Dearest famila! well to start off i just have to tell you a little story. last night as i was getting ready for bed i was looking in the mirror at my regrowth and planning a time when i can color my hair and I FOUND A WHITE HAIR GROWING OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!! :,'( I started crying. it was really sad. i am too young to have white hair. i pulled it out and taped it in my journal.but it was pretty. so i guess i am going to have white hair. i must really be an indian. sweet. but anyway yeah that was interesting. but enough of that.
So this week was kinda poopy. i had the flu friday night and saturday. it was yucky. i was throwing up all night friday and then saturday i didnt eat anything all day so i was fine but i still didnt feel very well. but we had lots to do on saturday so i just dealt with it. but saturdaywas our ward halloween party and it was crazy. we had one of our new investigators D come. she is a funny black lady with no teeth and a grey fro. but she is so sweet and cracks me up. so she came and she was just having a good time eating food.; well she would get up and leave and then come back and later we found out that during those times she was going around asking the members for money!!! ahhhh. not good. but it was kinda funny. then she told the member that took her home that she didnt have any lightbulbs in her house that someone stole them so we had to take her a lightbulb. but when we got there with the lightbulb she had every light in the house on and was watching tv. she is crazy. so we are going to try and teach her and she if she is actually interested in learing about the gospel or if she just wants stuff. so that should be fun. but she lives in a really bad part of town and our members told us not to go back there. but that is our whole area. hahah we found D on tuesday when i was on exchanges with HMNA arcila. we were driving down her street trying to contact a referral and she was out in the middle of the road cause a huge 18 wheeler had tore down the power lines to her house and he just drove away. so she asked us to go chase him down and get his licence # so she could call the police. so we did and then when we went back to give it to her we taught her and she was interested. But now we are wondering how interesed she really is. haha
S and L basically dropped us on wednesday. but we are not going to let them get off that easy. they are just scared of change and they are comfortable where they are. story of my life with missionary work. everyone is comfortable where they are (so they think) and they dont want to change. even when they feel the spirit. its so hard cause we can only do so much and the rest is up to them.
A member asked me the other night at dinner what has been the hardest part of my mission. a million thoughts ran thru my mind, Leaving my famly, having to get up early every morning, having a tight schedule, having to be with someone 24/7, and so on. but the thing that stood out the most to me and that i thought really has been the hardest is watching my investigators feel the spirit, or taste of the fruit and then for some reason or another they reject it, or get scared and turn away. that has been the hardest thing for me on my mission. it is like 1nephi 8;28. they taste of the fruit but they are ashames becausae of what others are saying. and so they fall away. it breaks my heart to see that. i want everyone to be able to enjoy the blessing of the gospel!
We had a breakthru lesson with J yesterday. we talked about the spirit, the priesthood, prayer and how he feels about what we ahve taught. he said taht he believes and feels that everything is true and when we talked about baptism he said he is comfortable wehre he is ( imagine that!) but we talked about ahuthority and it finally clicked with him then he said that if only he would have known about the mormon church earlier he might have got baptized but he is just too sick now. but we talked about the lord providing a way and he is going to get a blessing and he told us that is like an iceberg and we are chipping away at him. haha so he knows that he needs to get baptized. he just likes to be stubborn.
P had a bed bug infestation so we didnt get to meet with her this last week but she calls us everyday and wants to pray with us over the phone. so we might have bed bugs now. yikes. but we aired out our mattresses and cleaned really good today so hopefully we wont get them. i was paranoid all night long that we had bedbugs! ahha if we do that will be just another story to add to the collection!
The YSA is having a big halloween party so we decided to take around fliers to all the LA members and try and get them to come out. then we gave alot of the members fliers and challenged them to give them to their non member friends and try and get ppl to come to the party so hopefully that goes well!!
Well i love yall so much! i am glad that you are having fun in florida. im not even jealous one bit. i wouldnt want to be anywhere else then right here in beaumont Texas sharing the Gospel with crazy people in the Ghetto! I love this work so much and i am so happy! Have a good week! love yall!
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