Sister Kate LeBaron~ Bentonville Arkansas Mission: Plz Don't Hoard Stuff!

HOWDY YALLL!!!! This week flew by! It was crazy but also the stuff we were doing was pretty chill. Except for cleaning out the hoarders house that took like 3 hours of being scared for my life! Found our Sister Lacey and I are staying in Carthage, MO. So happy about that! love it here!

Monday: PDAYYYY!! We played pickleball, card games, pool which I'm apparently baller at! Who knew lol! We were at the ymca doing p day things and we ran into a guy I had talked to at braums last week. We talked about church and he hard-core shut me down when he heard book of Mormon so I talked to him about the Bible and the chosen for a bit, gave him a picture of christ w/ our #. He didn't call but he seemed super hyped to see us so I'm hoping we will see him again! Then we had fhe which was a party!

Tuesday:

Tbh Tuesday I was absolutely dead lol. Me n Sister lacey are both gf and decided to eat a brownie for kicks and giggles because we're dumb and I felt like I had the flu/food poisoning for the rest of this week. So in case you are wondering yes I am still allergic lol. We did some fam history w/ a recent convert and that was dope tho! On the bright side a member bought our groceries for us and now we have lots of food!

Wednesday:

We had district council! We were still dead from the day before but we had a good time! We volunteered at the crisis center and vacuumed for a long time and it was actually so fun ! Then we had Bible study and our friend bailed last minute for it but it was still super good!

Thursday:

Was crazy! We had a restoration lesson w/ our friend that's on date, it was super good! Then we went finding at the mall and we talked to some people! One guy taught us how to lasso so that was sick! Then we tried looking for our friend who works there but she wasn't there. Then we went to Walmart to grab stuff for ysa night and she was there!!! We weren't able to have a good conversation w/ her because she was on the phone but still a miracle!

Friday:

Was sooo powerful! We were supposed to go around and meet with people w/ someone from the Mish presidency but he bailed last minute . We had been preparing to have the day be 100% spiritually led and act on any and all promptings. We decided we would still do that and visit those people still. I'd been praying tons to be able to recognize promptings and act on them and those lessons were sooo powerful! I've never had a clearer mind in my life! I was able to just say what the spirit was telling me to, it was so cool! Then we had game night and played a very ultimate version of ultimate spoons which I still have bruises from lol!

Saturday: s/o to my mother for being a clean freak and teaching us how to clean. Saturday we cleaned out a hoarders house for some people who were renovating it! IT WAS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING but also soo satisfying! This experience pushed me more outside of my comfort zone than anything I've ever done in my entire life. I faced pretty much my biggest fears that day lol. The house was pretty much being used as a dumb when this guy was on the road (he's a trucker) and so it looked like a landfill. There were dead mice everywhere, leaves and dirt all over. The bathtubs had black mold so we tried not to stay in that area too long. There were soooo many spiders like it was infested and also wasps like huge nests everywhere I wanted to cry for a bit lol cause yall know I do not do bees haha ! They sprayed a few of the hives for me tho so that was nice! We cleaned for a longgg time! It was lowkey sick tho because there was tons of super old stuff there! We talked to the girl who is renovating it for a while and she's dope! Her and her husband are like a knock off magnolia homes. We got her number and she's gonna send us pictures of it when it's done! I wish we took more pictures of it but I was a little busy being scared for my life

Sunday :

I'm emotionally drained from waiting for transfer calls lol! But it's chillin cause me and sis lacey are staying

We went to the family ward with an investigator and it was soo good! Both the ysa and family ward was soo powerful, the talks were amazing! Then we had lunch at the Moffatts w/ some ysa and talked for awhile!

Challenge:

Act on all promptings! I listened to a talk called you are receiving revelation and it totally changed my perspective on personal revelation! Act on all positive thoughts you have, you never know what could come from it. Worst case you did something good. Satan will attack us in the 1st person and will try to make us think that it would be stupid for us to act on promptings. "Never suppress a generous thought"