June 8, 2015
This Week has been a bit rough around the edges...... the reason for
it is that one of the people that we were teaching literally within a span of
24 hours moved their entire house stuff (which was a lot) to a different
mission area and didn't let Anyone know about it. Like.... anyone!!... We came
by and there was a new fancy car in the driveway and we thought "Hmmm.....
the two minivans are gone.... there is a new shiny fancy car in the
driveway.... all the stuff in their front yard is gone and all the stuff on
their porch..... Something’s.... different..." turns out... Moved! Never
to return. ahh well, The Lord knows what He wants done with that family so I
hope all is well for them.
Bonnie is more and more excited to be baptized in the coming weeks
and her son, and her son's friends who are of our faith, are coming down from
Winchester (like 4hrs away) for Bonnie's Baptism!
We were praying very hard and fasting for certain things to
progress this past week and we have found little miracles within the ward that
have heavily answered our prayers! More and more members of the ward are being
more involved in missionary work and more and more people are doing a lot of
stuff! Of course we have been working our tails off to find people to teach and
many things seem to just.... Happen so we are deterred from our original plans,
of course they are all good things and we are seeing that as we are working
harder and harder and getting to know the members of the ward more, more things
just seem to happen!
We received ipads this week for purposes of proselyting and I
have felt a huge gift of strength and support for setting ways to not be
distracted on the ipad such as every time I open it I say verbally what I am
opening it for (like what I am going to do or use it for) and that the screen
is in eyesight of my companion. the first one helps greatly and the latter is
to back it up. My trainer's trainer (named Elder Wray, I call him my missionary
Grandpa because my missionary father, Elder Hopkins, was trained by him and so
my father on the mission's father is my grandpa. hope that makes sense,) was at
the meeting where we got our ipads. He is now an assistant to the mission
president.
We have been teaching and talking with many people and are getting
fed more and more pasta at dinners (which, don't take that any other way
besides that we are getting fed probably one of my favorite foods ever). The
one time we were running out of food (because we try to buy things like food
only on our preparation day, if we completely space and run out then we'll go
get food on another day but we try and avoid it if at all possible) someone
gave us 3 pounds of cooked pasta that asked us to help out, then we visited a
less active family and guess what, we got 24 eggs from their farm! (They also
have peacocks so I think we got a peacock egg from them too but I forgot to
take a picture of it before I had it for breakfast). and it was weird so we did
not need another store run.
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| Can you go the exact speed? |
My Companion (elder Todd from the Fresno California area) follows
the speed limit EXACTLY and its actually quite impressive, go Elder Todd!, but
there is a speed limit sign that says speed limit 110 so I have been seeing if
he will actually go 110, here is the sign and see what you think you would do
in this residential area going uphill).
I have been trying to delve into family history more and learn about
my past, turns out that I have no idea how to do this stuff but Elder Todd is a
master (turns out one of his ancestors had 44 kids, 22 girls and 22 boys.
ridiculous!)
Love ya
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