Hey
mom!! I AM eating well. Just so you know. But it's mostly the candy
that prevents me from doing that :) haha I drink tons of water. And my
cereal is loaded with vitamins. But if it makes you happy, I'll try to
change my diet a little more :p We didn't actually meet 3 investigators
at Walmart. They were 3 less actives that we had been trying to get a
hold of. Haha Didn't really work out too well, but oh well. Only one of
them came to church on Sunday :/
Once
again, the hurricane wasn't bad at all. Just a little rain. The
hurricane's passed and we had a rainstorm last night that was about the
same as when the hurricane was supposedly here... I love the rain
though. It doesn't rain often in Utah, and here it rains like twice a
week. I love the sound, the feel, the smell.. Ah just great. :) The
lightning here is amazing too!!! I took a video but it might be a couple
weeks before I send that home.
This
week was a bit of a drag. To be honest we weren't really willing to
work hard this week. We didn't have any miles left on our car, because
we had to save them for a 200 mile round trip for a training meeting
Wednesday. And we didn't want to bike 10 miles to Southport, or 40 miles
to Bolivia and Boiling Springs. So we spent most of the day trying to
do area book. We've been struggling to get member support because people
work so often. Especially during the day. Most of the people in the
ward work at the nuclear factory near by and most of them have had to
work overtime a lot the past 2 months. SO they've been working a lot,
and they don't have time to come with us. So that's been a struggle...
Plus, the priests in our branch are at school or busy with sports so
they don't have time to come out with us either. It's been a struggle.
SO, we have spent most of our time organizing the area book. And I feel
pretty bad about that... Fortunately it's a new month, so we get new
miles. But we're going to budget better so we can be effective the
entire month. Yay!! It's been a bad week. I should have worked harder.
Which I'm going to do!! I'll follow up with that next week.
Wednesday
we had a training meeting with all the other elders and sisters that
came into the field with me, with the President and the assistants. At
one point, we went around the room and everyone shared their experience
with the 12 week program. Everyone had these miracle stories about their
use of the training program. I didn't... We read from it every morning,
as well as 3 pages from the missionary handbook, and we use the extra
hour of companionship study. But I haven't noticed any miracles like the
rest of the new missionaries did. It was a bit discouraging, but I
guess that just means I need to improve. Yay!! BUT I have a good
attitude about it. I have a desire to work harder, and I'm going to. So
again, I'll follow up about my improvement next week.
We
DID have a new investigator come to church this week, which was neat.
She's the hair stylist for a lady in our ward that lives in our
apartment area. We're going to try to set up an appointment with her
later this week to keep teaching her, but she said that she's really
busy with school. So, we'll try hard with that.
Well
I don't have too much more to say this week. This week was about
improvement. About checking my progress and realizing there is more I
could be doing. Oh, i forgot to mention my exchange... Well. I'm out of
time, so I'll write home about that. Sorry!!
Spiritual
message is on diligence-- Scriptures are Moroni 7:48 and D&C 50:
13-18. These show why missionaries MUST be diligent, as well as non
missionaries. D&C89:18-21 shows the promised blessings of diligence.
I know it's a short message but I'm out of time. haha Just read the
scriptures and get your own revelation from them :)
I'm
out of time. But, I love you!! It sounds like everyone is doing well,
and I'm glad to hear that. I'll be working harder this week, I'll let
you know the results next week :) Keep me updated with life, and
especially the election. I would prefer to know who wins, but which I
will find out, but I doubt I'll get details. I wish the best for
everyone!! You're all in my prayers!! LOVE YOU!!!
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