This week has been crazy!!! But wonderful! Lesson
numbers were not as high for Sister Mullins and I which dissapointed us a
lot but... we had a baptism! YAY!!!! Well I will just give a rundown of
our week! :)
Monday-
P-Day! P-day is always so hard to get lessons on. We try to talk with
people as our day goes on but I feel as though we are lucky if we get
one of two lessons. :/ but we still work hard and try to get everything
else in. I love emailing everyone on P-Day but my favorite part is
actually Mission choir. I love it! I love that we are prepping to sing
at various upcoming events! After our P-day ended we went to a members
house named Alicia Ojeda. She just moved into our ward and is still
struggling to get settled so Sister Mullins and I got to eat dinner with
them and then we helped them unpack! We got to help them get their
kitchen and living room to be finally set up! Their Gospel library was
all packed so we unpacked it and placed it front and center in their
living room (Sneaky Sister missionaries ;) ) That was Monday
Tuesday- Tuesday was rough!!!! On Sunday our Baptism was changed from Sat. the 5th to Wed. the 2nd ha so what we had a week to plan changed to having two days. So Tuesday we made A LOT of phone calls. Sister Mullins and I called every single person in our ward and invited them to the baptism. Then we went tracting and tried to visit some part member families in our ward. NO ONE was home! So Tuesday was kind of discouraging. We had District meeting which was great though! Sister Mullins and I both received the same inspiration to revisit a dropped contact. So we did.... and she is still not interested and doesn't need anything. We are unsure why we both felt so strongly why we needed to contact her but we are glad all the same that we did.
Wednesday- BAPTISM DAY!!!!! This was a great, long, and crazy day filled with SO many emotions. We had our interviews withour Mission President in the morning and those were great! I really love the insight my mission president gives me!
Then we headed to try and get ahold of some of our potentials and investigators and invite them to the baptism. All of them were busy :( but we kept our happy faces on and kept going! We got to visit with a Less active in our ward that is becoming more active! She has been to church the last two weeks and it has been great! She had some medical errands she needed done but couldn't get to them because she was sick. So sister Mullins and I went and picked up her medication for her. Her smile when we got back was priceless! Serving people in little ways makes a huge difference!!!
We ended up using our dinner hour to make dinner for us and Latrece and Jeremiah, our Bishop and Ward mission leader (We had to stay at the Stake center while the font filled so we decided to cook and study :) ) It was really fun to eat with all of them before their baptism. Then it was show time. The baptism was great and the spirit was so strong! Latrece and Jeremiah bore their testimonies after and it was so sweet! She talked about her path with Christ being more clear and Jeremiah talked about feeling "Good". To us that was the best testimony any nine year old could ever have. They were both confirmed that night due to conference and the spirit felt in the room was tangible! So beautiful. So many ward members came to welcome them as well! It was great!
The rest of the night was kinda crazy. Sister Mullins got a migraine in the middle of the baptism but thought she was okay. While Latrece and Jeremiah were cleaning up we had the ward write letters to them with their testimonies, and we got Sister Mullins a priesthood blessing. Her Migraine just got worse though. Right after the service we went to the bathroom where she proceeded to lie down on a bench and cry. I have never seen her cry. From there it kinda got worse, Luckily a married couple in our ward are nurses. I ran and grabbed them and they helped her out. Eventually the advil kicked in and her migraine went away. She had really bad chills though (Apparently the tail end result of a migraine) so the ward members drove us home and we got her to bed. So scary but she has been 100% fine since. We both think (Due to her priesthood blessing) that she hasn't been drinking enough fluids. So we are now working on that.
Tuesday- Tuesday was rough!!!! On Sunday our Baptism was changed from Sat. the 5th to Wed. the 2nd ha so what we had a week to plan changed to having two days. So Tuesday we made A LOT of phone calls. Sister Mullins and I called every single person in our ward and invited them to the baptism. Then we went tracting and tried to visit some part member families in our ward. NO ONE was home! So Tuesday was kind of discouraging. We had District meeting which was great though! Sister Mullins and I both received the same inspiration to revisit a dropped contact. So we did.... and she is still not interested and doesn't need anything. We are unsure why we both felt so strongly why we needed to contact her but we are glad all the same that we did.
Wednesday- BAPTISM DAY!!!!! This was a great, long, and crazy day filled with SO many emotions. We had our interviews withour Mission President in the morning and those were great! I really love the insight my mission president gives me!
Then we headed to try and get ahold of some of our potentials and investigators and invite them to the baptism. All of them were busy :( but we kept our happy faces on and kept going! We got to visit with a Less active in our ward that is becoming more active! She has been to church the last two weeks and it has been great! She had some medical errands she needed done but couldn't get to them because she was sick. So sister Mullins and I went and picked up her medication for her. Her smile when we got back was priceless! Serving people in little ways makes a huge difference!!!
We ended up using our dinner hour to make dinner for us and Latrece and Jeremiah, our Bishop and Ward mission leader (We had to stay at the Stake center while the font filled so we decided to cook and study :) ) It was really fun to eat with all of them before their baptism. Then it was show time. The baptism was great and the spirit was so strong! Latrece and Jeremiah bore their testimonies after and it was so sweet! She talked about her path with Christ being more clear and Jeremiah talked about feeling "Good". To us that was the best testimony any nine year old could ever have. They were both confirmed that night due to conference and the spirit felt in the room was tangible! So beautiful. So many ward members came to welcome them as well! It was great!
The rest of the night was kinda crazy. Sister Mullins got a migraine in the middle of the baptism but thought she was okay. While Latrece and Jeremiah were cleaning up we had the ward write letters to them with their testimonies, and we got Sister Mullins a priesthood blessing. Her Migraine just got worse though. Right after the service we went to the bathroom where she proceeded to lie down on a bench and cry. I have never seen her cry. From there it kinda got worse, Luckily a married couple in our ward are nurses. I ran and grabbed them and they helped her out. Eventually the advil kicked in and her migraine went away. She had really bad chills though (Apparently the tail end result of a migraine) so the ward members drove us home and we got her to bed. So scary but she has been 100% fine since. We both think (Due to her priesthood blessing) that she hasn't been drinking enough fluids. So we are now working on that.
Thursday-
Sister Mullins woke up with a residual headache this day so I let her
sleep through personal study and I stayed in the room while she slept
and studied. When comp. study came her headache was gone and she was
ready to work! She is such an inspiration she is seriously one of the
most motivated people I know when it comes to missionary work. We had a
few lessons and they went great! Then we met with our Ward coordination
members and we got to give them a challenge! We challenged them to be a
Preach my Gospel ward! Every week at ward coordination now we are going
to try and have our spiritual thought come from Preach my gospel. ( It
was so cool to listen to conference and have almost every talk quote
preach my gospel!)
Friday- On Friday
I went on my 24 hr. Exchange with the Sister Training Leaders. This was
a fun experience for me. It was very different going from the Normandy
park ward to the Tongan ward. Especially since a lot of the people we
visited did not speak English at all and I don't speak Tongan ha ha. But
it was fun all the same! We got to teach a Woman named Morgan about the
word of Wisdom and the Law of chastity. Very spiritually strong lesson
but also very interesting. It was fun to see how other companionship
work and how other wards work to. I really enjoyed it but I also missed
not getting to see my regular Friday
appointments with Latrece (New Investigator), Sister Caffaro (New-ish
member that also considers herself Messianic Jew), and the Wilcken's (A
focus family given to us by our Bishop)
Sat- GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!!! Ah I love general conference! It was
honestly like I was seeing conference for the first time. Sister Mullins
and I kept talking afterwards about how we never saw a conference where
each talk had something specifically for us but this conference did! I
have so many notes now and I love reading them!!!! It was great to go
over them as well and compare and see what insights the other person got
or what we missed. A lot of our insights were the same though :) That
was my main highlight from this day! Seriously great
Sun- General Conference again, and it was just as powerful. In between
session we got to visit a LA that is moving and we got her new address
which was great! We also got to visit with one of our Investigators who
we are hoping to get to church this next week. We could tell she was
really in need of someone to talk too and we both felt prompted to go at
that time. So cool. Finally in the evening we went and visited a LA
family named the Salee's. They are such an interesting family. They are
inactive due to the children's activities. One of the children (the only
daughter: 11) was excepted into the Olympic training program for
Gymnastics!!! Wow! The Two boys are also heavily involved in soccer,
basketball, football, and karate! So busy and the poor single mom is
having to work 4 jobs to support them. Such a sweet family. We are
hoping we can help them to see the importance of church attendance. We
will see how that goes in the future.
So kinda a low week on numbers but a great week on experiences and helping people's faith grow :)
(In other news: * My boot is finally off!!! hopefully for good! So kinda a low week on numbers but a great week on experiences and helping people's faith grow :)
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