Hi fam :)
How's it? Things here are gooooood. More miracles this week :)
So we are teaching Lisa. She came to church with her fiancé last week. Her fiancé is in our ward but has been inactive for who knows how long. He actually just got out of prison… But she just randomly came to church and we were able to set up appointments with her. Our first lesson was really good… we taught her the Restoration. Every time i teach that lesson i gain a better knowledge and understanding for what Joseph Smith really did for us. Gosh i love him. I can't wait to get to Heaven and just thank him for everything. Anyway… we committed her to be baptized on December 21st and we told her to pray about it and everything. We went over a couple days later and asked if she had prayed and she said that after we left, that night she couldn't sleep, so she "opened up the word" and started reading and it was about baptism… so she opened up the bible and the same thing happened. Then she said that she prayed and asked Heavenly Father if this is what she is supposed to do and she fell asleep, and had a dream. She said in her dream all she saw was water and her going under the water. We were basically in tears when she told us this. She is truly elect and so ready to be baptized. Except she smokes and she is living with her fiancé. However, the second time we came over she told us that she stopped smoking! We hadn't even told her about the Word of Wisdom yet and she just said that she didn't feel good about being baptized if she was smoking. She is awesome. We have very high hopes for her and she is definitely a miracle from our Heavenly Father. She was greatly needed and seriously an answer to my prayers!
This week was freezing… it rained twice and i swear everyone went into hibernation because of it! There was NO ONE outside. So we would go to member's homes and they would barely open the door because they thought it was so cold outside haha. It was cold but only like 50. I have gotten so used to the hot weather here that it feels so much colder than that! But now it is back up to the 70s so it's all good :) I am excited for Thanksgiving! It's basically like another p-day.. so i might need some more money on my card cause we are gonna go SHOPPING! Yay :) haha seriously though. We are eating dinner with a member but that's all we have planned so i'm excited :)
Oh yeah, it's fine… just a month from today and we will be skypinnnnng! :)
Besides Lisa, we kinda had a rough week talking to people. I had someone literally shew me away… with her hands. She said " Ew no leave" and basically pushed me away. Another lady told us that we were brainwashed. She also told us she had the gift of tongues. It was just person after person that just rejected us hard core. it's kinda discouraging just because we can hardly get two words out without someone yelling at us.. but it's more sad than anything that they won't listen to the truth. it's interesting to me that we would dedicate this much of our time for something and people don't respect that and listen. someday they'll know, i just wish today was that day!
Sister Greenwood and i are doing better. Our companionship inventories are really great :) I have just had to be straight up with her about everything. She has been really nice and in our nightly prayers she always prays for me that i won't be stressed and that i will be able to be a good trainer and she always says how grateful she is for me and that she loves me. I do the same but it really has helped us both so much. just to openly love each other helps us love the work more and helps us be more in tune with each other and with the spirit. it's been good :) the only thing is that she used an entire roll of toilet paper in one day. by herself. so i asked her what the heck was going on and she said she would cut back.. and the next day she did the same thing. it is the weirdest thing i have ever seen hahaha.
We were saying things that we know/like about each other last night.. and she said.. well i know that you hate being messy and that you don't like hair in the bathroom! she also said i know i like your parents because your mom was miranda for halloween and your dad is really funny! i talk about you guys all the time and she always says she likes my family even though she doesn't know you. so i told her i know she likes toilet paper :) haha it was pretty funny. Anyway. We are doing good :)
I am so happy here. i love being a missionary more than anything. i can't believe how fast time has gone, this transfer is done this week!! totes cray. i'll be done before you know it!
I love you all so much and hope you have a great Thanksgiving! Take advantage of being grateful. We are so blessed!
Sister Anderson :)
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