shawty fire burning on the mountain//week 45
8:46 PM
Hello everyone! Not gonna lie it's
super weird emailing you all on Tuesday and having received emails from all of
my missionary friends yesterday. Pioneer Day and Utahans man they caused us to
have p-day on a different day... Oh well what can you do? This past week was
great! It was crazy busy filled with meetings and exchanges and lessons and a
mountain/antelope island on fire. So many adventures so let's begin.
Monday we had the BEST PDAY ACTIVITY
EVER. We were able to have the bubble balls that you put yourself in and you
can run into people and knock them over. Oh my goodness it was so much fun.
Super hot but over all a blast and just SO MUCH FUN. Can you tell how much I
liked it?
Tuesday I was on exchanges with
Sister Allen and that was a party as usual with that crazy sister. She is the
most bold outgoing sister I have met and I always learn so much from her. So
you all know how Pokemon Go is a really big game now or something? Well we were
at someone's house knocking on the door and we look down and guess what we see?
A Pokemon card... It's coming to life...
Wednesday we did service with some
elders picking apricots out of a tree and then pruning the tree. It was really
fun. Poor Elder Veach fell out of the tree though... So he got cut up pretty
badly but he just hopped right back in like nothing happened, bloody and
everything. The funny thing about Elder Veach though is that he is 5 ft 4 in
but he acts super tough so the lady that we did service for, she only speaks
Spanish, she said to him "you act so big, but you are so small!"
Thursday I was in my area with
Sister Cole while Hermana Thetford was on exchanges with sister Allen. So on
Wednesday night we were planning and we didn't have any lessons with an
investigator for the next day but I wanted to have a lesson with an investigator
so I put one for our goal. The next day we walked around one of our entire
trailer parks and knocked on every single door of people who we are teaching,
we did teach, or who are potential investigators. And no one answered... We had
one trailer left so I said a little prayer in my heart that they would answer
the door and they did! We had a lesson right then and there and we talked about
God's love for us. It was awesome and a great testimony builder that if we set
our minds to something and work toward achieving a goal, Heavenly Father will
help us out to achieve our goals. So that was an awesome miracle we saw!
Friday we had district meeting and
it was super spiritual and we talked about why it is so hard for us to be like
our Savior, Jesus Christ? And we had an awesome discussion about it and we came
to the conclusion because we don't fully understand our purpose and who we are
as children of God. We are too materialistic and we focus on worldly pleasures
the most. The Savior NEVER forgot who He was. So we talked about Charity and
through service we can truly become more like our Savior. It was a great
discussion and then after district meeting we had dinner and then I was able to
go down to SLC to go to the temple while Hermano Madrid did baptisms for the
dead for the first time! It was so great! I love that family so much and it was
super special to see them again. When we were driving home we dropped off some
sister and we were driving over the freeway and I saw a fire on the mountain
but it was a HUGE FIRE. (We ended up finding out a few days later that like
100s of acres of Antelope Island was burned, no one was hurt) but it was crazy
and it was all smoky on Saturday by the mountain.
Saturday we had a ward activity and
we ate carne asada. Miracle though. So we have been working with this family,
the Andertons. The husband is a return missionary but inactive and his wife is
from Puerto Rico and not a member neither are his 3 sons. They used to be
taught by the English missionaries but we started teaching them. And we were
going around and inviting people to the activity and we stopped by their home
and hermano Anderton answered and said that he might come by with a son. And he
did! So that was awesome! We have been having a harder time contacting them
lately so it was good that they were able to come.
Sunday we met with 3 different stake
presidents and had church and had 2 random non members show up (always nice,
and one of them wants to get baptized but he lives further north so we cannot
teach him...) and we had some awesome lessons and this English stake in
Farmington (oh and cool little side note a member there knows the Jackson
family from our stake-like Emma Jackson and fam). Anyways, they were having a
Pioneer Day concert because Sunday was Pioneer Day and the next day they were
going on trek. The concert was SO good. Basically that stake is filled with
Utah's finest singers. So we were able to celebrate Pioneer Day even though we
are in the Spanish program.
And then Monday, well it was a weird
day because it wasn't pday but we owned it and went to work. We biked all
afternoon. We biked to our district lunch we had at this sister's home who
lives in the elders area. It was so much fun and delicious. And her house is
awesome. Then we biked to Farmington and biked back, which was way harder
because it was all up hill but we did it. Then for dinner we ate at this less
active family's home and it was so much fun. It was a combined going
away/birthday party for me and Hermana Thetford since she goes home on my
birthday (next Monday) and we ate carne asada and cake and ice cream. It was so
much fun and way nice of them! We love that family!
And here we are today. Even though
pday was on an awkward day because of Pioneer Day I truly am grateful for the
Pioneers and what they had to go through. I learned to appreciate their
sacrifice on the church history trip when I had the opportunity to go Nauvoo
and Independance and Carthage and Winter Quarters and especially Martin's Cove.
Because of the Pioneers I am able to serve here in the beautiful Salt Lake City
Mission and I am so grateful for their sacrifice to cross the plains so we can
be in Zion today. Love you all have a great week! Can't believe that I turn 20
next Monday and that this is my last week of being a teenager! Time is going
bye too fast!! AHH LOVE YOU
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