Hey Everyone!
Well it has been a good week! It started out with a really good
Monday. We had a lesson with a less active lady we have been working with and
her great-grandson who she is raising and that went really well. It was the most
he has participated in any of our lessons! We read the story about Nephi
building a boat and his brothers being really mean. It was so cute because we
were talking before about the story and what it was about and I was asking him
what he would do if God asked him to build a boat and he said "well I would
build it because God would tell me how" it was so great! They live in a little
community about 8 miles away called Dellwood which consists of about four
streets so we went and tried some people in the area that missionaries had
talked to before and found this really awesome lady! She said a few days before
she had just been thinking that she wanted to make some changes in her life and
then we showed up! Then Tuesday we had district meeting. The Elders came down to
Swainsboro and had it here so that was nice. Then after our branch president
brought lunch for us. He made chili and had some other snacks. It was so nice of
him! Then we went and visited some people in the afternoon. Then that evening we
saw Lamont. We talked about the Word of Wisdom. He, like everyone else we
find/teach smokes so we have to work on that! Being on a mission and especially
here in Swainsboro has really strengthened my testimony of and helped me really
appreciate the Word of Wisdom! It is such a blessing to not have the burden of
addiction because it really does control your life and take away your agency.
Wednesday we had a really good day. We finally were able to see Sister Martinez!
She is hard to catch but we had a good talk with her. Her son had some really
great questions so we were able to have a really good discussion! We also had a
really good lesson with Alianna. We did the story of Esther with her dolls and
she loved it. I think it is probably one of the first time I have played with
Barbie's in my life. She loved it though and that is what matters! Thursday was
a really good day! It was a nice day so we decided to park our car at the church
and spend the morning walking. It went really well! On our way back we took a
different street and as we were walking down we saw this lady outside playing
with her kids. I had the feeling we needed to talk to her and I was having this
inner battle because she was a middle aged white person and middle aged white
people are scary! Then I said to Sister Baker that we should probably talk to
her but I was feeling really chicken but then Sister Baker said she was having
the feeling too that we need to talk to her also so we just gritted our teeth
and started walking up the driveway. She saw us and we said hi and she actually
looked happy to see us which is very rare! We introduced ourselves and she was
like ya I am a member! After we got her name we realized that we remembered her
name from the roster but on the roster it was marked that she lived with her
parents who were very against the church and we weren't supposed to visit her.
She was really excited to see us though and we are going to have lunch with her
on Wednesday. She is really cool! It was definitely part of Heavenly Father's
plan that we saw her though because we just happened to be walking down that
street instead of the street we came on. Thursday night the Cruz family taught
us lesson 2 the plan of salvation. Holy cow it was like the most awkward lesson!
They were kind of having some sort of family strife because there was just this
weird tension but we persevered! Their daughters boyfriend was there again and
he was really interested and awesome and answering all of the questions! It's
funny because Brother Cruz and their youngest son and the boyfriend were all
doing really well and answering questions and the girls were just kind of all
over the place. Friday wasn't very exciting but Saturday was great because it
was the women's broadcast! The broadcast was awesome, I loved all of it! I loved
all of the messages and how it was all centered on family and the Savior. It
made me so excited for general conference!! Yesterday was good, we tracted quite
a bit and met some really cool people! I am so much better at talking to people
than I was at the beginning of my mission. It ended up being a really good day!
My last normal, full Sunday. Next week isn't normal because it's general
conference and then the Sunday after that I go to the mission home! Crazy! If
you haven't watched Because He Lives yet you should! It is really good. It would
be a really good proselyting tool if anyone had internet! That is the hard part
about Swainsboro. We talked to a bunch of people yesterday and probably two of
them had internet to actually be able to watch the video. This is when Ipads
would come in handy. I have a super busy next few weeks! I hope ya'll have a
good week! Love you lots!!
Love,
Sister Price
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