Week 82- The Little Things the Spirit Can Do

This week was so freaking amazing I can't even believe it!!  I love it here!  Okay, so Monday night we had dinner with The Chamberlains and tons of fun at their house!  I love that family so much!  They've seriously become like my family out here!  It's awesome!

Then Tuesday we had a lesson with Brother Spoltore and he took us to Silver Diner! Woot!  I got some really good sliders.  It was awesome.  We went down to Brother Heath’s, our ward mission leaders to go on an exchange.  We had a lesson with Sister W- at the library, and then our next appointment cancelled.  I was kinda at a loss for what to do and the spirit wasn't giving me any distinct impressions, so I was just looking at our less actives list and suggesting people.  As we were discussing where to go we ran into one of our less actives we hadn't seen in a while!  It was super cool to get to talk with him for a minute before he had to get going again. 

As we tried to go around to a few more houses with no luck, we ended up close to a lady I had service for last transfer and hadn't seen her since.  I felt super duper strongly that we should stop by.  I called her up and sure enough we got to go over there.  It was divine inspiration we had Brother Heath with us because she opened up to him so much and we got hear her story and understand her better.  The situation was just so perfect because she had been avoiding visits from The Bishopric etc I think she opened up to us a bit more because we had done service for her. And having Brother Heath along made it possible for us to visit with her.  To visit with sisters alone- we have to have three.

It was awesome!  After that we went to Brother Heath’s house to get our car and went to dinner with The Grange’s.  They're a really fun family, and their kids kinda remind me of my siblings--so that's fun!  Love you guys!   Our night continued as we went to The Geer’s house. We had a really good lesson about Lot’s wife, and the New Year.  Don't look back.  That the message we’re sharing with most of our members right now.  Dad, your letter this week really relates to that well. I'm going to start incorporating bits of the stuff you talked about, like "What Lack I Yet".

That day we shared the video with three different people. Each lesson went a different way.  It is so awesome to see the spirit guide each lesson the way it needs to go!  I love being a missionary because I get to see all the little things the spirit can do to influence people.  We ended up with 6 lessons that day!  It was so awesome!  

Wednesday was good.  I was pretty tired and had a headache most of the day, but it was still amazing!  We did service for Brother Cusic.  His grandparents-in-law were there and their ward missionaries so it was fun to see them.  We helped put a whole bunch of boxes up in the attic and then helped plan his son’s baptism a little bit.  On the way home to change clothes I got a Wendy's 2016 keychain card for free frosties!!  Woot!  Then we had dinner with our Elder Quorum President and his family.  It was this creamy spinach chicken stuff over rice.  It was soooooo good. Anyway, after that we went to the church because we had splits with the priests for their mutual activity that night!  I took my two over to A-'s house and Elder Williams took his group to the H-’s.  It was really fun to teach the priests all how to teach and what to teach etc.  I think it was really good for them to get experience doing missionary work!  I love it!  It was tons of fun!  

Thursday was also super nice! We had zone district meeting which was awesome as always.  We got a new/old car!  An old car, but a different one than we had, and it's way better!  Red Corolla!  That evening we had dinner with The Sutherlands.  It was awesome!!  I love the Sutherlands.  After dinner we had “Ward Night of Ministry.” The ward council sets out to visit with families we haven't seen or are worried about.  I went with Brother Heath and Elder Williams went with Brother Hatch.  So, Brother Heath and I were going to visit a family the bishop recommended.  We got to the cul-de-
sac and didn't know which house it was, but we went to a ward member who lives right there to ask because they knew.  We were let into the ward member’s house and ran into their less active son and talked with him for an hour.  We left there both feeling satisfied that we did what we were supposed to do.  It was a good feeling.  Elder Williams and I are hoping to start meeting with him more regularly.  Elder Williams struck out trying to visit people.. Bummer.  

Friday was so awesome.  We met with S- at 11:30 and had a really good lesson with him.  He's going to be coming to the temple for baptisms soon!  Woot!  Then we went to The Cusics to help some more --more cleaning up decorations.  Then we ran home because we both had headaches and got ibuprofen!  Later we went to Brother H’s house. I think I talked about him last week, but just in case, he is engaged to a non-member who lives in our ward, and he just moved into our ward.  We talked with them last Sunday and set up an appointment. Okay, you're caught up.  We met with him before hand to just get to know him and a bit about his fiancè before the lesson.  Turns out they'd been reading the Book of Mormon together for 5 months and going to church in The Patuxent Ward for a few weeks!!  We had a super solid first lesson with her and she's going to be baptized on January 31st!!  I'm so lucky that Heavenly Father blessed me with this area, and all these amazing people!  It's great!  I love it so so much!

After this lesson we had dinner with A-!  It was so fun!  It's so great here!  Saturday we had our morning appointment cancel, so we had texted The Chamberlains the day before and set up a breakfast and then went to go watch Noah's basketball game with them!  It was so so so fun!  I love The Chamberlains!  And his team won!  Then we ran home and put on our suits and went up to the temple, because guess what? A- DID BAPTISMS FOR THE DEAD!!  It was so fun to get to go with her and see her experience that!  Plus I asked her to speak at Why I Believe the next Sunday and she said yes!  She said I took advantage of the happy feelings the temple gave her after, but I'm so excited for her!  We went to Panda Express for dinner, and then over to Brother Heath’s for ward correlation! 

Sunday was great!  We had ward council at 7:30 am so we were up at 6 am getting ready.  We got to help teach the 14-15 year old class!  It was fun to do that.  I felt kinda connected to Dad teaching Sunday school!  Love you Dad!  Then we went to Brother Cusic’s for the pre-baptism party, then to the baptism!  It was so cool!  I also got one of my friend’s emails from the singles ward while I was there from one of the ward members, so that's cool. I heard the Seahawks won so a good day got even better!  We finished put the night doing lots of planning back at our apartment. 

Today’s p-day has been so stellar!  We got up and drove up to east west chapel.  Then we metroed down to Ceasar’s house and had brunch!  I got to meet Cecilia the girl he's marrying!  She's so nice and I'm excited for him!  After brunch we went back to the church and played hockey until three.  It was so much fun to see all my Silver Spring friends and have hockey again!!!  I took my GoPro, so I'll send videos later.  Now we're getting dressed and ready for dinner with The Baileys.  The family in the Calvert Ward that's daughter and husband live in our ward, and we get to see Elder

Van Wagoner and Elder Thorpe there too!  I love this area soooooo much!!!!!  I miss you all and will see you soon enough!  19 months today baby!!  Woot!!!