It sounds like y'all had a pretty
busy week and you need a little bit of down time to relax or something.
I'm glad that Nolan and Kiera are pretty excited, they will have lots of
fun.
On Tuesday
morning we woke up to a voice mail that President sent to all the
missionaries through the assistants down to the Zone Leaders and then to
us. He told us that there was a prediction of... get this a whopping 3
inches of snow. He said "Now Elders and Sister you may be used to snow
where you are from but people here don't know how to handle it. So cars
have to be parked at noon and you have to walk wherever you go after
that." So after district meeting we came come and it started snowing an
hour later we got a call telling us that we had to be inside our
apartments. No leaving for the rest of the day. So we were grounded to
our apartment for 9 hours.... No fun. I wanted to be out working and
going to our appointments but we couldn't.
Then on Wednesday
they let us walk places so we walked every where we went and because
people are scared of the cold, white, slippery stuff that was on the
ground they all hole up in their houses so we got to talk to
quite a few people because they were trapped. ha ha ha. We tracted
around our apartment and got practice with our few lines of Spanish. It
was fun though. The spirit still testifies just as strong and they feel
it and they wanted to come to church. We ended up walking quite a long
ways and I was pretty cold afterwards but I do not regret it it was a
lot of fun and I would do it again! :)
We taught the Bui family on Wednesday
and it was so cool. They are finally starting to understand and were
asking how they could know how it is true and what they should do. We
have been telling them all along but they are starting to really get it
and feel the spirit. We went back on Sunday and they weren't there so hopefully we can see them this week again.
We had a sister come and stay with us for a day
because she was going home the next morning we had to get up at 4:30 to
take her to the mission office the next morning. My brain wasn't
functioning so well on Saturday
because of it. Two less hours of sleep as a missionary doesn't work out
to well but the Lord helped us keep moving along! While we were
tracting that day we knocked on a door and the guy opened it and said
"Are you Mormons?" We answered yes we are... he said "Well I'm gay."
hahahaha oh people. It was really funny.
Then that night we had dinner with the Residori's who are a couple
who work in the mission office. They are so cute, they remind me so much
of Gramsy and Gramps and she tells the same things to him as well like
if you don't like it go make a peanut butter sandwich. They are so funny
it was entertaining.
We are working hard to find more people to teach and who are ready to receive the gospels truth and goodness.
This
week I was studying in Alma chapters 5 and 8. I love in chapter 8 how
he says lift up thy head and rejoice for we have great cause to rejoice
and heavenly Father loves us and is proud of us. It is true, we have so
many things to be grateful for and he wants us to be happy!
Well that is all for this week! Be happy find things to laugh about and have fun! Love you lots!
Love you bye!
Love Rach
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| Normally busy street in Lilburn after "snowstorm" |
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| Kids in complex built a snowman -- around a fire hydrant |
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| Rachel and Sister Carrigan |
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| Rachel in snow storm by apartment |
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