This week's shout out
goes out to the lady from Benicia who payed for our lunch at Costco. You are
the best.
It was a long week,
let me tell you. But it was good.
I planted a tree this
week. One of our less actives asked us to help her, so we went and Sister
Underwood raked and I dug to plant a tree. It was actually really fun. She has
been coming to church for the last couple weeks, which is so great. She is
really noticing the change that comes with being obedient, and she was able to
testify to us of the truth of it. So good.
Met with the
Kinghorn's, and Sister Kinghorn has basically a clothing business that's going
off the charts. She's signed on with some pretty big names, which is
incredible. The quality is great and she is quite the seamstress. But she's
only been doing it for about a year and she said she's going to teach us how to
make our own skirts. Haha. It'll be interesting. I probably really shouldn't be
allowed to even touch a sewing machine, but we will see :)
Speaking of skirts,
Sister Higdon told us she bought one! And she said herself that now she has no
reason not to go to church. She just won't do it if we tell her to haha she
wants to do it on her own time. I knew she'd come around. I'm excited and nervous
for it just because she is a very interesting woman. But I love her haha
So the Barney's that
have a huge Norwegian dog... They're interesting. She doesn't really believe in
religion, she thinks it's too much hatred, and he's a Jehovah Witness. He also backed
into our car, but that's another story haha. Anyways we met with this family
and they were super nice but they had a lot of things to say about their
religion, about our religion, etc. We aren't really sure what to do because we
aren't supposed to fight, but we are supposed to share the truth we know.
Saw Bob, and met his
friend Adrian, who tried to tell us what we believe. I hate when people tell me
what I believe. It's like. I will tell you what I believe, you have no right to
tell me what I believe. That being said, I took it upon myself it spiritually
floor her. Which I did. Because despite what you think you know about someone
or something, you're probably wrong. And if you're not open to hearing the
truth or even actually knowing what they really know, then well. You should
rethink some things. But Bob is doing alright, he's having a hard time because
he decided to read after catarac surgery and now he's kind of suffering the
consequences for not listening to his doctor. Personally I would have no
interest in reading anyways, but he really does. He didn't come out to church,
and he's having a really rough time :/ Hopefully things will start looking up
for him soon though.
We taught Warren, who
told us that he wants evidence of everything and basically only believes the
Bible and the trinity. I had a really hard time understanding him because he
was so logical, yet he believes in the trinity. Anyone want to help me out on
that? I can't really grasp that notion. But he was very nice, very open and he
invited us back. He said, "If you guys know something that will get me
into heaven, I'll be eternally grateful." Booyah.
This ward has some of
the cutest families. And the funniest. One mom was telling us that the Book of
Mormon scares her because every time she reads it she feels like she's going to
be damned. Legitimate excuse I guess. But it just threw us back a little. She's
hilarious though, and we can't tell if she was kidding or not, but we treated
her as if she wasn't kidding haha but these
members are so good. They are starting to trust us and really work to work
along side us. That's how it's supposed to be you know? We can't do it by
ourselves as missionaries. Too many people are scared of the tag.
We got to see Elder
Cook this week!!! Holy cow he is so cool. Our drive there was. Lets say I
wasn't driving and we were with the Hermanas from El Salvador and Mexico and we
probably should've died multiple times but by the good grace of God we made it
there safely. We drove to San Francisco! Only it was so foggy out that we
couldn't see squat! So it was kind of lame and super dangerous but it was so
good. The whole mission was there, which was crazy. I loved it though. Elder
Cook shook everyone's hand. EVERYONE. That's a ton of hands! The biggest thing
I got from his message though, is "You are where you ought to be."
It's so true. Where ever we are is where we need to be, and I firmly believe
it. There is a reason for everything, be it good or bad, but that's where we
need to be, and this is what we need to be doing. It was just really good to be
able to hear him testify of that to confirm my own testimony, but I know that
applies to everyone.
Happy Valentine's Day!
It's better to be single anyways!
Love
Sister Kwan
Sister Kwan
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