Hey Everyone!
Well this has been a very interesting week. It seems like almost
everyone we were teaching disappeared this week! Those weeks are the worst.
Tuesday we had district meeting and it was really good! They decided to come
over here to Swainsboro so we didn't have to drive all the way to Waynesboro. It
was very nice of them! We have really good Elders in our district right now. I
really like all of them. Brother Currie (our branch mission leader) was really
sweet and made chili for everyone for lunch so that was really fun! That day we
were super pumped up from district meeting so we had a really good day. We went
and saw a person named Kimberly and had a great discussion with her. She is
super cool, the only problem is every other time we have tried to see her she
has been sick! Honestly sick, not just "sick" because she doesn't want to talk
to us. Then we went and tried another person and she was home and let us right
in! Her mom was kind of contentious and wanted to argue with us about the Holy
Spirit and the gift of tongues but the other lady was really nice! The mom left
and we got to talk with the lady, her name is Nedra. The lesson was awesome and
she agreed with everything we said! The only problem is she thinks her pastor is
an apostle and that he has the authority....we just somehow need to help her see
he doesn't. She is really awesome though! Then we went and tried to see a less
active, Sis Martinez but she wasn't home. We were going to leave but then her
husband came around from the back of the house and started talking to us! It was
really awesome because in the past he mostly hasn't acknowledged our presence
and we have kind of had the feeling that he is what is holding her back from
coming to church because she doesn't want to cause tension. We had a really
great talk with him though! He says he is really glad they put sister
missionaries in because he didn't like the Elders. He says they weren't very
smart....not sure what that means. He was trying a little bit to be contentious
but at one point I shared a scripture and bore my testimony and you could
totally tell he felt the spirit really strong but he didn't know what to do so
he stood there for a second and then he changed the subject. It was really
funny, but he totally felt something so hopefully that will stew in his brain
for a while and he will get more curious and his heart will be softened. Then we
had a really great lesson with the Cruz family! They are super awesome. Four of
them came to church this week and Sis Cruz has set this Saturday as her day to
quit smoking! Tuesday was a great day! Wednesday was kind of a bust because no
one wanted to talk to us. Then there was Thursday. Ok so we are STL's right?
That means we go to MLC. MLC is always on the first Thursday of every month.
Always! Except apparently for this month....I guess at the last MLC they told
everyone that this month they were changing MLC to Friday....well guess who
wasn't at the last MLC! Neither of us were. So guess who drove two hours to
Macon for MLC on Thursday? We did! We got concerned when we saw no cars at the
church so we called Sister Cottle and found out they were in Columbus for
interviews and that MLC was on Friday! Well we felt exceptionally smart then and
turned around and drove back to Swainsboro, then drove back to Macon on Friday.
Sister Baker had the impression that we needed to call the ZL's and talk to them
but we brushed it off so it was partly our fault too! Once MLC finally happened
though it was awesome! We talked about a lot of things and had some really fun
trainings! Then Friday night was super great! We had another lesson with that
family I talked about a long time ago, where the wife is white and the husband
is hispanic. The spanish speaking missionaries couldn't come down so we had the
Cruz's come with us! It's awesome because the Cruz's are already friends with
the family we are teaching! The lesson went really well, but both Brother Cruz
and the lady's husband are kind of shy so they didn't say like anything the
whole lesson so we were really nervous that the husband didn't get anything out
of it. Then at the end of the lesson all of this chaos started happening and it
got kind of loud and a bunch of different conversations were going on at once
but then we noticed that amidst the chaos, Brother Cruz and they guy were having
this really intense conversation in Spanish! It was perfect because it took the
attention off of them and they were able to just talk about the whole lesson and
we found out that the husband really liked it! At least we think that is what
Brother Cruz told us after, he talks really quiet and has an accent so we didn't
get all of what he was saying. It went really well though and we are going to go
teach them again this week! I have developed a huge testimony of taking less
actives we are working with teaching with us because it is awesome and helps
them feel the spirit and remember their testimonies! Church yesterday was really
good and we went to the park in the afternoon and talked to people because it
was really warm! It is so much warmer now than it was last winter. It's weird. I
hope grandma gets feeling better! I will definitely pray for her. I love you all
and hope you have a great week!
Love,
Sister Price
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