Hello everyone! It was a great week! Lots to do, lots to do! Always.
We took Sister N to the airport. She's in London now!!! Crazy times. It was definitely hard to watch her go, but I'm glad she gets to move on to her original call. It's going to be interesting to know someday why Heavenly Father had her stop here on her way to England! Sup excited for her!
We have been on a marathon reading of the Book of Mormon as an entire mission! Elder Zwick is coming to do a 6-hour special training tomorrow and he asked that we read the whole Book of Mormon before he got here! That was the end of March. We have 11 pages left. I can't believe we're almost done! Thank heavens we got through Ether. I'm so grateful that Moroni had time to write more at the end. Can you imagine if the Book of Mormon ended with Ether? Super depressing day! Plus, there are so many gems in Moroni. Just saying!
We helped Sister Nilsen this past week. At zone conference time she makes a little muffin for each missionary who's had a birthday since the last conference and whoever has one in the coming month. Well, I have no idea how she does it all – she's a saint. As we helped her out it was amazing how often she is on the phone. Literally every minute she was getting a call from some missionary somewhere. Poor patient woman! :)
We ate at our ward mission leader’s home on Wednesday. We got there and he was mowing his lawn. Okay, top secret, but I have really missed mowing the lawn. Before I left I hadn't even mowed the lawn in ages, but every time I see someone pushing their lawn mower I get a bit nostalgic. So.....I ran up to Bro M. and asked him if I could do the front lawn. He had just started. He said sure! So, in my skirt and proselyting shoes I mowed his lawn! It was great! I was a bit sore the next morning, but it felt good to do some legit service and sweat!
One of the youth in our ward wanted to give a BoM to a friend of hers at school. The friend is from Russia so we got a Russian BoM from the mission office. SO convenient to have that in our area....that's going to be a hard change to adjust to someday!! :) She was so excited about it and it went really well. The friend is coming to church next week!
We've done a lot of tracting this week and had some great conversations with people. It astonishes me that so many people are content with mediocrity! I have become quite bold when talking with some people. Before I leave Powell I will offend every citizen! :) No, not that bold...but maybe I'll progress to that point eventually! :) When we offer, as representatives of Jesus Christ, to leave a blessing of the Savior's love and peace on their home and they say “no we're good”, I've started saying. "You don't want love and peace?" Yesterday when I said that to a lady she said nope. Then when I asked her who needs blessings she said, "I really don't know...everyone can use one." Then I said, "Everyone but you apparently....." then I gave a chuckle and she said, "Yep, we're fine." PEOPLE!!!! Anyways, I need to not get too upset at the doorstep. Now that it's hot outside that's more difficult though....We get so disgustingly gross...that's all I'm saying!
Last night we visited a potential that we found a few weeks ago while tracting and talked with him about the Book of Mormon, prophets, and restored priesthood authority. We have a return appointment next Sunday. We told him that we'd stay in contact throughout the week to see how his reading is going. I'm excited for him to get his answer!
We talked with B's sister A last night. Long story short, we invited her to girls camp, one thing led to another and eventually we asked her if she wanted to know more about the Church. She said yes! We are introducing her to another YW in the ward tomorrow night. We're going to get ice cream at Rita's, a local ice cream, custard, and deliciousness venue. I'll let you know how that goes!
For YM's this weekend they are going shotgun shooting. Well, B's dad loves shooting, so.....we invited him and B to go! Well, guess what?! He’s going!!!! I'm so excited! So is he....but he was trying to not to let us see that. ;)
Had dinner at the stake president’s house last night. They are working with so many people. They are awesome!! I loved being able to talk with them about that!
Coolest story ever: Our old district still has district meetings here (even though they are in a neighboring town now). One of the sisters left her hardback copy of the BoM at the Wendy's where they ate after district meeting. She called us to ask if we could stop by and get it, so we did. We walked up to the counter and talked with the cashier. We told him that our friend had left a Book of Mormon a few days earlier and we wanted to see if it was still there. He looked back at his boss. His boss said, "Book of Mormon? Yeah it's in the back. Just a sec." He came back with the book and as he handed it to me said, "I've got one of these sitting on my night stand that I read every night." We were taken aback and asked, "Who gave it to you?" (Great question, I know...) He said, "I was born and raised Mormon." We asked, "Why don't you come to church?" It turns out that his wife is disabled and it's too hard to get her to church, and he doesn't want to go without her. We asked if we could come visit him and he said sure, so we got his address. He lives in the next town over. That's okay though -- he is found, and he obviously wanted to be found. He volunteered the information that he had a Book of Mormon and reads it every night. Heavenly Father loves him and knew he wanted to be found. I mean seriously though, Sister O. leaves her BoM at Wendy's and all this happens. Sweet awesome!! That's all I have to say!
Okay...well, I'm about out of time and I need to write my president's weekly report! Everybody stay safe and keep me posted on the happenings I love hearing from you all! Love ya!
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