Another crazy week has gone by.
First: Thank you for my Easter baskets, they were much appreciated! I Got REALLY excited about the protein granola, and haven't really been able to put it down! (Might need more SOON ;p) Also the love that was sent in those packages is overwhelming, so THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!
THANK YOU!!!!
This week we have a new investigator. We have met with her a few times, and just love her! She isn't much older than me and has a daughter who bless-her-heart wasn't blessed with ANY personality! Poor thing, life is going to be rough for her :) Anyway "A" has a lot of great questions, and seems to accept the things we are telling her fairly easily.
Another lady we are teaching is "P." She is 63ish age-wise, but her poor body looks like she is 80-something. She has had health issues her whole life, and it has taken its toll on her body. She is so open to the gospel, and can see that we believe many of the same things but with some added bonuses. :)
One of the things we are stuggling with her and a lot of our other investigators, is helping them accept that there is only one true and living prophet on the earth. That there are men that want to follow God and have done their best to lead his children is right, but only one called by His proper priesthood authority. Any suggestions?
Thursday was a pretty long day. We taught a couple lessons, and then got lunch and headed back to the apartment to take a quick break to make some phone calls before we started weekly planning. Now becasue I am still so "green" sometimes I make it harder than it needs to be, but I am trying to make sure that all the little tineey, tiny, details are taken care of then, instead of coming up later in the week when they have become a lot bigger. So long story short, we were in the apartment the rest of the day. That was a really long day! :)
On Friday, we had district meeting, and Sister Williams and I taught a little bit of it. We taught on the importance of church attendance. That is something our whole district has struggled with is getting our investigators to come to church! Grr! Again, if you have any great ideas that worked for you, or someone you know, we are open to suggestions! :)
Anyway after District Meeting we had our first exchange! The other sisters were supposed to meet us at the church where we have district meeting, but they were running a bit late and we ended up going to find them as they were lost, and had blown a tire.
(Side-note: Tay, the sister who was driving has worse luck than you when it comes to popping tires. Everything that she has ever driven has popped AT LEAST one tire on it; car or bike!) So we found them in a Wal-mart. The tire had already been changed and they were going to go to Big-O to fix the tire. But by then we were really running late and we had to get to "S" (who was the one at the church tour last week). So we exchanged, and Sister Berrett and I left to go back to North Vernon, and our lesson.
The lesson went well, and we went to diiner after.
During dinner we get a call from Sister Williams and Sister Stanford, telling us that President Collins had called them and asked them to exchange with some other sisters that they had already exchanged with the day before. Now exchanges last 24 hours. In those 24 hours you are supposed to do every part of missionary work in that time. (Finding, teaching, planning, etc.) So we have 24 hours to do that.
President called and told them that he doesn't want us to exchange back until Monday! That is a 4 day exchange! That is a long time to be away from YOUR area and YOUR companion! It is definately different, and has been hard for me because I still don't know the area super great, so I don't know what has been tracted and the addresses in Indiana are NOT a grid system! Why can't everywhere just pick that up, it would be so much easier!
Anyway, in about an hour we are going to go exchange back, and we are all excited to get back to normal. It has been interesting seeing how a transfer is going to be, when Sister Williams and I are no longer going to be companions, and I might be left in North Vernon, only knowing a little bit. Or being sent to some other place and having to learn a whole diffrent area all over again! But this has been fun, and Sister Berrett has been great!
Mom: Do you know a Richard and Ruth Berrett? They live in WJ and told Sis Berrett's mom that there was a an Elder Gordon in their home ward who is serving in Indiana, and I have NO idea who they are.
Also. Wax is NEEDED! I will leave it at that. I can't remember anything else from your letter at this moment, so I will tell you the other things you want to know when I write you.
I love you all and hope all is well! Thank you for your prayers and for your generosity! Sister Williams says "Hi, and thank you!" to everyone who has sent her some love! Have a great week! Watch for those missionary moments! They are everywhere!
-Sister Hill
PS- A member told me to tell you, "You should make a FB page for me so THEY can get on and tell you all what/how I am doing." :)
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