September 3, 2013

Family!

This last week has been crazy! I dont know it just seems like this week Flew by! And it feels like so much has happened it doesn't seem possible that it went by so fast! But i dont know what to write...

Lets see... the work here is amazing! I honestly love it soooo much! Sam and Mikaela are the greatest! We had a lesson with them on wednesday and It went awesome. We taught them the Ten Commandments and the law of chastity (With Sam being who she is, that was an interesting lesson haha.) They committed to living them both. So now theres not much to teach them. Sam's husband was supposed to sit in on the lesson but he has surgery sometime soon so, as i understand it, he has to work more to make up for the hours... bummer. Oh well. Its been so fun to teach them. We have been able to see the change the gospel has made in their lives and it has been the greatest thing to see! Indescribable! On Friday Mikaela got her wisdom teeth out and Saturday they invited us over for breakfast and she seemed to be doing pretty good. (A lot better then i was doing) And then on Sunday they didnt show up at church so we texted them and it turns out Mikaela was allergic to her pain meds, as well as already feeling like crap so she was just miserable and didnt feel up to coming. So we offered to give her a blessing and at first she didnt want one but later on she texted us and asked if we could come give her a blessing. So we did and she looked Miserable and didnt feel like talking or anything. But after we gave her a blessing she seemed to feel a lot better! I love the church and i love the Priesthood! It truly can bless lives!

On Thursday we had District meeting and I gave a "training" on helping us get our investigators to church. That was pretty good. But then Elder Brown gave a training but before he gave it, he got real serious and told us He had been praying to know if being on a mission was for him, if this really was where he needed to be and that even though he had been praying he didnt feel he was getting an answer... We all helped where we could and Then he goes Just Kidding! It was part of his training! haha... not funny, but kind of funny. His training was on getting us to really feel that love for our investigators. Real Commitments. Real follow ups. And doing the best we can do to help them. Because in that moment when he said he wasnt sure... We all felt love towards him and that desire to help. SO good! I congratulate him on his training it was a really good way to help us gain a better focus.

 On Friday we had the opportunity to help a sister in our ward who's sister needed help roofing her shed, so our whole district came over and helped and we got it done in a couple hours and then had lunch. It was SO hot! But way fun. I have only roofed one other time helping Kevin with his Eagle Project but its pretty fun! There is a lot of service to do in Danville especially in our ward. On Saturday we also were able to help another sister move the rest of her stuff into her new place. Service is great! i love it.

Sorry for not emailing yesterday. Labor day and everything was closed. But we had a KILLER Zone P-day! Our zone drove down to Springfield IL and Had BBQ and games at this Mansion with another Zone! Dual Zone P-day! It was so much fun! We played football till it was time to eat and then we played some ultimate frisbee after. The House had a Pond/lake in the back And after Ultimate Frisbee we divided up in to three teams and played the greatest games of capture the flag! The other two teams played first and then we played the losing team. We dominated! And i scored... so that was way fun! And then we played the other winning team and we were evenly matched! It ended up being a draw, but we were so close! Rats. We had some type of zone training today so we came back to champaign and stayed the night at the  Elders apartment so we didn't waste miles. The training today was great! and i am so pumped to do missionary work again! I LOVE it!

Well i love you guys! i hope you are all doing fantastic!