July 22, 2013

Oh boy let me tell you what this mission thing is an adventure! so many crazy things happened this week! First I'll start with Tuesday some other sisters came to do exchanges with us. While we were out I was with Sis. Thomson , Sis. Fife, and Sis. Kramer. Kramer and Fife have not been out too long so it was super fun. They got a good taste of brownwood within the first 2 hours! As we were walking downt he street a guy on his porch was like oh look mormons and started shooing us away... ya know now big deal happenes all the time... next we went o our favoite park to try to contact people there. We saw this adorable old couple and decided to talk to them... Well the next 20 minutes consisted of them telling us we were part of a cult, didn't read the bible, thought Christ was a polygamist, you know all the good stuff trying to bash with us. Well they wouldn't shut up so I just interupted them and said ma'am I know that this is true because the spirit told me... then another 20 minutes about how there is false spirits that told me the church was true blah blah blah... So finally I just said I dont feel the spirit have a nice day and started to walk away. She then yelled you dont feel the sprit cause you hear truth! .... that was really awkward for me cause thats the job of the spirit is to bear witness of the truth... Then she so kindly invited me to go to josephsmithlied.com so I followed that up witha invitation to mormon.org.... she kept yelling I stoped listening and we all kept walking away... needless to say im pretty sure those two little missionaries may have been scarred for life... But it turned out to be a pretty okay day!

Luckily even though there was craziness all week Jake got baptized which was crazy all in itself because he left for out fo town monday and didn't have a cell phone and didn't get back till saturday morning at 5... so that was really fun. The good news is he showed up and has an awesome testimony!

Church this week was also really great I felt the spirit so strong. People from the stake came and talked on the atonment. One thing I really liked was he referenced to D&C 19 and talked about how when its our turn to drink from the bitter cup in life that we cannot become bitter about it. I dont think im a bitter person but not gonna lie when those old folks yelled at me I was a little bitter about it so that really helped open my eyes.

This week has been a emotional rollercoaster but it ended on a great note so I really cant complain.  Thanks so much for all y'alls support it really does make a huge difference for me! Thanks so much!  No matter what happens the gospels true so life is good!

 oh and pictures! one is brownwoods city moto, the other is Jakes baptism

July 15, 2013

Hey ya'll! its just been fantastic in Brownwood! Right now we have 3 solid people that are planning on getting baptized in the next 2 weeks!  with those odds at least one has to go through with it right? One of the Jake is actually Ariels husband. they thought he was a member but turns out they cant find him records so he get to be rebaptized, that doesn't happen too often! I kinda feel bad for him. First he was raised going to church so he knew it all. Then he went thru all the lessons with his wife, then the new member lessons (which are the same ones) after she was baptized and now we have to teach him them all over again! haha I personally think I would love that! he pretty much teaches the lesson. We ask him what he knows and he tells us the lesson then we fill in the cracks and bear testimony! Easiest person to teach I think. plus the family is great! While we were teaching them the other night I looked on the floor and saw a huge spider! so I was like ummm Jake is that a spider? and everyone started screaming and standing on the chairs. So naturally I said Jake your the man kill it! so Sis. Carr threw her shoe across the room for him to kill it with. Oh it was fantastic!

I've also ruined the tooth fairy for a 4 year old this week! So we were sitting in the lesson and somehow the tooth fairy got brought up and I was like yeah my parents allways told me the next door neighbor was the tooth fairy then I found out it was all fake when I was about 10. The mom covered the little boys ears and just started laughing... I felt terrible but it was hilarious so not much you can do about that now! Sorry little boy I wont talk about the easter bunny around you....

So yea turned out to be a pretty okay week! Its finally raining in Brownwood again it was starting to look... well brown and thats just sad. I looked at the clouds a lot this week... Could anyone tell me if clouds are flat on the bottom or if they just look like that.. its been buggin me all week!

Thanks so much! oh and the pictures are...

I forgot I was allergic to cats again....

and my companion crawls at me and creeps me out so I have to defend myself with weights...

Have a blessed day! Love ya!

July 8, 2013

Howdy y'all! Hope your 4th of July was everything you wanted and more! Here in Brownwood we are a million miles from any other missionaries so we stayed inside and played a nice game of Monoploy! at first I was rockin it!  There was a few times I was down to under 50 dollars but made my way back up! but in the end I lost big time. So wasn't the best 4th of my life!

This week has been full of excitment! Mike accepted a baptisimal date that we are super excited about! unfortunately he still wont read the Book Of Mormon so it may not happen as soon as we would like it to. But he is coming to church every week and really changing his life around its just that one thing that keeping him. I cant ever express how important the Book Of Mormon is! I love that thing so much! Im trying to read it all in 1 transfer and I started 2 weeks late... so im reading all during lunch and some of dinner to hopefully get it done.

So this one time we thought we had fles... We went to a members house that had fleas but we forgot about it... So they weren't home so we left and we all started to feel really itchy and stuff. so we pulled the car into a parking lot and were all trying to get the fleas we couldn't see off of us! Then Sis. Thomson was like guys its okay we dont have them. then she turned around and there was one on her foot! it was like a scene from a movie! it was hilarious! anyway we got it all taken care of and we are safe now :)

sorry this is so short... but here are some pictures!

 when I was winning Monoploy

Then me on main street for the 4th!

 

July 5 2013

Hello! Its been another fantastic week in Brownwood but really like the best week here so far I think. It all startedon Tuesday when we got to road trip it up to Zone conference! While I was there to my suprise in there church there was a picture of my boyfriend Gordan Hayward on the wall! My feet almost fell out from under me I was so smitten! Then the day just got better! I got a package from home with a camera and beef jerky! It was awesome!  On the way home my companion wasn't feeling well so she asked me to drive. While I was driving ya know signing my heart out to some Mo-Tab I saw the speed limit sigh ahead said 50... Well aparently I started going 50 too soon and got my self my very first speeding ticket! So really that wasn't great.. probably the pit of the week.

So thursday is bike day and this week it was super hot but we made sure to be on our bikes! and boy oh boy did we get the blessings from it! While we were trying people we met a nice family that welcomed us right in! We were able to teach the restoration and the dad loved it. Once my companion was done with the first vision he was like yeah I like that... the spirit slapped him in the face real good! So we are super excited to work with them more.

So on thursday night we were about to head in for the night and I had a strong feeling to go visit Carol right quick. We talked to her for a minute and she told us hey I gotta go to bed Im cleaning out a shed in the morning, so we offered her our serivce. So friday morning we were at her house at 7am ready to work! We cleaned out her shed moved some more stuff in there and had a lot of fun. It was really good to be able to build that relationship with her family. But let me tell ya they are crazy! the whole time we were working there was this huge black widow and a wolf spider just chillen there and people were standing by them like no big deal. And im sittin here thinking y'all are totes cray cray! So I was terrified the whole time we were outside and stayed far away from them.

Im sad im missing Park City and the 4th this year. Its my favorite time of year! im not however sad im missing cleaning the hosue before we go...

Thanks for all the support! love y'all!

 

So pictures!

Our butler Gerard the spider... I dont really like him...

and Gordon Hayward!