Hey Parents!!!
This week has been a very....intense, weird, funny, depressing, mixture of stuff...
(wow, is that a hook or what?!?)
Here is a little summary of Zone Meeting:
~ 2 John 1:9-10 - get to the POINT, the doctrine is why you are talking to people not the fact that they have pink flamingoes in their front yard aka lawnd.
~ men can deny your words but they cannot deny the word of God.
~ Eye contact is a must
(district, zone and specialized training meetings are so amazing but they always make me feel very imperfect and an awful missionary...)
Anywho zone meeting was all the way down in Searcy Arkansas...so that was a 2 hour drive that totally killed our miles for the week) But on our way back into Pocahontas we felt impressed to stop in Walnut Ridge. We looked at the branch list and decided to go see this specific less active member. (the member wasn't home so we decided to knock on at least 3 doors in this neighborhood) anyways we felt very prompted to knock this one door. she opened the door and instantly said come in (she didn't even know who we were!) Crazy, she kept talking about how she just had no idea which church was correct and how to teach her son to be respectful and trust in God (it was crazy how ready this lady was - Felicia) Anywho we set up a return appointment and that was a super awesome day. (The elders played a prank on us today and left the scripture verse 3 Nephi 3:7 ...we haven't quite decided how to get them back yet...so if you have any ideas we would love to hear them.)
Okay so what are the odds of meeting someone in Pocahontas Arkansas who happened to live in France the same time Mitt Romney was in France on his mission and just happened to track into her?!? I know right CRAAAAAAAZZZYY! (but she wasn't really interested in talking to us... but that was a pretty crazy happenstance.)
So I had to give a Sunday talk this last Sunday.... (having time to write a talk especially without a computer is a complete joke!) But I did it with little note cards it was about Faith, and essentially went we can never have enough faith...Amen.
So you would never think it of me but the Primary children in this branch LOVE me!!! =) yup I am a pretty cool sister missionary to know. (I am even getting over my fear of children- even more, so that is pretty awesome)
We are teaching a 10 year old (Heather) who is going to get baptized this month. And we are teaching an 8 year old (Ashley) Who really wants to be baptized but her mom doesn't seem to be to interested in talking to us ( but Ashley's upstairs neighbor is a member and one of her best friends lives there, so she wants to come to church with her friend Kaylea)
We are finally kind of getting a teaching pool! Yeah! And we have finally found 2 Spanish investigators! AAAAAHHHHHHH! Super duper excited we had a lesson with Juanna from Guatemala yesterday with Sister Whitlock which was pretty awesome. She wants to come to church (and I am super excited but at the same time super scared because there is NO ONE in her age group 16 and even fewer people who could actually talk to her in Spanish....) So I have no idea what to do.
On Saturday we had a branch Christmas party... there was a choir and program... (we were in the choir...) When the pianist is the oldest person in the branch and the choir director isn't much younger things really drag and are off tune....I have to say that it was all I could do to not laugh my head off as I was watching everyone yawn and nod off. Then to make it worse having people come up to you afterwards and say "we could really hear you two" that is not a complement in a choir... it was just so bad... but it was fun to talk with everyone.
Sunday I gave my talk.... I'm not sure how well it was received but at least it is done. We had to help out in Primary with music because they didn't have a pianist... (Branches made up of entirely retired people are interesting) anywho Sister Williams and I kind of took over Primary singing time... which was pretty fun.
Sunday evening I was able to get a blessing from the elders.... it was actually pretty comical because it talked about my companion as well... and how we are going through the same struggles and we need to talk to each other more (Sister Williams wasn't to pleased that she was being rebuked along with me in MY blessing) We laughed about it the entire way home though.
And that in a pretty small nutshell was my week!
que bueno,
Hermana Ives
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