hola my friends and family it has been a wonderful week full of craziness and blessings.
first of all MAGGIE CAME TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY AND IT WAS GLORIOUS!!! We taught her again on Wednesday,
we were planning on finishing the Plan of Salvation, and we tried, but
she wasn't so sure about the spirit world. Her religious background is
very strong, but we're not losing hope. Sometimes, I think we get too
impatient with people, when in reality, we need to give people time to
completely change some of the things they have believed or done all
their lives. It's not an easy road, and "things of quality have no fear
of time." but anyways, we weren't sure if she would still want to come
to church after the second lesson, but she called us Friday and said she wanted to come! we got her a ride, and Sunday morning,
I was playing prelude for relief society, and i look up and see Maggie
walk in and my heart just REJOICED. so much so that i botched the hymn
and tears almost came to my eyes but yeah it was wonderful. I think she
was the first investigator I have seen come to church in well over 6
months so it was amazing. And I also forgot how stressful it is to have
an investigator at church, especially when members go off on random
things like Kolob and signs of the second coming...hhahah *face palm*
(don't worry, nobody ACTUALLY talked about kolob this week....but
tangents are a real thing and get a little crazy some days)
We
were kind of stressed out after relief society, because not many people
were talking to Maggie, so the member who brought her took her to
gospel principles, and sister McKeon and I went to the mother's room to
say a quick prayer. We just prayed our little hearts out that people
would talk to her and that she would love church and want to come back,
and on the way back to class, we just decided to tell everyone
individually to say hi to her, and it worked! kind of like when there's
an emergency, you can't just say, "SOMEBODY CALL 911!" You have to tell
people individually to do something. so it worked. :) and she loved
it. :) and the sisters here will be teaching her tomorrow (I will be away on exchanges) but please pray that she'll accept the invitation to be baptized!!! :) #keepprayin4maggie
ALSO
HEATHER WANTS TO BE BAPTIZED!!! she wants to wait until March so she
can get baptized with her son. It's all really exciting. :)
now
for the funny stuff. the most hilarious things happen to us as
missionaries, not just spiritual things. so here you go. :)
We
had a relief society Christmas Social last week, and guess who came??!!
DAWUTA! Jody brought her!!! it was amazing. i just love her so much. i
don't remember if i already told this story, but a couple weeks ago, we
were leaving the nursing home that we volunteer at and we both got in
the car. About 5 seconds later, we hear the back door open!!! We just
screamed bloody murder because we just thought some creepy guy was
coming to kidnap us or something, then we turn around and it was
DAWUTA! she was laughing so hard. So we get out of the car and just
laugh for like 10 minutes and she was like, "I am so happy I scared
you. I just feel so joyful." she's such a hoot. #ilovenigerians
another
funny story, i was making some toast one morning and all of a sudden
this giant glass plate rolls off the top of the fridge onto the counter
in front of me and shatters everywhere! My foot got cut and it was kind
of gross haha but i was still hungry and wanted to eat my toast. So
after sort of cleaning up, I took a bite of my toast and i accidentally
ATE GLASS!!! it was sketchy. hahahhahahhaa good times...
okay
one more funny story, we were shoveling a former investigator's
driveway last week, and this man walked by so we said hello and tried to
talk to him, and he said he was going home to shovel his driveway.
Sister McKeon was in kind of a crazy mood and she just goes, "well...if
you need any help.....RECRUIT THE MORMONS!" He looked at us like we
were crazy and just walked away..hahhahah. good times..had to be
there.
We
got to volunteer at the SaveOn foods for the Foodbank taking donations!
we basically just danced around and told people merry Christmas for
like...4 hours. it was really fun. :) people are so generous.
️ CANADA 
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