HOWDY YALL! guys it's been a good week! We have seen so many tender mercies this week it's insane! I'm learning that missionary work is not just knocking doors and doing a gospel version of summer sales lol! There's so much thought that goes into it and a lot of it especially in the ysa is over phone! It really is the little things that mean the most to people! Summers in the ysa are a little slower which is fine. But school is starting this week and we have a few colleges near by that we go to for contacting so I'm hyped for that! Also I should explain a Lil bit about our area lol. We are in carthage which is tiny and a shocking amount of people here speak Spanish and Spanish only maybe a Lil bit of English if ur lucky so we have given lots of referrals to the Spanish sisters here (s/o to Google translate and the 3 words I know in spanish... jokes on me for thinking i wouldnt need anything i learned in spanish class) anyway our area is 2 stakes ... and parts of it are farther than we can drive miles wise. So lots of farm land and lots of driving! I've meet lots of people who have chick-fil-a chickens or Tyson chickens haha! Since everything here is pretty far apart we have to get creative on how we contact people and driving trips lol! But the people are AMAZING! Sooo faithful and respectful it's so cool everyone is willing to talk about God!
This week :• we mixed up the days we were supposed to go to Bentonville for a meeting so now we are over our mile limit this month... so we use bikes now when we can haha! Its actually super fun especially since the houses here are super old and the square is super cute! The best way I'd describe it is almost like the town from Gilmore girls! It's the best !• we had a sick experience this week when we were contacting! We were driving around and all the sudden me and sister lacey were like we need to stop now. so we pull into this park and see a guy we've been teaching but we could only talk for like 20 sec before he had to go): We were high key confused at why we both felt prompted to stop so we walked around and found this little girl and her babysitter. So we be-lined for them and started to talk to them. the little girl was about 8 and the cutest ever! The other girl didn't speak any English so I whipped out my spanish skills aka the Google translate and we talked to her through that and the little girl! I tried to talk to her in like the very little spanish I know and the little girl just laughed lol rip! Oh well I tried! She ended up being GOLDEN! She already had a bom she wanted to go to the ysa, meet with the missionaries! She's teaching herself english by using the bom!! We got her info and referred her to the Spanish sisters! Then I asked the little girl if she had heard of the church and I gave her a bom and the look on her face! You would have thought she won the lottery! It really made me realize how lucky we are to have the Book of Mormon! She gave us hugs like 5 times and I about cried after that! It was so tender!• GUYSSS!!! we had been praying for people to teach or new ideas on how we could find people and the coolest thing happened! We were out running in front of our apartment and we saw this girl w/ her daughter! We passed them a few times then went and talked to them! She confided that she was looking for a church and how she couldn't find a good one! Ya know who else had that question... perfect right! we got to know her better, come to find out she lives in our apartment complex!!!! We scheduled a time to meet with her so we'll see how that goes!Challenge this week:• say a prayer each day where you only say things your grateful for!• read the title pages& testimonies in the bom! I used to skip over them but they are super powerful and have helped me grow my testimony of the Book of Mormon!Random Quotes from Mission Life:• "age is just a number but so is 911"• "I can't wait to tell my journal how I suck as a missionary"•"I popped a meli 3 min ago"• "you know you've been out here too long when you know the Spanish part to the youth album songs"
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