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| A printed owl decoration/mask since she LOVES owls! |
Notes: Red commentary from Mom as a means of explanation.
Our
Trunk-or-Treat isn’t until this Wednesday, and it’s only going to be that, no
party. (Trunk-or-Treat
is a congregation-sponsored event for younger kids to dress up and
Trick-or-Treat to decorated/parked car trunks in the church parking lot. It’s safe and fun! Often, there is a party to
go with it, but not this time.) Sounds like they're going all out for the
Christmas party instead. We'll see if I'm actually around for that or if I'm
getting moved as of Dec 17th(I'm betting on getting moved, honestly. They don't
typically keep you with your trainer for longer than the training).
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| real seasons.....aaaaahhhh... |
(We sent a box with her cold
weather clothes, Halloween Candy, and a loaf of Nick’s homemade sourdough bread,
as requested. It was sent directly to
her, by-passing the Mission Office, so the bread would be fresher; 3 day ground
took almost 6 days. Sigh.) It’s all good. The bread wasn't stale (we're
still picking at it mmm). (Glad it was wrapped well!) The winter box did come! :)
Very pleased!
My companion and I
occasionally faun over the few scouting things we run into, since we're both
camp kids. (Sounds
like they both worked Boy Scout camps!)
It poured rain this week,
and the lightning did at one point get bad enough to knock out the power on the
block we were on and was close enough to spook both us camp kids into finding
cover. Yikes! Safety first.
We're starting to collect
ads from stores earlier in the week to coordinate our purchases on P-day a
little better. It means a few more stops but a better use of our money: I have
a lot of pasta now. Mm. (They don’t get fed by the members on a regular
basis in this particular area.)
We found someone new to
talk to during an hour of 8pm-9pm knocking. She said it must have been a sign
from God. Hopefully we can see her again. We also were inspired to linger in an
area with a less active we were working with. She lives in a locked apartment
building and apparently wasn’t home when we got there. Our lingering guided us
to a maintenance man who told us she just got home and was in the garage. Nice.
Then later that day we went to go check up on another less active we'd never
met before. We ended up parking in front of the neighbor's house because I was
being obnoxious about parking and teasing S. Marsh,... the neighbor yelled us
for our parking and said, “Okay. Sorry.” :( She came out to talk to us when we
went to the door of the address we had... Turns out the address was wrong and
the woman coming to talk to us was the lady we were looking for. She was
thinking about trying to find us and talk to us once a week or so. Wow. So
inspired. The Lord really does guide His missionaries.
One of our investigators
accepted a date of Dec 5th! (A baptism - yay!) Now she need to marry her boyfriend of 5 years since they're living together.
We had two investigators at
church! Miracles! One cried and asked if she could come back next week after
the 3 hours were over (we were just impressed she was willing to stay the whole
time!)... (Church
is 3 hours each Sunday – 1 hour each for Congregational meeting, Sunday School,
and one more class.)
We also went on exchanges
this week (Companionships trade companions to work different areas, and mix it up a little). I spent a lot of time pretending to know Spanish with the Hermana (Sister Missionary) I
was with, and the two of us had some good talks about family and Heavenly
Father. It was just hard because it really tore down a lot of walls I had up
about a lot of other stuff, too. But the Lord lets you break down so he can
build you back up better than before!
We have permission to go to
the temple next week. :) It will be Sister Marsh's first time to the Nauvoo
temple. Always excited to give the tour (I like being a tour guide I guess?)
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| SO. MUCH. POPCORN. |
Also Sister Marsh has
insisted we sing in the choir, so I bounce between tenor and alto. Glad other
people know how to sing that so I can just copy what they're doing. I can read music,
but have a really hard time actually doing it by myself.
A
member took us to Kalona today, which is an Amish colony. They had a lot of
discount food (we bought a million boxes of mac and cheese for $.50) and bulk
items. Look at all this popcorn! Wat. Craziness.
An exciting week all around. Thank you for
all the things. :)
Love
you. :) Miss you and the tribe. I'll share your love with my companion too.
Christine
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