Well This week has probably been one of the longest weeks yet! sister barton and i cant figure it out, why is dragged on so much. it started out really bad and we were so depressed, but we worked hard and pushed thru it and it ended up being a pretty good week. lots of tracting and knocking in the heat but its good for us.
mon- we went and taught Gloria and Rose came with us. Gloria's son Roger sat in on the lesson too. It went really well and they were very open with there comments and they were really into the lesson. it was awesome! and the spirit was tehre so strong! i think that was the best lesson we have ever taught. i t was awesome!
tue- we had an appointment with michelle and we also needed keishas permission slip signed becasue they were leaving for girls camp that day. so we went over and noone was home and when we called michelle one of her kids answered the phone and said that her mom was busy but she wanted us to call this number so we called it and it was the dad and he just started yelling at us and told us not to come over ever again and to quit calling. and that they had heard horrible things about the church and they didnt want to be a part of it. and that keisha would not be going to camp. then he hung up. so that was heart shattering! michelle was doing so good! she was excited to be baptized and sister trahan bought keisha everything she needed for camp! it was so sad. so we called sister clifford and told her. and then she called basically the whole ward so we had millions of ppl calling us and asking what was going on. it was so sad. Then we did some tracting and we helped rose move for awhile and then we had dinner with crystal and then dinner with the trahans and then michales new member lessons with susan and the morris'. it was a crazy time! but michael has really good comments sometimes. he told us about our family and why they dropped us. he is really smart sometimes. haha
wed- we finally got ahold of savannah after a couple of weeks and her major freak out. she said we could come over so we went and we were over there for almost three hours! she just kept going on and on about the randomest things. she is trying to find problems in the BOM everywhere! i think its becasue she knows its true but she isnt ready to take that step and make the changes in her life necessary and she doesnt like the way we worship so she is trying to convince herself that it is not true. which is so hard because everytime we teach her she is in tears so you know that she is feeling the spirit but if she choosed to deny it there is nothing we can do. then we went to visit deborah and we met with our homeless man at the library and taught him. he said the only way he would join the church is if God gave him a new set of teeth, cause he is kinda athiest at the moment. so that was interesting. then we did more tracting and then we had dinner withthe morris' they are alot of fun. and they help us out aton.
thu- we had lunch with sister stott. she is so funny! she was telling us to put deodorant all over our bodies and on our faces. it was pretty funny. its been so hot here lately that you just sweat no matter what so there is really no point. everyone just stinks. then we had to go have our car checked out cause a bunch of lights were on and that took awhile then we went and taught Bonnie and she said she would never change from being catholic but she will. she just doesnt know it yet. then we did our hour of power and then more tracting. it was a tracty tract day.
fri- we had district meeting and when we were at lunch Gail called and left a message and told us not to send anyone to pick him up cause he didnt want to go to church anymore and he would call us when he was ready. so all uf us went over tthere to see him and tellhim that he needs to keep coming to church. so he agreed as long as sister barton and i picked him up. he is so funny. poor little gail. he was so depressed cause he feels like we abandoned him and that we only cared about our gators and not him anyomore. then we went and helped rose move again and then we went and saw gloria cause she just got out of the hospital and Roger asked for a BOM and they are still interested in what we are teaching, but we didnt teach them cause we wanted a member withus and we didnt have time casue we had to meet the ZL at the church cause they came to blitz our area. so they went to try and find this referral that we got and we went to tract. so we talked to alot of ppl and got alot of potentials and we had a really good talk with this one guy and he said that we can come back and teach him andhis wife. so that was really cool. then we met back up with the ZL and they found a couple ppl too that said we could come back andthey found us a new gator. and we had an appt with her the next day.
sat- we went to visit a LA and we had a good talk with her, she siad she tries to come to church but she falls asleep. then we had our appt with our new gator but she wasnt there. so that was sad. then we went and helped susan. we cleaned her shower and i inhaled some nasty nast cleaner and my lungs have been on fire ever since. whenever i take a deep breath i cough aton. but it was so fun! cute little susan. she is so funny. she is the new ward chorister and she loves it! she has a really good voice so everyone can hear here and everyone was complimenting her to us last week. haha it was funny. then we had a dinner with a LA man and his catholic wife that we had never met before but they were super nice and they love the missionaries and used to feed them all the time. so we had a good time with them and we had a good talk about religion and such. they are very spiritual. then we went to check on some LA and noone was home so we did some tracting.
sun- we went and got Gail and it was crazy. i was pushing him and i started coughing so i let go with one of my hands and he vered to the right and crashed into the curb. haha it was sad but it was so funny! then sister barton took over and then she crashed him into the curb too. hahah then all the sudded there was this kitten in Gail's wheel and it was about to get crushed by this 500 pound man in his wheel chair! so i picked it up and tried to make it go away but it kept coming back so i must have liked gail, but he hates cats. I told him he needed to say hi to the kitty so he just waved and siad hi. he is so funny. i pushed him home and we had a good talk about the holy ghost. We visited the conners after church and they are doing better health wise but still notcoming to church. they need friends at church casue they dont have anyone to talk to so i think they are not very motivated to go. its really sad. then we had dinner with president newton and his family and that was good. then we went and taught gloria and Roger and finished L1 they are so awesome! they told us that they pray for us all the time and thank god for sending us to them. they are so cute. i love them. they are both really into what we are teaching them and they are oging to start praying about it. Then we went and took Cookies to Rod for fathers day and had a little chat with them. they are so cute. they are my lake charles family. I love them. Oh yeah i forgot to tell you that we are having elder Golded from the 70 speak to us tomorrow that will be cool! and i am going on exchanges with sister erickson, so that will be really interesting. wish me luck! haha
This was a hard week with our gators dropping us. we are not teaching anyone that we were teaching last transfer. we have had to start over from the beginning. we had the most success tracting this week so that was good. hopefully we can get some new gators out of all the potentials. i know that the lord prepares those who are ready, and i guess that those we were teaching were just not ready for the gospel yet. but we did alot fo prep work for the missionaries who will come after. The work is hard and sometimes i want to give up and cry cause it seems like everyone doesnt want anything to do with us, but i know that it is all part of the work and when we get to have a good day and teach a lesson it makes it all worth it. Gloria and Roger are keeping me going. And i am so thankful that we are able to be teaching them. I hope you all had a good week and that lacrosse is going good. Love you all so much! have a good week :)
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