HEYO - My name is WO...okay?

received from sister hart 8/12/2013 -- privacy edits by her mom

 It seemed fitting because this morning I found out Sister p has totally seen Kung Pow! haha! I was saying "we're children. we're children." and she started laughing her head off because I had seen that movie as well. CRAZY FUNNY! Anywho.

so this week was good. A little bit rough because the ONLY way to find and talk to people is by tracting and we were NOT motivated to do that ever... GAH! I secretly love tracting though because it is HILARIOUS to hear peoples excuses and see people from literally every walk of life - they are seriously all in st. cloud. but we did get to visit some great members, found out sister m worked for heritage press and she gave us these great little typography quotes and such. love it. and i have some rad service opportunities and I am PRO at street contacting... well maybe not pro but I am getting there.

example: The other day we were biking to the library, and I passed a man who said God Bless you as I passed. I said thanks and proceeded across the street to see that he had j-walked to his car and I was there again and stopped to talk to him - sister p had to flip around and so it was me and this guy for a little talking. I told him we were missionaries and bleepblooblee (all the introduction stuff) and he told me that he had SO many questions about our church - BOOMB! President hall said if they ask questions they are ready to receive the truth. RAD! so I got his information - testified of truthfulness of our message and we gave him a bom and a Mormon.org card. SICK. he ran into the library to look it up right then. awesome right? unfortunately he is in the other st. cloud area so we wont teach him but it was still so cool!

 Then another day this week we went out and did service for Sister P's recent convert, L***. WE got to GARDEN~! AH! it reminded me of Dad and all of your gardening! sooo fun! I love gardening! and down here there are frogs everywhere so I was soo hoppy to catch some (punny). I also saw a HUGE wolf spider and totally saved L*** and S.P from it. Yeah Sister P calls on me EVERYDAY to do stuff like that - she hates bugs.... After that we walked around Harmony(L****'s little town - google it, its beautiful) and we saw some of our members in a u-haul truck. They offered us water at their new house so they said you could walk or we could have my wife pick you up OR you could garbage man style it? I, without hesitation, replied "oh we'll garbage man style it for sure!" YES! soo funny. And the pictures we took seriously tell you the difference between sister parker and I - she is holding on for dear life and I'm leaning back having a great time. Well once we came to a complete stop I jumped off...not my smartest idea because my ctr ring got stuck on the handle and I pulled my pinky to the point of spraining or something because it is HUGE now... haha. of course I could careless about my finger though and as soon as it happened I was searching ALL over for my ctr ring - that was top priority. I found it thanks to the comp.

 OH also Monday when I mailed the packages that I hope you got - I lost my mish debit card.... yikes. we got to walmart to pay for groceries and sister p had to pay for all of them because I didn't know where my card was! I prayed and felt like we needed to go bnack to the post office - where I had to show some id and immediately got my card! I love the power of prayer! I don't understand how people can make of excuses for such a simple act and refuse themselves of this powerful opportunity.

 Dad I got your package! I love the Shirt!!!! pictures are coming. and I was literally talking to a member family - S**** B*****- and she was talking about the missionary in the train accident and I asked who it was but they couldn't remember - and sister parker was like Sister hart probably knows them - jokingly but from your letter I guess I sorta do... HA!

 Yesterday sister b, hilarious women converted basically by Donny O, told me that He is coming to Tampa in a few months. She asked me to pull some strings and I just laughed. Jessi and Don if you come out too and drive through Orlando look for a super freckley ginger on a black bike... that'll be me. Side note: somehow the Donssica wedding came up and Sister p was like NO WAY that you're sorta related...Its so odd that people make such a huge deal of it to know people - granted because of the opportunity of living aspen grove I was able to meet and get to know MANY cool people but still - people freak out about it.

 so whats happening at home? Today I read about Abinadi and King Noah and just thought about how he was called to prophesy to these people and to call them to repentance. He went before the king not knowing that anyone would actually repent and believe his words- and he died before he could find out if anyone did. But after his death there was one who believed - one who repented - and one who began to share the truth. Alma became converted because of Abinadis service and testimony. It is the same for a mission. I have been called to Orlando to call the people to repentance. I don't know if anyone will actually repent and believe and I may not know if anyone will - but this is what God called me to do so I will do just that. Sometimes the fruits of our labors are not so evident, maybe not evident at all, but we still need to do what the Lord has commanded us to do. We need to do all we can to follow his commandments and share his gospel.

 Wellp. I would hope that you all pray for something SPECIFIC this week and I know that you will get a specific answer as you listen to the spirit and read the scriptures and the words from modern day prophets. It is by those means that we receive answers. I love the work and love the Lord.
 I LOVE YOU ALL! XOXO zozo