Well being an old timer in Manteca
For example:
- I know this city and can drive around without a GPS!
- All the members actually know my name
- I could probably retire from the food bank.
- I start running into people I have taught before around town. hahaha.
School started this week around town, so that
is fun to have that atmosphere. I am excited for Elizabeth
Well this week has been really amazing. First
off I want to say that Hermana Carpenter and I are doing amazing. I
replaced her in Manteca
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| Hermana Carpenter, Hemana Porter, Hermana Cuesta, Hermana Sheffer |
The only bad thing is that Bxxxxo is working
himself to death and dying of a cold that he won’t rest from to get better, and
now Hermana Carpenter and I have the biggest colds ever.
Worth it worth it!!
I am conflicted because I have the worst cold
ever, and then I walk outside into 110 degree weather! IT IS SO
HOOOOOOTTTTT. I have started a thing where I accept every water bottle
that is ever offered to me, and I have a collection of them in the car. I
will take a picture to show you my pile haha. Also there has been a lot
of smoke. It isn’t super bad, but we are definitely seeing the results
from those fires.
We are both very determined to have a good transfer and we are working on working with the spirit. For example after the new missionary leadership meeting (Hermana Carpenter is first time STL) we learned about how we should receive revelation for the numbers we put as goals. So we were both excited to start setting goals after asking our Heavenly Father who and how many he wanted to be baptized. It was really an amazing experience to both think of the same number!! We are really motivated to try to find those people! It was probably the best weekly planning session I have ever had in my mission. It is exciting to have that goal, and have it be more than oh I put a number there. It changes your whole mindset, it makes a difference in your motivation that is for sure! We know Heavenly Father has prepared someone and we are going to work our hardest to find them!
Studies have been going well and we have been
role playing a lot which really helps me. I am almost to Jesus in the Americas
This week I had a crisis where I lost my Bible
and felt like my arm was missing, but then I found it again in the church lost
and found!
Another amazing thing is that Exxxxo, went to
do baptisms for the dead for the first time. When he is really excited his
voice gets higher and higher, and he talks faster and faster. I called
him to make sure his ride had picked him up and he was almost squeaky!
When we talked about it later he said that it was so beautiful, and that while he was in there waiting to do baptisms for the dead he felt as though he had died and that he was really waiting in heaven to go see our Heavenly Father for the first time and be interviewed. He also said that when he was watching the baptisms he saw clouds around the baptismal font. Well just say it was an amazing experience for him. He is so excited to get family names to take. We are also teaching his cousin now! She is not super interested it appears, but I know something is going on in that house that will happen soon!
So this week we have stopped teaching Lxxxxe for a bit because her son jumped off a table and broke his head open. She had to take him to a children’s hospital in
Our investigator brought alcohol in a paper bag to church. But people are coming to church!
Send me pictures of Taylor
Nathan picking 22 was my favorite story ever,
but I am super proud of him for giving up his number, way to be a good
sport/teammate!
I asked and you all can pick me up!!!!
There is a final testimony meeting for all the missionaries who are leaving,
and I bet you could come to that! We will have to see!
Well I love being a missionary, and I know
that we have a Heavenly Father who really does help us daily to learn what we
need to! I am definitely learning a lot of amazing things!
LOVE THE MISSIONARY.
Hermana Sheffer.
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