July 14th-21st

Hey all! Hope your week was good! Sister lights and I had a really

good one. We saw many many miracles happen!

Monday, July 14th.

Typical p-day haha we played volleyball, hung out, emailed our

families, and rested for a little bit. We had dinner with the

chatfields, which was so good. It was a summer meal! Then went over to

see some members to follow up with the 40 day fast, and we got to see

a PI, Emma! She is doing well. We talked to her for a little bit about

the BOM and how we can use the audio app on it...she was super

interested in that. So that was cool! Then the normal night planning!

Tuesday, July 15th.

A slow day compared to the rest of the week. We had lunch at izzy's!

And it was swell! Then did some finding in maglia and then had another

great lesson with tony! Our dear friend of the Toveys, he accepted a

date for August 2nd to be baptized! He has to overcome one word of

wisdom addiction, but he's doing really well. He is willing to give up

that addiction too, really excited to be baptized! So that was a

really cool miracle!

Then had a really great lesson with Phil and Michelle, the parents of

ashley( young girl who was just baptized) and Phil is really

considering baptism so that's really cool!

Then we set up the next lesson, and came home and planned.

Wednesday, July 16th.

Did service for sister in the ward moving wood, so that was pretty cool!

Then came back and got ready for a zone conference in Chico. It was

really good! We spent most of the day in Chico, after the meeting we

went out to eat then back to paradise! Then dinner, and figured out

jerry and Lisa's baptismal program for Saturday. So that was really

exciting! and got ready for exchanges with Sister Rollins, the newest

sister training leader.

So we exchanged halfway between paradise and Chico then got ready for

Thursday! So sister light went to Chico while I stayed in paradise.

Thursday, July 17th

Lots of miracles happened. I made a lot phone calls for the program

then made a few phone calls while sister Rollins updated her Areabook

in her area. After all those calls, we left around 11:15am,  and went

to a lesson with Dottie, and sister fry! Sister Rollins knew her from

her last area...red bluff....so it was such a treat for all of

us....it was like a mini reunion for them haha. The lesson went really

well, and all of us felt the spirit so strong, then we had lunch with

them!

After lunch, we had another lesson with marque and read some more of

the BOM with her....and then she gave us a bunch of homegrown kale,

red zorro, spinach, etc. It's good stuff. Lots of salads. Then we went

to see a friend of marque, Marie, and we picked her up as a new

investigator! Then right after we went to see sister Dautlon, a LA,

and we were able to share a message with her.  And her granddaughter

was there. So we picked her up as a new investigator, Aleysa. So that

was cool. Then dinner with maldens, and then we left for exchanging

back with our companions, so it was a busy day but it was good!

Friday, July 18th.

Did planning for most of the day, confirmed everything for the brooks

baptism and then had dinner, then saw the Hamners and read with them

in the BOM so that was really cool! Then did more finding! Then

prepared for Saturday and the weekend!

Saturday, July 19th.

We got everything ready for jerry and Lisa's baptism...and we got that

taken care of.

It was such a great blessing! They had a lot of their nonmember family

there and the program went amazing! The spirit was so strong there!! I

also had another surprise too!

Sister laws told me that she wasn't going to make it ...a few days

before the baptism....but she totally surprised me by showing up and I

was freaking out. It was such a good surprise lol she got me good!

Hahaha but it's so like her. It was like a reunion for all the ward

and I....it was so nice! I loved seeing her so much! We had so many

miracles happen too with the rest of our visits. Attached are some

pictures too. Eric Schuster was able to come from Texas and we got to

meet him and some more of their family too after their baptism! So it

was such a good day!

Sunday, July 20th

It was such a good day at church! We had the brooks confirmed and the

Avery family came as well as more people too from vacation and such so

it was a good turn out.  Lots of members are super excited about

missionary work. After church, we had dinner with the manwills and it

was really good! I had salmon guys....and it was way goood! It wasn't

too bad. I'm trying more things in mission than I thought I would

hahaha but it was really good. Then tried to contact a few more people

then came back to the house and planned, called in numbers...typical

Sunday night. And got ready for Monday.

Monday, July 21st.

It started raining today so we did a few errands then went down to

Chico and now we are all just hanging out and taking a break hahaha so

it's been a nice day so far. We have dinner tonight with the

eyelsee's, and they are awesome! So that's our plan for today.

Loving paradise, the people, and being a missionary ! It's great. I

hope y'all have a great week!

Enjoy the pictures too!

Until next week,

Sister Matchett