Hey Everyone! June
2, 2014
Well this has been a very
interesting week in Georgia as usual. There are always very unique people to
meet here. Well after I emailed on Tuesday we went and tried to visit people
and tracted a little. It was super hot and we sweated a lot. Then on Wednesday
we started exchanges with the Flatrock sisters. Flatrock is just the other ward
in Columbus so they were super close. I went their with Sister Porter and
Sister Ellison came here with Sister McNeely. It was pretty good. Sister Porter
is just very young and sometimes you can tell but overall we got along pretty
well. Sister Ellison and Sister McNeely had a great time together, Sister
Ellison is really funny. However Sister Porter did take me on like the Bataan
death march on Wednesday. She is very concerned about gaining weight, which is
one thing we are all concerned about but she is taking it to the extreme! She
feels the need to walk everywhere to burn calories which is all fine and dandy
except it was like 95 degrees outside and 90% humidity and I thought I was
going to die. I was sweating so much it was ridiculous and disgusting. I was
also getting over a cold and I felt pretty good Wednesday but I think that set
me back because when I got home on Thursday I felt terrible again. Friday we
went to Warner Robins to go to a dentist for Sister McNeely because she had a
few cavities and an exposed root so that was fun. Then we had quite a few
appointments lined up but none of them were there so we didn't get to see
anyone. Saturday was a very interesting day though. We had an appt with Yovett
in the morning, I can't remember if I talked about her, she was a referral from
the elders and our lesson with her went really well. We covered part of the
Plan of Salvation but we weren't able to get through all of it. Then we went to
contact a media referral that we got from mormon.org. This is
where the day got interesting:. The lady started out ok, just talking about how
she loves God and she wanted some Bibles to help a friend start a small church!
We were then on the alert and started talking to her and trying to figure out
if we could share a message with her or what. Then she started talking about
how she had eight of the nine gifts of the spirit and then she started
prophesying about Sister McNeely and that is when things got weird. She went on
and on about how she heals people and can prophecy for people and how she has dreams
that she kills Satan and how she gets overcome with the spirit in the middle of
services and just has to start preaching and prophesying. She was also calling
herself the "Oracle of Christ"
because he was just so much a part of her. She also had a Boss Mustang and the
license plate said "God."
It was all very strange and she talked to us for like an hour and we went away
just feeling like drained of the spirit and kind of icky. It was all just very
weird. There are definitely some very interesting people in Georgia.
Oh one random fact about Georgia is
that they don't pick up road kill here. It just stays on the side of the road
until it decomposes or the vultures get it. It's kind of gross because there
are dead armadillos everywhere and they just swell up and eventually explode
and then there are just random skeletons on the side of the road.
Anyway. Then we went home and
recovered from oracle lady and went to visit Brittani. We had a really good
lesson about faith and talked about what she needs to do to receive her answer
and we assigned her to later look up the mormon message "Patterns of Light"
by Elder Bednar because that is a really good one that talks about different
ways of feeling the spirit and how to recognize promptings. Then she said that
they would be at church on Sunday but they weren't there so we aren't sure what
happened. However another investigator was there that surprised us! There is a
young man leaving from this ward on his mission in August and he got a
girlfriend a few months ago, which we are all very concerned about, but we have
been teaching her and she came to church! She is really nice and I think she
will keep progressing. Then we went to teach Shamiracle and apparently we
offended her mom and she won't talk to us now. There are a few things that went
into it but I won't get into them here. Anyway it was another stressful week
but it had its ups and downs! It's just missionary work. Sister McNeely's
sister (she has a twin sister serving in South Carolina) sent her a talk
someone wrote for their mission about how nobody ever talks about how hard and
discouraging missions are, they just say all of the good things and miracles
that happen. I liked it a lot because she talked about how missions aren't easy
and you do get discouraged and frustrated and feel inadequate all the time but
that's ok! It's just part of being a missionary. If you look at the
missionaries in the scriptures, they all had a hard time. Abinadi only
converted one person and he was burned at the stake, Ammon had to fight the
Lamanites just for a chance at a first discussion, Alma and Amulek were
constantly put in jail and beat up. All of the apostles in the Bible were
persecuted all the time, so why should our missions be easy? Missions are just
hard but that's ok because it strengthens us and helps us learn very important
things! Things that will help us throughout our life and in the next. Missions
are awesome! Usually. I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Love,
Sister Price
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