Hiya!
Another week has flown by in the OSM. It's pretty sweet stuff. Time
flies like crazy here. Mornings are kind of slow, but once lunch hits
we're going nonstop until we come home. I love it!
So this week has been the
bomb.com. We got to go to the Portland temple on Tuesday and it was
wonderful! The temple is so pretty! I sent some pictures for your
viewing pleasure. It's made of all marble. So cool!
On Thursday, we were driving in the car to visit a less active
member, and as we passed a street Sister T was like "we need to go
tract that street. now." Sister H and I are like, alrighty then.
So we go to the top of the street and start tracting
a few houses. The fifth house we knock on, a woman answers the door and
we introduce ourselves and the church. Then she's like, "well, do you
want to come in and have a meeting?" Do we want to come in and have a
meeting?!? Well YEAH! So we go into her house
and teach her the restoration and about the Book of Mormon. She already
knows a little bit about the church because she watches the BYU channel
with her family. What?! Not even very many members do that! She told us
she watches the family programs on there
and that her daughter that's in 7th grade is looking into going to BYU.
Whoa. So I told her about the school and how awesome it is. Yeah, that
was an awesome experience. Apparently she's in the process of moving to
that house and she doesn't know exactly when
she'll be at that house. So we're going to try to go back before she
leaves.
Our lessons with our other investigators are going really well! One
investigator, her name is Gina. She's super funny and talkative, and
she told us these awesome stories about how she's felt the spirit, but
never realized that's what it was until we told
her. During the lesson, the spirit was really strong, so that's
awesome! The spirit is the one that's going to do the teaching, not me.
So without it, we're all lost.
Our other investigator, Jerome came to church last Sunday for
sacrament meeting. (except he was late so he missed the sacrament) Then
he left right afterwards. We thought he really didn't like it or
something because he seemed kind of put off, but when
we talked to him about it, he said he liked it a lot and he wants to
come again. Yeah buddy! We taught him again about the plan of salvation,
and talked in particular about the fall. He got so into that lesson! It
was probably the best lesson we've had with
him! He had never considered the idea that partaking of the fruit was
necessary and the role of agency in the plan. He soaked it all up like a
sponge. We pretty much taught him all we knew about the fall, because
that's what he needed and he totally understood
it. And we had an awesome member of the ward come with us and she
helped the lesson so much. Lessons always go better when members are
there, that's for sure. Right as we were about to leave he asked us if
we believe if we can become gods after we die. Yeah...
so we're working on that one and how we're going to tackle it. That's
deep stuff.
Let's see... CONFERENCE! General conference was awesome!! We
watched each session at a different members' house. I didn't catch much
from the first session because the members we're talking off and on.
That was pretty annoying. They're just a bit loud
all the time, bless their hearts. But they're a super nice family. I
think my favorite talk was by Elder Ballard. He talked about
missionaries and members coming and working together. That's definitely
the problem we've seen in this ward. We're trying to get
members to come with us to lessons, give rides, etc. and it's not
working to well. I've only talked to the bishop a handful of times
because he's kind of hard to get ahold of. He's a super nice guy, and a
great bishop, but he's very busy. So we're meeting
with him sometime this week. Our ward is one of the busiest in the
mission (I think that's what President said), but we've still got some
improving to do.
I've been wanting to run more. It's hard because it's pretty dark
outside when we wake up, but I like going outside anyway. I think I ran
about a mile this morning. The other sisters aren't too keen on running
all the time, so I just run back and forth
as they walk.
I ate 19 waffles this week! Boom babay! Those frozen eggo waffles.
I'm not buying those again this week. haha. And that's probably why I
wanted to start running. It had to be something pretty intense to
motivate me to run, you know?!
I think that's pretty much what's been going on this week. Oh and
the members give us too much crap food. That has to stop. We have an
entire pie and about a pound of cookie dough in our fridge right now. It
makes me sick thinking about it.
Well I love you and hope everything is going well!
Love ya!
Sister Baker
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