On Friday this week, we met with Patty and, miracle of miracles, we got to share a message with her in her home!!! Previously, we've only been able to share a scripture on her front doorstep, but we felt the prompting to straight up ask her if we could share a message with her in her home and she invited us in! I love the Spirit! We talked to her for 45 minutes and she said that she really wants to quit smoking. Well, we talked about the temple and how quitting smoking will help her get there. We also got to meet with one of our neighbors and have a spiritual thought with her and she wants to feed us later this week!
Also, event of the week: we taught a lesson to a less-active in the psychiatric hospital. He actually referred himself to us, but didn't include his name, so when we went to go meet him, we walked into the hospital, up to the front desk, and said, "We received a request for missionaries. Do you know who may have done that?" Well, the receptionist looked at us like we should have been on the other side of the bulletproof glass behind her, (as one of the patients) and said,
"This is a psychiatric HOSPITAL." I wanted to say, "Well, duh! We can read the sign!" but we just said, "We know, but we were told that someone here requested missionaries. We have no idea who they are, but do you know who would have done that?" So she called the chaplain and left a message and the chaplain called us later with all of the info for Edward. So yeah, it was an interesting experience. Pretty cool, though. Apparently lots of doors open if you tell someone that you're clergy :)
Also this week, I got to do another pretty awesome service project! I think it's called a weave... But basically we sewed hair onto someone's head. All in all, the project took 6 hours, but we split it up over 2 days. Needless to say, with Sister Carroll being a seamstress and me being a perfectionist, we did a pretty decent job! She kept saying "more poof!" and we cracked up every time she said it.
Thursday, I had some bike issues, so we were on foot for most of the day. We had a really good lesson with our recent convert where we had HIM teach US what he knew about the pre-earth life. He used the Gospel Principles manual and did an amazing job (*sniff *sniff) we were so proud!
I love it out here! I truly love this ward and am so grateful for the people that I got to meet here! I'm truly grateful to be the Lord's servant at this time. The mission is the most amazing thing ever! If you've even been thinking about serving, DO IT! It will be the most memorable and amazing experience ever!
Love you all! I'll write to you again on Wednesday next week!!
Love,
Steph
pic1: we took a 10 minute nap, but I figured that if I was comfortable, I wouldn't wake up, so I got into an uncomfortable position :)
pic 2: This is Marilynn. Notice her hair?
pic 3: lunch with the Schultzs. This is Elliot, their grandson, who wanted to be in the picture. (We also may or may not have taught him how to play rock, paper, scissors with the added "bomb" which was his favorite part and we also taught him how to do jellyfish high-fives and the snail "pound". It was a great day)
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