March 22, 2016
HEY HEY HEYYYY
What is life??? I feel like time keeps flying by like no
otherrr. Every transfer keeps going faster and faster and
faster! Last Saturday we got Transfer calls! Sister Mennenga is
leaving :( she is going to be zebrad which means she will be with an
English Sister in an English area. Which is what she wanted! And as
for yours truly???? I AM TRAINING....AGAIN!! What. Hold the phone. Did I
not just train last transfer? Haha just kidding I am excited!! Her name
is Sister Anderson and apparently she is from Texas and that is all I
know. We are driving to B-ham this Wednesday to pick the little noobie up
and I will tell you more next week!!
This week was awesome we did ALOT of service. There’s
an older couple in our ward that is moving so the Elders and us and a
few of her grown kids that have families came to help.
**** and her husband **** came to church yesterday
again!! We taught her the Word of Wisdom and she told us
she knew coffee was bad and she really didn't know why but she had a
feeling a little over 3 months ago to stop drinking it. So she did!
And it wasn't hard for her. Just a month ago her Husband made it one
morning and he poured her a cup and she took a sip and couldn't even
drink any more. She didn't know why...How can God not be involved in
this??? HE IS SO GOOD. She is so excited for
her baptism! We pushed it back to April 9th because she
has some good friends she made here that used to be in the
Athens ward but moved to Canada and He is the one that is going to baptize
and confirm her but they couldn't get airplane ticket till then so that is
when we are having her baptism. She is so ready and even came to the
Relief Society activity this Thursday night celebrating the Relief
Society. She is the best!! and So excited.
Emmaus Experience:
We were tracting some projects and were getting shot down
everywhere we looked so we decided to try another place. Just as we
were opening our car door a black guy pulls up an dslams on his breaks and
reverses back and yells "Hey what are yall doing?" At first
Sister Mennenga and I were kinda stand offish because we both thought he was
gonna hit on us. But he pulled over and is REALLY interested. He
was a really sweet guy and said that he has been really interested in learning
about other religions and has a few Mormon friends from Georgia that
have explained some of what they believe with him and he wanted to learn
more. We left him with a BOM and a chapter to read. He texted us
later that day and said that he and his 3 year old daughter read it and thought
it was really really interesting. HOLLAAAAAA we will see what happens with him
but we were so blown away. God is so goooooooodddd.
One of our recent converts that was baptized last transfer
has been acting super weird and has finally told us that he is in love with
Sister Mennenga.. ewwwwwwwwwwwww so weird. We both had the feeling before he
said anything just because of the way he was acting so we are both glad she is
leaving because of that...haha WEIRD EW GROSS.
On Thursday we were leaving Walmart and saw a homeless guy
on the side of the road. He didn't look super homeless so we were kind of
curious so we pulled over and talked to him. Turns out he hitch hiked all
the way from Detroit. To go to this homeless convention thingy in
Talledega and he is spending the night here in Athens wherever he can go.
It has been super, super warm up until that day so he was worried about how
warm he would be because all he had was a blanket and a tarp. He was supper
nice and we asked if we could do anything for him and said nothing so we just
went inside Walmart and bought him a 15$ sleeping bag and gave it to him along
with a Book of Mormon and a card. He was so grateful!! It was so
cute.
Friday we had dinner with the Hunters, a family in the
ward. Who are the BEST. I love them so much they are
hilarious. They are the most REDNECK folks I have met so far out on my
mission haha insanely redneck.
We had squirrel for dinner. Straight up SQUIRREL.
And Brother **** showed us the squirrel before he skinned it and after.
All he did was put butter and salt and pepper and it was actually really
good!!! hahhaha I honestly couldn't believe I was eating it haha Dad would have
loved it!!! Their 4 year old daughter has a really hard saying my name
and called me Bister Boleen hahahaha They even have a skull on the antenna of
their car and I asked what it was. They said it was a coyote skull they
found on the side of the road and just stuck it on their car hahaha so FUNNY.
We taught their niece’s friend Chloe the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. We are team teaching her with
the Elders. She is so cute!!!
There was plenty of other things that happened this week but
I will leave it there. These were the highlights!!!
This week is EASTER! I am so excited!! I am even more
excited for General Conference! I will leave you with my testimony:
The Gospel is simple. Being on my mission, it
has really opened my eyes to how complete and simple the gospel really
is. how clear it is. Not easy. But clear and concise.
As humans in a complicated world. I think we complicate the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the vehicle by
which we can LIVE the gospel. It is a way of life. And through
living it, is the only way, we can feel true joy and happiness. Given to
us by a loving Heavenly Father who desperately wants us back. And it is
only through living HIS gospel that we can do so. I know that.
I love this gospel. and I love being a missionary!
sureloveyoumolinesrockmissionariesruleROLLTIDEROLL
Love,
Bister Boleeen
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