Monday: remember the man in our ward that had surgery and was working in his yard like two weeks later? Brother Daniels is his name, and we've gone and helped him some more the last couple weeks, he is just the cutest old man ever. but he called us on monday and said he had some strawberries for us! he left a message and it said "hi sisters, i just called to see if you wanted some strawberries...... bye" He is so presh. but we stopped by his house and he had three carton of strawberries, one for his son, one for someone else, and one for us! so i think we're officially friends.
Tuesday: so Tuesday is when the insanity began. we had a zone meeting in the morning, which was really good. they talked a lot about preparing for the new mission president. its so crazy the Murdocks are leaving so soon!! then we had a lesson at 2, 3, 4, dinner at 5, lesson at 6, 7, and 8. CRAZY. Four of them ended up canceling, but it was crazy. we were tracting in a trailer park, and we walked by a man working on his car, and asked if he'd help us with our survey, he said he was almost done and to come back in a few minutes. so we kept going, and came back a few minutes later, still not done and told us to come back! so we tried again a few minutes later! and eventually he talked to us! his name is Raymond and his wife died two weeks ago. he was so excited to learn more and we scheduled an appointment to go back on Friday! more on him later
Wednesday: I was in Fruita on an exchange with sister Paongo! and oh boy do i have a satory for you. we were in a trailer park for an 8pm member lesson, and we got there a little early. i had to go to the bathroom, so we walked to a members house to use their bathroom! when we got to their gate, we heard a boy yelling, and a dog barking and a bird chirping like crazy! i thought, well this is going to be interesting, and ohhhh it was! we walked in and there was a baby bird on the ground, and the dog was freaking out wanting to kill it, and the little boy WITH A HUGE ROCK IN HIS HAND READY TO THROW AT THE BABY BIRD. TO KILL IT. it was crazy. we were both like " no no no what are you doing??" "my dog got it, im just going to kill it (way too innocently) so sister paongo picked it up and saved it. it was a little baby! it kept holding its mouth open for food, it was so cute. it reminded me of all the stories dad has told about birds. anyways, long story short, we gave the bird to an investigators son who wanted it.... missions are awesome
Well, meanwhile in Fruitvale! Pam, our investigator that couldn't stop smoking and did not want to set a baptismal date??? well, we committed her to pray and fast about a date and she DID. and guess what that date is? JUNE 25th!! so yeah. THINGS ARE GOOD.
Thursday: We have an investigator Bret, who is totally committed to the gospel, knows its true, but has a problem with tithing. he as significant debt, so he didnt think it was possible for him! we met with Bret, and the second counselor in the mission presidency, President Atkinson, and we talked about tithing. president Atkinson gave him council on how he can pay in his situation and how tithing it paid with our hearts. Then pres. atkinson asked if there was anything else that would keep him from being baptized, and Bret said, well no thats about it! pressident ased him "well, if thats all that is in your way, do you want to be bapized this weekend?"
bret said uhh yeah that should work!!
WHAT
then we settled on the 18th so our bishop could announce it yesterday. SO YEAH. BRET SELIGMAN IS GETTING BAPTIZED THIS SATURDAY. we were so excited!!!
Then we met with Marie, who is amazing, she is having some issues with the Word of Wisdom, not necessarily living it, but she doesn't like the hypocrisy she sees in the church :/ she is wonderful and still wants to learn and has good feelings about what we've taught so far! her and her husband bobby are so kind and they are so fun to teach! she asks the best questions and is so willing to change.
Friday: Friday was a good day! we taught Jessie, who is also solid for the 25th! in order to get baptized you need to live the word of wisdom for two weeks. so saturday was the day she needed to start living it! and when we saw her we said, "well Jessie, tomorrows the day!" what day? she said, ive been living it since Sunday when i fasted?
of course you have Jessie. she is the best.
We also taught Raymond! He told us that the day we met him, he prayed and asked his wife to show him a sign of what to do and where to go, and then we showed up! that is the coolest feeling in the world. i've learned a lot about listening to the spirit on my mission. before my mission i thought i would always hear a voice when i needed to go somewhere, or feel an overwhelming feeling, but thats not how it comes. the Spirit speaks to us quietly ans simply and often just feels like our own thoughts! im so grateful we were in that area at the time of day that he was outside working on his car and i know it was the Lord guiding us to help him!
Saturday: finally our first not packed day of the week! we were exhausted. we did service in the morning, and taught jessie again! we also had the works yummiest ribs, but thats besides the point.
and yesterday was a beautiful, hot, Sabbath day! it is getting soooo hot here we are dying. but all is well!! i am excited to start a new week! this week was so good, and because there is an adversary, there were also some lows. but why the heck talk about those- the good is much more fun.
school gets out this week right?? so exciting!!!
also tomorrow is Flag day!!!!! what a special day!!!!!! It's Nates favorite holiday
hope you all have an awesome week!!
Sister Richards
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