Week...something? Man time flies!
Thank goodness for my planner. I don't know how I'd even remember all that's happened in a week's time without it :)
So
after I emailed you last me and my comp went to dinner with an AMAZING
missionary-oriented couple who drove us all voer the place to see less
actives and those we could serve. Bro. Rebarchik is so cool :)
During that little adventure,
Sister Ipson lost her wallet, which means ID, SSN, debit cards, gone.
Oh, and most importantly: her bus pass! So we've had to get a lot of
help from the members this week, but they've been fantastic in helping
us get around in any way they could :) Oh, and her temple recommend.
Luckily the mission home is all of two blocks out of our area, so it's
not that far to get a new one.
I
LOVE DISTRICT MEETINGS. Elder Trout is the coolest. He made a
spirit-filled promise that if we would knock two doors around every
appointment we had, we would get one new investigator a DAY. Because of
chaos and the unreliability of buses and transportation in general my
comp and I haven't experienced the fullness of that blessing, but we're
hoping to try again this week :) How amazing would THAT be???
This week has be
pretty hard. Pretty hard in the way that we've been visiting hardly
anyone and haven't been able to share the gospel much. We spend hours
with our wonderful progressing investigators Jaime and Alex, but no one
else, and I feel like we're wasting time but these two are important to
me and I'm not sure what else we could do with our time, particularly
during that time when we couldn't ride the bus indefinitely. I really
hope that we get more potential investigators this week, we NEED them
before I drive myself crazy!
We do actually have a potential that *seems* solid,
named Ray. We haven't gotten to talk to him for more than like 5 minutes
though, so who knows where that could go :/
We
haven't been in contact with Rheeda and Michelle in over a week. We've
dropped their baptismal dates, but I REALLY hope we can start visiting
them again. Michelle has really experienced a change of heart since we
met her! I don't want that to fade!
We went to the TEMPLE. AWESOME. It's really tiny, and
we were literally the only ones in the session besides one woman and one
man, who might have been temple workers themselves...
We were walking home late a few nights ago, and the Elder's called and
gave us a less-active referral. Turned out we were standing right in
front of her apartment, so we went and visited her. She's super sweet,
but a really heavy smoker. She's also pretty negative about her life,
but we can switch that around! Definitely dealt with that before :) BE
POSITIVE MY FRIENDS. Count your blessings, not the bad things. It makes
like SO MUCH more liveable.
Jaime and Alex are
seriously so cute and fantastic and they've been great in keeping their
commitments. We're debating pushing the baptism only so that we can get
Alex all the lessons so he can be baptized the same day as his mom, but
we'll ahve to see how that works out. If we push it we don't want to do
it during Conference, so it would be the next week, ad we don't really
want to wait THAT long. We'll see.
I got to visit with
Sister Jones, our wonderful Mission Mom, this week, and she says this
mission is exploding! The work is going crazy! It feels like it's dying
down right now, but it WAS crazy for a while there. I'm already working
on figuring out how to bring it back :) When we're busy with all sorts
of people and sharing the Restoration a ton, the Spirit is DRIVING. I
want that back again!
I don't know what
I'm going to do when I get moved out of a bus area for the first time.
It's SO different from a car area, I'll probably be in training all over
again! Our weekly planning, P-days, and shopping get shafted all the
time to strange hours, because we have to take advantage of
opportunities to do other things, or we'd never get anything done. Since
there's a fair chance I'll be training a newbie about seven weeks from
today, I have a TON of stuff to work out. But both Sister Ipson and I
feel like I'm going to be remaining in West Allis and she will go
somewhere new, so hopefully if I train it'll be in a place I'm familiar
with :) Sister Ipson has had to train WHILE opening a new area TWICE
now. I don't know what I'd do!!!
At the end of this
transfer, we have two new sisters coming in. I train for two transfers,
but at the end of MY training, we have ELEVEN new sisters coming in.
So...yeah. There's only like twenty sisters in the mission right now,
and several are going home. This place is going to explode with fresh
minds and new ideas. Can't wait!
I have GOT to get better and using my study time. One hour isn't enough to get ANYTHING done. I hate it.
Exchanges
tomorrow, and I get to lead out with Sister Wilcox! I'm excited,
because we came out at the same time and so we both have no idea what
we're doing (which gives us the priviledge of doing strange things we
always wanted to try without it being weird) :) We're going to go
insane, basically. Do everything I haven't dared to try with Sister
Ipson (she'd be mad if she heard that. She would be all for trying new
crazy things, but for some reason I'm worried about it). I'm thinking
contacting/finding up the wazoo and a million new investigators. We'll
see what we come up with :)
So
it's slow right now, but we're about to turn up the heat. The weeks FLY
by. Can't wait to see where we are a week from today :)
Love you guys!
Sister Neal
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