This week was crazy but really good. We got to drive into International Falls, Minnesota for District Meeting on Tuesday.. That's the one other Minnesota area in our mission so now I have been to both:) We got to talk to some actual real life missionaries. We don't get that often being in an outlying area so that was exciting!
Wednesday/Thursday we had exchanges in Winnipeg! I got to go with Sister Jimenez from Peru. She has been on her mission for 1 year. I learned a lot from her.. when I could understand her;) Just kidding, she is awesome! We did actually have a spanish lesson so my high school spanish came in handy.. I could understand bits and pieces! While we were there I had to drive because she doesnt have a license so that was a bit stressful. We got lost a lot and almost ran out of gas but we survived. We went tracting for a lot of the time and knocked on this guys door who didnt have any pants on... It was very awkward.
Friday we were back in Warroad and one of the coolest things happened! We were in the middle of weekly planning when we realized we had a missed call/voicemail from a number we did not recognize. It was a guy who was wondering when/where our services were because he was moving to the area. We called him back and after a few minutes of talking to him came to find out that he is 17 years old and him and his mom are moving to the area from Washington within the next couple of weeks. They are not members but a friend told them about the church and they found our number on lds.org SO COOL!!!! I am really looking forward to meeting/teaching them:) It almost sounds too good to be true.. Hopefully it wasnt a joke!! Miracles do happen!!
We also set another baptismal date with our investigator Frank after church yesterday. Hopefully he keeps to it this time!!! We will definitely need hep from heaven!
As a missionary you hear a lot that we are to teach repentance and baptize converts. I've decided that repentance/life is like a math problem. You will never end up with the right answer unless you go back and fix your mistakes... and it's completely normal to make mistakes so you know for sure that you have the right answer. (As long as you don't make them on purpose right?)
The Savior, and repentance, along with taking the sacrament each week are our erasers in our math problem. We just have to be willing to turn our pencils (lives) around and change so that we will be able to get the right answers in the end:)
Alma 34:32-33
"For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.
And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed."
Hope you all have a great week!!! Sorry no pictures this week. The computer at the library is being funny.
Love, Sister Godderidge
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