August 18, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Well it has been quite the week! We have had a lot going on. Gabriel
did get baptized on Saturday so we had to marathon teach her all of the lessons!
We are going to have to do a really good job on the new member lessons so that
she really learns everything! She is really sweet though and her grandma was so
happy. Destini got called as a ward missionary! She is so awesome. She gives us
her work schedule every week and then we take her out teaching with us when she
doesn't have to work. She is like the best fellowhipper ever! Alright well not
much happened on Monday. Most of our plans fell through so we visited people on
the roster to see if they still live there. Tuesday was a very busy day though!
The Elders gave us an investigator named Diamond because she is a single women
so it is easier for us to teach her. She has a few mental health issues but she
is pretty cool! She is really sincere about wanting to learn and she reads and
keeps all the commitments we leave her and she has come to church twice! She has
had a rough life but she really wants to learn and she loves the feeling she
gets when we come over and at our church. We also had a lesson with a lady named
Shavonne, she was quite the roller coaster this week. We met her at an apartment
complex when we were trying to visit someone else and she walked by so we talked
to her and gave her a card. We taught her on Tuesday and it was amazing! The
spirit was really strong and it was just a really awesome lesson. She believed
everything, knew it was true and commited to pray about being baptized on Sept
20! We set up a return appt for Thursday and we were going to take Destini and
it was going to be awesome! Well Thursday came and we had Zone Training Meeting
and it was really good! I really like the new zone leaders (One is Elder Jones
who is the nephew of Todd and Debbie Sorenson from our old Ward, he is like
6'8) they are very hardworking and they gave really good trainings. The new
Sister Training Leaders did well too. I feel so bad for them! One is a Sister
who just got placed in our mission from temple square and they got put in an
area where Elders had been so they know nothing about the area and have no
investigators! They have their work cut out for them! They are super nice and
energetic though. They are fun. The sister who came from temple square is from
portugal and her name is Sister Araujo. I still can't say it correctly. Then we
texted Shavonne to confirm our appt and she said she needed to reschedule for
later. Then a little while later she texted and said that she had gone back to
her old church and didn't want to meet with us anymore because she didn't want
to get confused. In other words she got super anti'd by someone. It's hard when
you know they received a confirmation that it's true and then the adversary gets
to them! It's just really difficult and really sad! We were feeling really
depressed and all of our appts fell through so we went over to Destini's and
chilled for a bit so we could remake plans and we helped her write a letter to
Marshall( he is in the Mexico MTC then will serve in California). She helped us
send a really awesome text to Shavonne! Shavonne hadn't answered but Destini's
idea was really great. Also on Thursday we found out that Carrie's house had
gotten broken into! She was a little frazzled so we went to help her clean up
and she talked a lot. She talked more about her trip to Utah and showed us
pictures. She said you had told her about the Rameumptom because of that church
that is here in Columbus that people climb onto it and holler their prayers out
loud! So we read the story in the Book of Mormon so she understood what we were
talking about. Then we had Gabriel's baptismal interview! It was quite a
scramble to get her interviewed because she was out and about all day on
Thursday. We made it happen though and she passed! She got baptized on Saturday.
It was really strange, it feels like we didn't have to work hard enough for it
and it kind of feels not real. It was good though. Her mom and sister showed up
and they are also interested in learning. The Lee's are doing well. For some
reason their little daughter who is about 15 months loves me! She always wants
to hand me things or grab my finger and lead me around places. She gets super
excited when she sees Sister Sevy and I or when we come to the door. It's really
funny. She is super adorable to so she is like the one little kid who I have
even been remotely tempted to pick up while on my mission. We read from the Book
of Mormon and Brother Lee participated! It was really good! Then yesterday
Sister Sevy was really not feeling well so we worked on our map most of the day.
I never realized missionaries were such stalkers! We have lots of fabulous
stalking tools, its pretty fun. We have a mission conference with Elder
Kopischke this week and we are carpooling down with the Auburn sisters ( Sister
MacDuff and Sister Drollinger-she was my companion from the MTC!) so that will
be way fun! I am excited to get to see people I haven't seen for a while. Then
we have stake conference and just a pretty busy week ahead. Hopefully Sister
Sevy will survive! I might be dragging her along behind me like on a tarp or
something by the end of the week. I feel bad because I have like endless stamina
and mostly have an endless energy supply but she feels mostly dead all the time.
Poor thing. Oh and Diamond is funny. We were having a lesson and she was talking
and she was like "Ya'll are like my sponsers....my
sponsers for Christ!" It was really cute. That really is what we are!
Well have a great week everyone! I love you all! Oh and relating to my story of
Shavonne and feeling sad about her, I was reading in D&C 39 this morning and
its a revelation through Joseph Smith to this guy who was a baptist preacher.
This guy had said he would follow anything the Lord told him to do through
Joseph Smith, so of course the Lord told him to get baptized and to preach the
gospel! Well then the next section talked about how this guy had been deceived
by Satan and hadn't heeded the counsel he received. It made me really sad! It's
really sad when people don't do what they know is true for whatever reason.
Satan is super tricky and he knows his stuff! Don't let him deceive you! That's
the end of my thought for the week.
Love,
Sister Price
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