I
hope you all had a fantastic Christmas with friends and family! Or
investigators and less-actives for you cool missionaries. Our Christmas
season was full of two things: illness and miracles. After being sick
for about a week straight, I got pink eye for Christmas! Yeah, so that
was pretty fun. I'm currently on antibiotics and all is well in building
up the kingdom. (when I spell kingdom I always have to say "king" in my
mind or else I get the g and the d mixed up.)
This
is how my pink eye went down. I'm pretty sure I caught it somewhere on
Christmas Eve because I woke up on Christmas with nasty crusty eyes. I'm
sure you wanted to know that. But I pretty much brushed it off because
my eyes weren't bothering me. But by the end of the day one of my eyes
was swollen and goopy. I'm sure you wanted to know that, too. So we went
to our bishop's on Christmas and when he saw me the first thing he said
was, "your eye is booger-y." Yeah bishop. Thanks. So he's a PA and
wrote me a prescription right there. Except I couldn't fill it until the
next day. You know, everything's closed on Christmas and whatnot. So
that's fine. But I woke up with my eye swollen shut the next day. I
looked ridiculous. And probably a bit freaky. It's definitely for the
best that I was home-bound because I would have scared so many
children.
So
I was in quarantine a lot of this week, but it was all honky dory
because Sister J got to go on splits a few times and rock the work.
Miracle there!
My highlight of the week was, of course, W!!! AHH I just love her!! If you met W you would love her too. She's just the bomb.com.
So Sister J and I made gingerbread cookie dough for our
investigators, less-actives we're working with, and some members that
help us out a lot. Sister C (the member we live with) helped out a
lot too because I was sick. Don't want to be spreading those germs with
the Christmas spirit! We were told to make visits on Christmas by
invitation only and we figured if we showed up with cookie dough they
would invite us in. Makes sense, right? Yeah, it totally worked. So we
showed up at W's house on Christmas with our goodies and being the
rockstar she is, invited us right in. It was awesome because her husband
was there in the living room watching tv. And he stayed, turned off the
tv, and talked with us! He's a football coach at the high school, so he
loves to talk sports. I really don't know that much about football, but
I'm a good listener and in high school I just kind of soaked a lot of
stuff in even though I don't know what it means. So I talked to him a
little about football, basically name-dropping my way through it. It was
awesome. We got to show him that we're normal people, not just random
missionaries that are trying to "Mormon-ize" his wife. Because that's
not true. Anyway, he invited us to come back and talk to him again
(meaning about football), but we'll totally get him talking about the
gospel soon. :) Bahhhh I just love W. And she didn't even care that I
was there with pink eye! Don't worry, I hand sanitized.
And then
yesterday was... interesting. We're working with a recent-ish
convert/somewhat less-active named J and his mom. So J
got engaged a few weeks ago and shocked us all. Then he told us that
he's removing his records of the Church because his fiance A wants to
marry a Christian. (Uhh... J?) And then yesterday they show up
together at church. He's just full of surprises. A is such a
sweetheart and just seemed kind of overwhelmed being there. We were
planning on giving her a church tour a few days before, but she was sick
so we didn't think she would come. But A doesn't understand that
we're Christians and even though we've explained it multiple times, it
hasn't clicked yet. And then J explains everything to her as, "the
Mormons do this..." Not "we" but "the Mormons." Hey J, you're a Mormon
too. Just in case you forgot. Oh bless his heart. I need to be more
patient. But A is willing to learn about the Church while J is ready
to abandon ship. Like he's already got his floaties ready. It's rough.
But it's gonna be awesome.
So those are some of the highlights of this week.
OH! I almost forgot. So we've been seeing a less-active named C and his living partner named R. She's the one that has interesting beliefs.
We dropped off some cookie dough and chatted for a bit. Chatting with
them basically consists of listening to her share and then discuss where
our doctrine differs. We're kind of reminding C while teaching
R. But C always suggests he say a closing prayer (yeahhhh!) and
he starts talking about me getting my visa. It went a little bit like
this: "And please bless ....... Sister ...... Chreest-oh that she'll get
her visa soon." Sister J had opened her eyes during the prayer to
see C a few inches away from my name tag, squinting in the dim lights
to read my name. Hahaha I just about died. Seriously.
So I'm excited for the new year and to make
resolutions and goals and what not. It's gonna rock. And we also
activated Facebooks on Saturday! Boo yah. We're convinced it's pretty
much for W so we can show her Mormon Messages. Every video we've
tried to have her look up, she hasn't been able to find. So it's like
manna from heaven to just link it to her page. The Lord provides!
Hurrah!!
But I love you all! I'm so proud off all the work you are all doing!
Keep on keeping on and remember who you are and what you stand for!!
Sister Baker
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