Wow, where does the time go?
Hey, all y'all!
Today is my last p-day with Sister Hansen. We got out transfer calls over the weekend and she is being called to be an STL (Sister Training Leader) in Cookeville...(that's the area where Sister Peyton started her mission!) So I'm once again, I'm taking over the area, staying in Bellevue, and going to be getting a new companion, and her name is Sister Burton. I was shown a picture of her and I recognized her face but I haven't actually met her/had a conversation with her.
We taught a total of 19 lessons again! Whoo! The work is progressing!
Hey, all y'all!
Today is my last p-day with Sister Hansen. We got out transfer calls over the weekend and she is being called to be an STL (Sister Training Leader) in Cookeville...(that's the area where Sister Peyton started her mission!) So I'm once again, I'm taking over the area, staying in Bellevue, and going to be getting a new companion, and her name is Sister Burton. I was shown a picture of her and I recognized her face but I haven't actually met her/had a conversation with her.
We taught a total of 19 lessons again! Whoo! The work is progressing!
This last week was my first week as a normal missionary, no longer in training! This meant we headed out at 10am to work, as opposed to staying for an extra hour to do training, have lunch, then heading out at 12pm. We were able to have another lesson with a fairly recent investigator we found named Chris, Nathaniel (with whom we had a lesson last week with Sister Spackman), and drop by Latisha's so Sister Hansen could say goodbye.
Saturday was an interesting day. We found another large but dying cockroach in the kitchen so we disposed of that, and spent the next couple of hours throughly cleaning out the kitchen cupboards, behind the fridge, washer & dryer, and and re-spraying Raid and 409 everywhere. It's actually quite miraculous that almost all of the cockroaches we've found have been on their backs, dying. I think we have an angel watching over the apartment. Also, the Raid must be working. We spent all morning doing that, then we spent lunch time cleaning out the closets of our apartment. We compiled a large Goodwill pile. Later that same day, we helped a less-active named Alicia move out of and into her new apartment. And after that, we followed up with some investigators we had and had an amazing first lesson with this girl we tracted into named Ariel, and her sisters. More on her, maybe later. Bellevue was having a Bellevue Picnic all day, that day. It's an annual thing and kind of a big deal. There were so many people there! We went around to different booths and did street contacting. At night, we sat in our car, called some members for different appointments, then watched the fireworks show.
Another cool miracle that happened this last week: we were tracting in a neighborhood and on the second or third door we knocked, the lady stood at the window and shooed us away. As we turned around and started walking away, she came outside and yelled at us that we couldn't solicit and we needed to leave or she'd call the police. (I'd like to insert my brief commentary in saying that one, we are not soliciting. And two, a member actually looked up the law for us and told us that since ours is a religious purpose, we're totally legal in Bellevue anyway :P). And she just sat on her lawn, pulling weeds and watching us, so we kind of had to leave at that point. We decided that obviously, there was someone on that street we needed to teach. But we left and I remembered there was a McPherson Dr. close by I'd been wanting to tract for over the past 12 weeks but for various reasons, we'd never gotten around to it. So we went there instead and we went down the whole left side of the street and only one man answered. It was a very long street with many houses, but people just weren't home. On the other side of the street we were tracting, there were a couple of guys landscaping and mowing lawns. After we ended our tracting hour, we walked back to where we'd parked the car and Sister Hansen pointed out that one of the landscape workers was done working and was going to walk past us. She told me we were going to talk to that guy so I had about 5 seconds of mental preparation before we greeted him and asked him how his day was. His name is Rashad. He was tired and told us he hadn't been having a good day. I gave him a pass along card but as we started talking about religion more, we ended up giving him both a Restoration pamphlet and Book of Mormon too. I shared with him Mosiah 2:41 and he gave us his number and asked us to keep in daily contact with him! Like whaaaat? And looking back, it's so evident that the Lord guided us to be able to talk with Rashad that day. #thisisHisworkandwecantmessitup
Anyhow, I hope all is going well. It wasn't humid last week. In fact, there were days when it was almost chilly. But we'll see what happens this week! Tennessee weather is so weird and unpredictable. But I love it!
Best regards,
Sister Ririe
Sent from my iPad
Saturday was an interesting day. We found another large but dying cockroach in the kitchen so we disposed of that, and spent the next couple of hours throughly cleaning out the kitchen cupboards, behind the fridge, washer & dryer, and and re-spraying Raid and 409 everywhere. It's actually quite miraculous that almost all of the cockroaches we've found have been on their backs, dying. I think we have an angel watching over the apartment. Also, the Raid must be working. We spent all morning doing that, then we spent lunch time cleaning out the closets of our apartment. We compiled a large Goodwill pile. Later that same day, we helped a less-active named Alicia move out of and into her new apartment. And after that, we followed up with some investigators we had and had an amazing first lesson with this girl we tracted into named Ariel, and her sisters. More on her, maybe later. Bellevue was having a Bellevue Picnic all day, that day. It's an annual thing and kind of a big deal. There were so many people there! We went around to different booths and did street contacting. At night, we sat in our car, called some members for different appointments, then watched the fireworks show.
Another cool miracle that happened this last week: we were tracting in a neighborhood and on the second or third door we knocked, the lady stood at the window and shooed us away. As we turned around and started walking away, she came outside and yelled at us that we couldn't solicit and we needed to leave or she'd call the police. (I'd like to insert my brief commentary in saying that one, we are not soliciting. And two, a member actually looked up the law for us and told us that since ours is a religious purpose, we're totally legal in Bellevue anyway :P). And she just sat on her lawn, pulling weeds and watching us, so we kind of had to leave at that point. We decided that obviously, there was someone on that street we needed to teach. But we left and I remembered there was a McPherson Dr. close by I'd been wanting to tract for over the past 12 weeks but for various reasons, we'd never gotten around to it. So we went there instead and we went down the whole left side of the street and only one man answered. It was a very long street with many houses, but people just weren't home. On the other side of the street we were tracting, there were a couple of guys landscaping and mowing lawns. After we ended our tracting hour, we walked back to where we'd parked the car and Sister Hansen pointed out that one of the landscape workers was done working and was going to walk past us. She told me we were going to talk to that guy so I had about 5 seconds of mental preparation before we greeted him and asked him how his day was. His name is Rashad. He was tired and told us he hadn't been having a good day. I gave him a pass along card but as we started talking about religion more, we ended up giving him both a Restoration pamphlet and Book of Mormon too. I shared with him Mosiah 2:41 and he gave us his number and asked us to keep in daily contact with him! Like whaaaat? And looking back, it's so evident that the Lord guided us to be able to talk with Rashad that day. #thisisHisworkandwecantmessitup
Anyhow, I hope all is going well. It wasn't humid last week. In fact, there were days when it was almost chilly. But we'll see what happens this week! Tennessee weather is so weird and unpredictable. But I love it!
Best regards,
Sister Ririe
Sent from my iPad
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