Well hello everyone.
If
we are being completely honest, this week was kind of slow. Not too
many crazy exciting things happened... but fear not because I always
have SOME story to tell right?
So here are the random goods...
1.
I got to sleep in yesterday #daylightsavings. It was the best morning
of my life. Like, can we have daylight savings everyday? Except here's
the bad news with that, it gets dark here now at like, 5:00.... So that
makes missionary work kind of rough. But we just keep trying to be
creative with ways to find people at night!
2.
There was straight up frost on our car yesterday. It's cold kids. Like
scraping off ice, foggy breath, 2 pairs of tights, cold. I am already
dreading winter.
3.
After 5 months of living in the home of baseball, I was finally dragged
to the Hall of Fame. It was cool I guess. Neither of us know anything
about baseball so we were like... "Hey thats a cool cow that is dressed
like a yankee's fan." But hey, it mixed up the daily routine so I'm not
complaining.
4.
Halloween was cool. Basically we went to the hospital to visit one of
the elders who had to get surgery. Then we baked with Grandma Dorothy and
then we longingly watched the Halloween parade from our window and
carved baby sized pumpkins to look like a missionary. Ah, holidays as a
missionary are rad.
Ok. now for the missionary stuff...
1. Ok I don't know what this wasn't the very first thing I wrote about
buuut..... one of our investigators QUIT SMOKING! ok... not totally officially. But we were
told us that he hasn't bought any new cigarettes and that he feels weird
everytime he smokes now! YES. Miracles do happen. 
2. So we were
bopping around Cooperstown, trying to think of someone we could talk to
that we haven't already harrassed 1000 times. We were knocking on this
door and I thought, "Hey what about that red house?" We hadn't tried the
red house in a while and I couldn't rememer who lived there (because
naturally I can tell you who lives everywhere in Cooperstown). So there
we go, knocking on the red house. The lady came to the door and I
remembered that I had talked to her before (about sister wives.... ugh),
and she said she still wasn't very interested. But then I felt like we
should ask if there was anything we could help her with. She all of a
sudden looked really shocked. Like, she didn't believe that we would
just help her with something. So, kind of testing us, she goes, "Well,
would you rake my leaves?" and we were like "YES!!!!" So, the leaves
were raked. Then afterwards we got to chat with her for a while and at
the end she said "Well, maybe I will join your church!" (kind of joking
but hey!). She said she wanted us to come back, and she referred us to a
couple of her friends! it was the greatest!
3.
We picked up a new investigator! So far our goal of picking up at least
one investigator a week has been going swimmingly! This new investigator
is the sweetest lady ever and she bakes wedding cakes. So... we get
cake everytime we see her. Hey, I'm not complaining!
And the jokesters....
1.
Everytime the District Leaders get off the phone with us they ask "is
there anything we can do for you?" So naturally we always ask for things
(like doughnuts and puppies). The other night we asked if they would
sing to us... and they did. Too good. We were probably laughing our
heads off.
2. Elder on drugs from his surgery... "No, seriously. You sisters are the bomb.com/mormon.org"
3. Elder - "Think about all Christ did for you, and you can't even give the missionaries a freaking name!?" ....and an uplifting quote to keep ya'll on the straight and narrow...
"Unless
you belong to a church that requires sacrifice of all that you possess,
everything that you have and are, even at perhaps the cost of your
life, unless you belong to such a church as that, that church could
never build within you the faith that you need to obtain eternal life." -
Joseph Smith.
Mmmmmmm BYE NOW!
XOXO,
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