Hello, Hello!!
To start off I'd like to wish all you finals people good luck!!!
Jordan, Jessie, Robyn, Kent, Dillon, and Colio you're all awesome, so I
know you'll do good but I just want to wish you luck anyways, (not that
you need it)!
Alright here we go:
Monday We went bowling w/ the Zone it was a good time, I got to
be in regular clothes in a real life situation, so that was good. Don't
worry my bowling skills haven't improved any so we still know that that
is not my sport. We had a good Conference call, as always.
Tuesday
we spent some time w/ President Porter. He told me that He is so glad
that I am in the Cincinnati Mission and I said I feel the same, I tell
my family every week how much I love you! It was a good time, he made me
feel downright spectacular, and I just loved every moment. I want to
grow up and be like him! :) I also found out their daughter is coming
home in June, so I wonder if we'll get to meet her too? So here's a
good story. We had planned on being there for longer than we were, so
we weren't exactly sure what to do w/ all our time. We figured we'd
just go on w/ our plans and God would help us out tho. He sure did!! We
found an awesome new inv, named Amelia. I love her!! She is super
awesome. We also got another new inv. We already had met her and set up
an appointment w/ her for Tuesday but she is cool as well. Sister Schmitt and I get to go teach her tomorrow,
because we are going on exchanges :) We had a good visit w/ some LA's
and enjoyed actually getting to know them. They were pretty funny. We
also had dinner w/ Sister Holland and Lindsay, Andrew and Aubrey. It
was a pretty awesome day, and we finished it in my fav way, by visiting
Sister Weir!!
Oh ps. on Tues. President gave me some awesome insight for our
inv. Nothing new, its just Presidentified, so you know its good huh? :)
haha
Wednesday
we had District meeting and then we ran off to our lesson w/ Amelia. She
is sooooo cool!! I wish you could all just meet these phenomenal people
so you could know who I know. We asked if she prayed to know if what
we shared one Tues was true and she said Honey I don't need to, I
already know its true. Cool huh? We still encouraged her to pray tho.
We had an impromptu lesson w/ James. I still love him. He is doing
good, spoiler alert we had a lesson w/ him on Sat.
but before it happened we watched him and some random nice man carry it
up to the 3rd floor. Looked like soooo much fun!! I provided my
assistance by holding his empty gatorade bottle, and the remote. So
helpful huh? haha, what can I say, I try real hard.
Weekly planning on Thurs
throws me off still. We had some good lessons that day, and were able
to stay pretty busy. Dinner w/ the Dotsons was good, I always enjoy
them. We met up for an exchangey thing w/ the other sisters. We got to
go on a field trip to Brookville to drop Sister Schmitt off, and then
we had Sister Campbell in our area on Friday.
Friday
we found out one of our investigators hope, so know we know what to
gear our teaching towards. Always a good thing! We visited the family
from Africa that the Sisters are teaching, and that was about our
excitement for the day.
Saturday
was good. We met the nicest lady who hopefully will be an inv, soon.
She was so awesome, she went and got us a bottle of water and we had a
prayer w/ her to help alleviate some of her stress. I love that awesome
lady!! We also found out Luke moved back to his house, so that's good
and bad. Now we have to have someone else w/ us to go inside.
Sunday
was a good day. I'm going to throw in an insert: Sister Schmitt and I
went to drop off breakfast yesterday morning and asked Luke if he was
going to come to church with which he responded, no. We told him that
it would really help alleviate some of his stress and all that other
encouraging stuff to get him to come. When Leah said that she
wanted to go, and we assured him it was okay if he was late, he said
that he would be there. All during sacrament meeting I was just praying
that he and the kids would walk in, unforunately they never did. After
church was over we went by to see what was up. We found out they were
all ready and walking out the door when one of the kids got sick. He
told us he was glad that we had stopped by to check back up on them. We
were talking a bit more and he told us, "I'm not blaming you, but
everytime you come around something bad happens in my life." We told
him straight out that it is Satan trying to keep him from progressing
and so far he is letting him. He had also told Sister Schmitt and I
that everytime he tried to get close to God bad things happened. The
good news is we found out why he hasn't been texting us back, because he
doesn't want more upheaval in his life. We were able to set up a
return appointment with him this week though. It is astounding to watch
the lengths that Satan goes to to keep people from progressing, and it
shows me things that I need to do to make sure I do not let him
overpower me, or my investigators.
I really love that guy, and his kids are the cutest ever, so I
hope we can help him. George did not get baptized, I forgot to mention
that earlier. We met this awesome guy named Eric yesterday. He goes to
one of the big Churches around here CLC but he stopped us and was
talking w/ us. I would love, love, love to teach him. He is super!!
So basically I love Ohio, I love you, and most importantly I love the Lord and the chance I have to be of service to Him!!
We read this awesome talk by President Packer, back when he was an
Elder, and I pulled out this awesome quote. "The problem w/ you is you
want to see the end from the beginning. You must learn to walk a few
steps ahead into the darkness, and then the light will turn on and go
before you." -President Harold B. Lee
I hope you all are reading the BoM daily b/c it should change your life everyday!!
