Hello from your friendly neighborhood missionary!
Things have been going well this last week, even though or numbers were lower than they've ever been. We're just pressing forward though! Last p-day the Zone Leaders gave us a challenge. They're having us read the entire Book of Mormon in one transfer, get one new investigator a week, and they told us they know that every ward in the zone can get a baptism THIS TRANSFER. They are amazing missionaries, so we're trying our best to work hard and live up to the challenge. We've been visiting a lot of less-actives and honestly, I find rescue work more rewarding than teaching investigators. Maybe that's because we hardly have any investigators. Richie is progressing though! We think he's still pretty interested and we're teaching him the THIRD lesson on Thursday! So wish us luck!
Victoria has been struggling a bit. All her family does is just bring her down, and they were all in town this week. So she's having a rough time. Only two weeks until she moves to Minnesota! And we're actually going to the temple with her on Friday to do baptisms! So we're excited for that! We might also be going to the temple on Saturday with Meadow and her atheist boyfriend. She really wants him to see the temple and know how important the church is to her. So Saturday will be a critical time for their relationship.
I got to witness my first priesthood blessing in Chinese! We have a half-investigator with the Chinese elders named Allen. So we were over at his house the other day. He didn't want to meet with us, and in the middle of our conversation with him, his grandmother just blurted something out in Chinese. She said that her blood pressure was really high, rising, and she was really afraid. We all just kind of paused, because it was really random. But the Chinese elders offered to give her a priesthood blessing and they did. It was a really sweet experience, even though I didn't understand a word they were saying. She was crying after, and the spirit was so strong! We do a lot with the Chinese elders and we really appreciate them.
Sister Ferrin and I made a goal last night to be exactly obedient, and to manage our time better. So hold us to that! We've been working hard this week!
Last week on Tuesday, we were waiting for a lesson with Victoria and we went to the nearest park to go contacting. We saw a huge cloud of green smoke with a bunch of teenagers inside it, sitting on some park benches. And of course, we both felt prompted to go talk to them. Like expected, they were all under the influence of who-knows-what, but they actually talked to us. We met a guy named Effron, who was holding a pit bull puppy (which is part of the reason I went to talk to him.) and a girl named Chrislin. We talked to them for a long time about the gospel because they'd heard of Mormons before and had a lot of questions. We ended up giving out SIX pamphlets to just the two of them and a Book of Mormon to Chrislin. We also invited them to check out
mormon.org. It was awesome! We've been having some pretty good contacts at local parks. Just planting seeds, I guess!
So yeah, it's been a really good week! Funny story: so on Wednesday, we were driving up to Los Gatos to meet with an investigator, and the moment we entered the Los Gatos city limits, I started having an allergic reaction of some kind. It was so weird! My eyes started swelling up and watering, and I couldn't see a thing! So I had to attempt to pull-over and Sister Ferrin started driving. I guess it's kind of a good thing our investigator didn't show, because I was a mess!! I bet you can all imagine. haha.
So anyways, life's been pretty good up here in Nor-Cal. I love it a lot! Even though we might encounter difficult times, always remember that the church is still true! I love it so much! Everyone who's reading this, read Alma 29!
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