Miracles Everywhere

Hello fam-bam. well this week was really amazing and i wont be able to even describe to you how i feel or what exactly went on. But i will do my best. I serve an Awesome God, in the words of crazy Linda, But i agree, I do serve an Amazing and Awesome God.

Mon- Nothing too exciting. we went to this rec center with all the elders and played volleyball. it was really boring and the elders are so weird, but then we went to look for some LA's and we were not very successful. Noone was home.

Tue- we got up, exercised, did all of our studies and then I have been feeling so depressed and down on myself that i was making myself sick i guess so i was throwing up so i went back to bed for most of the day. We had a lesson with the Guillory's at 4 and it went really well. Sister Barton was scared cause that was our first time really teaching a kind of incestigator but she did really good, they fed us dinner and they wouldnt quit talking so we were there for 4 hours! it was so bad and we tried to leave but they literally wouldnt let us. but finally we got out and then we met the Moss bluff elders at the church and they gave me a blessing. it was really nice.

wed- i was still feeling mega depressed but i just got up and did stuff anyway. we had a meeting with a potential but she stood us up so then we went to see mama fruge. we taught her a L1 because we need to be better at teaching the LA we work with from PMG so that went well. then we went and saw Deborah but we can only talk for about 10 minutes with her cause she is not mentally there so we just read from the BOM with her. Then we went to the library cause we had to take this survey thingie about how we use PMG cause we have a area 70 coming soon and he wants to know stuff i guess. then we went to Sulphur to have dinner with a part member family. sister Duplantis. she is so funny. Then we went to Leslee's house and we had dinner with them too and we had a good visit with them. She is so awesome. I am going to miss her so much! \

thur- was out temple day! i was so happy, i really needed that. we left at 7 and didnt get back till 6;30pm but the houston temple is so pretty! i wishi could go there more cause i really miss the spirit and the peace that i feel when i go to the temple. i loved it so much. When we got home i was throwing up again so we missed doing hour of power cause we didnt get home till 6;30 and then i was throwing up. But we had a dinner with the reynolds that we had to go to so we went and i just didnt eat anything. sister reynolds was pretty upset but i didnt want to barf all over her white carpet.

fri-we were in the middle of our studies and we got a text from sister Guillory and she said that she gave a BOM to her neice and she seemed really interested and would be open to us coming over. so she gave us her number and we called her and she was so excited for us to come she was screaming on the phone. sister barton thought she was on something cause she was all like noone is ever that happy to have us come over. haha it was nice for a change. so after district meeting and everything we went over to savannah's cause she wanted us to come over ASAP so we went and did a purpose lesson and then just went right into L1. she was so receptive to everything that we were teaching and me and sister Barton taught so well togher! everything flowed and the spirit was so strong it was amazing! savannah was so into it she wanted us to come back ASAP and keep teaching her so we made an appt for the next day. we had dinner with a family in the ward and then we went and checked on some referrals that we got. One of them was a family from Nepal and they all live together in the same house. There is a maw-maw and papa, mom and dad, and a son and his wife and their daughter. the son is a member but hasnt been to church for 18 years so we went to go visit and he wanted a BOM cause he didnt have one and we are gonig to go back and hopefully start teaching at least his wife but hopefully the whole family! then we went out to the middle of nowhere at the very edge of our area to find this other referral but it was 8 and he was in bed. so we left a note. then we looked EVERYWHERE for this other referral but it must be a bogus address cause we couldnt find it. Sadly that happens alot. we will get referrals from ppl who think it is a joke to make the missionaries go on wild goose chases or send them to there friends who have no idea who we are. its so dumb.

sat- we met with savannah in the morning and taught L2 and she really liked it. and she had read the whole L1 pamphlet and filled out all the questions in the back! she really did some studying and she said that she was talking to God that moringing about how noone should add or take away from the Bible casue we have the BOM but she said that when they were talking that God said it was good so she is going to keep reading the BOM. Oh and i forgot to mention that she is legally blind and can hardly see but she can see enough to barley read so she is reading! I love her already she is so amazing and she was definatley prepared for the gospel. i wish yall could be there to hear the things that she says. she is so spiritual and she has a deep and personal relationship with God and I wish that i could be more like that. It blows my mind. We have to use some of These bullet points in the how to begin teaching section of PMG so i said this one that talks about how as you come to accept the message of the gospel you will face challenges but God will hlep you and when i said that she says, well obviously, cause when you are doing what God wants you to do and what you are supposed to do, Satan works harder. WOW. Blew my mind. she is so ready for the gospel i cant even believe it. So our lessen was awesome with her. then we had lunch with the Conners and Sister Conners is doing better she just has to wear a heart monitor shocky thingie incase her heart does something and it will shock it. so we taught then a L1 also and it was good. they relaly needed it. and it was good to remind them of things. brother conner even said that he needed that cause it helped remind him of things that he forgot since he joined 10 years ago. then we went to Leslee's to say goodbye. it was really sad. i love her so much. But she will be happy with her mom in utah so its a good thing. Then we went to Crazy Linda's again and she was having a really hard time. I dont know exactly how much she is really interested in the Gospel again or just the help that the sisters give her. cause we did all her dishes and went thru a bunch of papers cause she was just too depressed to do it. but then she committed to coming to church and she siad this awesome prayer asking for strength to join the right church no matter what she has to sacrifice. so we were all excited. then we went and met with Kizza. she is having a really hard time and she is almost at rock bottom. we had a good talk and she actually listed intently to what i had to say. i was led by the spirit so much i didnt even know what i was saying. we made some goals with her and she is going to start praying for her to not be so stubborn, cause she was praying for an answer and she got that and knows what she needs to do she is just too stubborn to do it, so she is going to pray to be humble and lose her pride. she is awesome. she had me read her Patriarcle blessing and it made me cry! Heavenly Father has so many blessings he wants to give her she just needs to be worth to receive them! I love her so much. She is the sassiest black lady i have ever met but we are good friends and we understand each other. Sister barton was scared of her. haha she takes some getting used to for sure. Linda called us at 10 and backed out on church. i was so sad. We called one of our referrals cause we didnt get his apt number in the referral so we called him and he was all excited for us to come over and he was actually a reaferral that came along time ago when sister e and sister Cheney were in lake charles but he said he wasnt ready so he turned them away. But now he is ready and excited for us to come over!

sun-Correlation mtg was good, we went and fetched gail from the nursing home again and it was raining. so we pushed him in the rain. it was funny. Savannah came to church! she was as happy and perky as ever and she loved church! it was really good. she is excited for us to come back on tuesday. after RS a girl in the ward who just got back from BYU and is thinking about going on a mission asked if she could come out with us sometime. uhhhh yeah!!!! we are always looking for ppl to come out with us and we can never get anyone to come! i was so happy! we had lunch with a family in the ward and then we came home and did our studies and i thought my head was going to explode. But i drowned myself in deep blue and i felt better after awhile. We were supposed to have susans new member lessons but she just got back from disney world and was really tired so she fell asleep, but we were already over at the morris's so we just stayed there and they made us treats and we talked about how we can better help the ward in being friendly and to fellowship the LA members and the new converts. cause i feel bad bringing ppl to church and noone talks to them. that is why we have so many LA members. its really sad. our referral that we left a note for called us and he is basically ready to get baptized. he talked to us forever and was telling us how he is so sick of all the other churchs and he almost moved to utah cause he wanted to be with mormons but his mom is really sick so he came home to Louisiana. We are teaching him wednesday! i am excited.

 

Today we are going to play barber shop cause all 6 elders in my district plus sister Barton want a hair cut. haha and i have to make cookies cause its one of the elders Bday today. so that should be fun. Ok so sister Barton, she is 19, we got our calls on the same day but she didnt go to the MTC till april 3rd. she is a month older then me. she is from Manti and she is super skinny and is a dancer. she was on drill team and what not in highschool. she is a cute girl. we get along really well. She is awesome and we have a good realationship. she calls me mom and sometimes i call her a baby, but we have fun. she was really quiet at first and i had to drag stuff out of her to get to know her but now we are good and we have burping contests. haha. we talk to each other in weird accents and pretend to get in fights when we are around the elders. our elders are so weird. but its whatevs. our DL is in his 6 months to sexy so all he eats is a banana for Bfast two cans of tuna and an apple for luch and then whatever the members feed him for dinner. he runs three miles every morning and his companion rides his bike next to him while he runs. haha they are so weird. Me and my DL get in sass fights sometimes casue he is really sassy, but he is good. I dont know whatelse to really tell you. I am feeling alot better. I am trying to not be depressed, it is my own fault. When i was with sister E we were not very obedient at all. She was not motivated and i didnt know what to do so it made me not motivated. But sister Barton and i are kicking our butts into shape and we are striving to be EXACTLY obedient.and most days we are. I cant even tell you how blessed we have been because of this. Just read my email and notice all the miracles we saw this week and all the new ppl that we have to teach and even somone who wants to come out with us! Obedience brings blessings, i know that for a fact! We also placed 6 Boms this week which was good. I am going to keep working harder and harder to be obedient to prove to the lord that i want to be here and that he can trust me with his children to teach. i love you all so much! youare the best family ever and i am so lucky and blessed to have you! have a good week! love Yall!