Oh boy, I’m not prepared for this winter at all... haha! I’ve lived off of hot hands for this past week shoving them in my shoes and in my pockets to keep my feet and hands warm. Haha its been a struggle but we are still out knocking doors in 3 degree weather with a -15 wind chill. Ohhhh yeah! Love it!
Monday, was windy and snow Christmas Day we almost went off the road only a couple times.. there was like 6 inches of snow on the road and we were cruising around in our fusion from members to members! We had breakfast with the Simpson family, they also let us do our laundry. We watched their kids open their presents and it brought back memories! We had lunch and FaceTimed from the Record's house! They are awesome! I love the Records. We had dinner at the Martins, they are another great family! Then from 6pm-9pm we tracted! The very last door we knocked on was a lady named Thina whose been reading the Book of Mormon every day! She’s excited to meet with us and be baptized! So awesome!
Tuesday, I woke up and my head felt like it was going to blow right off my shoulders and I had the chills really bad. So we stayed in and I slept until about 4:30 and I was going crazy by sitting in the apartment so I bundled up and we went and did work from 5-9. It was freezing cold. We met some great people. I don’t know if i made my cold worse or not... oops.
Wednesday, first thing was exchanges and I went with Elder Kelly to Geneva! Elder Kelly is a wonderful missionary. He’s awesome. We had a good time. We found a family! Got to go to their church building which is the Peter Whitmer Farm... where the church was organized. So awesome!
Thursday, we had district meeting. I gave a training on missionary work & the Atonement. It went really well, our Tiwi was broken so we couldn’t drive back to Canandaigua until we got it fixed. We spent a half hour on the phone and finally got it fixed. We had a lesson with Tracy, it was a disaster... she wouldn’t stop telling her stories to the member we brought a long and we didn't even get to teach... we had a lesson with colleen, we read alma 22 and talked about “burying our weapons of rebellion” it was a very spirit filled lesson. She made a plan of how she will “bury” her cigerettes. She quit yestarday! We had a lesson with Amanda Steele, she's still not receiving answers. We are at another road block with her.
Friday, we did weekly planning, Elder Churchill had a counselor meeting. Then we got out to start working. We did a little bit of street contacting in downtown. It was good! We had dinner back here at the apartment. We had a lesson with Betty. She’s a 73 year old lady who struggles with dementia, so we are not sure if we can continue to teach her. We did some finding in Manchester, got the cops called on us! Lol. He put us in his car, and took us back to our car. It was great! Haha!
Saturday, we had a couple lessons in the morning with Brother Schwab! Also Meagan and Adam! They are getting married next Monday!! So awesome! They are both members and returning! It’s been really cool to see them change. We did some finding before dinner which was with the Meadows in Bloomfield. We did some finding in Bloomfield until 8 and then came back to teach the recent converts in the ward, John and Kenny.
Sunday, was great! We had Nichole, Amanda, and Betty at church! Also Brother Schwab, Adam and Megan, and Brad Boyce. We had a baptism after church! And we had 2 of our investigators there to feel the spirit! It was awesome! We helped one of our investigators, Sarah move some furniture to a storage locker. We finished the night off finding and found Don, she was just given a Book of Mormon and has been reading it and wants to change her life and immediately set an appointment with us. It was great! Found some solid people this week!
I hope you all know that god is well aware of you and what you going through, I felt that a lot this week with freezing my tail off and also some other struggles I am having. I know as we lean on the lord and not to our own understanding he can change us and make us who he wants us to be. I love the lord and the power that comes into my life from reading his words.
Love,
Elder Judy
No comments:
Post a Comment