We thought that was a
nice pile of sticks
to pose in front of while country tracting, so we did
Hey y'all!
This week was great. Okay, it was pretty slow because
Sister Call has been sick (she's great now) but it was still great! First of
all, Happy Birthday yesterday Alicia! I hope it was a nice day (: This week has
finally warmed up a ton and it's been way nice! But unfortunately for me, that
just means a whole bunch of allergies. I bought some Zyrtec stuff though, so
that's helped a bit.
Ahh I totally had a chance to speak Spanish and I BLEW
it! So Sister Call couldn't get this jar open, and I couldn't either, and
we were desperate! We went next door to some guys that were fixing up the
vacant apartment, and I asked for help in English. He's like, eh? Haha
and the most I could muster up to say, puedes ayudarme? Victory! But then I
couldn't think of how to say, “can we give you a card? “ So we just gave it to
him and said gracias. It was so sad, and I'm quite embarrassed. But
at least an English seed was planted in his sweet heart. Glory glory.
Ain't she a cute one!
Oh boy, we got news this week! Well kind of. We had to
drive up to Peach Tree City so I could personally hand in passport
papers. I haven't heard anything back, but it was supposed to be a 24
hour turnaround so maybe they just haven't told me yet! But that was so nice to
feel like something was actually happening. Part of the paperwork needed travel
plans, so I received possible travel plans to Taiwan! That made my heart so
happy (: So if everything goes speedy quick, I'll be leaving on April 13th!
Haha I don't even care if I don't leave that day, it was just nice to know that
I'll be in Taiwan eventually.
We've been doing quite a bit of store contacting this week,
in preparation for my possible trip to the airport. While we were up
north, Elder Danklef told us about Sister Echols (who I went to jr high with).
She broke her arm riding her bike, and had to go home for surgery. But
while she was in the airport, she taught someone like all three lessons, and a less
active family of 10 gathered around to listen! Apparently two of their kids are
now on missions, and the guy she talked to was baptized. I've been
praying for a miracle during my travels! It's going to happen. So we've
been practicing store contacting to get a feel for doing that in the airport (:
We saw so many times where the Lord just led us to people,
even though that meant He had to cancel all of our appointments a good few
days. One day, we knew we needed to see Tilwania but hadn't been able to
get in contact with her for a while, so Sister Call said a prayer as I was
driving over, and we caught her just before she was leaving! Another time, we
went to go visit Jenny, but West was there! We also haven't seen him in a good
minute so that was great. And my favorite - We parked on the street to
start tracting a bit, and right where we got out, there was an Asian woman with
her 4-year old son. Her name is Ikuyo, and at first she seemed kind of
hesitant. Sister Call offered to pray, and seriously the whole time she
was praying, I was praying that the spirit would work through her and soften
Ikuyo's heart.. and I prayed that she knows Chinese, or has some relation
to Taiwan. Haha well, one of those prayers were answered. She's Japanese,
dang it! But I'm still way excited to teach her!
Okay, funniest moment of the week. We were teaching
Jessica and Tiba the plan of salvation, and Jessica was telling us her
depiction of God. It was hilarious! "So God is just chillin up on his
throne, Jesus right beside him, probably wearing shorts and flip flops.
Oh, and definitely drinkin a sprite, I love sprite! Jesus has to love sprite.
(somehow we were talking about how the countries all separated) So God decided
he would have some fun and zap all the countries to separate them. ZAP
and then Jesus was like, hey pops, I want a turn! ZAP." hahah don't worry,
we clarified a few things but it was just so funny! I love Jessica (:
Gluten free 'black
bean brownies'. Surprisingly they weren't bad!
Sorry I guess I haven't been too good at telling about our
'gators on date! We've got five right now! Montavious, Damien, Keegen,
Tilwania, and Measha.
Montavious is pretty legit. We actually met someone
who worked with him. When we walked up to him he's like "y'all are the
Mormons!" apparently he talked to Montavious about how he's meeting with
us and he only said good things! Hurray!
Damien is a member's stepson. He's so funny but he's a
little slower progressing. He knows he needs to be baptized and come to
church, but just doesn't act on that. But we're working on it! He actually
came to church yesterday!
Keegen is Jenny's 9 year old son, and he's awesome! He is so
excited to be baptized, but his one thing is that he doesn't like coming to
church because they don't color in primary. Haha I think we'll make some
arrangements for that one :)
Tilwania... OHHH TILWANIA!!! She's amazing!! We were
definitely led to her by the Lord with a 'last house miracle'. She said she saw
us tracting one day on the longest street in Barnesville! (Might I add that we
got zero new investigators from that.. lame. but at least there was one sweet fruit
that came of it!) She has 7 kids, and when we met her and ever since, she just
smiles all the time! She LOVED us teaching about the restoration, and even
asked about the DVD that her uncle has. Her kids range from like 3 months
to 11, so hopefully we'll be able to teach 2 or 3 of them!
We met Measha just the other day on her porch with her
parents, but only she was there for the return appointment but she was way
excited to read the Book of Mormon. I hope we'll get to teach her more
this week as well as her parents!
Well, I believe that's all for this week! Thank you so much
for all of your prayers and fasting. I think we're finally starting to
see those being answered, and I'm so thankful for that! Have a blessed day!
Love, Sister Facer
Just had to capture
some high school soccer memories in someone's garage
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