We're Chillin... Literally

 

HOWDY YALLL!!! This week was fun!! I feel like time is flying lol! We are getting ready for Brynn and Saryahs baptism on Saturday! And since we've had only been teaching Saryah for 2 weeks so far we've had to do lots of lessons! But it's been so cool to see how much both of them have grown! 

Monday: PDAYYYY! It was FREEZING! Oh my heavenly dayz!! I'm going to die when it's actually winter here lol. our senior couple had us over for a cute Halloween dinner/party! It was so fun!  Then we had dinner w/ a member and fhe! 

Tuesday: ooo Tuesday was ROUGH haha! But it was crazy to see how as I tried to focus on others instead of my problems it got a lot easier. I was able to look at the good instead of the bad! We got to talk to one of the people who we've been letting "marinate" lol. And we had a really cool conversation with her! She has 0 religious background and has gone from not wanting a relationship with God, only coming for the social aspect, to wanting a relationship with God! We were able to show her the new bom video that came out about Christ coming to the nephites and the spirit was sooo strong! She said she felt like she was going to cry after and so we explained that it was the spirit! It was way cool! 

Wednesday: We had district council and then we had a really good lesson with a recent convert! Then we went to the crisis center and organized their Christmas stuff! It was sooo fun! 

Thursday: We had 3rd Thursday!!! Which is pretty much the same as food truck Friday but it's in Joplin and has 5× the people(: It was a blast! I did get bashed tho lol he wasn't a fan that we believed Satan is Jesus's brother. But it was decently mild so we just bore our testimonies, gave him our card and dipped. 

Friday: We had our day all planned out and it felt off. We decided that we needed to change something. We had a meeting in Bentonville planned for next Friday but we felt like we should call and move it, they said we could move it! So we took a spontaneous road trip to Bentonville! It was cool because we got to talk to this girl while we were waiting to get into our appointment and we got to talk to her about church and stuff! Then we had a lesson and it went super good! 

Saturday: We had Brynn and Saryah's lesson (our 2 friends that are getting baptized on Saturday ) they are both such big examples to me ! They are both so golden and have such amazing story's! They will both do amazing things and I can't wait to see where they go! 

Sunday: We had church(: I love our members so much! They are so willing to reach out to others and welcome everyone in! Its been so tender to see how they have fully welcomed in Brynn and Saryah!We also had dinner with Saryah and a member family! It was one of the most powerful dinners I've had on my mission so far! One thing about Saryah is she is very quick to recognize miracles she sees and God's hand in her life! It's crazy to see how we're lead and guided to what we share with her and how it always ends up being something she was needing to hear or had just had an experience with! She shared her conversion story and we were all in tears! It was amazing!

 

Challenge: Be 1% better each day! This week we talked a lot about doing the importance of doing the small and simple things. I think a huge tactic satan uses is trying to get us to not do the little things like daily prayer, scripture study, not going to church. But slowly that day we missed scripture study seems to spiral to months and then we find our testimonies weakened. And we are much more likely to allow seemingly small sins. By small and simple things are great things brought to pass. Both good and bad things. Why not just a little sin? Why not just a day you don't pray or do scripture study? Because it will weaken you and make you more susceptible to satan. That day becomes days which become weeks... you get the picture. By trying to do the little things and try to be better than we were the day before we will be able to grow! 

Hot Cocoa with the Sisters

Christmas Vibes