Week 58 - Hottest Week of my life!

June 6, 2010

As the subject of my email is, I'm pretty sure you can guess that it was a scorcher this week! Oh my goodness!! I've gotten a pretty nice farmers tan though and a pretty nice foot tan from my shoes :) On Saturday and Sunday it was probably 90 something degrees, humid, no wind, no clouds, and we had no appointments so we walked around and talked to people all day. hahaha, I have to be honest, I was miserable! But Sunday night, as I was thinking about what a bad attitude I had that day, I thought to myself......man, Krista's mission was probably like this everyday! Hot sun, humidity, no car to drive in.....Krista, I give you major kudo's!! haha. You are a strong, strong girl! If you could do it for a whole year and a half, I can do it too for a few months.
Well, let me tell you a little bit about what went on last week. It was a good one. We got a new investigator named Sam who is pretty awesome. We met him in downtown Pittsburgh and he was willing to drive all the way up to Oakland where we are and the church is to meet with us. We did something a little bit different with him and it turned out awesome. Since we teach at the church building, we've talked for MONTHS about doing church tours with the first lessons. We've roleplayed it and practiced it, but just have never done it for some reason. But we did it with Sam and it actually turned out really well. It got him familiar with the church building, it gets him introduced to the three hours of church because we walk through it with him and he had a ton of questions. For sure, we are doing that with every lesson now. I don't know why it took us so long, but we've got it down now!
Saturday was a pretty amazing day too. We had Joan come out street contacting with us and each of us took a half an hour with her. She was pretty nervous at first, but who isn't when they've never done it before. I was the lucky one who got to take her first while Sis. Anderson and Sis. Dewey went in another direction. Joan did so good too! The first person we stopped, she shared her testimony about how getting back on the path of the gospel has made her such a happier person. It was soooooooo strong and powerful! There is nothing like a testimony of a member, especially one who has been able to really see the changes in their life because of the gospel. I loved it. I was probably a happy, beaming fool with a silly smile on my face as I listened to her, hahaha. But as we each went out contacting with her, we had a lot of people commit to come to church.....and three of them actually showed up! It's a miracle to have 3 brand new people come.
I can't wait to hear from you ALL next week :) (natalie, thank you for being the only one to write to me!) Have an awesome week, love you guys!!!
Love, Holly