Mr Sneeze January 13, 2014
For starters, this week:
A horse sneezed on me...twice.
Someone thought we were nuns?
Someone thought we were from the Sisters of Notre Dame?
Elder Holland wasn't able to make it last minute.
We saw Phyllis put her shoes on the wrong feet.
We received a text meant to go to that mans wife...
We were asked to each speak in sacrament for 15 minutes, last minute.
We did lots of service.
Two people asked as us to explain the polygamy situation.
One person said she was a "recovering catholic." I didn't realize Catholicism is something you needed to recover from.
And someone yelled at us, "I really don't wanna talk to you." Grouchy pants.
Also, this man calls Tangelos, TangEo's. "Do you girls want some tangEo's?"
Alright. Our lesson with Juan this week went really well, mainly because all we did was take him to the Visitor Center in Mesa to see Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration. It is such an amazing film, and it really stuck him as well. We committed him to pray to know that he was a prophet of God. It's such a good thing that nobody has to take our word for the things that we teach. They get to find out for themselves. It wouldn't work very well if it was just a sales pitch. Juan also was able to find a job this week which is so amazing! He is doing oh so good! We'll be teaching him this week as well!
We were also able to get a hold of Sheryl and have an appointment with her this week. The adversary is just working so hard of her right now. And she knows that this gospel is true. We just need to get her to act on it. She's just a turkey that is scared to fly.
Here's the Parable of the Turkey's:
There was an enterprise turkey who held a meeting one day with all the other turkeys. In this meeting they were taught how to fly. They loved soaring in the air, flying to new vistas, etc. But at the end of the meeting all of the turkeys walked home.
We need to make sure that we are acting on what we have know and have been taught, whether it's through the scriptures, church, the spirit. We need to be flying turkeys! hahahaha. I love that parable.
Today we have a meeting with President and Sister Nattress today to figure out our schedule for the temple open house. They're now expecting 1 million people to attend the open house. The number just keeps growing! It's so amazing! It's going to be insanity. I'm assuming we'll have to be helping out very often. The next month is going to be so crazy, and busy, and exciting. On Tuesday we're being trained for the temple, I guess they thing we don't know how to act ;)
Goodness. Being a missionary is crazy. We also hear lots of things that we don't really need to know. Such as, "I know, I fart in my sleep." And other things that I just really feel I shouldn't pass on. I think they thnk it's like we're doctors of something that they can just tell all sorts of things.
We were able to show the temple presentation to quite a few non-members which was exciting. It's cool to see how interested they are in the temple. And on Thursday evening we were asked to speak in sacrament for yesterday. I think people just think that missionaries just have time to write talks. But we don't. We wrote our talks on Sunday morning. It was funny, because we had to like hand write them with pens. And we didn't have access to lds.org. And you couldn't just copy and paste to move stuff around. GHETTO. But my talk was on tender mercies of the lord. So I'll see if I can make a copy of it to send home.
We were able to show the temple presentation to quite a few non-members which was exciting. It's cool to see how interested they are in the temple. And on Thursday evening we were asked to speak in sacrament for yesterday. I think people just think that missionaries just have time to write talks. But we don't. We wrote our talks on Sunday morning. It was funny, because we had to like hand write them with pens. And we didn't have access to lds.org. And you couldn't just copy and paste to move stuff around. GHETTO. But my talk was on tender mercies of the lord. So I'll see if I can make a copy of it to send home.
Elder Holland wasn't able to make it, so we heard from Elder Wright of the 70. He was really good. And his wife explained him replacing Elder Holland as,"It's like you have tickets to the Beatles concert and you're really excited for it. You've been looking forward to it for a long time. And then right before the concert you find out that instead of the Beatles, it's going to be the Dixie Chicks. So I hope some of you like country music."haha. I'm out of time to type what I learned but it was a good time.
Thanks for all that y'all do for me. It's so awesome to hear from you! Being a missionary is a good time. Love and miss y'all.
Love,
Sister Adams
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