I can't wait to see how the yard looks. I'd say you
could send me pictures, but I think it will be fun being surprised
instead. Hopefully the weather will be nice that day. Fingers
crossed!!!! That's exciting Stephanie is having a baby! Does Callie
have a wedding date? And that's okay about Chad being blessed on the
1st. Sure it would have been fun to be there, but I understand. I
guess they just have to let me play with him and get him all to myself
when I get back. ;)
Who was the returned missionary? I have a rough
draft already of my talk but it's hard not being able to sit down and
just write it all and figure it all out. Hopefully we won't be TOO busy
that weekend I get back so I still have some time to work on it.
Glad to hear all is well there in Syracuse. Things
here in Hanford are good too. Beyond hot though. We had a couple days
in the 100's this week. And to make it even better, we don't have a big
teaching pool, so we had to do a lot of finding this week and knocking
doors. It was tough. On Friday after planning, that's all we did till
night time. We actually met a couple good potentials. One is Morgan
Kelly. Apparently we met her a few weeks ago and gave her a card. So
after saying a prayer with her she said she recognized us. We tried to
figure out where and when, and then we did. She lost the card (not sure
if she intentionally did it or not) but she was really happy to see us
and told us her grandpa died a few months ago and left her his old
family Bible. She didn't know why he was giving it to her and not her
other family members. But meeting us she felt like it was her grandpa
telling her she needs to learn more about the bible and Christ. We
tried to set up a time to come back, but she told us the house we were
at was actually her boyfriends parents house. She was just there taking
care of the animals while they were out of town. So finding her was a
miracle itself. She gave us her number and we gave her ours. We were
kind of bumbed with no address or appointment (all missionaries worst
nightmare). We figured it just probably wasn't suppose to be.
Yesterday though we figured to invite her to church. She nicely
responded and said she was at her nieces b-day party. We told her to
let us know when she was free this week to meet up. Well this morning
during studies she texted us and said she wants to meet this Wednesday!
Sister Bee and I were jumping for joy! I think she's the first person
that I've ever found on my mission who actually kept their word and
called/texted us on when to meet. We are excited to meet with her.
Hopefully it keeps going this way and that she loves the message we
share with her about Christ and his gospel.
Had a good lesson with Josefina this week. I don't
think she will be getting baptized the end of this month as we had
planned, but I know for a fact that she will very soon. Gonna have to
make a trip out for that day! She really is the greatest. I hope she
continues doing these things. I'm seeing a lot this transfer of the
danger of staying in your comfort zone. I think that's the problem with
all our investigators right now. They are fine where they are at action
wise other than they know they should be doing something. We told Ivy
that we give her these assignments to help her grow. I think if she
really doesn't start doing these simple things we are asking her, then I
think it's just not her time and we need to put our attention on
others. We haven't been able to find Dennis home the past week and
more. Not sure where he went. It's hard to get a hold of him. You
either catch him all the time for a good section of time, and then he
drops of the earth for some time, and then back to visiting him, etc.
Funny moments of the week:
- Met "chatty"
Kathy. (she's disabled after a coma) Met her at the Rehab center. She
told us a bunch of jokes and would not let us go without telling us all
of them. My favorite....
knock knock....who's there.....oink....oink who.....are you a pig or an owl?
- Had a conversation with the elders the other day. We'd only text them scripture references back and forth
-
Was at the Relief Society activity (Activity day girls served us ladies
a mothers day dinner) and then they performed for us impromptu. Of
coarse they all chose to sing and perform Frozen for all of us. So if
THAT didn't get me even more anxious to see it, I don't know what will!
:P
- Shot a "Bug-a-salt" gun! (look it up on ebay!)
Well
I can't think of much else to write about. It was just a week full of
finding. Can't wait to see you all in 16 days! I'll start praying for
nice weather for us that Sunday. Ohh and did Bishop say how long he
wants my talk to be? Let me know.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been so
blessed to have you all in my life and supporting me in this journey. I
could not have done it without you all. Thank you! Until next week.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
-Sister Sorensen
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