So there is an awesome fireside called "Break Up With The World" by Hank Smith and you should all go listen to it because it's hilarious and also it's soooo cool! It's incredible and has helped me so much this week.
Well we are running out of our miles for the month so we have been walking everywhere on top of our walking for tracting so we are so exhausted ALL THE TIME! Like I have to drag myself home at the end of the day because we are working SO. HARD! But I have seen so many miracles this week! It's been an incredible week, seriously!!!
So on Friday we had Return and Report meeting in Utica where i got to see SISTER CAMPBELL!!!!!! That was probably my favorite day in the mission so far. (so prepare for an overload of pictures) The first day we were here everyone was like "Just make it 4 weeks until Return and Report and then you can see each other again" and that seemed like it would NEVER come!!! But this first month has gone by SO FAST!! Can you believe I've been in New York for a whole month?! Ahh it's crazy!!! Also at Return and Report I finally got to try Chicken Riggies! It's this pasta dish with chicken that everyone loves in NY and it was REALLY good!
I wish I had time to write all of the miracles we've seen this week but I'll just summarize. So we were weekly planning and we got this call and this guy CALLED US asking about when our church is and he's moving to Hamilton in two weeks and is confused because there are so many churches and he's looking for which one has the truth so basically God just handed us a perfect investigator and said "HERE!" it was awesome!!! We are working SO HARD but we can absolutely see Heavenly Father blessing us for it!
Another one is that this week at the Gangs, we were reading the Book of Mormon and there's this girl Jessica (we have no idea how she's related, she doesn't live there but she's there a lot) and she never reads with us (a lot of the gangs friends/family don't like the church...) and so anyways we had finished eating dinner and we got out our BOMs and Trever (he's a member, he's like 10 i think) was like "here..." and slyly slid his BOM over to her and she was like "hmm... okay. I'll read." And she read with us! and afterwards she said she understood what we read! So afterwards, we were on the deck having a lesson with Lacey (LOVE HER SO MUCH) afterwards Jessica came up to me and was like "I want you and sister Loveland to come over to the house and start reading with my kids" WOW I'm getting goosebumps right now even remembering it. She said she won't give up her cigarettes or coffee but she wants her kids to have the chance to go to church and Nikki said how much of a good thing it is so she wants that for her kids. Holy cow! The Spirit is working SO HARD on that family, it's incredible!
Well, I have A LOT of funny stories this week:
So we were meeting with a potential and her roommate was there and we were basically just doing a Q&A since he had so many questions about us and our religion and "John" Smith ahhaah (Joseph Smith) and they were just drinking their beer an swearing but they were being super respectful about what we believe and stuff so I said the closing prayer and Ben (the roommate) just sits back and was like "...that was thorough as fu**... you just pulled that out of thin air!!!" hahaha they were so awesome! That was probably my favorite lesson, we were just talking and having a good time!
Also this week we were at McDonalds and we prayed on our food of course and then this lady was leaving and she came up to us and was like "are you nuns?" HAHAAH NOPE! we explained we're missionaries, it was just really funny!
So we were meeting with this girl janette (another miracle story: we knocked on her door and her daughter told us to come back and that janette would love to meet with us so we came back and janette said her son has been interested in the LDS church but he's in OHIO right now! so the Lord directed us right to her and she was already prepared because of her son.) But anyways, she's this awesome lady and we were talking about prayers and she was like "OH GIRL. I AM A PRAYER WARRIOR!!!" And then in the middle of Sister Loveland's prayer she was like "AMEN!!!" and she was so receptive to the things we were saying, it was awesome! We were talking about how God is our loving Heavenly Father and she was like "oh i know. He is up there right now looking down on us and smiling saying 'look at my daughters, talking about me'" It was the sweetest thing!
We were at the Gangs house this week making scripture cases but there wasn't enough cardboard for everyone so i was just kinda sitting there and Nick (13) came up to me and was like "Can we play basketball?!" So i went and played and I was like "I suck!" and he was like "no you don't! You're the best sister at basketball so far!" that was super sweet even though he creamed me hahah!
So one more for the week, Millie (9 I think. She just recently got baptized) was on the phone with us and we were explaining we were gonna come see her next week instead of this week and then a little bit later there was this long pause and she was like "....are there pets allowed in church?" And we just started laughing and we were like "NO!" hahah she's so cute!
Pictures:
SIS CAMPBELL
Sister Hall! My comp from the MTC!
1 MONTH DOWN!
Sister Hayward (sister campbell's trainer) love them both!
Sis Campbell of course!
Sister Shulz and Sister Lee
Of course, beautiful sunset!
Our mission president encouraged us to write down faith building experiences and we saw these journals at BIG LOTS that have the "BE" quote from PRES HINCKLEY! So of course that was the perfect match.
Well I love you all, thanks for all the support. have a great week!
xoxo,
Gospel Girl
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