Hello y'all! How are you doing?! Well I hope! This last week was super
busy for sister laws and I, that's for sure.... How was yours?
Last Monday, it was a normal preparation day...nothing new really
happened haha so same old same old. I got to email my family yay! Love it
when that happens!
Tuesday, was transfer days so luckily all but one of the missionaries
from the paradise area left. That elder had been here for about 7
months......crazyyy! It was sad to see him go, but The Lord has need
of him in another area.
Sister laws and I had lunch at izzy's, a local burger place, so that
was awesome! It was good! Then a lesson with Dottie....she is
progressing well with everything BUT going to church and committing to
a date for baptism. She is so close!
After Dottie's, we did a lot of finding until about dinner time which
was around 5:30pm so we went there and the members had invited a
friend who had had some really bad experiences with the
church...thankfully we were all able to clear up all of that haha so
that was good! Then after dinner, we went to visit another guy we have
been teaching....he took Moroni's challenge and said that the Book of
Mormon wasn't for him, but when we asked him why...he couldn't tell us
haha interesting! We brought up family history and he was super
interested in that lol so he hasn't quite dropped us yet, that's a
miracle! Then we came home and did the normal routine.
Wednesday, we didn't have any meetings today so most of the morning
was making phone calls, taking care of a lot of things we had been
needing to do, which was so much fun! A lot of missionary work happens
over the phone...which surprises me hahaha who knew?! I have gotten
better at talking on the phone that's for sure!
We had a lesson with Julie and Tena, and we did more family history
again then did a chapel tour which was so perfect! We were with them
for an hour and half then they left and we closed up the church, etc.
so that was pretty awesome! Then did some finding again, and had
dinner around 6pm...and it was super good!
Around 7pm, we met with some of the young women in our ward and went
over "Preach my gospel" with them...that was really cool getting to
work with the youth! Love that! Then went home around 9pm and did the
normal routine.
Thursday, we had district meeting so that was really awesome! We all
recieved some revelation to help our investigators out...yay!
Then did some more contacting but people were not home haha figures!
Summer has officially begun lol
Then went to dinner around 6pm, and that was really good!
After dinner we had a lesson at Jerry and Lisa's! They were ready to
go, did their "homework" and had a lot of questions for us so that was
awesome! We taught the restoration and sister hunt was able to come
too! She taught most of the restoration too, so cool to see members
and missionaries work together! It was awesome! They are still really
excited about getting baptized and everything! We found out Lisa has a
brother, who is a member, and lives near Austin, TX and would love to
come to their baptism! It was super cool! I love these people so much!
Then the normal routine.
Friday, we planned for the week ahead and had a few lessons. One was
with cris, she is reading the BOM and had a lot of questions so that
was a really good visit! Then we met with the hammers again..,and read
the BOM with them again! It was a really good lesson! Same night time
schedule.
Saturday, we were super busy!
The elders and sister laws and I were asked if we could help out at
this wildlife sanctuary near Yankee hill ( which is like the end of
our area that we cover). It is gorgeous! So we all went and got to tour
the animals and took a lot of photos so...enjoy! They are all super
cute animals! We did that for an hour then they put us to work so we
were out in the sun for quite abit of time......like 3-4 hours where
we were cleaning up the sawdust around the cage to help it look much
better....I got some color haha I was burned so bad on my arms lol but
it was such a great getting to help out! We left there around 2pm,
then all headed back to paradise to do our own plans haha we did some
more finding, had some lessons....which all fell through so we were
able to go to a lesson with the places, a family we have been working
with since I got here, and sister Ingolia was there.
After that lesson, she asked what our plans were and we told her. She
asked if she could feed us dinner( which worked out because our dinner
cancelled on us) and we had dinner with her an hour later! That was so
inspired! Another tender mercy of The Lord!
Then tried to visit a few more people, then headed off the bishops
house to start the 40 day fast with them. It was super cool to see how
motivated they are to do missionary work!
Then prepared for Sunday!
Yesterday was fast Sunday, and it was super great! Emily and Kylie
were there with the grandmother, Dee so that was awesome! We also had
a lot more members there too! Then Ashley and Michelle was there, so
that was awesome! Church was really good!
After church, we had dinner with bishop's family...that was awesome!
Then contacted jerry and Lisa, turns out that they has family come
over unexpectedly so they weren't able to come to church...which is
fine haha family is super important! But they were bummed the missed
it, but glad we came over to see them! We were bake to set up another
time to meet and to share a message with them! It was great!
After their visit, we went to another members home to start their day
of fasting in the 40 day fast with them, then came home and did Sunday
night stuff, and prepared for today! It was a really good week!
Today, sister laws and I are staying around paradise, one of the
sisters asked us if we wanted to go shopping ....and we were like
"yess!" We would LOVE to do that!" So we will be hangin out with her
today and doing normal preparation day stuff haha yay! Love missionary
life!
Then at 6pm, we are back in duty, so lots of good things happened! I
hope you have great week! And that all of you are seeing miracles
happen! They happen everyday!
I love y'all and pray for y'all! Have a great week!
Until next time,
Sister Matchett
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