Oh my good word we had a great week. I just cannot explain how great everything is. I know this my sound phony but I am riding high on missionary life. Haha but for reals. One of my biggest concerns at the moment about coming home next week is that I'm going to talk like a ghetto Baptist. I've served in the hood way too long; everyone is Baptist and now it's how I talk. The other day I told my companion "It's all about God" and then later I said "Jesus will get you through." Oh brother. I'm going to be in culture shock in Canada. This week was so good because:
Monday: We went to Meet the Mormons with some recent converts. It was so great! I cry every time. We played lazer tag as a District and I bet all the Elders by 500 points. They wanted a rematch but luckily we had somewhere we had to be so we ended it on a great note.
Tuesday: We did a training in District Meeting about getting investigators to church. I think everyone was shocked because we just told them how we just talk about church a lot and then people bring themselves. There really is no secrets to being a good missionary. It's all just depending on the Lord. A member in our ward took us to lunch outside our mission in a Casino. We were freaking out and told her we couldn't be there and she just said "Well I'm hungry." Our mission President didn't care because she took away our agency. Haha, but he just didn't care cause it was a street over and we are good people. We met a man that owns a nudist colony. I was dying laughing talking to him. How do you talk to someone about Jesus as they are telling you they like to go hiking in the nude?
Wednesday: We had two dream lessons with new investigators. In the first lesson the guy told us that he wants the originals of the Bible so he can know what God really said. When he told him about the Book of Mormon he was like "Yes, this is what I want." The second lesson was just all lead by the Spirit. The man we taught had gone through a ton of really crazy things. We ended up just talking about the Atonement and how forgiving Heavenly Father is. I know if he reads the Book of Mormon he'll get baptized in a second.
Thursday: A less active in our ward wears a yellow top hat! He let us try it on. We vacuumed a member's house. I love straight up service. We then visited with a newly coming back member. She is so happy because she gets to come to church. Every time she takes the sacrament she cries because it's been so long.
Friday: It was my 18 month mark! That's so insane. We had interviews with our mission president. I am so lucky to have him. He just told me how he has so much faith and confidence in me going home. I was worried and he reassured me that I'm going to excel. He then told me how he is my mission parent forever so he always wants to be apart of my life. How tender is that? Our 11 year old investigator told us that we are "Gospel Super Heroes."
Saturday: We took our investigator to a stake activity where they had performers come and put on a Disney montage. After we had already gone to the show our Zone Leaders texted us saying we weren't allowed to go to the evening show. Haha, our bad. A few weeks ago they said we could go. It was already after the fact so what could they do.
Sunday: We street contacted this lady the day before and she came to church. She loved it and even made comments. It was a dream come true. We went to my very last," Why I Believe Fireside" as a missionary. It was so good. Our newly 16 year old investigator came and at first he was dying but then they sang if the Savior Stood Beside Me and then he loved it. He ate my whole box of Tic Tacs. Besides that we had a lovely evening together.
Man alive, isn't the mission great. I thought I would be way more scared and freaked out at this point but I feel fine. I have lots of good family, and friends. I've been obedient my whole mission so I can trust that it's been exactly what Heavenly Father wants it to be. I realized this past week how much Heavenly Father trusts me. I always worried that I didn't trust Him enough when in reality I don't trust myself enough. I feel like my whole mission He's been trying to tell me that He trusts me. That I'm fine. I'm doing His will and just this week I realized that. What a blessing. See you next week!
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