Hey Everyone!
Well it has been quite the week! There has been a lot of opposition
this week. It seems like every time I get in a new area there is a transfer
where everything goes wrong before things actually start moving forward. It gets
a little frustrating but that is ok! The weather has been great though! Nice and
cloudy and not super hot. Most of the people we tried to see this week either
weren't there or got sick! We were supposed to have a baptism on Saturday, a
lady named Tina but it didn't work out. We had an appt to see her on Friday but
she wasn't there and wasn't answering her phone even through Saturday morning
and we were super worried! She called us like two hours before the baptism and
it turns out she had a really bad case of pink eye so we have had to postpone
her baptism! Thankfully the YSA sisters had a baptism at the same time so we
didn't have too much scrambling to do to cancel things. We were also supposed to
have a dinner appt with a family who had a referral for us on Friday! We met her
and she is way awesome and has been researching the church and loves everything
about it. They called us the morning of the appt and said that she had to cancel
because she got hand, foot and mouth from some kids in the school class she
teaches! It has just been a week of people contracting diseases. Sister
Wheelwright and I are doing well! I am getting more used to her. I think it was
just a huge personality change from Sister Sevy. I know the things happening
here aren't nearly on the level of disobedience as a lot of stories I hear about
other places. I just feel like hearing those stories still doesn't justify being
slightly disobedient. It doesn't work to go "well they did that and it was super
disobedient so I can do this thing that is just a little bit disobedient." I
guess that is just my black and white self coming out! Some things never change!
I do have to tell you what we did Saturday morning though. We have this recent
convert named Grandpa Red who is super old and near death and lives with his
daughter and her sons. We dread going to his house because it always smells
terrible and is disgustingly dirty! He has a bunch of cats and it just smells
like litter box and cat pee in there. It is awful. When we went to visit him on
Tuesday, he told us that the hospice people who come to take care of him had
done an inspection and told him that he had 10 days to get the house clean or
they were going to take him out of it! He was really upset about that and asked
if there was anything we could do. Well we said we would bring it up to the ward
and so we did but they basically said that there were enough people living in
the house that they could clean it up themselves. We felt really bad because he
asked for help so we talked with the other sisters about what to do! We just
really felt like we needed to help them so the other sisters were super nice and
said that they would come help us clean and we also roped the Elders into
helping us. So Saturday morning was the day! Sister Wheelwright and I went and
got big cleaning gloves because who knows what things we would have to clean!
The house was so gross! We got it in shape though. There was seriously a
mountain of dirty dishes! I planted myself at the kitchen sink and started
working on the dishes. It was an interesting thing because I was surrounded by
dirty dishes and the counters were nasty, but we had to clean the dishes before
we could get to the counters! We had to be really creative on where to put the
clean dishes to dry them. The Elders were really good sports and were a lot of
help! We sang random songs and it was actually pretty fun if we didn't think
about what we were cleaning! I have never cleaned so many dishes in my life! Old
food, moldy food, stuff just sitting there. Ick. We got it looking so much
better and it only took us two and a half hours! We also only found two dead
cockroaches so that is good! None swarmed us from anywhere. we did find some
baby ones though. We gave them some rules to follow to keep things clean so we
are going there tomorrow and we will find out how they are doing! It was funny
later though because halfway through the womens conference all of a sudden my
wrist and elbow started aching SO BAD! I just couldn't figure it out but they
just hurt really bad! It took me forever to realize that it was because I had
cleaned dishes for two hours! It was just really funny to be in my head when I
finally realized what it was. Womens conference was fabulous! I loved all of the
talks and presentations! My favorite was probably Sister Marriott and President
Uchtdorf. I really liked Sister Marriotts little southern twang! It was really
cute. I loved Pres Uchtdorf and how he talked about how important we are to
Heavenly Father. Yesterday after church we went up to a town outside of Valdosta
named Quitman! It is pretty ghetto up there. We have extra miles this month so
we are checking out our farther away outlying areas. We went to see a less
active who is deaf so Sister Wheelwright got to sign with her! That was fun and
Sister Wheelwright loved that. It was a good day! Yesterday at church was the
primary program and it was adorable! Made me think of a year ago when we were
having our primary program! I am excited to see what this upcoming week will
bring and am even more excited for conference! Yay! Plus my year mark is on
Thursday which is really weird. It just boggles my mind that I have been away
from everyone/everything for a year! I didn't even think it was possible and I
am still not sure how I am doing it. I just know that with Heavenly Father's
help everything is possible! I read this in Jacob 4 this week and really loved
it so I will share it with you! Jacob 4: 7-9 " Nevertheless, the Lord God showeth us our weakness that we may know that it is by his grace, and his great condescensions unto the children of men, that we have power to do these things.Behold, great and marvelous are the works of the Lord. How unsearchable are the depths of the mysteries of him; and it is impossible that man should find out all his ways. And no man knoweth of his ways save it be revealed unto him; wherefore,brethren, despise not the revelations of God.For behold, by the power of his word man came upon the face of the earth, which earth was created by the power of his word.Wherefore, if God being able to speak and the world was, and to speak and man was created, O then, why not able to command the earth, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it,according to his will and pleasure Wherefore, brethren, seek not to counsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know that he counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy, over all his works."
I just really loved this scripture! I love how it says not to despise the
revelations of God, especially since General Conference is coming up and we get
to hear revelations firsthand! It also made me think about personal revelation
and how sometimes we are instructed to do really hard things that we don't want
to do, but if God can command the earth to be made he can certainly help us do
hard things! I also like how it says to not counsel the Lord because I don't
know about everyone else but sometimes I sure feel like I know an awful lot!
Then I am humbled and realize that I don't really know anything. Silly me. Great
and marvelous are the works of the Lord and it is such a blessing to be a part
of those works whether as a missionary or in any other calling in the church!
Have a great week and I hope you enjoy conference because it will be so great!
Love you all!
Love,
Sister Price
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