Hello Everyone!
This week didn't have too many crazy things happen.
I
had pizza 3 times this week. So that's a bummer. People say "You
sisters probably get pasta all the time, so we got you pizza!" I think
I've had pasta maybe 3 times total. I love pasta. We've had pizza on the
other hand 3 times this week and potatoes almost every night but I
think I'd rather eat roasted potatoes over pizza. Mashed potatoes are
still my least favorite out of everything and I will still avoid them at
all costs.
Another thought I had, I don't like Fridays anymore. I
think the mission really tries to shake ALL of the world out of you.
Not just in the spiritual sense but in the normal sense as well. They
want it to be as traumatic as possible when you get back home. ;) Just
kidding. It won't be traumatic.
But
back to Fridays. They are the worst! and Mondays are the best! Which is
crazy! Because everywhere else, Fridays are the best and Mondays the
worst!
This Friday we had another Tahuya day. And it was about as bad as last week. Tahuya
is an odd place. It's beautiful, but a few hours spent there kind of
give me the heebie jeebies. Before we went knocking we decided to take a
5 minute power nap so we could have the energy needed to survive this
area. It was so awkward. We
parked on the side of the road, and put our chairs back so we could
sleep for 5 minutes. Two annoying teenage boys kept driving their
extremely loud motorcycles past our car, and then we heard some people
in the road talking like right next to our car. and then we hear this
lady knock on our window, so we rolled down the window and she asked if
we were lost. We just told her we were two tired missionaries. (We had
only been there for 3 minutes at this point.) Then she was like, oh,
okay, and it was really awkward. After she left, we drove away and
decided that a power nap was not going to happen so we started knocking
doors in a completely different area. We saw about 15 dogs in about half
an hour, 8 of them were not fenced in or tied up or anything, just
wandering around, and we heard about 30 dogs barking at us. Then
we knocked on the door of a less active member and the lady that had
knocked on our window was there. We asked if she knew this less active
member we were looking for and she said "Yes, she is my partner." So...
that made things 100 bajillion times more awkward for us.
Anyways,
so that sort of sums Tahuya up in a paragraph. It's an odd place, and I
thought that maybe I wanted to live there one day, but I changed my
mind. Also, I still never want a dog ever.
The other night we knocked on
this guy's door and he was really nice at first until I realized that
he's a bible basher. He wanted to "test us" because "you two are
missionaries and you need to make sure that you know your stuff!" It was
dumb. He kept throwing out a bunch of obscure scriptures from the bible
and telling us that we need to find God and keep searching until we
find God. He also wanted to argue with us about the Book of Mormon.
Every time we tried to talk he would interrupt us and tell us why what
we were saying was wrong, without ever letting us finish our sentence.
Anyways eventually I was like "Look, I have a testimony that this book
is true, that it is another testament of Jesus Christ and I got that
testimony from the Spirit. I prayed about it and I studied it and I know
it is true. I'm not going to stand here and argue with you. Do you want
a copy or not?" and he said no, so then we said "Alright, well it was
nice talking to you, have a good night. Happy Easter." He took up like
30 minutes of our time. He just kept talking and talking and talking and
repeating himself. He probably felt pretty good about himself
afterwards, but he didn't do anything to me except give me an even
strong testimony of the Book of Mormon. That's the thing. These people
think they can trick us and tear apart what we believe but I have a
testimony that, like Jacob's (Jacob 7:5), can not be shaken. You can
spout a bajillion random Bible verses at me and you won't shake my
belief. I have found God. I know who He is, I know that He loves me and
I know that I am doing what He wants me to do.
Conference
was this weekend! That was definitely the highlight of my week! Our
Prophet and Apostles are so awesome! We were 2 out of 5 people that
watched it at the church building so we had the whole chapel to
ourselves while we listened to the prophet. It was nice to be able to
not have distractions and just listen to the council we were given this
weekend. Also, Easter was the best day to watch Conference as
missionaries, because we didn't get anything else to really celebrate
Easter as much. Besides dinner. The whole town was at an easter egg
hunt, and Sister Harris and I watched conference in an empty chapel. It's sad that so many people forget the real reason for Easter.
One thing that I loved from Dieter F. Uchtdorf's talk yesterday said something to the extent of:
The
destiny of all of God's children changed on Easter day. Death has no
sting, the grave no victory, Satan no power, and all of us will be able
to be resurrected and to live with Heavenly Father again. All because of
Jesus Christ.
President Uchtdorf says it better, but it still sounds pretty good doesn't it? Isn't that amazing?!
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland also said something like:
Jesus
Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God came to Earth, felt all our pain,
died, and rose again to grasp us from our fall, hold us with love, and
lift us up out of the darkness.
There
is a new church video called Because He Lives, that is similar to
Because of Him, from last year. Both are beautiful and uplifting.
Because Christ lives, we have a chance. We have more than one chance, we
are saved from the fall of the world. Don't forget it.
Believe in Jesus Christ. Trust in Him. Have faith in Him. It is only through Him that you and I can be saved.
He will also bring you more happiness than you can imagine. Life has no pain that Christ can't heal.
Happy Easter!
Lots of love,
Sister Warburton
PS. I'm sorry, I somehow didn't take any pictures this week... so unlike me... but next week I'll have some!
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