January 25, 2016

This week was INSANE!!!!! Absolutely insane.  It snowed!!!!! That's right ladies and gentleman, put on your caps and gowns because it is a white new year here in good ole' Alabama.

We are late in writing today because when we got outside to head to the library after studies we found one of our tires flat and the rim broken off!! My immediate reaction was that some tried to steal our rim and in trying to take it broke it and decided it was no use to them broken so they just left it nicely leaning against our tire! haha But then we found a note on our windshield written on  cardboard that said "Sorry I hit your car. with love, your downstairs neighbor Timothy." with his phone number. So I guess he scraped up against our car in the middle of the night or something. But what a nice guy to leave a note right?!  But God truly does send us help in our time of need because a really nice gentleman who lives a few buildings behind us asked us if he could help change our tire.  Well thank you Mr. kind man of course you may!  He was so nice and said that he has been helped by Mormon missionaries in the past but just a year ago converted to Catholicism.  He was so sweet and invited us to have dinner with him and his family next week! How sweet is that????? blessings on blessings on blessings. 

We had the opportunity this week to watch the first ever Worldwide Missionary Broadcast live this past Wednesday! We got to hear from a few of the 12 apostles and some other people.  It was so so so good! It was entitled Teach Repentance and Baptize Converts.  I took many many notes.  I learned alot that changed the way I think and made me want to change some things about the way I teach. 

This week went by so quickly! Sister Mitchell and I went on exchanges this week with our STLs.  I LOVE OUR STLs.  They are the best.  and such awesome missionaries.  While we were having lunch beautiful giant snowflakes fell from the sky!!! SNOW!!! It was sooooo beautiful and freezing cold.  School here in Huntsville was cancelled and everyone had a snow day! Except us!  Missionary work never stops! I am eternally grateful for hand warmers. I don’t even understand how they work but WHAT A BLESSING.  I would be fingerless without those miracle workers.

Honestly I was shouting for joy because this meant that EVERYONE would be home today and would be an awesome day for tracting! Sister Castagno and I were out tracting in their area and the snow was falling and we helped an old black man lift his washer in his truck and he told us that we were God's angels!  Everyone else we talked to that day told us we were crazy for being out in the cold and told us to go home and get warm.  But the work don't stop fo nothing people!  I was able to meet one of their investigators, **** who is getting baptized next week and he was the cutest guy I have ever seen.  He is probably in his 20's and is extremely quiet and really like a "cool-gangster-guy"  He loves reading the BoM and has some amazing questions.  He has been trying to quit smoking for the past month and is down to only 3-5 cigarettes a day.  Sis C and I bought an onion for him because he HATES ONIONS.  And told him that any time he wants to smoke a cigarette he has to eat a little bit of the onion.  Just looking at the onion in the bag he was about to throw up!! He is absolutely disgusted by them! It was soooo funny.  We were laughing the whole time but whenever he wanted to smile he would just quickly go back to a frown. hahaha He knew in his heart it needed to be done!  GO LYNN!

As the night came everything started to freeze and we were told to not drive anywhere.  Not because it was too dangerous but because the Alabamians don't know how to drive in this kinda weather and we will get in a crash.  So we just visited some less actives in their apartment complex!  Our 24 hour exchange ended up being a bit longer because of the delays of weather. 

Emmaus Experience this week:

******! This lady.  We found her at the beginning of the transfer and has cancelled appointment after appointment.  But we never gave up on her! She is English and We finally got to meet with her yesterday and my oh my oh my.  She is SO ELECT.  She loves the Lord and has had immense faith in Him through out her life.  She had a lot of genuine questions about what we believe because she is a big fan of Sister Wives (a TV show) where the family is a polygamy family and are members of the FLDS faith.  We answered many of her questions and told us she has been reading the Book of Mormon since we first met her.  She knows there is more knowledge out there that God has revealed and wants to grow her faith in Him and learn more about the Book Of Mormon.  YAYYYYYYYYYY

This Saturday is transfer calls!!! I have no idea how this transfer has gone by so quickly! I have a feeling that I will be transferred to a new area and Hermana Mitchell will be follow up trained.  Which makes me so sad because I LOVE HUNTSVILLE! This is all I have ever known and where I learned to be a missionary!  We will see! Pray fo ya girl!

I love this gospel with all that is in me. I love my Savior Jesus Christ.  This gospel brings so much happiness and joy and light into peoples lives! All it takes is a desire and some effort.  Some people don't want to make that little effort.  It saddens me soooo much. 

I LOVE THIS QUOTE.