We had a great week here. We now have one investigator on date for August 11 and another on conditional date for August 4th. We are so excited! Watching people progress and gain their own testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel has been so amazing!
We had six member-present lessons this week, two of which were with our bishop. He is getting excited about missionary work. He's seen us bringing investigators to church and now he's felt the spirit of missionary work while out teaching with us. We're excited to keep the work moving along!
Here are a few awesome moments from the week:
1. We caught a bunny! At home we have seagulls everywhere, in Powell it was geese, here it's bunnies. They look like the bunnies in the Harry Potter 3 game, when you're performing the Lapiforus charm. By the way, you know you've been on the mission a long time when you look at HP and it stands for High Priests and not Harry Potter. I never would have thought that day could come! :)
2. We invited G. to the RS activity next month. She put it on her calendar. Yesterday she brought us some eggs that she'd gotten from a lady at work. We also got some fresh milk from the B. family yesterday. It's yummilicious! I'm so spoiled here that it will be hard to transfer anywhere else!
3. We served lunch at the senior center, which was fun. There was a country group singing karaoke, and the old people were really enjoying themselves. I served the macaroni and potato salad, and did a very good job (if I do say so myself).
4. We found two new investigators, F. and E. They are originally from Mexico, but they have lived in the U.S. for 15 years now. We taught them the first two lessons, and Bishop came with us the second time. He got to brush up on his Spanish. Mine is extremely rusty, so now I know what it's like for foreign-speaking missionaries, their first day in the field! It was definitely an adventure. We're going to be handing them over to the Spanish Elders, though; they need someone who can help them understand the gospel completely.
5. We taught the Plan of Salvation to both M. and J., and both times I used my nifty Plan of Salvation puzzle.
6. M. is really starting to get it! He says he is "leaning" towards accepting the gospel as true. The Plan of Salvation really answered a lot of his questions. We are so excited! I love seeing the light come into people's eyes as they have that "I get it now" moment.
7. Favorite Sister T. quote of the week: "And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free . . . that's in the hymn book, right?"
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