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Faithbook Friends

So this week was amazing.  It was really hard but it was super, crazy awesome.

Monday we ate at the Amish place again... I love it so much, we also tossed at football around with the Elders and stuff.

Tuesday was pretty uneventful.  I did teach the law of chastity for the first time and It wasn't that awkward, it was a little awkward though. 

Wednesday we had a really awesome District meeting.  When we were door knocking today a bird pooped on Sister E's head haha it was funny, it was right at someone's doorstep too.  We have great luck.  Also we were trying to teach a lesson that night and the TV was on and guess what was on... The middle. It was so hard to concentrated because I love that show.

Thursday was so great!  We had the most amazing lesson with D.  (D. is the one who calls us her angels.)  We all cried and the spirit was so strong.  She loves hearing about Joseph Smith because she relates so much to him. It was such a cool lesson.  Also we had a great lesson with our investigator Josh who is on parole right now.  He kept saying how he feels like everyone who is Mormon is born into the church, so we brought a member and he told his conversion story and I could tell it was what he needed to hear. 

Friday was COLD! We had a lesson with J. and he came up with the term "Faithbook Friends" (it sounds like facebook but with a lisp so it makes me laugh.)  Joseph is great.  And then we had a lesson with D., it was crazy! We showed her the Restoration Video (She loved it) and she said I have a video to share, and she said she had no Idea how she got this video or where it came from but she found it and watched it two days before she met us and it was about Christ.  Sister Edwards and I were both thinking wouldn't that be crazy if it was the Finding Faith in Christ video because it is from our church?  And then she pulls out Finding faith in christ!! She has no Idea where it came from or how she got it because she has never met with members of our church before.  It was SO COOL!! We were all blown away!! 

Saturday we had lunch with our cute friend B.! She is leaving to go to Washington so it was our last time to see her for a while and she cried when we left and said she was so glad we came to visit her all the time.  It was great. Also we broke Sister E's record of 20 lessons in a week, so we celebrated with Ben and Jerry's of course!!

Sunday was crazy!!! We had church (I spoke....scary) and after church we were out knocking and we got the feeling that we should go see D. because she said she was going to come to Church and didn't. So we went by and she was not doing well.  She was super bummed and we asked her what was going on and she cried and said she had been meeting with people who were teaching her about their church and they told her all we had been teaching her was wrong. She was so upset, and she was so upset because it hurt her feelings because she believed it was true.  She said she felt so different when we came by and so it hurt her feelings to hear people say that we were leading her astray.  She said she believed it was true and she got so frustrated she almost lit a cigarette, but we told her no and she threw them across the room and told us to burn them and take them away from her!! It was crazy!!   Then she was telling us about how she was worried about food, and that morning I had prayed someone would put food in the missionary bucket at church because we were running low and so we had food in the back of our car to give her!! It was so crazy!  Then as we were walking out to give her the food we ran into her friends and one of them asked what church we were from and we told her and she said "No way! I've been looking for a mormon church! I was meeting with the Mormons in Detroit! I just moved here!"  What are the odds!!! Three Miracles in one day!!!

Fun fact: MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!! THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!

I love you all.  Have a good week!

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This Place Is a Nuthouse

This week was pretty great! 

Monday was super uneventful.  We decided to do a chill p-day so we did basically nothing and I HATED it.  It was no fun.  

Tuesday was pretty uneventful but we did find a member who just moved in!! It was super cool because we planned to walk to our lesson with E and as we were walking home we walked by a girl and she said "I have to talk to you!"  She was wondering where the church was and stuff.  No one ever says they have to talk to us, so that was cool! 

Wednesday was a looong day.  We had some lessons fall through which is always the worst.  But! Do you remember the story I told a while back about a lady who stopped us while driving because she thought we were beginning drivers and she said we were an answer to her prayer?  Anyway we found her again! Her name is D.,  and she is totally interested in learning about the gospel!! She is so cool! She called us diligent servants and saved our number in her phone as her angels.  She is the coolest. For dinner we had subway and we decided to treat ourselves to chocolate cake from basically the only restaurant in town.  It was delicious.  

Thursday was great!! Our friend B. took us out to lunch today! She is so sweet she is like our grandma and we've only met her twice.  Then we were door knocking and we went down this long road to get to a house at the end and a crazy dog started chasing us!! It was so scary and sooo fast!! I thought it was going to eat me.  Right after that we door knocked into a super drunk guy who kept telling us to come in (which we can't do) and he was to drunk to grab the mormon.org card...(This was at 3 in the afternoon too)  door knocking is always and adventure.  Then we stopped by someones house and they said we were an answer to her prayer.  That is my favorite thing!! 

On Friday some members took us to lunch at Yoders! (The amish grocery store)  I love that place! We got some great cookies.  We taught J. and J. today which went well.  I also got a package!! Yay thanks mom!! 

Saturday was an eventful day.  We had an amazing lesson with Deb! She really wants to come to church and she felt the spirit so strong!  Then we sang at the old folks home today... That is always an adventure.  There was this super grumpy old man who kept saying "Why are you here, I don't want to listen to you!"  he would point at people and say "You're a nut!"  and my favorite was when he said "This place is a nuthouse! Get me out of here!"  It was sooo funny!  Then we went to visit this kid  we wanted to teach.  His parents weren't home so we came back 20 minutes later and there were cop cars outside of his house.  He saw us drive by and ran up to us and said "Sorry, I can't meet today, I'm having problems."  Poor kid.  

Sunday was the primary program!! Yay!!  I always love the primary program!  Awkward story though...so we had to teach our investigator J. today and we had to teach him in a public place so we decided on Mcdonald's.  We had just taught him the Sabbath day and we got there and he bought us shakes...so we had to reexplain that to him...It was nice though!

Today was great too! We have already picked up a new investigator!! Missionary work is great!!

Fun fact:  This week I found out there are such things as dog braces... If some one could send me a picture of that, that would be great! 

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I Survived My First Transfer

Hello everybody! It was a great week here in Michigan!  

Monday was great! We walked around Three Rivers with some other missionaries and some members took us out to an all you can eat Chinese Buffet, so that was fun!

Tuesday N. came out with us today, she is great! We taught a great lesson with E. about the Word of Wisdom and he is so prepared it's great! We also had a really good lesson with K. about faith.

Wednesday we had our district meeting which was good. Then we went door knocking and for the first time on my mission someone yelled at me to get off their porch.  It finally happened. I was expecting that but I never expected someone would answer their door with no pants... and no underwear either...That was very unexpected! 

Thursday we had a really great lesson where we read 3 Nephi 17 with our investigator, that is my favorite chapter of the BOM so it went really well.  Then we went to go rake leaves for the cute lady B., but she wasn't home so we left a note and our number and she called us back later and told us we had helped her a lot with the hard time she has been having. That made me feel really good!  We also went to Youders which is the Amish grocery store.  It is wonderful.  Ah awkward story though... So we had planned a great lesson on the atonement for our investigator Josh, and I was so excited because I thought it would be super spiritual, but his stupid dog (Bane, the Bane of my existence...hehe) Was all over me, he was being such a spaz and he was super irreverent.  It did not go as well as i wanted it too. 

Friday was transfer calls....I'm staying surprise! (not really I expected that)  We walked forever because it was car fast day.  It was also the Trunk-or-Treat! That was super fun! We tried to go as minions, that didn't work that well but it was fun anyway!  The ward is great it was so fun!

Saturday was Halloween and because it was the last day of the month, we were out of miles and had to walk everywhere.  So we door knocked in the rain for 4 hours.  Good thing our friend I. let us stop in her store and eat Reese's and warm up.  Then we had to walk 3 miles to the R's  house, but then we got to join them for a Halloween party! It was so fun I love that family!!

Sunday...E. came to church! Yay! He liked how everyone bore their testimonies and there was a great baptism after Church!  Then we had dinner with the bishop's family and the Elders in our ward, one of them is getting transferred which we are sad about.  Then we went over to the Drums for spirit time!  

Also...Feel free to write me letters! I love them!  I'll try to send some pictures from Sister Edwards camera this week. 

Fun fact: I have never seen so much roadkill in my life as I have walking around Three Rivers Michigan