Week 60 - Fun adventures in PA

June 14, 2o1o

Hi again!
It's your favorite sister missionary! :) I'm excited to tell you all about the crazy week we had!!! Brace yourself. Just kidding. It actually was a bit of a poopy week. Our mondays and tuesdays are usually really really good days, but then the rest of the week just slides down a hill of yuckiness. From Wednesday to Saturday, we pretty much had all of our appointments cancel on us, so we had to be creative in what to do for our backup plans. I'm excited to share two of our backup plans we had, haha, it was actually quite funny. First of all, there is a girl in our ward, Amber, who we haven't been able to see at church or activities for a few weeks. She hasn't answered her phone calls either so we decided to go stop by her house and heart attack her door with cute little messages on pink hearts. (haha, such a girl thing). Unfortunately though, it was raining and her front door doesn't have a porch covering like most front doors do in Pennsylvania. So when we went to tape up the hearts, we noticed that all the messages were fading because of the rain. So I took one off just to see if there was something else we could do and here's where the adventure comes in..........her white door was dyed pink from all the hearts we put on!!! hahahahaha, oh man! We are idiots. Sister Anderson luckily had a Tide-to-go pen in her bag and I ran to all the neighbors houses trying to ask for cleaning supplies. BUT no one was home and the one man who did answer looked at me like a crazy fool and said he didn't have any cleaning supplies. Then, to add to it.....Amber opened her door and we found out that we had woken her up from her sleep because she had worked the night shift that night prior. You can imagine how terrible we felt. The tide-to-go pen worked pretty well though. We are going to go back and take a magic eraser or something to get it all off though. That was our first adventure.
The second was a girl in our ward-Kelda-has kind of a lot of health problems got admitted into the psychiatric hospital. She's doing well but every now and then she has an emotional distruption and needs to go. So she called us and asked us to come visit her. Sooooooo..........I took my first trip to a mental hospital!!!!! Oh wow, it was crazy! We walked in and there are doors and windows that seperate the waiting area and the area where the patients are. When we got in there, there was a women on one side of the window yelling at a lady on the outside. Good first impression, right? To get in, we had to ring a doorbell and tell the people we were visiting Kelda. At first they weren't going to let us because it wasn't during visiting hours, but we told them we were ecclesiastical and they let us in. But first, a nurse had to come out and meet us, we had to put our bags in lockers and we had to be scanned with a metal detector. THEN we were allowed to go in! What a process! But it was quite an adventure for me! haha.
Anyway, let me get back to some good stuff about the work. On Tuesday we met with our investigators, Sam and David. In Sam's appointment, he told us that at first going into the lessons, he just wanted to find out what the differences were from other churches. He said he soon found out though that we are a lot closer to Christ then any other denomination. So that was cool to hear. He still has some troubles knowing for sure if the Book of Mormon is true though. Then for David's appointment, we watched the Restoration DVD and he totally felt the spirit! We asked him afterwards if he knew that it was true and he said yes. haha, then Sister Dewey said, "well, you know what that means, right?" then he got all scared and tried to take it back saying he knew that joseph really thought he saw that vision. Funny kid, he's scared to move forward. He did tell us though, "Man, it's dangerous hanging out wit you three!" hahahaha, he knows it's true, he's just scared to admit it! He's super involved in his church and is scared of what will happen when he admits he knows its true. Everything will be just fine though, we'll help him understand that. And as for Erin, she is in Texas right now visiting her family. Please pray for her and pray that her mom will get along with Erin while she's home and that she'll still be strong to be baptized on the 26th! Well my family, I love you all. Have a super awesome week! Cant' wait to hear all the things going on next week! Keep up the member missionary work over there in Boise! :)
Love, Holly