Hey Fan Club! As I am typing this email I am currently on the way to
the Medford Temple for a Temple Trip! Woohoo! I seriously would give
up my Pday every single week if I could go to the temple every week.
But I am really grateful for the opportunity that I have to attend the
temple on my mission so today is a really happy day! So because I
didn’t have a Pday on Monday I feel like I have a lot of different
things to tell you!
So lets start off with my new companion, lets just say we have gotten
really close over the last week and a half that we have been together.
Sister Orr is from Laie, Hawaii. So yes that is where the temple is in
Hawaii and BYU Hawaii. One night this last week we were both sick and
she ended up giving me a tour of Hawaii on her ipad and I learned that
her town is super small. I have also learned that they pay $10 a
gallon for milk and that her dad has a fish farm in her backyard. They
moved to Hawaii when she was 3 years old, her parents are both
originally from Utah. But her dad teaches psychology at BYU Hawaii, so
she is not Hawaiian but that is her home! She went to BYU Provo for 2
years, studying Art History and she has been on her mission for a
year, today is actually her year mark!
Basically our whole zone has been down and out sick this whole week.
One of the Zone Leaders is going on 2.5 weeks with having Bronchitis,
so we are hoping this week that we will all stay away from the
sickness that is going around! Pray for us missionaries to stay
healthy and strong!
At some point this last week we were walking down the street
contacting some people and we saw a man carrying some groceries, so we
started talking to him and offered our help. We got to know him and
then he said , “So I know you are going to ask, so I will just tell
you, this is how I gained my faith...” and then proceeds to tell us
all of these miracles that he and his wife have seen over the last 5
years. As we continued to talk with this man, named Don, we got his
address and scheduled a lesson with him for the following day. Well he
lives out in the boonies, meaning way far away from town. Like a good
30 minute drive! When we went out to visit them one of the times we
did this week we were able to get to know their religious background
and we found out that Don may actually be a member! Crazy! His dad was
a bishop at some point but then his whole family stopped going to
church. But his wife Linda is not a member! So we have continued to go
out and visit them and one day this week we knocked and knocked, they
said they would be home, so we called and we could hear the phone
going off inside, and nothing. So we decided that they were probably
ignoring us and we left. But as we got to the end of their driveway I
felt prompted to look back and on the side of the house I saw smoke
and a head bobbing up and down. Well, it was Don! Apparently he left
his phone outside and had forgotten that we were coming. They had a
burn pile going so we went over and talked to him while they were and
talked to Don and scheduled another time to come by and happened to
teach a little lesson for them right then and there. I am grateful for
the spirit and the prompting that I had to turn around. So pray from
Don & Linda, Linda will be getting a invite to baptism this next week!
So this week, something happened for the second time on my mission. My
companion, at dinner with the patriarch and the bishop, got a piece of
cauliflower stuck in her throat, to the point that when she would
drink water the water would just come back up because it could not go
down. Well long story short we ended up going to the ER because our
mission nurse said we needed too and then while at the ER, after
waiting for 2 hours, the doctor told us that we didn’t need to be
there. Eventually the cauliflower went out on its own and now we are
fine. But this same thing happened in my first area with my trainer,
and I just thought it was HILARIOUS. Seriously. I just kept laughing
when things got worse and worse and I think I helped lighten the mood
a bit. I love her a lot, my companion that is (:
the Medford Temple for a Temple Trip! Woohoo! I seriously would give
up my Pday every single week if I could go to the temple every week.
But I am really grateful for the opportunity that I have to attend the
temple on my mission so today is a really happy day! So because I
didn’t have a Pday on Monday I feel like I have a lot of different
things to tell you!
So lets start off with my new companion, lets just say we have gotten
really close over the last week and a half that we have been together.
Sister Orr is from Laie, Hawaii. So yes that is where the temple is in
Hawaii and BYU Hawaii. One night this last week we were both sick and
she ended up giving me a tour of Hawaii on her ipad and I learned that
her town is super small. I have also learned that they pay $10 a
gallon for milk and that her dad has a fish farm in her backyard. They
moved to Hawaii when she was 3 years old, her parents are both
originally from Utah. But her dad teaches psychology at BYU Hawaii, so
she is not Hawaiian but that is her home! She went to BYU Provo for 2
years, studying Art History and she has been on her mission for a
year, today is actually her year mark!
Basically our whole zone has been down and out sick this whole week.
One of the Zone Leaders is going on 2.5 weeks with having Bronchitis,
so we are hoping this week that we will all stay away from the
sickness that is going around! Pray for us missionaries to stay
healthy and strong!
At some point this last week we were walking down the street
contacting some people and we saw a man carrying some groceries, so we
started talking to him and offered our help. We got to know him and
then he said , “So I know you are going to ask, so I will just tell
you, this is how I gained my faith...” and then proceeds to tell us
all of these miracles that he and his wife have seen over the last 5
years. As we continued to talk with this man, named Don, we got his
address and scheduled a lesson with him for the following day. Well he
lives out in the boonies, meaning way far away from town. Like a good
30 minute drive! When we went out to visit them one of the times we
did this week we were able to get to know their religious background
and we found out that Don may actually be a member! Crazy! His dad was
a bishop at some point but then his whole family stopped going to
church. But his wife Linda is not a member! So we have continued to go
out and visit them and one day this week we knocked and knocked, they
said they would be home, so we called and we could hear the phone
going off inside, and nothing. So we decided that they were probably
ignoring us and we left. But as we got to the end of their driveway I
felt prompted to look back and on the side of the house I saw smoke
and a head bobbing up and down. Well, it was Don! Apparently he left
his phone outside and had forgotten that we were coming. They had a
burn pile going so we went over and talked to him while they were and
talked to Don and scheduled another time to come by and happened to
teach a little lesson for them right then and there. I am grateful for
the spirit and the prompting that I had to turn around. So pray from
Don & Linda, Linda will be getting a invite to baptism this next week!
So this week, something happened for the second time on my mission. My
companion, at dinner with the patriarch and the bishop, got a piece of
cauliflower stuck in her throat, to the point that when she would
drink water the water would just come back up because it could not go
down. Well long story short we ended up going to the ER because our
mission nurse said we needed too and then while at the ER, after
waiting for 2 hours, the doctor told us that we didn’t need to be
there. Eventually the cauliflower went out on its own and now we are
fine. But this same thing happened in my first area with my trainer,
and I just thought it was HILARIOUS. Seriously. I just kept laughing
when things got worse and worse and I think I helped lighten the mood
a bit. I love her a lot, my companion that is (:
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