so cool this week was GREAT!
FOR STARTERS! THANKS FOR THE PACKAGES! seriously that was the only mail WE got all week! the KATE shirts are great. and the gorilla pod and sd card are being put to use! so marvelous!
i am not what to do with my other sd card. I will probs send the old camera to yall with a mums day package here in a lil bit. but thats in the future. so other thing
WHAT BRODY IS DRIVING! SHUT UP! THATS CRAZY! ahhh! he looks so old! gah! where has the time gone! ahh! so weird! ahh! but i love it! any dates lined up yet? wish i was there to double with him sometime! haha. once i am home.. itll be cool. all the kids love college kids out here... even if we are really missionaries. haha.
okay so the week started off awesome! we had some great dinners at the bates, Snyders, and the hansens! LOVE them all so much! the bates fed us buttermilk pancakes with real maple syrup - reminisced about home for a bit - the snyders made dominican food because theyve all lived there! YUM! platanos for dayz! delicious! and the hansens we had tacos and it was just hilarious because those kids are just great! gah the wards out here are simply amazing. filled with such strong members who magnify their callings and truly try their best to bring others closer to Christ through the restored gospel! I love LONGWOOD. (i would hope that i do because i have been here for 4.5 months already and still have 2.5 to go.)
okay so the beginning of this week we did crazy work to find and teach ANYONE. BUt to no avail. LITERALLY every person we tried was busy, so one night at like 8 I was like, lets try one more less active. so we drive down their street and no one is in their driveway(clear sign no one is home, because NO oNE ever uses a garage for cars) so we drive a little farther and realize a car just pulled in so we loop around and make sure and then pull up to the house(a little stalkerish but we are missionaries thats what we do) so we knock and NO ONE answers GAH! we just saw you walk in OPEN THE DOOOR. but they didnt so we left... we are driving away and after wuite a bit of time WE GET PULLED OVER. as if the night couldnt get any worse.. so i give the officer my license, and he is like "were you just at a friends house knocking on their door?" yes that was us, we are missionaries from their church, the chuhdsihfadjflatterasdft(fill in with title - sometimes it sounds slurred like that...working on it) and he is like okay well let me just check.. so we are waiting patiently and this other mean officer comes and yells "WHO WERE YOU VISITING?!" we are like ah the grows and he walked away. THen the nice guy came back and was like okay you're good, some neighbor just thought you were creepin, and i had to make sure you werent like a mass axe murderer or something... WHAT! haha! it was honestly hilarious. WE WOULD GET PULLED OVER FOR CREEPIN ON PEOPLE... missionaries the ultimate stalkers... literally.
anyway also this week we saw some MERRIACCLES in merica. so we did a district fast for two new gators and WE GOT THEM! this guy named ray whose old and cool, and this other guy named scott who is interested in the Plan of Salvation! it was awesome because both were unplanned back ups to some potentials that we thought were real good but ended up not working aout and this is what became of them! awesome! so exciting. especially because on tuesday night we had to DROP Chrystel.... it was rough only because she told us that church really wasnt her priority right then so we said we couldnt come by... too bad. but she will be baptized for sure, maybe not in the next few weeks but soon.
i am so grateful for the power of prayer and the scriptures. it is when we pray we can feel of our Heavenly Father's and Christs love for us, and then as we read we can receive answers to those prayers.
I was reading the CES devo in 2011 by L tom Perry that talks about being the Greatest Generation. It is through the trials we have and the way we face them that each of can be apart of the greatest generation. i love the things you can learn from the prophets and apostles of the church. They are inspired men and if we abide by their teachings we will be blessed! i know it! i love this work! ( have i told you that enough times yet?) haha. but seriously. i have 9 months, 6 transfers, and 38 more weeks to make this count. Time to crack down and get to work. THanks for the love and supprt. i love you and miss you dearly.
xoxo
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