Well this week was pretty rough. . . but i am not going to complain too much because everything happens for a reason and obviously there is something we need to be learning from this experience. I have had emotional overload this week and I cant even count the number of times that i have cried. Sometiems i am a baby but you just gotta get it out. it feels good to cry. But there are miracles in everyday, even if they werent finding 10 new investigators or teaching 6 member present lessons, they are miracles non the less. That helps me get thru to the next day, when i look back and find the good in the day. it makes it seem not as bad.
Mon- the elders are so dumb. they are obsessed with us going to watch them play sports on pday so we get nothing done, its annoying. so today we are not hanging out with them. But i made them do the kool-aid challenge that was pretty funny. I barfed so i lost but it was fun. then we went to meet these ppl that sister bartons aunt and uncle are best friends with casue they used to like in lake charles. so that was interesting. they arent really opent o the gospel but we are going to work on it. we had dinner with our favorite family in the ward casue they are moving! its really sad. but it was good.
tue- we are trying to contact all the LA in our area so we went to alot of houses and hardly anyone was home. we went to one guys house and talked to his wife who is a non member. they have 8 ppl living in the house and they are all from nepal, so there was indian music playing real loud up in there house, then she fed us this stuff she made, it was really interesting but she was super nice and she says she is going to talk to all the other ppl and get there permission to have us come back. Its her husbands mom, dad, grandma and grandpa and brother that live there with them. what a happy family. then we had dinner with maw maw jones my favorite person ever. what a cutie. she was telling us all about her missionary work she is doing and how it makes her sad when her friends dont want to come to church with her. andhow when someone hurts her she is going to hurt them back and tell them she wont go to their church! haha we gave her a BOM and challenged her to give it to someone that she prayed about and felt like she should give ti to them. She told us yesterday that she already gave ti to someone! she is so awesome. Then we went to visit rose and Gloria casue rose wasnt at church and we ended up mowing glorias lawn in our skirts oh and they live in the ghetto so we had lots of G's driving past or walking past laughing at us. hahah it was a good memory. lots of fun.
wed- we had a lesson with carl, i dont know if i told you about him or not but susan came with us. what a cutie. she loves coming out with us. we didnt get to say anything the whole time. we maybe said 5 words and he just talked about all this evidence that the BOM is true which is good but he needs to have a testimony of it not just know that it isnt a fake book. and he told us that we need to go find other ppl that need jesus, he already has jesus so he is good. it was frustrating cause we both felt so prompted to knock on his door. so we are still trying to figure out what we are supposed to do with him. Then we went to mama fruge and deborah and then did some tracting. nothing too eventful happened.
thu- We had a really good weekly planning and then we went to michelles house to try and meet with her but she wasnt home and we were all scared caseu we thought that she was just avoiding us. then we tried to go teach elizabeth but she wasnt home either so we tracted alot and it was raining so that was fun. i love the rain. we only found one girl who siad we could come back. so hopefully something will come of that. Then we did our HOP with Bro adams and bro ortiz they are the cutest best friends. Bro ortiz is amazing. he is here working and his family is back in mexico. he dosent know english very well but he is trying. he was telling us about how he has to pray to have the strength to go to church every week even tho he doesnt understand hardly anything that anyone is saying. it was really sad. but i am amzed by the strength of converts to the church. they go to churh all alone and they dont have any family to go with them but they go every week becaseu they know that this church is true and they know that they need the power of the spirit in thier lives everyday. We taught a lesson during HOP but the guy said that he isnt ready to slow down yet but when he is he would be interested in our church. but it was a good lesson.
fri- we had zone meeting and sister erickson is in my zone now. so that was awkward. i didnt know what to say to her and it was just weird. we went to see rose after and she is moving so we helped her pack a litle and then went to glorias but she was about to take a nap so we went to keithas andhad a good lesson with her. then we had dinner witha family inthe ward and then we went to kizzas and she told us not to come back. I was really hurt. I felt like i had such a good connection with her and that we really understood each other. I had put alot of time and effort and prayer into that relationship and then she was just rude and slammed the door in our faces. i was really hurt. It was a hard day. I broke down and just cried all night. i dont even know why. I have just been super frustrted lately and the only thing that would help is to cry. so i did. hahah
sat- we did some service for susan and dug out her living room so that she could actually use the couches and vaccumed the floor. i love susan she is so funny. then we taught a lesson to a referral that we got and hopefully we can keep teaching her. then we went to see crystal and then susan and her family took us out to dinner. then we went to find michelle and she was home and let us in and told us that she has been waiging for us to come back and that she missed us. so that was weird casue she would t answer our phone calls and wasnt home whenever we went over. so that was a relief and she still wants to be baptized she asked us about it.
sun- well sunday was "everyone bash the sisters day" it was rough. i hated it. so bad. in correlation mtg bro clifford started yelling at us cause i guess keisha is texting his wife non stop and is freaking her out. I was so mad. its not our fault. we only asked sister clifford to give keisha a ride twice and everything else that she has done was of her own free will. Keisha is the oldest of 9 kids and she is basically raising them. she gets no attention and she just needs somwone who loves and cares about her. Sister clifford went and bought her a ton of stuff with sister trahan and then would call her everyday and ask if she was still going to camp so she was the one who started it and then all the sudden its out fault? yeah i was so mad. and then he was all like my wife is not going to do anything for you ever again. im not going to let her. so then we had to find another ride for keisha and her sister to come to church. then elder yeates started making all these comments about how girls shoudlnt go on misisons casue its a mans job and that he would have done things so much better. i had to leave the room or i would have beaten him to a pulp. Then in ward council everyone was bashing on us too about the same thing. Ok we are sorry that our investigators like to call you and talk to you. that is totally our fault. let us just fight all your battles for you. then elder yeates went off again. and then when the meeting was over and we were leaving he turns around and is like i need a hair cut tomorrow so you need to be at the church. yeah right. i was so mad i just left. ahhhhhh i had steam coming out of my ears i was so mad. I think i have anger issues. Then we went and had lunch with sister matheson, she is so awesome. i love her. Then we found some LA and set up appts with them. so sthat was good.
Oh i forgot what day it was but it rained alot and we got stuck in some mud and we said a prayer and then we found this guy who helped us get out! it was a miracle. The biggest one of the week. Michelle and her family are hard to work with cause they dont want to come to church but they want to get baptized. But atleast we have them to work with. I am glad for the hard weeks casue then i appreciate the good ones even better. Michael rides his bike or walks 30 miles to church every sunday. what an amazing guy. If he is crazy i dont care because he is dedicated to the gospel and i dont know many ppl who would walk 30 miles in this weather to go to church. I am so grateful for the gospel and expecially the book of mormon. it is such an amazing book that i always took for granted. my testimony of it is growing more and more every day as i watch it help ppl change their lives and come closer to christ. I am so grateful for the gospel! i love being a missionary and even tho i am always sweaty i am learing to love it. I lvoe you all and i miss you so much! thanks for all the prayers. i love you! have a good week!
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