Adventures of a Sister Missionary: Week 14 12.27.16

Aloha Y'all!
This week has been crazy, stressful, revelatory, sad, happy, fun...aka another week being a missionary... and I truly love every single week, day, moment, second I am able to wear my black name tag and represent my Lord, Savior, and Redeemer Jesus Christ!!

Last Pday we played Ultimate Frisbee and it was a blast. We just all relaxed as a Zone and had a great time. We visited some less-actives and knocked around them. A family welcomed us in and then nicely bible bashed us... it was intense, but not scary. I am understanding the reason it is called the Bible Belt here.

Tuesday we went to Farm Share and dumped expired milk and then went on trade offs with Sister Clay. We had a great trade off in the Mandarin 1st Ward. Sister Clay was with me and we went to go bike to our appointment and my bike tire popped. We went back and got Sister Gibb's bike. We had a great night of finding! We found 3 new investigators and 2 potential investigators! We then biked home and the next day we went to district meeting and had pizza for district lunch together. That night we knocked a street called Siesta Del Rio... man oh man did we find some amazing old ladies there! We first knocked on a ladies door and she came out and asked if we had been there before... we said no, she continued and said well some little ladies came by and I taught them how to sew yoyo's... she then invited us in and showed us her entire house!

We then go a couple more doors and knock on this cute ladies door. She said she wasn't interested and then we told her we liked her Mickey Mouse collection she said, well might as well come see it all you never know I might be dead tomorrow. She then opened her door... y'all her house is decked out with Mickey Mouse her name is Miss Penny and she was the cutest lady ever! On Thursday I Weekly planned as a Trio with Sister Mann and Sister Harris, cause this week when Sister Gibb goes home I will be in a trio with them until transfers the following week. That afternoon we had an amazing lesson with a girl named Alia and committed her to baptism and a date of January 28th! The next day we spent finding and taught a lesson to a preacher who taught us in return. We found a potential investigator as well.

That evening we went and visited less-actives and Sister Johnson. On Saturday we went out to sushi as Sisters to send off Sister Gibb and Sister Warr. That afternoon we tried to visit some less-actives and one of the people that answered said the man we were looking for no longer lived there and we should check the county jail... needless to say it was a good time. That evening we picked up the Mandarin 2nd sisters and went to the Lee's to help them prepare/cook for our New Years Eve district dinner that night. We helped prepare for our delicious fondue feast!
That evening we came home and our apartment smelled so bad!!! We discovered that our kitchen sink was filled with disgusting water...so Sister Gibb goes and twists the pipe so it starts dripping into a bowl and we got impatient and so twisted it a little bit more and it bursts open and floods our kitchen.... we finally get it back on and clean up the water... we took showers and went to bed cause we were done. Then Sunday morning we have a great time at church and come home to a filled sink once again.... we called the plumber.... we were done... I made ebleskeivers to cheer us both up!
I said bye to Sister Gibb.... sad/happy feelings all the way around...
Love y'all!!! Hope y'all had/have great weeks!!!
Xoxo
Sister Foster