Monday February 4, 2013
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Hi!
So, it's been a busy week. Thanks for the
Valentine's package! We have been munching on the chocolates all week.
Next package you send, birthday or whatever
whenever I'd love my silver basketball shorts that I left at home.
So this week Sister Loli was sick at the
beginning of the week so we spent a lot of time at home studying. Wednesday we
went to a member's house for dinner. They live in a neighborhood next to a
little airport and so EVERYBODY has airplanes! One Brother has a WWII restored
plane like his dad learned to fly in the war and he let us climb in and take
pictures. He said he always promises the missionaries when they come back to
visit he will take them up in the plane for a ride.
We did service the other day and the Elders
came and helped so we took them out to dinner. Everyone's favorite place here
is Mongolian BBQ. It's a fun little hole in the wall and really delicious. Our
Investigator came to stake conference this weekend and she seemed to enjoy it
for the most part. She said she would come to church next week so we will see. We are making great progress on
her house though. Once it is clean she will be healthier mentally and
emotionally and therefore spiritually too. The Stake President is her financial
adviser and he is the one who referred her to us. He's always encouraging us to
hang with her because "She needs the gospel." It's true. Everybody
does.
We went to lunch at the Subway here. The
man who owns it LOVES the missionaries. He tells us that his Subway is blessed
because we come in and that we bring a great peace. He always gives us part of
our meal (a cookie, a drink, etc.) on the house. He is Indian but from England
In the adult session of stake conference
this week, President made all the new sister missionaries stand up and
talked about how we were making history and he had a picture of us that was
going in the stake history. We were like total celebrities at Stake Conference.
Everybody wanted to talk to us and we didn't get home till nearly 10!
We started teaching two kids, Barbie and Ken (10 and 13).
Their dad is an RM (returned missionary)
who had two marriages where the wives left. Now he is recently remarried and
active. The kids want to be baptized, but their real mom won't let them. Pray
that she will let them be baptized! They are really great kids.
Brother Doolittle story for the week :
We went over for lunch and he gave us a
lesson (where he'll pull out something awesome from Jerusalem and we talk about
it and he teaches a principle of missionary work and gets us pumped) I got to
see the manual for missionaries they used from the time he opened up missionary work in Jerusalem to the
time they banned proselyting in 1984. So cool! He said we'd probably never see
that manual again, at least until work with the Jews open up, but maybe not
until the Savior comes. When I am off my mission we will have to come back and
visit the Doolittle's. Daddy would have a field day with him!
Brother Doolittle always reminds us that as
missionaries if we are worthy, humble, and obedient, we are ENTITLED to
miracles, visions, and miraculous experiences. As members of the church, we are
too, but especially as missionaries and we should strive to be open to these experiences.
The Lord will reveal great things to those willing to listen and act upon His
words.
The church is true! The work is hastening
on! There are people out there for each of us, whether full time missionaries
or not, that we are supposed to bring to the gospel. We just have to be bold
enough because we love them, to invite them to come unto Christ.
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| My Valentine's Day cookies for the Activity day girls! |
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| My planner cover! Love me some Alex Boye, Samoan symbols from Sister Loli, and Jefferey R. Holland |
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| The view from our balcony at the Doolittle's |
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| Our bedroom! Sister Loli has the daybed in the corner and Sister Hale and I have the bunks. |
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