I feel like this week lasted about 2 months. But it actually didn't, so I'll try to get everything in it.
On Tuesday we had a temple trip! I was starting to feel like a less active because it's been 14 MONTHS since I last went! But it was great and we really enjoyed it! :)
We woke up really early and then met at the Olympia Stake Center. Then our zone and the Centralia zone got on a school bus to take to Bellevue (which is next to Seattle.) It feels weird to be on a school bus. The maturity levels of the missionaries drop a few degrees on a school bus... but it was pretty fun anyways. :) We went through a session at the temple and then we had lunch and then the shortest testimony meeting ever. There is a cool interactive family history center at the church building next to the temple, so we took turns going through that, at the same time as the testimony meeting and for some reason, at one point there were only 6 missionaries in the chapel. So, I took that chance and bore my testimony to 4 senior missionaries, two regular sister missionaries, and President and Sister Blatter. And then I sat down, and that's when all the missionaries came back in.
Phew! Perfect timing.
Then we had another loooooonnnngggg drive back home. Going to the temple really wipes a person out!
On Wednesday we had a normal proselyting day. Unfortunately every single one of our plans fell through. And then all of our back up plans fell through. We had a very big and specific goal that we wanted to reach this week, and it seemed like Satan was doing everything he could to keep us from accomplishing our goal. So, Wednesday was a bit slow and rough. But we made it through.
On Thursday, we weekly planned and then tried to visit out investigator Chris. Nobody was home though so that didn't go through. Then we knocked doors and went to Shelton with Kaytee, our other investigator so that she could have her baptismal interview. She passed! :)
On Friday, we did service at the food bank. That was pretty fun. We love serving there. Those old people are a hoot! Oh, then we went on exchanges with Sister Boyd and Sister Bird. I spent the day with Sister Bird and we went to try to see Chris again. He was on date for May 27th, and he has some word of wisdom problems so we wanted to follow up on him and see how he was doing. Well, we got there, and then someone came up do us, I'm assuming it was his dad, and told us that he died. That was a shock. Unfortunately, I don't know how to react to things like that so all I wanted to do was laugh. (Not that it's funny! It's just the way I react to horrible things!) I didn't laugh, but I did later... but now that it's hit me I'm pretty sad about it. I really liked Chris. He was coming really far.
So, that was an interesting way to start an exchange. The rest of the day we just visited people, and taught the Restoration as much as we could. I LOVE teaching the restoration. It's probably my favorite thing to teach.
On Saturday, we sent the Winlock sisters on their way, and then headed to the library in Elma for a family history thing. We wanted to help people start up familysearch.org accounts but not many people showed up at the beginning. So, we left to go proselyte, until they gave us a call saying they needed us again. We got to help one guy start up his family history. So, that was pretty fun.
After that we went to the church to fill up the font for Kaytee! :) We had a really good baptism for her. Everything went smoothly, and a lot of her family showed up that she didn't think would want anything to do with it. After the baptism we were able to start teaching her cousin, who wants to be baptized too! So, does her little sister, but that might take a little more convincing on her mom's part.
Sunday was good, we just continued to work hard and to teach and teach and teach. Our zone leaders told us that we were doing so good, that Satan had to kill our investigator to try to stop us. So, we definitely weren't going to let that tactic work. It was a really good week and by the end of the day we were exhausted.
Our goal for next week is to see even more miracles. The quote I want to share for my spiritual thought is:
"Pray like it all depends on the Lord and work like it all depends on you."
That's what we're trying to do.
I love ya'll! Have the best week ever!
Love,
Sister Warburton
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