Hey ya guys!
Happy Birthday Bryson!!! :)
What a wonderful week we were able to have!
Did y'all watch Meet the Mormons??? cuz WE DID!!!!! IT was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Its starting to feel like fall! Well...kinda...its cold! I got to wear my boots again for the first time in awhile! :) I love this time of year!
Whats also fun is when awkward moments arise in missionary life! So get this. We were going to visit a potential this week and we drove up to their house and their vehicle wasn't there so we were like well shoot! But there was like no parking so we just drove in their parking spot to figure out where were going next. Well as I was looking at the GPS I notice in my rearview mirror that a car just drove up behind me. Don't worry, it was them!!! Can you saw awkward!??? Well. It gets better! Since its a mission rule that I cant back up with out someone backing me, dear Sister Bangs had to get out of the truck and back me up. In front of them! I was laughing sooooo hard!!! Sister Bangs got back to the truck and was like "I hate you!" Hahha we then awkwardly went and talked with them. Gotta love this life! :p
I feel like for all the meetings that went on this week, we had a pretty good one. We were able to teach lots of people, see more less actives that Sister Bangs hadn't met yet...overall a great week! We were able to finally get our apartment organized and looking like a clean apartment and now I can finally focus. It definitely makes a difference of how much better you can feel the Spirit in a clean apartment than when its messy. I started thinking of all the times back home that I wouldn't think much of a messy house...and now I cant stand it! Good thing right?! We were short on a couple things for our apartment that the mission office told us to ask the ward to help out on and they even announced it in sacrament meeting, one thing of which was a trash can. Everyone just started laughing. Wow! Who would've thought that we needed a trash can...
This week, Sister Bangs and I had a good comp inventory. It was nice to get some things figured out - its definitely inspired - and we set some goals on what we can do better with. I am reminded of something that Sister Sylar told me on exchange was that at this time I am here to be a healer. At first I didn't really think much of it but this week I felt that it was true...I hope I'm doing an okay job at it though! But after that, it has been a happier week! :)
Anyways, I feel like we focused more on the less actives this week and am just grateful for those that are really trying to put in the effort to get back to church but still struggling. One less active/part member family we went to for dinner on Sunday night had a whiteboard that said on it "Mormons are coming over tonight" ...I wonder how much that helped them prepare for us to get there haha! Day made right there! :p ohhh man! Funniest thing ever!
We also saw the Shelene this week, LA/PM, she fed us, and Dallas (her husband) was gone at work - he is the one that's FLDS. We started asking her what Dallas' concerns were and she just let it all out! He's in a way brainwashed into what the FLDS do and how what we do (refusing to practice polygamy) is wrong because God willed it so. How do you help him with this?? He believes the Book of Mormon is true, he believes that Joseph Smith is a true prophet....but then the rest is history from Wilford Woodruff and up...we're stumped on what to do!! Gosh...we should just accept polygamy then! it'd be easier for us! ;) haha JK!!!!!! No way!!!
Well that's about it for this week! have a great one this coming! Share the gospel to all the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sister Tilton :)
pics:
our zone pic :)
Sister Taylor and I! 'so we meet again'
Sister Bate and Elder Simmons...air hug :p
Representative of Jesus Christ y'all! Elder FitzGerald...
epically failing to screw in our board to the wall with chair and sister B support :p
This is my dear Sister Brown "dancing" at the nursing home...I think this was the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life!!! I love her :)
best for last :p
