5 to 40, emoji central (for my emails at least) - Feb 7, 2023

 Hello everyone! 

We decorated a cigarette box for one of our friends who is trying to quit smoking.  He loved it!  We wrote scriptures on little papers and rolled them up to put inside the box!

TUESDAY:

We had planned on stopping by a contact named Lucinda and she was the sweetest! She mentioned how we had caught her at the right time and mentioned that she wanted to be baptized! And we were like, we can work you towards that! So we gave her a pamphlet and it was wonderful!

WEDNESDAY:

Well we got to meet with our Bev! We haven't been able to meet with her in a few weeks and we finally did! And then we stopped by another contact we don't know well, and when we knocked on the door, from inside we heard (paraphrasing here) "the "Mormons" are here!" It was so funny, and it's always interesting to hear conversations from the other side of the door, just not purposely.

THURSDAY:

So we had a not so great lesson with Alexia and Hailey last week, so we wanted to drop something off. So we made banana bread and were going to doorbell ditch it at their house. So my companion hangs back,  and I go up to the door, but their dad, Brad, saw us.  He's not our greatest fan, and often drunk, but he opened the door and invited us in! It ended up being really good. He was respectful and seemed okay to have us over again. We probably still won't have weekly lessons but we'll see what happens.  He said his daughters could join church over zoom!  That's a big change!

We also got lost on a college campus. We had gone to meet a newly moved in member who went to college and finding the library was hard. But we did eventually!

FRIDAY:

Was interesting. It got down to like 5 degrees  so we stayed inside almost all day. But we did have a good lesson with Herman that evening!

SATURDAY:

Well Saturday we also stayed inside most of the day but we had had some contacts we wanted to reach so we go to our car and Sister Ragozzine tries to put it in reverse... and it didn't work, our car would not go into reverse or drive so we were without a car.

SUNDAY:

Church was good! And we had a friend there! We had some great member lessons 

MONDAY: so normally Monday is p-day but this week we got to go to the temple so Tuesday is our p-day instead. But we walked everywhere...remember...no car! It was so interesting and I felt it after, but we did still visit a lot of people!

And we had another great lesson with Annette and one of our members on many topics, but mainly the restoration. And Annette was like, this all makes so much sense I believe you, so she is amazing! It also got up to 30-40 degrees so weather changes!

 I am so thankful for all of the support and for Jesus Christ as my Savior and Redeemer as well as everyone else's if they allow him, his love has been a blessing! I'm also super grateful for our mission car. Thank you all so much for your support, love you!

Pictures!

-The temple - I took a close up of the moon phases and stained glass of the sacred grove, because I think it's so cool and so pretty!

-banana bread, I forgot to take a picture before I ate some of  it.