This week was great! Here are some highlights and things that happened..
-We had zone conference and that was awesome!! I learned so much from President and Sister Craig and all of the other missionaries in our zone. It was also fun to see other missionaries for a change:)
-President Craig made the announcement that our mission would be getting smart phones within the next couple months! Hopefully in time for Christmas so we can share the Christmas initiative easily! I am so excited for the Christmas season!!
-We were tracting one day and we met a dog named Daisy. Her owners weren't home so we left the house and then she just kept following us down the road. She would walk with us to each doorstep and everything. Haha everyone thought it was our dog! Finally she went home once we got in our car to leave the area. She was nice company:)
-It's deer hunting season and they take it VERY seriously here! There was no school today and Marvin's (the big company here) even took the day off. Plus no one is home because everyone is hunting! One of the people we visited yesterday told us we needed to wear orange hats so no one shoots at us...
-On Saturday it snowed all day long! And I don't think I saw one snow plow out. It has snowed a lot this week and the temperatures have drastically dropped.. I don't think they believe in snow plows here! It makes the roads a little bit scarier, but we are staying safe and driving slow!
-We got home the other night and went and talked to our neighbor Delores for a little bit. We walked in and she was watching a Hallmark movie. I really had to resist the urge to watch it. It was hard!! Have there been any good ones yet this year?
-We had another lesson with our investigator Trish this week and it was so great!! She is amazing! The spirit was SO strong in that lesson! Last week she was asking us where we got the standards and values that we believe in so we gave her a For The Strength of Youth pamphlet. She read the whole thing and used it in a job interview/presentation she had!!! We were so excited to hear that! I really want her to get baptized, and I am confident she will but she might be moving soon so I am a bit worried. We will see though! Keep her in your prayers!!
-Last week on exchanges we taught a family english. It was super cool! There names are Sawson and Adnan and they are from Syria I think!
-Today we helped Delores put up her Christmas tree and decorate it! She wanted to do it this week just in case I leave next week at transfers. She is the sweetest:)
I have been working a lot on having patience this week and I read a quote from Preach my Gospel by President Monson that I really liked, "Life if full of difficulties, some minor and others a more serious nature. There seems to be an unending supply of challenges for one and all. Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required."
I have realized that patience is something we always need. Especially patience with our Heavenly Father. In zone conference Sister Craig quoted Elder Holland and said something like, "Heavenly Father is not so much concerned about our comfort, but about our upward progression." That is definitely true! He is testing us to make us stronger! So we just need to have patience:)
Love you all and hope you have an awesome week!
(Pictures are... exchanges, zone conference sleepover:), WE ARE COLD, hockey town USA, bears from last week)
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