Hey Everyone!
So I have officially been gone for one month! Crazy! In some ways it
feels like I've been gone for years and sometimes it feels like I barely left.
This week has been a bit of a trial. Most of our appointments stood us up and
the girl we had set for baptism said she didn't want to be baptized anymore but
I think she's kind of just going through teenager stuff so we are going to keep
working with her. We also had this really great member referral we were really
excited about that we were going to teach yesterday and he has read the Book of
Mormon and said he wanted to be baptized and then he showed up at the members
house yesterday and said he had been praying about it and it just didn't feel
right. So that didn't work out either. I was having a kind of hard time Saturday
night and Sunday morning and I was feeling really discouraged and I just wanted
to go home but then we had a really great testimony meeting yesterday and the
lessons were really good so that was good because it helped me feel a lot
better. We also have a woman who has been coming to church with her boyfriend
the last two Sundays. Her boyfriend has been less active for ten years and she
is a non member but I guess he just decided that he wanted to come back to
church and so they have been coming. She seems really interested and we are
going to go teach her at a members house tonight. Our mission president also
sent out a challenge yesterday because Elder Aidukaitis challenged everyone to
have 10 contacts a day so our mission president decided that each missionary
needed to make 10 contacts a day so now our goal for contacts for the week is
140! That is a lot but we are going to do it! We have really been trying to find
people lately and I think we are finally starting to find people to listen. We
taught two people at their doors yesterday and we got return appointments with
both of them so that is exciting! Sundays are really difficult because I am
usually really tired and all I want to do after church is take a nap but we have
to go out and teach lessons and tract and keep working! We had some interesting
experiences this week with knocking doors. At the beginning of the week people
were just saying no don't come back which is fine because I would rather have
that than people who just stand us up. We were knocking this one street and we
had actually kind of had some progress and we were barely starting to walk up
this one driveway and they guy goes up to his screen door and starts waving he
arms and telling us to go away and so we just keep walking down the road and
then he opens the door and yells "I have a baby sleeping in here and I don't
have time for any of your crap!" so we just go whatever and keep heading down
the street and then he opens the door again and comes out and says "great you
guys woke up the baby now get the he** out of my neighborhood!" so we have
powers to wake up babies from the street without saying a word. Then we were
knocking a few houses down and we were talking to this cute baptist couple and
we asked them if they thought anyone else would be interested in our message and
they pointed to the angry guys house and were like "well he could use some
religion in his life" and we were like ya not so much. He is angry. So that was
funny. On Halloween we had to be in our apartment by six and I was kind of
having a rough night and I was feeling homesick and I was bored so I decided to
break out Jesus the Christ (I know I am weird). It is actually a really good
book and it is so intersting! I was reading the beginning when it talks about
premortal life and the war in heaven and how there were those who fought with
Lucifer and those who fought with the Savior and then those who just didn't
really choose a side and so I just hope I was one of those who fought with the
Savior and didn't just sit on the sidelines! It has so many interesting things
about the doctrine and the life of Jesus that I didn't know. I am loving it. We
had dinner on Tuesday with a less active family and they are pretty cool! They
don't really have an interst in coming back to church but we are just going to
be friends with them and keep going over there for dinner because they make
great food. This week is going to be better and we are going to have
investigators who keep their appointments. I just know it! Oh and the people
here in Georgia are such crazy drivers! They run red lights all the time and
they never use turn signals they just swerve about and they don't ever pull over
for fire trucks or ambulances! It's crazy. I am getting to know the members
better and they are pretty great! They are pretty good about going out to
appointments with us, I just feel bad because we keep getting stood up! Thanks
everyone for the emails and letters! I love them all! I think I get more
packages and letters than any of the other missionaries and I love them all!
Sorry if I don't write or email you all back! This week is going to go better I
can just feel it! I love all of you!
Love,
Sister Kaitlyn Price
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