I paid for the parking ticket, because I'm the driver and it was my fault for parking there. Yeah, the mission doesn't pay for those kinds of things. :(
The snow storm didn't come around. They thought 5 inches of snow would come and we got more like five inches of rain. Although, on Tuesday, after zone conference, we got a text saying, "you can now drive," and we said, "we weren't supposed to?" Because we hadn't gotten a text saying we couldn't, so we were really confused. But we figured it was because we had zone conference, so they didn't tell us that we couldn't drive, because we needed to drive so we could at the conference! Have I sufficiently confused you? :)
Zone conference was good, though. We learned a lot about making offerings to the Lord and the importance of how to begin teaching, which is we first start teaching somebody, we tell them things like "we'd like to visit you two times a week. To feel the Spirit of the Lord more, can we turn off the tv and silence our cell phones? Also, we'd like to begin and end with prayer so we can feel the Spirit more. Also, tell us about your religious background, what role has Christ played in your life?" And other questions like that. We learned that it's important to do that because it helps the people we're teaching to become more comfortable with us, we know a bit about them to help us know what they need, they know what we expect from our visits and we know what they expect from our visits.
We also learned not do to it like a robot. :) a robot missionary is a boring missionary. God made us different for a reason, and we are to use those gifts and talents we have to share the Gospel. Show emotion while you're at it! Be excited! Be awed! Be sad! Show what you feel! It's helps people connect.
Oh! Funny story! Friday night, we had dinner with a member who didn't know that I have gluten allergies, so she brings out a plate of macaroni, meat, carrot something-or other with cheese on top and I looked at it and said, "I'm going to die if I eat that! I can't eat that." So, when she left the room, I put two paper towels on my lap and just shoveled as much as I could from my plate to the napkins. When she came in, I ate from the plate, but every time she left, I piled more on the napkins until he plate was clear. So, now I had this macaroni, meat, carrot, something-or-other ball wrapped in paper towels, and I didn't have anywhere to put it! So, I came up with a plan. When I put on my coat, I still had the macaroni ball in my hand, but I let go of it just before my hand emerged from the sleeve, so it was stuck in the coat sleeve. We said our goodbyes and left. We then deposited the macaroni ball in the nearest gas station trash can. Didn't get any stains on my coat.
We just got done visiting the Smithsonian castle and the Museum of Natural History in DC. It was very cold, but good. This was my third time visiting the natural History Museum, and I still keep learning new things every time I go. They change the exhibits around, too, so there's something new every time I go.
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9 Feb 2015
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