Hello one and all!
LA LOVE:
So Sister Sanerive was a SUPER good cook and she would just cook all the time. So when she left, I was really panicked, like, what are we gonna do?! Long story short, I have taken it upon myself to be the apartment cook, and I'm actually a master chef now.
As a missionary you bake more cookies than you will ever again in your life. However, it's great because there's nothing better than seeing the happy reaction of friends and ward members getting cookies!
I may or may not have the best district leader ever, because he may or may not have sung "Year 3000" by Jonas Brothers for us over the phone during our follow-up call. So there's that.
Also, Sister Along and I realized that the more you sing it, the more you realize that the Pokémon theme song is actually about missionaries. So there's that too.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK:
Besides lots of shopping last p-day, we were privileged again to get ice cream and made cookies for a ward member!
I hit my three months! That's the amount of time I was originally called for. The day I opened my new call, Sister Merkley and I were talking about how crazy that was, that that's a part of my life that is now over, completely. It is so great and so cool to be a missionary!
Putting together care pouches at Operation Gratitude with a bunch of other missionaries was a party!
We had a great district council where we learned about personal study as well as effectively using the Member Missionary Training Catalog. When he was giving his training on that, Elder Reid was talking about all the different trainings that missionaries go through: we all go to district councils every week, we all go to zone conferences every transfer, and then he said, "Almost all of us went to the MTC." And I realized that's probably not something that would've bene said in any other district council, and that's just super funny to me. One of the cool things about being a two-transfer missionary.
FRIENDS:
So this week our friend Dori told our bishop that she wants to be baptized. So we got on that right away this week! Dori has actually been going to church for years and has been wanting to be baptized for months, but now it's finally happening. We had a lesson where we went over the baptismal interview questions with her, and then she had her interview later in the week. Honestly, Dori is so incredibly prepared for baptism. She has such a strong testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. She really cares about her family and didn't really like the way other people in the world viewed families, but when she read the Book of Mormon she was like yes, yes, yes! We love her and her family and are so happy for them.
We had a few good discussions with Tony this week. We aren't able to meet with him as frequently anymore but he is going to come back to church soon and we love him!
We talked with Sukki about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We also had the privilege of witnessing her receiving a priesthood blessing. Brother Dettenmaier and Brother Rodriguez came and blessed her and her husband and when I tell you the Spirit of God was there. They finished the blessing and she was just smiling so much, saying that was a beautiful prayer. Her husband was in tears. Brother Dettenmaier and Brother Rodriguez had never met them before, but in those blessings they addressed things directly that I knew mattered to Sukki and her husband. I know the power of God on earth is so real. Those blessings wouldn't have been possible without it. What a miracle. It also showed me how important it is to have ward members meet with our friends--Sukki loved getting to meet them and was so happy to know people that were in the area that could help her.
We were able to meet with Sylvia in her home! We had only met on her doorstep before. She asked what makes our church different from all the others, and we told her that Jesus gave His power to His apostles, and how the power of God was taken off the earth after Jesus's apostles were killed, and how now it's been brought back. She said she didn't know that, and she's really excited to learn more.
We shared a message from this week's Come, Follow Me with Steve!
We had a member training with the Dickson family. They love the gospel and are eager to share it with others. The story of how they found the Church is actually super cool and theya re so grateful to have it in their lives and to be able to be a good example to others.
We also met with the Bascara family which was super fun because they are from the same country as Sister Along! We talked with them about the power of the Holy Ghost and how we can take advantage of that gift as we pray for it and act on it.
One more thing: the most important thing you can know is that God is YOUR loving Heavenly Father. That's why it's the first thing we teach as missionaries.
Thanks and much love!
--Sister Day
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