Greetings Mi Familia! (Lacey, did I write that right?) Hmmm!
That was a pretty dang big letter that I sent off this week! I hope that you all got a kick out of my
little random tangents and venting and other weird, awkward missionary thoughts… Today was fun. We stayed at the church the whole time. We e-mailed, hung out with the other
missionaries in our zone who came over to our church, played board games and
just relaxed. We got a gift card to
Chick-fil-A from one of the ladies in our ward so Sis. Carrigan and I went to
go get lunch. We told the Elders where
we were going and suddenly we had about 5 extra orders. When we got to Chick-fil-A we looked like
pigs because we had 5 bags, 2 drink carriers and just the 2 of us. At about 5 o’clock we needed to run to the
store for groceries… Momma! Guess what I found! Stroop waffles!! Oh! I
was so excited! I indulged, I
confess. But man. Oh, so very worth it!
After P-day we were going over to the Henderson’s for
dinner.
August 27, 2013
Today was pretty dang near perfect! We had district meeting today. That went really well! I had to do a 15 minute lesson on hope… That did not go so well.. But!
It is over and done with and I won’t have to worry about that again for
a while… I think. It really wasn’t terrible but for some reason
the subject of hope was difficult for me.
I studied and studied but I just don’t feel like I taught it that well. Anyways, that is done and over and I don’t
have to worry about it anymore.
After district meeting we went out to lunch at a place
called Stevie B’s. It’s basically a
pizza/salad buffet. I ate a lot of
salad. I wasn’t feeling too great. We found out I had a fever. But I didn’t care! We were going out tracting today! I wasn’t going to let a stupid fever stop me!
We had called Moses yesterday and asked if we could come
over. He said he would let us know… He texted us this morning and said we could
come at 2. That was awesome! But since he is only 21 we had to find
someone to come with us. Bro. Wernli had
been talking to Moses a lot at church so we texted him and said we knew it was
short notice but could he possibly come?
Thank heavens for miracles! He
said he could come from 2:15 to 3. We
went and taught him the restoration and the history of the Book of Mormon. He accepted everything really well and even
related to Joseph Smith. That was my
first official lesson! Whoot! We are trying to set up another appointment
with him for this week. We will
see. He said he would read the Book of
Mormon and we are so hoping he does.
After Moses we went tracting for a while. It went fine.
We found a few possible investigators…
We shall see.
We tracted until 5 and we were heading to dinner with the
Holgados (they were the ones we missed dinner with because of our stupid
car). We saw the Spanish-speaking Elders
walking and so of course, Sis. Carrigan pulled over and asked if they wanted a
ride. I guess they ran out of miles and
so they had to walk. I didn’t mind
giving them a ride too much. They had
been walking for 6 miles and still had about 6 to go to get to dinner. The only problem is that we ended up late for
dinner. I hate being late! It gives me a yucky sick feeling. And we had already missed dinner once with
them. We got there 15 minutes late. The Holgados are super cute! They have 2 sons with disabilities. Bro. Holgado is from Spain and they are both
converts. They are so cute!
After dinner we decided to stop by and try to
see Cherese. When we drove by her house
there were a bunch of boys with no shirts.
We just kept driving. We figured
it was her little brother and we would just try later. So we tracted. We started walking down this side road but it
was getting dark… it was about 8:30. We
turned around to come back when a car pulled onto the lane. We talked to the lady, it was a 2500 foot
driveway! Crazy!
We stopped at Cherese’s house on our way home. Her brother Colt answered. He was so sweet! He said Cherese talks about us a lot. YES!
He also said she would be home all day tomorrow. So we will try then.
August 28, 2013
I have never been this tired in my whole entire life. Bed time is blissful happiness. Last night I was having the hardest time
sleeping even though I was so tired! And
then when I did start to fall asleep I suddenly got a charlie horse in my
calf. Ow! One of Pres. Wolfert’s favorite things to say
when a missionary tells him he/she is tired is “You can sleep when you go back
home!” Guess I’m not sleeping for a
while!
Ok now about my day. Oh wait, back up! I forgot to tell you something from
yesterday… We were tracting on a road
kind of like East River Road where it is pretty busy and the houses are spaced
out. A group of bikers (not motorcycles
but real bikers) rode past us and we got whistled at. It made us laugh. Ok!
Now, so we tried to go back to a lady’s house who had answered the door
yesterday and said to come back at 10 today.
She wasn’t home. Our appointment
with Sis. Hefton got cancelled.
Again. She has been pretty less
active and about 2 weeks ago she came to church and asked us if we would give
her the lessons. We said sure and have
set up 3 appointments to go see her. She
has cancelled every time! Well Adrienne
called us right after Sis. Hefton (Adrienne is a recent convert.. She is something else. Oh Ya!
I told you about her. She is the
one who calls me potato baby.) Anyways,
she asked us if we would come visit.
Last week she had strep and I guess now she is getting over pink
eye. She promised us we wouldn’t get
anything though cause she isn’t contagious anymore. She better not be! I don’t want strep or pink eye! We went and saw her. Basically she told us her childhood. It was…well ummm she had a pretty sketchy
childhood and she did a lot of not so great stuff… Yay for the repentance process! She is a sweetie!
After we went and heard a whole lota things we didn’t need
to hear we went tracting. Not many
people were home. We did run into a guy
who talked to us for quite a while. He
was very much not interested though!
There are a few JW’s in his neighborhood so he has learned to twist
words. He wasn’t mean and he did take a
B of M but that seed isn’t going to be growing quickly anytime soon I think…We finished tracting that neighborhood and went to another
one we had picked out.
We pulled over and had just finished praying when a tree across the street and
about 50 feet ahead of us just fell down!
A biker was just riding by us and looked over to us with the expression
on his face like, "Tell me you just saw that!" We were pretty surprised and very glad no one had been there on the road
when it fell. We knocked on a few houses
and no one answered. One house a lady
answered the door and talked with us.
She was really cute! She gave us
some water bottles too. It was so nice! After her house the Elders called us. They had somehow gotten to Cummings
because E. Baker had to give a baptismal interview but didn’t have a ride back. We had a referral we were supposed
to go see but we went and got them instead and were late for our referral. After
getting the Elders we went to go visit Loyce, our referral. She answered the door with a towel on, a
shower cap, and a toothbrush in her mouth.
She let us in and talked to us.
It was so funny! Her towel kept
slipping waaay down. As a CAN I have
seen worse. Mostly it was just really
funny! She was way sweet and totally
willing to listen to us.
We went to the Ketchums for dinner. They are definitely one of my favorite family in the
ward. Sister Ketchum is Phillipino and
she is the sweetest thing ever. Brother
Ketchum is awesome! He is half Japanese
and one of the nicest guys on the face of the planet. We had a fun time with them. All I have heard since I got here is how
amazing Bro. Ketchum’s sushi is. Sadly
no sushu tonight but he did say next time… Yay!
Elder Baker wrote you guys.
I have no idea what he said but I hope it’s all nice! I didn’t even know he was going to do
that. He wrote Sis. Carrigan’s family
too. He said he didn’t really know how
to say things in her letter cause he doesn’t really know their
relationship. I said, “What about my
mom?” He said, “I figure you are exactly
the same as your mom.” Bingo! I talk about you guys a lot. Sis. Carrigan doesn’t talk about her family
that much.
After dinner we dropped the Elders off at their
appointment. On our way there Sis
Carrigan ran into a bird. I was in the
passenger seat looking down and suddenly she starts screaming. Loud!
I thought we were getting hit by a car.
So then I start screaming and looked up.
I see a ball of feathers slam into our windshield and fall to the
driver’s side. I started laughing when I
figured out we weren’t being hit. It was
funny. We drove all the way to the
Elder’s appointment with a bird on our car because Sis Carrigan didn’t want to
touch it and she didn’t want anyone else to touch it. We finally got it off! Thank goodness! After that we were supposed to go talk to
Sis. Rhode’s niece Stephanie. She isn’t
a member so we were just going to teach her the first discussion. We started talking and the Spirit was really
strong. All of us sudden she just starts
making jokes and making fun of us. She
was being really rude. Basically she
could feel the Spirit but she felt uncomfortable with it and so she was trying
to drive it away. It was so frustrating.
August 29, 2013
This morning we went and saw Richard. He is the one who believes in the Book of
Mormon but thinks he doesn’t need to become a Mormon. He is a sweetheart but a very confused
sweetheart. He reads everything and
believes it. Some wacko wrote a book called
The Secret Teachings of Jesus and it
has lost parts of the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Peter. Richard believes it. He is a handful! Cute, but a handful nonetheless. He has had like 4 sets of missionaries knock
on his door. We are the first who he has
ever let in. He doesn’t have any teeth
and can’t afford dentures. He is VERY self-conscious
about it. It is really very sad.
After Richard came Bro. Hiers set appointment. After Bro. Hiers we went tracting. We went to a house and no one answered. We were walking back down the driveway and a
lady pulled in. When she opened the door
I started talking to her. She shook her
head and signed “I’m deaf” Ha! Sweet!
So I started signing to her. She
was so not expecting that! Sadly she said
no. Dang it! It was fun to sign to someone for a little
bit! I miss that…
We had dinner with the Rodriguez family tonight. It is supposed to be our last time eating at the same house with the
Elders. Our ward isn’t very happy about
that new rule. I don’t think that some
families will be willing to help us keep that rule. I guess we will see when we get the dinner
calendar on Sunday… They are a fun family.
August 30, 2013
Ahhh weekly planning and comp inventory. Even when you love your companion and things are going pretty good I think comp inventory is a blessing. I guess this week we have both had our patience tried. To be honest I don’t think either one of us
has been very good at being patient. We
are just going to both have to work at it I suppose.
We went to dinner at the Smith’s tonight. They have 3 little boys that are all over the
place! They were way cute though. After dinner we went to see Moses. We met his mom. She was really nice and we talked for a little
bit. We read chapter 2 with Moses cause
he hasn’t been reading. He told us that
2 people stopped by and gave him some pamphlets. He showed them to us… JW’s. He is checking out a lot of churches right
now. He is a lot like Joseph Smith. We are just praying that he sees the
difference of ours! He isn’t coming to
church this Sunday. He got his car back
and is going to his church. Well, we can
only pray that he listens to the Spirit on this one! Besides visiting him and encouraging and
inviting him there isn’t much else we can do.
August 31, 2013
Oh boy. Today did not
go as planned. Dang it! We had some really awesome plans. So we had to finish weekly planning a little
and do some 12 week. That meant that we
weren’t going to leave the house as early as we would like. We had a list of people we were planning on
seeing and a lot of tracting to do. We
have been trying super-hard this week to get our 70 contacts. We had 22 contacts to go to reach our
goal. But we had it. We knew what we needed to do and where to
go! But, so sad, too bad. That was not in store for us today. We got a call from Ben, Loyce’s husband. The cute Jamaican lady who’s towel kept
falling down. They were planning on
moving today and could we help? Well, we
are nice! We said yes. They didn’t have a truck yet and he was on
his way to get it. THEN we got a call
from Bro. Hiers and Bro. Nevin. They
wanted us over for waffles. Again. Today. We told them we could but only for a little bit. We grabbed the Elders and headed over to
Loyce and Ben’s. Loyce didn’t know that
Ben had called us. They had no truck and
she had been waiting to call us to help with the big stuff. She was annoyed with Ben but so cute to
us! She kept telling the Elders how much
she loves us and how we were best friends.
We have met her only once. She
felt bad that we came over and they weren’t ready. She is SO cute! I can’t wait to start teaching her!
After we finished we only had like 15 minutes before dinner. We went to go check out some of the streets
we have been planning to tract. We have
also started judging mail boxes. I know,
it is weird but it keeps us entertained when we are tracting.
We had dinner at the Johns.
Their 13 year old daughter is an
even crazier reader than me and Lacey!
She read Les Miserables the unabridged version in 5 days!! Crazy!
After dinner Sis. Carrigan asked E. Baker for a
blessing. We went to the church and he
gave her one. It was good. I love the priesthood.
We finished off the night with tracting. People don’t like us tracting at night. It has been getting dark at 8:30 and will
continue to get dark earlier and earlier..
Dang it! We will have to start
figuring out new things.
September 1, 2013
Today, today was a fabulous day! So in the morning we went around to a bunch
of churches to talk to them about an emergency preparedness seminar going on
for Gwinette County. It is being held in
one of our churches but not by us. They
asked Pres. Wolfert if we could go around and talk to churches. They don’t like us coming into their churches
though. Almost every single pastor that
we talked to said they don’t need to do this cause their church has a
plan. But it’s not for the churches! It’s for the county! Ahh well.
I sent you a picture of the cult.
It was so funny!
Moses didn’t come today.
That was okay though. You know
how there are people that get up to bear their testimonies and you do a face
palm? That was Sunday. It was a little wild! It was pretty funny though and made me giggle.
Church was good. It
always is. After church we went
tracting. We were having so much
fun! In order to get our 70 contacts we
needed 25 people. We got so close! We ended up with 62. Darn it!
We will get it for sure next week.
Mom, to answer your tracting question…
We kind of just pick a street and tract.
If they don’t answer then they don’t answer. We probably should start keeping track… I like how you did it… After tracting we went to the Picketts for
dinner. It was so good! They had salmon and the way that it was
seasoned was SO good. I’m getting the
recipe from Sis. Pickett.
After dinner we went and saw Cherese. She hadn’t been home when Colt said she would
be but she was home this time! She is SO
ready! She asked us for a Book of Mormon
and is for sure coming to church next week!
Yah! Ah! She is awesome! Well, that was our day. I will keep you updated on Moses and Cherese
and Mary.
I love you all!
Love,
Molly
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