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Hello friends.
Hmmmm... well, let me tell you, this
was a fast week. I mean, aren't they all? But it went pretty quick. We
have some great things coming up this transfer that we are very excited
for. And hello, this week was obviously sweet. Every week is sweet when
you are in the Lord's service. Ok. I'm rambling... I guess I'm not sure
where to start.
I'll start with a funny story.
Ok. So we
were over at a less-active member's home. We are teaching her and her
boyfriend. Anyway, we are sitting at the kitchen table and their little
cats keep jumping up on the kitchen table. Well that is obviously not an
acceptable thing for a cat to do, so the less-active kept picking it up
and throwing it off the table. Well we had gotten to a really spiritual
part of the lesson, the less-active is bearing a really sweet testimony
and RIGHT THEN the dumb cat jumps on the table right in front of my
face. Well, I am trying to keep the spirit there, so I try and gently
nudge the cat off the table so there won't be some big scene. Well that
went horribly wrong. Apparently said cat is not very graceful, so when I
nudged the cat it slipped of the table, tumbled on one of the chairs
and fell hard on the floor... making a lot of crashes and booms. So much
for being discreet. Well then everyone started busting up laughing...
it took a minute or two to rein the spirit back in, but hey it ended up
good. Ugh cats. They seem to be the bane of my missionary existence.
Other random things that happened this week (some happy... some not so much):
-We taught seminary and had to wake up very, very early and then had to study in our car.
-Alina dropped us. Very sad.
-We found some new investigators.
Ok,
I have to provide a few stories right now because these are too good.
One of these said investigators is this Mexican guy who lives right
below us. He tried to talk to us to ask us on a date (awkward) but
unfortunately we did not speak Spanish or understand what he was saying.
So we set up a return appointment with a member of the ward who is from
Chile and she pretty much took it away, which was nice. Anyway... he is
now somewhat interested in the gospel, (as far as we can tell... again,
no hablo espanol), But we have to have people who speak Spanish come
with us to teach. haha, oh man. Also this morning he was like standing
at the top of the stairs waiting for us when we went and got our
laundry. It was pretty awkward and scared me so bad. Ah... I'm stoked to
see how this one goes.
The other investigator is a really old,
yet sweet lady who talks A TON. (Like any good New Yorker does), but we
had a really powerful lesson with her. She even expressed that she has
felt like she is missing direction in her life and was confused why
there were so many churches around! So awesome. We are excited to see
where that one goes.
-It was the Primary Program, which is always a joy.
-Sister Mason ate a glutten free waffle, (oh.. did I mention Sister Mason is glutten free?), and she cried for joy.
- I was told I look like an old hippy from the back. I died a little inside.
-We
are teaching member missionary lessons to a bunch of the members here.
I'm sorry but I just have to tell you about this one little girl in the
ward, because this is too cool. So both her parents are RM's and clearly
talk about their missions a lot. Also, this girl is like 7. So one day,
all on her own, she decided she wanted to be a missionary now. So she
got all dressed in her "missionary clothes" then she made her own name
tag out of paper, which she pinned on her dress. Then she read her
scriptures and prayed for someone to share the gospel with. Then she
went to her mom and said "Mom, will you take me to the park? I have been
praying that I can be a missionary and I know that Heavenly Father will
let me be one today if I can go to the park." So her mom took her to
the park. Well, no one was there. So this little girl was very sad. She
sat on a bench with her little scripture stories book and started to
read it. Just then another little girl came and asked her, "What are you
doing? And why are you dressed like that?" Then this little member girl
got to share her testimony with her new friend and read scripture
stories with her. I'm sorry, but how cute is that? I died. I was like,
"Man, I wish I was as cool as her!" Anyway, EVERYONE DO MEMBER
MISSIONARY WORK. :)
-Glenn's parents came to church AGAIN. So happy they stayed for all three hours.:)
-Glenn received the priesthood. :)
-Many investigators are currently avoiding us. :(
-But! We have been finding a lot of really cool people :)
Anyway,
that is pretty much my story for the week. I am really grateful to be
serving here. I know that Christ loves me and helps me everyday!
Talk to ya'll in a week.
XOXO,
Sister Langford
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