The Holy Ghost Ran Away March 31, 2014
It's hard to believe that another week is down! As well as the month of March! It has gone by so fast!! And to think that I've been a missionary for 10 months doesn't even feel like real life.
This past week has been full of miracles as always, and only one person that anti'd us. So that was a plus.
Last Tuesday there was a HABOOB! And to make matters better, we were on bikes in one of the farther places of our area that I loving refer to as "The Dirt." We walked out of a families house, and there it was. I have gotten accustomed to biking in a skirt, but not in high winds. All efforts to keep everything covered was a definite fail. But hey, that's just the way it is. We talked with an older couple that haven't been to church in like 40 years! Their records aren't even in the church! But we got their information to have their baptismal records moved to the ward, and they said they are interested in being active again. They are so sweet! We also visited this awesome family, the Brewer's. Upon finding out that we didn't have a dinner appointment that evening they fed us! Score. They have a 14 year old daughter Riann, and she said she wants to serve a mission now. That she didn't realize how cool sister missionaries are.ha. She obviously doesn't know me too well.
Wednesday we did service the majority of the day for a non-member family. They are Pentecostal...as in the kind that can't cut their hair, they have to wear skirts, and aren't allowed to wear makeup or jewelry. They were super friendly. And first wanted to know if they could donate money to the church in our name, or if their was someone they could call to say what a good job we were doing. They didn't understand that we just love to serve and volunteer to do it all! We also found a couple new investigators. Two 16 year old girls, Alex and Maddie. They accepted to be baptized so that was a pretty exciting thing! And that evening we went to New Beginnings with the young women. They went all out. The decorations seriously looked like a wedding reception, and they even hired a legit ice cream man. It was insane I tell you.
We did more service on Thursday. The kind that leaves about 1000000 tiny thorns in your hands from picking weeds. We were able to talk to quite a few people on the street. It stinks because the heat is already coming so people are already starting to hibernate. Some days we literally see not a single person outside. Lame sauce. That just means we have to come and knock on your door. Which we did, and were able to teach this guy, Sergio about the Book of Mormon. He's going out of town and so hopefully we'll be able to start teaching him whenever he gets back. He asked us if he could "purchase" the Book of Mormon from us. And was shocked that we were just giving them away. I like surprising people.
Friday we went to visit this family that isn't very active and their friend Barbara was. Barbara isn't a member of the church and is from Uganda. She was hilarious. And she did not think that girls should be serving missions. She told us that we needed to get married and get a job if we wanted to have purpose in life. 10-4 Barbara. She had gone to the temple open house and loved it. We found out her real concern with the church...polygamy. She had a hard time believing that we didn't practice polygamy. She's watched lots of the TV shows about polygamist. Even though she knows lots of Mormon couples that clearly only have one wife...she was a little skeptical. Oh, Barbara. In other news, Mom, the Marten's made spaghetti like you did that one time at the beach. Not even joking. I asked them what they put in it and they said the key was chili powder...I think.
Saturday just flew by! We did some more service for a few hours. And the Women's Conference was that evening. I liked Linda K. Burton's "Help Wanted" talk about "Help Wanted...true disciples of Christ." And President Eyring was my favorite. Sister Hibbard says that I'm sexist because I always skip over the women's talks and such. But I can't help it. President Eyring is so sincere! I loved how he said that, "You are more alike as daughters of God than you are different." And that our Heavenly Father sees more potential in us than does our earthly parents. Which is saying a lot! The trick is trusting in God enough, to become the person that you can be. I know that is something that I'm still working on. It reminded me of this new Mormon Message that came out about bullying. It moved me to tears the first time I watched it, so here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYVvE4tr2BI
Last night we visited what seemed to be this really nice family. Shared a nice message, they all shared what blessings the gospel has brought into their lives. Then the dad, started going off on how he didn't believe the same things as the church. The funny part was, he was using the Book of Mormon and Doctrine & Covenants to try and proof that the church is wrong. Hello, that is the evidence this is true church of Jesus Christ. He was out looking for an argument. It wasn't the most pleasant environment to be in. He had some very interesting views that make absolutely no sense. My favorite part of people telling us all sorts of things that they think is true is that you can literally feel the spirit just disappear. The Holy Ghost runs away. You know that what they're telling you isn't true because the spirit isn't there to testify. It's kinda cool. But in all, I feel sad for him, because he is just searching for things that are wrong , instead of relying on the things that he knows are true. Breaks my heart. AND we got fed fried chicken yesterday. :) So that made it a little better.
Most of this week we've been on bikes because we've pretty much used all of our miles for the month. We have barely enough to make it today. Luckily the month starts anew tomorrow. And thanks for the package mom! It was the best!!! I was excited to pull that out of the mail box! I can't really remember anything all to exciting that happened. Renatta came to church! Our ward is starting to get things going how they should! General Conference is this weekend!! We also have interviews with President Nattress this week. I can' understand a single thing that Elder Legrand, the elder in our zone from France, says. It's kinda like that Asian guy that worked at the hotel in San Francisco. One family signed up to feed us 9 times for the month of April, and that's not an exaggeration. I guess they like us? All is well here in the desert. Just carrying on one day at a time. I love being here serving the Lord. I love being able to feel of the spirit and being directed each day as to what to do and what to say. Makes my job a lot easier. Thanks for all y'all do and I hope to hear from you soon! I love and miss y'all!
Love,
Sister Adams
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