Hey family!
So this week has just a bunch of funny happenstances in it...
Let us start with last Monday. So you know how we have to wash the car every week??? Well the weather last Monday was -6 C... but we wanted to be exactly obedient! So we set about washing the car.
So if we think about this logically it makes sense that water freezes at 0 C and it is currently below the freezing point... that the water is going to freeze.. and I don't know the freezing point of soap, but we did discover that it does in fact freeze. So after spraying down the Lord's car and now having a thin sheet of ice and rubbing frozen soap over that gives you frozen bubbly soap scum and then if you try to rinse it off you get a thicker sheet of ice...
Needless to say the car looked about ten times worse than it did before we started out on our obedient quest... But hey we "washed" the car... and the ice didn't melt until Wednesday. (yeah we maybe needed to think that one through a little more...but we didn't)
The Laundromat is called, "The hole in the wall" ...I think that is enough description on that.
We were able to have a mission wide conference call with President Petersen on Tuesday! He is the coolest mission president ever! So you know that we are getting a new mission president in June/July and the stake won't know who it is until this Sunday. But he told us who it was in this call! I am so excited!
Oh great stake news! The North Little Rock stake is going to be split! We are going to have a new stake in Arkansas! It has been a super long time since that has happened and everyone is super stoked! AND L. Tom Perry is coming at the end of January and we will be able to hear him speak! (I am quite excited!)
This last year we got 521 baptisms in our mission! This year's goal is 636 baptisms for the year 2014!
So I learned something really awesome on Wednesday. There is no word for awkward in Spanish...so now whenever something is awkward we say the word uncomfortable... it is super funny (but I think you might have just needed to be there)
I love the Book of Mormon SO much! And it is so amazing that we have the opportunity to share this awesome book with so many. To be able to testify of how it has blessed my life has really helped me realize how bountiful those blessings really are. I love being able to testify of the peace and calm that has come into my life as I made time to read and study the Book of Mormon.
did you know that mini M&Ms taste 10 times better than normal ones? I'm not quite sure why, or if maybe it is just a mental thing.... but it is totally true!
Ummm...I broke the word of Wisdom! (on my mission!) I was looking at the Kashi cereal I had bought and realized in the ingredients was "decaffeinated green and black tea extract"! Who puts that in cereal! anywho, it didn't cost very much and didn't taste much better so I ended up throwing it away.
Have you ever smelled alcohol on someone before? It is the most uncomfortable smell ever. My stomach was queezy for 25 minutes afterwards.
I love lessons that are totally guided by the spirit! We are teaching a couple Rabbit and Anthony - we went into the lesson thinking we were going to be teaching Plan of Salvation but then Anthony said he couldn't stay and we didn't want to move forward and have to catch him up so we decided to just read the Book of Mormon with Rabbit so we started reading 1 Nephi 2 and Anthony comes back in to join us (and ended up staying) but we read the entire chapter and talked about the importance of faith and following the Lord's plan for us and that lead beautifully to the third lesson, The Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was awesome to be guided by the spirit and talk about baptism and testify of the Savior's love for them!
We had Zone Meeting on Friday. Super good.
I love my companion! Hermana Smith wants to be an engineer. (she uses practically the same vocabulary that dad uses and totally freaks out about math and science.) So it is pretty awesome. She took 5 years of Spanish and then has been the only truly Spanish speaker here in Warren for 5 months so she is super good at it and I am totally not. It is a little frustrating but I am really learning a lot so that is great.
This last Sunday we had 4 investigators at church! One of our investigators called us Sunday morning and said, "hey...I am getting my daughter's hair ready for church...but I am going to be late, is it still alright if we come in 30 minutes late?" Hermana Smith and I were super excited because she had earlier told us that she couldn't come at all!
And then Rod and Erma came to church! They couldn't stay for all three hours but the branch president talked to Erma after church and she said that she wanted to be baptized next week! She totally set her own baptismal date! We are SO excited!
We had a branch potluck after church. That is pretty fun not to mention yummy! teehee
Coolest thing I learned this week is that: all of the Christlike attributes lead to action. God does not want you to be passive but wants us all to be continually progressing.
Yup, that was my week. Not bad if I do say so myself!
Love ya'll,
Hermana Ives
PS - and remember! The gospel is true. But it is truER in Spanish!
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