I am so grateful for the consistent letters- it's a relief to know that every week I can count on emails from home. And also I have received many letters from a variety of family members- I feel bad that I am so behind in responding to people, but know that I have appreciated every gesture and prayer!
Well it was the first day of spring this week! Though it's pretty much sunny, and humid all year round, there is definitely an increase in pollen, sweat, heat, and bugs. Hence the frightening title. MORE cockroaches. Good heavens, I hate those things. They are big, crunchy, and creepy. This last week Sis Y woke up at night with 2 on her face- she swung out of bed, turned on the light and turned over her sheets to see if there were more. The next night she woke up again and we both found them on our beds. Needless to say we have a couple techniques- 1. Slamming every surface possible with a shoe, 2. Spearing the ones that get in the corners of cabinets and the space between wall and carpet with the end of a broom, 3. Sweeping them out using the really long outdated Joseph Smith pamphlets. When I say that we have killed too many this week, I am really saying that Sis Y did. But we have had our dear Sis Boynton (the senior couple that serves in our ward and lives In our apartment complex) come and spray our apartment. I have never prayed so hard to sleep well than this week- she is so good to us! I love and admire our senior couple- they would do anything that we needed whether we ask or not. But seriously, for the whole rest of the week I have been tip-toeing and looking around every corner around the apartment. Haha, I am so grateful for fearless fellow missionaries :)
This week we had a fantastic zone conference where half of the zones in the mission get together and have an all day training. I love being with other missionaries. The night before they asked if I could put together a musical number- because I was concerned about throwing a piano part on somebody, I played an arrangement of I Need Thee Every Hour and the 3 sisters in my district sang. It really turned out, and the spirit was very evident. We got out new iPads this week and got to see again the new Easter initiative- it amazes me to see all the money, energy, time, and resources that have been dumped into hastening this work- I feel so deeply grateful to be apart of this trusted group of missionaries!
This week! Here are some of the results of really hard prayers and effort this week:
We just happened (muhahah) to see this really cute less active girl in our ward (Jordan) as she came outside to switch her laundry. She probably wouldn't have let us in had we not seen and approached her in that moment. We had a great lesson win her. We left having extending her really inspired invitations, and she had a new resolve to meet with us. She even asked to come out and spend time seeing people with us!
We had really been really anxious about a meeting that we had set with a recent convert of ours that in recent months has turned to really poor sources for information, and I turn has questioned ever having faith and found more disturbing questions. This meeting was supposed to happen the morning after our zone conference when we got our new iPads. However when we came home from zone conference all of our plans that we had saved in our data base were deleted. We went to so much effort to figure everything out again, find rides etc.,and right before the time we were about to leave to meet Sarah, she cancelled. Well the Lord had a different plan in mind. We ended up going to visit with one of our progressing gators (Brenda) instead, and a had a great lesson in which we committed her to baptism on May 2nd! Such a miracle that she was able to meet with us on such short notice, allow the spirit to enter her heart to accept the date, and give such a fluent heart felt prayer afterwords.
We just had a really great lesson with a new gator of ours (destiny). She was vey inquisitive and open. But by the time we were able to answer all of her questions and invited her to baptism as well, we had 10 min to bike a 30 minute bike ride in order to get to our next appointment (Glase girls). We were cruisin'!!! Seriously, we had all these over passes to climb over but we still made it in 15 minutes. When it comes to heavenly fathers children hearing the message of the restored gospel, he finds a way to make it happen. In that moment it felt like super strength and tenacity.
I love you all! I am so grateful for your support and strength. I am finally going to send a letter that has been in the works for the last couple months TODAY. So be keeping an eye out for it!
Also, something that I have discovered this week is that if I have a spiritual question the answer will not be factual- it will be a spiritual one as well. It's hard to describe what these answers may feel/look like, but the more we want and try to recognize them, the more prevalent they will be. Also with conference approaching (!!!), I have been pondering over what revelation I actually need. I know that I order to receive an answer, we also must ponder and decide our questions first. Food for thought! What revelation are you in need of? What question are you expecting to be answered as you watch conference?
Love you! Godspeed!
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