Keep On Pushing Back the Dark!

This week was intense. We did service for a couple of members (Washed their dishes...There were bugs..."just don't look" Was our motto that night.:)) Hna.Argueta did my hair and makeup twice this week. I looked in the mirror and said, "I am a woman...When did that happen?" :) Painted my nails, too. The mission is turning me feminine. I don't know if you guys will recognize me when I get home...:)

 

 

I had an interesting experiment of "If I had only one duffle bag to take everything I wanted, what would I take?" This is the tale of that experiment: We got an eviction paper Monday, saying, "Pay your rent by Friday or be evicted." Well, we took that paper to the mission office and they said that they had sent the check and they'd look into it. We didn't hear anything else about it, but Hna. Argueta and I were worried, so Thursday, we went to the apartment office and told them the situation, that the mission office had called the apartment office, but had to leave a message. They said "ok, we'll call them back." Didn't hear anything more about it after that, but Hna. Moleli and I each packed a bag, anyway...Long story short...we weren't evicted. We still have our apartment, thanks to the mission office and those who support us financially. :) That's the tale of the experiment.

 

Yesterday, we had driving training, so our preparation day got switched to today. But! driving training was a lot of fun. Hna. Moleli was driving and we tested our Anti-lock Braking System..:D...I thought we were going to die, we were going so fast at 40 mph in a church parking lot!!! But we didn't die. The ABS still works. They had us test it so we could feel it and know what it felt like so when we Samoan stomp on the brakes, we wouldn't panic. We also did a braking box, which was were we went 40 MPH and then Samoan stomped the brake so the ABS kicked in and then steer the car into the left box or the right box. That was good. We didn't hit any cones. Hna. Moleli is a good Californian driver. I also got to test my directing skills with the serpentine backing. We did it forwards and backwards. I did really well going forwards, but not backwards, but the instructors helped me with it, so now I'm good.

 

Last night, we went on a finding fest! The goal of the whole mission was to get 200 new investigators in 3 hours, so everyone reserved last night for just finding. Just talking to people about the gospel, then saying, "Hey, we'd like to come over to your house and teach you more. When can we come by?" Our tripanionship found two new investigators!!! We were so happy! In our zone, we found at least 20. As a mission....I don't know, they're going to tell us tomorrow in district meeting. But! We listened to awesome songs that made us SO EXCITED to go finding!!!!!!!!!! The title of this email is a line from one of those songs. Yep. Life's good.

 

Weather's turning colder. All the leaves are falling. :) It's so pretty!

 

Hna. Moleli and I are going to hit our 6 month mark this Friday! We ain't greenies no more! I'm so happy I get to celebrate it with her. I hope we'll be together for our year mark, too.

Keep on pushing back the dark!

Three Investigators at Church

We weren't able to go inside the F.B.I. Building. The security guard we talked to said there was a visitor's entrance, but we didn't find it, so we didn't go in. But I was still happy to be next to it!

 

This week went well. We got three investigators at church and didn't know how to handle them all! (It's a good problem to have). We managed, though, and all is well! 

This last Wednesday, we spent 5 hours weeding and mulching a garden in front of an elementary school with the sister-training leaders, a pair of the Elders, and three people from the school. It was a lot of fun. One of the people from the school was the Elder's investigator, so we were giving her service. It was good. She took a picture of all of us together and she said she was going to send a photo and a letter to our mission president saying how good we were. It's really nice of her. 

Saturday, we went to the family history center and learned a bit more about how to use it. We went because Marisabel, one of our investigators, is starting her family history and we were helping her with that. She's an investigator who is only kept from baptism because her parents don't believe she's old enough to make her own decisions. She's turning 14 this month. her parents say she's not going to be baptized until she's 18, but she comes to church every week, she's starting seminary this week with school (school starts this week? When did that happen?), she's starting her family history. Marisabel is really good. She's golden. 

Since the library is closed, we're sitting outside a cafe, using the wi-if to email. Another blessing of technology.