Week 54- It's a hard knock life for us.

April 26, 2010

Hellooooo!
How is everyone doing? It's all going pretty good here, but let me tell you about our crazy, crazy week! I think it just gets crazier every week I am here! hahaha. I told you about all those new investigators we found last week, well, none of them came to their appointments this week. We had found a lot of new potential investigators too, but again, they didn't come to their appointments. Kind of depressing! But here is the reason why.....it was finals week. Everybody was super busy and super crazy! It was even hard trying to get members coming to our appointments because they all had to do finals as well. We had to get older women from the family wards to come to our appointments.....which ended up with the investigators not showing up. So it was pretty hard and Sister Anderson hasn't had a week like this yet, so she was like "what the heck is going on? Is the mission always like this???" hahaha, poor girl. She has to experience it sometime I guess. But despite the rough, rough week with almost no appointments, we had an AMAZING Sunday!!! People showed up at church that we were not expecting at all! Just comes to show that when you work hard and remain diligent and faithful throughout the harder times, the Lord blesses you with wonderful things! It's always worth it. So this boy, Urie, randomly came to church. He actually came last week too and Sister Droge talked to him and I guess she thought he was a member who was visiting. But he came again yesterday and this time Sister Anderson talked to him and found out that really, he wasn't a member. So she set up an appointment with him AND invited him to stay all 3 hours of church, and he did. Pretty cool blessing! Plus, a member brought her boyfriend who is interested in learning more and some less-actives came as well. So it was a good way to finish off the week.
Last night, we were also invited to come to one of the counselor in the bishopric's home for dinner and a meeting. He invited us and all the ward missionaries and ward mission leader, as well as the stake president and his wife. We brainstormed and we talked about different-out of the box- finding ideas we could do for the summer. Since the majority of the students are going to be leaving for the summer and there won't be as much to do, he wanted to find a way to keep the missionary work alive. It was so good to get everyone's insights and ideas and even helped the ward missionaries see how important missionary work is and how they need to invite their friends. :) AND, I've had this great idea brewing in my head for a little while that I shared with the stake president. The idea is to get Gladys Knight here to sing and invite tons and tons of members and non members :) Maybe it sounds a little crazy, but he actually really really liked it! So he's going to work on it. I think it takes a while before she'd actually make it here, so I'd probably be out of the area, but still. Someone could benefit! One other cool idea we are doing for the month of may is having a 40 day fast for missionary work within the ward. Every day for 40 days, someone will be fasting, so it will be a continuous thing. Sounds pretty cool, huh? I'm excited to get this rolling, and the ward members seem pretty excited about it.
One last thing, we met with Erin yesterday after church and I decided, well we all decided, that something AMAZING is going to happen. That is why she has to be patient for so long before she can be baptized. I don't know what it is, but something really good. There has to be a huge blessing for her to be so patient! So we'll all have to be patient with her because we have no idea what the Lord has in store for her and her family.
I hope you all have a fabulous week and guess what? I get to talk to you pretty soon! :) Love you and miss you lots! Have a great day!
Love, Holly