So
this week has been AMAZING. We got 3 new investigators! WHAT WHATTTT! Well,
technically the Lord got them, but we facilitated, so that makes us feel pretty
great! Sister Helm has this new joke (except it isn't really a joke?) that I
can get into anyone's house. It's sooo awkward. People will answer the door and
tell us we are the devil and that we sacrifice children and women (what are
we?) and then I will subdue them with my charms and they inevitably let us in.
Now I don't want you running off and telling everyone I'm amazing at missionary
work because of this. False. Buuuuut it is one of many talents that I never
knew I had! Slash never had reason to use back in the AZ? When I get home we'll
have to think of reasons for me to go into random people's houses? Sketchhh.
Anyway,
the reason I tell you about my secret talent is BECAUSE... I got us into this
man's house yesterday night (don't worry his wife was home) and he started
telling me all his problems with the "Mormon Church." I usually try
not to "Bible Bash" but I honestly felt like I should answer all his
questions. So I did. And at the very end he asked about the Word of Wisdom. He
said that coffee has some medicinal qualities and all this other stuff. Wellll
we have another investigator who is STRUGGLING with quitting coffee and I
finally just told her it is an obedience thing. Maybe coffee has some medicinal
qualities, maybe the world is wrong (like we have been so many times before)
but I know that if you obey God's commandment and stop drinking coffee you will
be blessed and your health will improve (she has like 1 million and 1 probs).
So I tell this guy "Wayne" the same thing. That we follow it because
we are asked to, and if Joseph Smith was a prophet of God (which he was) and he
received this revelation through God (which he did) then all we have to do is
obey. Sister Helm was literally holding her breath because she always worries
when I am so blunt with people. HA! But then he goes... "You know what,
I've asked that question of a million members of the church and they've all
given me these different explanations... and I've never had it explained to me
like that. I agree. I think that God doesn't ask too much of us, but like with
Eve eating from that tree, I'm not sure if that fruit was even bad for her to
eat, but the point was that God asked her not too." And then Sister Helm
took a breath. Then he asked us to come back and told us he would read!
HOLLAAAA! The Lord has been preparing the people of Cody for me to come. Isn't
that crazy?
It's
good that awesome things are happening here, because the majority of our week I
spent in bed! I have been SO sick, and Sister Helm thought I was just tired
because I was covering it up REALLY well, but I told her I needed a nap or I
would die. So we go home one evening and I jump into bed an hour early, then I
wake up at 10:30 the next day. AKA 13 hours. Then we get up and go meet with
the Bishop. I come home again EXHAUSTED and sleep from 3 until the next morning
at 6. AKA 16 hours. Then I rip myself out of bed for church and (former) Bishop
Taggart (our dinner appt from the night before that we had to cancel on) gave
me a blessing. It was amazing. He pretty much told me the Lord knew I was
working my hardest, and that I should slow down a little and let my body rest
and that I would be blessed. THEN that night, we got 2 new investigators.
Woahhh. Blessings. The nice thing is Sister Helm updated our area book and got
a ton of personal study in? Anyway, I'm feeling way better and to be honest,
Sister Helm might be a more positive person than me even, so anything that
happens to us is good! HA!
So
one night one of our favorite families "The Taylors" couldn't feed us
because her mom went into the ER. Well her husband forced money on us (we tried
to run) and told us to go to the most expensive restaurant in town. We weren't
going to go, because he gave us like our monthly allotment and we were freaking
out, but he said he would follow up and see what we thought. Totally a returned
missionary. Well, we had enough to pay for the elders too, so we convinced them
to come with us, and us four waltzed into this restaurant. Within like 10
minutes we had received 2 referrals. Sister Taylor freaked out when she heard
and called her mom and told her it was "okay" that she messed up
their dinner with the missionaries, because it was all part of God's plan! HA!
The things that happen here... I die. The moral here is... ehhh the Taylors
just rock.
It's
been monsooning here. As in they don't believe in monsoons. People are always
laughing at me because I am freezing, well you should have seen the panic when
the rain hit! HAHAHA. We were walking down the street in a rainstorm and
everyone else was sitting in their car in the middle of road waiting for the
rain to stop! Hilarious.
Last
one, promise. We visited this woman in the hospital (which we do about once a
week) and she kept forgetting who we were. She was like... and who are you
again? Halfway through a story she was telling. Everytime I told her I was from
Arizona she would tell me she spent every winter in Sun City West(?) until her
husband died a year ago. Then 5 minutes later she would go... and where are you
from again? It was hilarious. 50 first... missionary lessons? New movie ideaaa!
Ha! But it got even funnier when we mentioned it to the workers there and they
said she didn't have memory problems? Sooo pretty much I'm offended because we
aren't memorable? We could not stop laughing. Probably the funniest visit of my
life. And then when we got home and told the woman we live with
"Norma" she waits 5 minutes into our conversation and goes... who are
you again? I die.
I
love you and miss you dearly!
Sister
Haley Kristina Mills
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