This
week's shout out goes out to Marcella, for this conversation.
Marcella: "You
can't bully others, people like that go to hell. Do you want to go there?"
Sofia: "I don't
know..."
Marcella: "It's
not fun down there. There's not flashlights."
Here's to another
week. It's kind of crazy how fast time flies, huh.
Kim is literally one
of my favorite people in the whole world right now. We were at a Relief Society
event and Jackie, our friend from Berkeley came. She's not a member, but she
loves the events for the "women's worship group." Anyways, she was
raving about how great the event was, when Joanna (our member) and Kim (our
investigator) start talking about how good church is. And so there they are,
talking about church and Kim starts bearing testimony of how awesome it is to
go to church. And it's even better because we had a lesson on general
conference and preparing for it on Sunday, and we get a call from Kim.
She's already preparing for it. And it's in two weeks! And I'm like. Holy cow. You
are the best Mormon I've ever met. And you aren't even baptized yet. It's so
wonderful how the Lord prepares people to live the gospel. I honestly don't
feel like I'm doing anything but confirming the things she already knows are
true.
So there we were, lost
on the mountain, trying to find our member's home. I literally thought the odds
of us falling off the cliff were greater than the odds of us living. Our poor
car. It was trying to hard, but it is such a good car. We made it though, and
we did see our members, and man was the view gorgeous. It truly was incredible.
I was going to take pictures, but I think if I had gone to take it out and
removed my hands from the wheel, we would've died.
Bob has kind of
vanished. We got a cryptic phone call where he said, "Don't come visit any
more, it's a waste of time. I'm a lost cause." And we juggled whether or
not to just bust in, but at this point, we aren't really sure if we can help
him anymore. Out of our hands, and into the Lord's.
Spiders. All over our
poor car. I don't really know why, but they've been like looming around our car
waiting to sneak in and freak us out or something. There are currently 3
crushed spiders, 2 shoe prints, and a hand print. Just kidding, it's 3 shoe
prints haha
We met the Snyders,
who are super less active. The conversation was like this
Her: Oh it's the
missionaries! How are you?
(Casual conversation,
grandson runs over)
Grandson: Oh! It's the
missionaries!
Her: Ask grandpa if
he's busy.
(Grandson leaves,
comes back)
Grandson: He's busy
Her: Tell him that
they know Bob
(Grandson leaves)
Him: Oh! They know
Bob!
And that is how we met
the Snyders. Super friendly, super nice, and I'm surprised they opened the door
for us, but they did! Hopefully we will be able to meet with them again soon.
This week I gave a
thought that I tied into Harry Potter. Just throwing this out there, I'm a
slytherin. But we were looking into houses, and it turns out that you're placed
into houses based on what traits you value, not necessarily what you have.
Anyways, we were talking about this over dinner, and I pulled out Alma 27:27
(look it up yourself) and talked about the characteristics of the House of God.
And we posed the question- is it more important to be in the house of
gryffindor, or the house of God?
Audrey is the cutest
old lady ever. She's got Alzheimer's and she gave us a job to do, but it really
wasn't much haha but we took pictures (I'll attach them) and she's hilarious.
Even if we can't necessarily teach her, she still makes my day better.
Warren totally opened
up to us the other day. It was really nice to finally understand why he acts
the way he does, and it really helped us out so we can address the things he's
worried about. Better news to follow, hopefully :)
This week I got
totally distracted by March Madness. Brackets are one of my favorite things.
But I flipped it this week and actually got something out of it. Ready? So
let's make the bracket our life and all the choices we make. Sometimes, we have
the 1st seat playing the 16th seat, and we all know who's going to win. Those
are the easy decisions, like whether or not to smoke. Sometimes, we have the
7th seat playing the 8th seat, and those are a little trickier. Something like
whether or not to attend or party, or the friends we hang out with. Ultimately,
there will always be upsets (where the lower ranking beats the higher ranking)
but in the end, the overall championship winner should be God. All of our
choices should lead to a higher playing field, and that's what we shoot for.
Love you all!
Sister Kwan
Awkward picture with
the Elders
Spider remnants on the
car
Audrey :)
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