Week Nine- I hope you know we had a hard time.

June 15th, 2009

Hi Ya'll!!
So the subject of my email has kind of been the theme to our week! haha, we read and listened to that conference talk a lot!! So let me tell you a little of how our week went. First of all, the elders who were here before us....well for one of them it was his last transfer and he was super trunky so he never wanted to work....so we hear. Pretty much we have 0 investigators. We really are starting from a completely clean slate! The week basically consisted of tracting, and tracting, and tracting. And with all that tracting, we seemed to keep talking to people who had absolutely no interest in listening to us. On this one day when we were tracting, we met this lady who first told us she wasn't interested and didn't believe in Christ but then she let us in. Then she went off about her family and how terrible they were growing up and she wrote this book about pedaphiles and was reading it to us and we tried to talk about forgiveness but she just would not hear a word we said. So we left that home feeling very.....without the spirit. The next home was a lady who was so anti-mormon that she keeps papers at door that says "what mormon missionaries don't tell you at the door" she pretty much just wanted to argue with us and we wouldn't do it so we just left. The next couple homes really just weren't very kind and wouldn't listen, so that was a bummer day. A lot of the week has been like that. So it has been hard but no worries. I'm not becoming discouraged! I am keeping up the faith and keep praying to find new people to teach. Sis. Deal and I fasted yesterday too and we went tracting last night and everyone was really nice to us! Yay, faith and prayers do work! haha. We even got to teach this one man who we street contacted and got a return appointment. I really felt the spirit strongly when we taught him and I hope he did too!! So I think the work may be picking up now! Tomorrow our district leader and his companion are coming up to our area and we are doing a tracting blitz. They are bringing people with them so they can do splits, so we'll have 3 sets of missionaries here finding people. We are so excited about that, its so nice of them to take time to help us!
Well, as for some fun things, it was Sister Deal's birthday on friday. She's 25, quarter of a century! haha, that's me in just 6 months. But our ward mission leaders wife came over at 10:00 the night before to bring over a cake and sing to her! It was so sweet! Then in the morning, I made her some banana pancakes with coconut syrup (classic) and just a little banner that said happy birthday sis. deal. I also found some birthday hats and horns at the top of one of our cupboards, so we used those to celebrate a little bit! haha. You can't let a birthday go by without doing something to celebrate!!! :)
Ok, now here is the MOST exciting thing about this week.....you ready for this? ....I saw fireflies for the first time last night!!!!!!!!!!!! They are finally out and about!!! I've been waiting for them to come since I got here! haha, I just love the flashes of lights everywhere! Maybe I'll catch one and send a picture home.
Well I should probably go now. I hope everything is going well for everyone! Have a great week! Love you all!
Love, Sister LaMont