Week 26

May 23, 2016

IM STAYING WITH SISTER DAVIES IN GRAND JUNCTION!!!!!!!

oh happy day. she is SUCH an amazing missionary, I'm learning so much from her and i cant wait to keep serving with her! also, she is hilarious and SO fun. 

so this week, i was feeling a little under the weather, so not much happened the first part of the week. 

on Tuesday i slept a lot of the day, but the elders brought us some canned chicken noodle soup and some chicken broth hahahah s'cute

Wednesday i hit SIX MONTHS!!! A REAL MILESTONE!!! i cant believe its been 6 months, half of me feels like it has been 5 years, half of me feels like its been a week. time on a mission is weird. and thanks mom for the cupcakes!! that was SO fun to come home to!! 

Thursday we had our last district meeting! Our district leader, Elder Bang, is going home so we just HAD to take the classic funeral picture, incase you're confused by that's picture hahaha 

Friday was weekly planning, which is always a rough time hahaha our investigator Josh was quitting coffee that morning so we fasted breakfast and lunch and that just added to the pain of weekly planning, it was so funny. 

Saturday we were feeling REAL good. we had two lessons that fell through, and we realized half way through the day that we forgot our area book (with all the addresses and stuff. muy importante) and we pulled up to our apartment and our neighbors were moving! so DUH we offered to help and they actually let us!! so we ran inside and threw on some pants (literally the best moment of any week- the moment i can wear pants) and packed boxes and carried them into the truck! and GUESS. WHAT. (sidenote- it was a couple, Jasmine and Spence, and Jasmine's parents were there helping) jasmine and her parents are members! inactive, but MEMBERS! it was so funny. they were so sweet, it made us sad we hadn't gotten to know them earlier! and the best part- Jasmine was cleaning out her fridge and freezer and gave us a TON of food!!! BLESS HER HEART. so saturday night we had hamburgers and fries, and sunday for lunch we had a pasta alfredo thing. we're livin large over here in GJ. 

Sunday was amaaazzzziiiiinnnngggggg. because we were down and out a lot of the week, we had lots of time to make up! so we had church, and then lunch and went tracting! and it was SO good. tracting is not my favorite thing in the entire world, but yesterday was so good. we drove onto the street we were going to tract, and decided to start on the end closest to the main road, and met a nice lady named Lynda! she wasn't interested in our message, but said we could come do service on wednesday! so we're pumped about that. Then we met Rogelio, and he was a lil shy and didnt want to set a time for us to come back, BUT he took a book of mormon and said he and his brother would read it. and THEN we were supposed to leave, because we had chosen another street to tract on at 3, but we both felt like we should stay. So we went to a house that was having a garage sale inside (genius, btdubbs) and met Sandy! and you wanna know what SHE asked US for?! a book of mormon! oh man. she is so prepared. we have an appoitment on Wednesday to see her too! then we met Robert, a very interesting fellow, and are seeing him Tuesday. SO MANY MIRACLES 

and then guess what. so our dinner never called us back to confirm, so we thought we would just stop by incase she was planning on it and hadn't checked her phone. we got there and she had forgotten (which was all good, we weren't hungry at all) but said we could sit down and visit. and guess who walked in? oh, just her nonmember roommate Christine! who we gave a book of mormon and set a time tomorrow to see her :-) 

so good 

we're focusing a lot on praying to be lead to people and to have them be lead to us, and it is working!! we got two calls this week of people that want to meet with missionaries.... that NEVER happens!!! 

life is so good 

i hope you all have a GREAT week and HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBY!!!!! 

love yall 

sister richards