Transfer 6 Week 3

Googleable question is the difference between digress and regress. I have been pondeirng that one. This week we sheered a sheep. Sister Garcia is not QUITE as skilled as me and that poor sheep had several wounds by the end of it.

I felt so bad and cringed when I saw the little cuts on him. We also planted corn, pulled weeds, and painted the Hawaiian old ladies little chair on her porch.

We found two new investigators, and both of them are now on date! One is for August 2nd and the other for August 9th. One is a native man who is living in a house of less-actives. The other is an energetic woman who is trying to quit smoking, and just learned how to read a couple years ago! She is several chapters into the Book of Mormon and the Bible and is eating it right up.

She was so nervous before church this Sunday, chewing gum rapidly and talking 100 miles an hour. She kept holding her stomach and saying "I'm so nervous I'm so nervous!" After sacrament meeting we found out that the reason she was so nervous was because she had heard that the Mormons shout and yell in church and fall to the ground and convulse and scream PRAISE THE LORD! She said she was SO relieved! The reason she came, despite her fear, was because she said she felt unbelievable peace when she first opened the Book of Mormon. She knows it has to be from God. She has been so prepared. 

The man who gave her the Book of Mormon was her boss. He always talked about the church and how much it blesses his life and his family, and she was actually the one to ask for the missionaries, to ask for the book. 

The earplugs came in the mail, I will assume they are from Daddy or Mommy but I laughed so hard when they got here. I actually put them to use that night since people were setting off fireworks.

I included a picture of my progressing watch tan,

us putting the earplugs to use 

our door

my walrus face

polariods I've taken this summer

I love you all lots and can't express my thanks for the packages I received this past week. They actually make me feel super guilty to receive so much. I miss you all like crazy. 

The Lord is blessing this area so much with new people to teach and I know it's because we've had the faith to press forward, to drop investigators who weren't progressing, to find new ideas on how to serve people. I am horrified that after this transfer I will hit my halfway mark. So I just refuse to talk about it.

xoxoxo

Sister Valdez