Monday was Pday! We washed our clothes, went
shopping and played sports. I did get some fun emails from friends! We didn't
hear back from our dinner appt so we started heading home tonight. Then this
Sister called us and still wanted to eat. We were starving so we met her and
her daughter at a little Subway across the bridge. She was such a neat lady!
She told us about how 3 years ago her life fell apart. Her husband got caught cheating;
she lost her house and then ended up losing everything else. She basically had
a suitcase full of clothes when she showed up at the homeless shelter. They had to leave the shelter and she was
homeless again. She shared how all these trials led her to the church and
prepared her for the missionaries. It was so hard to hear about her life and
her kids trials. Her daughter is now like 8 and she was homeless like 2 years
ago. It made me so grateful for everything that we have. She started crying and
I started crying, but then I bore testimony to her that God was orchestrating
her life. Heavenly Father doesn't do things by accident. Here we were at 8:30 pm
in some random Subway, the worker was closing down and eavesdropping while he
was mopping! The Spirit was so strong! We said a prayer together and then she
told us that she was working on her papers to go to the temple. We thought that
that was awesome and then she told us that there is one problem – she doesn't
have anyone to escort her! She asked us if we could do it?! We are praying that
it will work out and that somehow, when she goes, we will be able to attend
too! It was so awesome – to be honest, it was the first real time on my mission
that I didn't feel like a teenage kid! I knew that I was a representative of
Christ and that His love is real. It is my job to share that Christ-like
charity with everyone! Wow!
Wednesday was a very Knocky day. We knocked a
butt ton of doors. It was super cold and we had like 40 OYMs (open your mouth)
but no one wanted to let us in. We did meet a ton of Latinos, so that's good. We
finally found "little Mexico” in Iowa! I literally have bruises and bumps
on my knuckles from the doors. You have to knock so loudly and it's super hard
in the cold and it kind of sucks! So we have this new thing in our mission that
is called "Speaking with the tongue of Angels." It's basically not
using any words like suck, or gosh or frick. I am not very good at it! Hermana
Pearson slaps me all the time for it or says "what did you say?" like
20 times a day. Oh well!
Thursday we had interviews with President
Badger. They are so cute! He told me and Hermana Pearson that I need to help
her with the budget more. Apparently I am better with money than she is. I told
her my penny pinching ways were because of my awesome Dad – so thanks Dad!
Actually I just never need to buy anything! We were waiting at interviews for
like 2 hours so we played this game called "pitch". It is such a missionary game! Basically you
run through your Book or Mormon and randomly open to a page. After you read a
verse, everyone guesses the book and chapter. It was kind of fun. After interviews
we went to Taco Bell. I had like 2 tacos because we had a dinner appt with the
Jones family an hour later. (And I wonder how I am getting so fat!) Brother
Jones is awesome! He was in the Army and he converted to the church when he was
like 21 years old and has such a cute family. They have 4 kids and he was just
telling us how much he wishes he could find the missionaries that taught him so
he could let them know where he is. He was pretty emotional and says he worries
they think their mission was a failure but he wants them to see his family and
know his kids will go on missions and they are creating an eternal family. It was so good for Hermana Pearson and me to
hear that because sometimes it is hard to be a missionary! By the way, the
people across the hall from our apartment smoke a lot of Marijuana! We smell it
every day! Hermana Pearson was saying one day that they were smoking Meth. So
we now have a "Morning Show" called "Meth in the Morning!"
where I, Molly, am the host and Hermana Pearson, Mary Jane, is my co-host. We
have “guest speakers” and people “call in”. One day an avid meth user called
but then the police called right after, so I don't think they will be calling back
anytime soon! Just Kidding, but our morning study is always lots of fun and we are
totally getting high off of their second hand smoke! Haha
Friday was pretty sad – ok, not sad, but not
very successful! We just knocked a bunch of doors and tried to meet back with a
bunch of potentials that we had appointments with. All of them blew us off. Latinos can be so shady or they are just too
nice to tell us no, so they just don't show up! A white person would just cuss
you out and tell you to get off their porch. It's definitely more effective and
not such a waste of time! The weather was actually really nice and that made it
nice to walk around. It was like 40
degrees! Normally I wouldn't think 40 degrees is nice but trust me, it is! We
went over to this lady's house today. She is the nicest lady ever! She is a born
again Christian and very faithful to her beliefs. She isn't really interested
in our message. We ate caramel corn and told her about the Restoration. She
doesn't want us to share anymore but she does want to have us over for dinner
in a couple of days. She is so sweet and her husband Dave is so nice, they are
so old and so cute. They would be the cutest temple workers in the world but I
know they don't want to hear any more about us and they believe in their
church! But she is feeding us dinner this week and we just love her. I really
want them to join the church but we don't always get what we want. Plus they aren’t
Latino so we couldn't teach them anyways!
Saturday was for sure the warmest day so far on
the mission for me. It was like 50 degrees and the sun actually was shining for
a while! We tried to have a couple of lessons that we had scheduled to meet
with for the first time. We heard a lot of "otro tiempo" and never
actually got in anyone's door. Luis's
phone has been turned off for the last week so we haven't been able to talk to
him lately either. That makes us super nervous! We think that he may have blocked
us – which is sad because he is our best investigator! Oh well, I'm sure it will be ok! We had a
lesson with a guy named Gemeta. He is like 30 – I think he let us in to humor
us because we spoke Spanish. We taught
him about the Restoration and I don't think he was very interested. He said he
will pray about it but he was pretty prideful so we will see. He was pretty
impressed that we speak Spanish. He asked how long I have been doing this and
when I told him 9 weeks, he was pretty shocked. It made me feel pretty good
because I think I am stumbling through these lessons and my Spanish is not very
good. I just keep telling myself that I have to believe and work hard and it
will come in time. We study so hard and try to speak it all the time! I am working my buns off, it is so hard
though! It gets discouraging because
everyone speaks English here and we speak English at every door. It is what it
is, I guess. We spent time on Mormon.org today. I really need to update my
profile. We just watch a bunch of videos and stuff. We also went to dinner at the Allen’s
tonight. It was so fun! They remind me
so much of Mima and Papa. Brother Allen is just like Papa – and we all know
that Papa is my best friend! He was raised in Star Valley, Wyoming. He even has
a Harley Davidson and everything! We played dice and card games – it made me a
little homesick, but mostly, it made me happy to feel like I was around family
again! Also, they have 2 cute chubby
dogs and I love them. It really was what I needed and I was grateful for them!
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