Hello From the Frozen Tundra that is Ohio!
Haha this weather is crazy, it can't decide what it wants to do,
but I think I should work on not complaining about being cold and
such.....stay tuned, because it's going to be a work in progress. :)
Monday
we were able to do our Zone Fun day and I think I told you about it
already so I'm going to skip right along. We visited Sister Spencer and
Tiffanie and then we met the Elders and Sisters at the church and had a
quick meeting, and that was Monday.
Tuesday
we went to try a few new potentials and we visited some people. We had
a lesson w/ Jon and it was awesome as always. He was telling us how
the Lamanites are God's hand in cleaning out the Nephites when they
become all wicked. I thought that was pretty cool because I had never
thought of it like that but hello, its so true!!! I love learning from
him :) We visited Mike for a few minutes and talked about faith. I'll
tell you what I have never studied on faith so much in my life as I have
the past few weeks. It has been so fun to learn so much more about it
and to see how you can never learn too much about it. :) What an
amazing subject.
Wednesday
we had an awesome Zone Meeting. I learned a lot and don't you know I
left my notebook at home, but just know it was good. We went to Penn
Station for lunch and it was delicious.....I just figure I haven't told
you about any meals lately huh :) haha We had a good quick visit with
Derek, totally unplanned but it was fun. We were knocking on his door
as he got home from work, talk about inspired timing huh? :) We had a
lesson with Jon and Sister Holland and Christian. That was good to
actually introduce Jon to someone of his same gender since we always
have the ladies of the ward with us. But he is so chill with it, it
doesn't really matter. We talked a lot about the spirit. Also a good
lesson. We went to the Tiptons for dinner and got to see baby Shelby,
(she was born on New Years Day) and is soooo cute. We knocked on a few
doors ya know, living the life :)
Thursday
we were on exchanges with the other Sisters. I was with Sister Schmitt
and we went to Early Morning Seminary, I still think Early Morning
Graduates are champs. I am ever so grateful I never had to do it!!! We
won the game so Sister Ware gave us cake pops that were super good and
I'm convinced that it was worth the 5:00
wake up call :) It was Sister Schmitt's one year mark, so that was
exciting. We were meeting the other Sisters for dinner at Bob Evans,
but we had a few minutes so we went to see one of their former
investigators, but he wasn't home but there was a guy outside with his
little kid so we went and talked w/ him. It was funny b/c at first he
was not interested in having a card but when one of his neighbors came
out and was talking to us as well and we offered him a card the first
guy came back over and took one as well....... They were both nice and
it was a lovely time, but then we scadled off to dinner. We were at B.E.
and looking around not seeing them so we gave them a call, turns out we
went to the wrong one so we had to leave and go to the right one....how
embarrasing huh? haha not really but it was funny
Friday
we had a lesson with Jon.....common theme huh? :) It was wonderful,
until the end when our member decided to talk about a bunch of random
things like fast Sunday,
fasting, Fast offerings and then the WoW. We wondered where in the heck
all of that came from!!!! Jon's face was absolutely priceless when he
found out that tea is against the WoW. We had an appointment we had to
go to so we were like Jon it is okay we will talk about it later we
promise. Ohhh boy totally not the way we wanted him to learn about some
of those things, but ohh well, what can you do. Sometimes people
forget that investigators don't need to know everything all at once,
which can be super fun. I just am sooo grateful that Jon is so cool
with things, b/c if he wasn't we might have a bit of a problem w/ some
of the way he has learned a bunch of random things....from our members.
I love them, but boy oh boy we need to do better at helping them know
what things to say and not to say. :) We had dinner w/ Tiffanie and I
just love her :) She is so sweet and I love spending time w/ her. My
only problem is that her dog covers me in white hair everytime, but oh
well, I'm over it.
Saturday
we had our social media day. It turned out a slight bit different than
we had hoped but it was still good. We had 3 different members come out
with us, and they are all such sweet ladies. Jon came to the baptism
and that was good. We also had a killer awesome lesson with Jennifer,
Earl got a phone call so he was absent but oh well. We also had a good
visit w/ Sister Weir. I love her so much! (She is who text you last
night mom) I have thus adopted her to be my 3rd grandma :)
Sunday
Jon came to church.....happy dance that was super exciting!!! :)
Church was good I learned things....as always. Jon coming was definitely
the highlight of that day. Also Sister Anderson gave a lovely talk in
case you were wondering.
Monday
we had a good day. Tiffanie had told us to get a B-Vitamin complex so
we did and I am trying them out. We saw 2 that I wanted to try so I am
switching off one every other day. I'll let you know how it goes :) We
just had a few short visits with people. I wrote you a letter but I
haven't been able to send it yet, it should be on its way today however.
Tuesday.....Zone
Conference. OHHHHHH my goodness!! I learned soooo many things. It went
over by 2 hours, b/c there was so much for them to teach us. We are
trying to change lots of things to become better teachers, and as we
implement the things they taught us we are going to constantly see
miracles so I am excited. One thing we are working on as a whole
mission is our accountability. We are going to all do better at that so
stay tuned.
Random side note, I couldn't wait to find out who won, and Derek
was so kind as to let me know who won out of the 49ers and Seahawks, and
boy oh boy I am so excited. I told Nina forever ago that I wanted the
Seahawks to win the Superbowl.....they are my team :)
Whelp I love you all! Thanks for all your love and prayers
Love,
Sister Julie Ann
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