Emporia just keeps getting better and better! Sister Heger and I keep having our adventures, this week was on the more insane side for sure though! I don't even know how to tell you what all happened this week! So maybe day by day?
Monday: Pday!! I met an investigator at lunch, got to sit in a 1940's car, and taught a cute 8 year old who nailed me with questions! Also, out of no where, it snowed!! What the?!
Tuesday: An appointment fell through so, we decided to go see a few potential investigators instead. We saw Kenny, taught him about the Restoration, and put him on date for baptism!!! He'll work with the elder's now and he has been so prepared for this! We taught someone named Isaac and I made best friends with his 2 huge dogs who decided that lesson time was the perfect time to cuddle with me! I will forever find dog hair in my skirt from that one lesson!
Guess who rocks at basketball?!! Not me! LOL, if you want something entertaining to see, try watching me TRY to play 3 on 3 with a bunch of real athletes!
Wednesday: The weather went crazy this day! It was super windy and rainy earlier in the day. Lucky for us, we had the car this week so we were good. I sort of felt like Sherlock Holmes because we are teaching a lady with not one, but 2 previous sets of missionaries teaching her! Every day, I discover something new that we didn't know before so it's pretty intense!
The member's that we live with spoiled us by feeding us dinner..all I can say is yummmmmmm!
Thursday: We did some service at the local assisted living. It was so weird to be there not as a CNA! I will admit right now, I broke a rule, I let an old man hug me. He called himself Big T for Big Trouble! How fitting! haha he told me that he doesn't let anyone pass by without getting a hug, so what could I do??
On the way to teach Debbi, we tried knocking on a few doors. We picked a very red house with at least 50 "wishes" on the porch. I figured that this must be where wishes come true, so why not?! We talked for a while with a great young couple who have so much potential! I hope that we get to work with them in the future!
We gave Debbi a hope lesson to help her stop smoking. A member in the ward hired her and that has changed her attitude about everything! She feels so much more needed and wanted!
We taught our investigator Pam this night. Pam always grew up learning that Mormons were a cult so lessons with her are pretty intense with some deep questions! She is great though and is praying to find out if the church is true! She has come so far!!
Friday: The elders gave us a load of referrals to go see so we busied ourselves with that! We also did some tracting and that always is pretty interesting! We had dinner with a member with a baby, Oh my, do you know how hard it is for me to see a baby and not hold it?! The member served a mission and went out with us, although the appointments dropped through, we were able to go see a less-active which was fun!
Saturday: We woke up early to help out with a bake sale that a member was having. We ended up cleaning off a bunch of glass blocks for a few hours! I'm going to go crazy from scrubbing so many blocks but that's okay if it's for a good cause right?! Later on, I met the coolest, funniest Russian man ever! I gave him a few pass-along cards to "up the value of the house" he impersonated me and did an embarrassingly great job at it, and taught us how to say "I love you" in Russian!
After that, we drove up to a house and when I opened the car door, there was a huuuge mud puddle! I found what SEEMED like solid ground but nope. I sank! whoops! I managed to get my shoe sort of clean but my socks were gonners!
Did anyone watch the Women's Conference?? I hope so, because it was so amazing! Pam and Debbi came to that which made it even better!
Sunday: We were in choir practice before church when KENNY walks in the door! He actually came!! Immediately, he was absorbed into the ward! He was asking and answering questions, serving members and everything! I even got a little emotional when we were all singing a hymn and he was trying to sing along too! I cant believe him! He has been so prepared for this! I can't wait to see how he progresses!
This week has been so busy but so much fun! I was humbled every day by the Spirit teaching me things about how critical it is to have Christ-Like love for everyone, and that we are all on the same team! The Lord's team! If someone makes a goal, it really isn't ours, it's the Lord's. I challenge you all to prepare for General Conference by pondering a question and writing it down, and then listen to conference for your answer! I promise that it really works!
Remember that God answers prayers!
Loves and a hug from Kansas,
Sister Parry
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