This week has been amazing! we have seen so many miracles and i don't even know where to start. :)
First off! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BESTEST FRIEND!! i can't believe she
turns 18 today! i love you mucho kylee and i hope you have an awesome
birthday! everyone give her a hug for me!
On Wednesday
of last week Sister Arbon and I got to go to a New missionary follow-up
meeting. that was really good. it was really fun to see my MTC family.
They are all still here and doing good :) we also got to go to dinner
with Sister Todd that night to a place called Panera! its Mexican food
and i ordered the spiciest thing on accident! i downed like 5 cups of
water while eating it. plus she got us two appetizers and we each got
our own dessert! i got fried ice cream! which i love! we finally got to
meet with this family that Sister Arbon tracted into. they were super
nice and had ton of questions but we think they are going to be baptized
they really like our religion so far.
Thursday was soo
busy! but it was a ton of fun! we went tracting that morning and knocked
on this lady's door. she loves Christ and seemed pretty
interested. she said that the Jehovah's Witnesses had come by before and
were teaching her but they couldn't answer her question. her question
is How did all the Cultures start? you should help me out! because i
really can't find an answer! we are going back in two weeks. so let me
know! After we talked to her for a while the sisters picked us up to go
serve Ice cream since we had p-day on tuesday we switched it to
thursday. there is this old man who comes in everyweek and loves to just
talk to us about life. this week he gave us dating advice! he told us
to watch their dates because thats how they are going to act and that's
how they are going to look! he also said watch how they act around/to
waitresses if they get snappy with them then they are going to get
snappy with you. he is a hilarious guy and we love talking to him. He
likes refering to himself as the jerk in the ice cream shop. haha then
we went to the kelleys to make popcorn and cookies to go BOOing. :) it
was a ton of fun! they fed us dinner which was Chicken and green beans
and homemade Ceasar dressing salad. Guess what the sauce had in it??
anchovies!! it was delicious but so weird!! sister castleton said "this
has a little bit of a fishie taste." then they continued to explain what
was in it. yep its official i have eaten anchovies. i can't get over it
either. after dinner we went out and BOO'd people it was a ton of fun.
we have yet to be BOO'd but hopefully it starts spreading here soon. it
might just be a utah thing though.. oh well it was fun!
Friday we did more tracting and tracted into a family who use to go to
church all the time but never joined. her ex-husband was mormon and they
love the church! they want to come back! heres the problem they are
sooo busy! we are never going to have time to teach them! its crazy! so
hopefully soon they will be able to find sometime for us to come over.
:) We had Pizza night at the Simpsons. She is pregnant and its quite
exciting for all of us. :) she is due in march! she's hilarious! she was
telling us all about pregnancy and what to expect. After Dinner we went
over to heather and Jimmy's house i don't remember exactly what we did.
but we did something important. :P oh! wait! no we didn't have time! we
didn't go over there. they came to us. we had run out of time to go
over there so we told them we needed to take a rain check and they said
no they would come to us. we sat outside and got to know their oldest who is getting engaged sometime here soon. she is 18 and is on
her second semester of college. its crazy but its nice to be around
someone who is close to my age. :)
Saturday we were
walking down the road to head out to tracting, when we hear BOOO
MORMONS! i was freaking out cuz its kinda ridiculous what we get yelled
at us. but we turned and saw jimmy pulled over across the street. that
man can find us any where. they told us to get powerade from the house
because we need to stay hydrated. :) so we did. we got to talk to his son, who is a senior and high school. he is hilarious! so much fun to
talk to. we asked him for referrals and he didn't have any. so we left
him so he could go to work then we went tracting. that night was the
Fall Festival for the ward! all the missionaries dressed up as wizards
from harry potter it was awesome. Sister Arbon and I got to judge all
the desserts! they were all soo good! we had a ton of fun and then the
parkers Found us again. :P so we went to their house and jammed out to
Gopel songs and get this!! i will replay the conversations we had!
Jimmy: so heather has decided that she's joining the church!
All of the sisters jaws drop
heather: OH yeah! when can i get baptized guys?
I
HAVE ANOTHER BAPTISM!!! WOOT!! we celebrated!! plus jimmy met with a
counsler on sunday so he is on his way! two more baptisms!! its soo
exciting!! God really does answer prayers!! and Miracles happen every
day!! on sunday they came to church and we set up a date! heather is
going to be baptized November 1! its so exciting! i get to give a talk
on baptism!! woot! :)
My Favorite quote this week that has
helped me out is : Find the motivation or desire, search it out and let
it roar! - Elder Cleaverly
Sometimes its super hard to be motivated. in the real world or on a mission.
we just need to figure out what motivates us and continue down that
path! i challenge you to find something that you need to be motivated
for, whether its getting up in the morning or its going to the gym!
maybe its not eating snacks or candy! figure something out to help you
be motivated to do it! and always remember you can pray! God can help
you with anything! and everything! I love you all!
Lots of Love and Prayers!
Sister Hanks
- This is my District Leader Elder Lee (the blonde) and his Companion Elder Roy (the ginger)
- Me, Elder Roy, Elder Lee and Sister Castleton. she didn't want to be a wizard she wanted to be a princess instead. :)
- This was a sunset the other night it was gorgeous! i really do love it here!
- i have the coolest family!! they send me the best packages! thanks guys!
- Sister kelly and I she goes home in december and is dying out here!
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