a can of play-doh and the mom was so embarressed and upset that she basically kicked us out of the house. it was funny. we couldnt stop laughing once we got int the car and the whole night. sister barton had to cut up my meat for me casue i sitll had no use of my right arm. i feel ike a baby! haha
sat- my are was killing me and all of our appts cancled on us so we went home so i could ice my shoulder casue sister crawford told me that i needed to. so we called a bunch of ppl and tried to set up appts but noone would answer. sot hat was rude. we had dinner with a family and then we went to a baptism. the elders in sulphur had their first baptism. his name is gage and he is 18. he reminds me alot of channing. that is what he looks like. he is really sweet. sister barton and i sang i believe in christ at it. it was scary but it was good. it made him cry.
sun- we got up extra early and got ready for out meeting and then made breakfast for michelle and her family to help them get to church. after our meeting we went over to thier house and everyone was ready. they were all so cute in their little church clothes! we had the elders go get gail for us casue we were gone. so when michelle and her family were coming to church they got lost. our church is on sale lane but there is a sale road. so they were on sale road and they got to sacrament when there was 10 minutes left. i had to say the closing prayer. it was scary. then they were going to leave after being there for 10 minutes but we got them to stay for about 15 and then they went and got all the kids and left. they said that there kids werent ready for that, they dont know anyone and it was scary for them. so it was sad casue they left but atleast they came! Michael was jealous that we were not giving him our full attention and gail was so mad that we didnt get him or take him home that he wouldnt even look at us. just siad ok i see how it is. your tired of me. so everyone just wants our attention and we cant give it to everyone. there is not enough of us to go around. we went and taught some LA and that went good. it was a good sunday.
we had 7 gators at sacrament mtg we have 5 progressing gators and we got 5 new gators this week! we are so blessed to have all of these pelple to teach. i cant even tell you how many miracles we see every single day! the lord is really hastening his work and the pelple are coming to us. I am so lucky to be a missionary right now and even tho i miss you all so much there is no where else i would rather be there right here in lake chuck on my mission serving these beautiful people! I am so blessed and I love being a missionary! i hope youall have a good week and that you are working on the challenge that i gave you! love y'all so much! have a good week.
Love sister Hamilton
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