So, this week was full of adventures -- I don't think I will ever have a week that isn't :) We had zone conference this week and it was SO SO SO GOOD. and we had a very interesting experience with a woman we have been working with and the fire department, and more stuff that my brain can't remember right now :) but i'm going to try!
so monday, was great! we spent FOREVER emailing because i just kept looking at pics of baby coleman :) and while we were sitting there all the sudden over the intercom (in the family history center) comes the elders singing at the top of their lungs. Yeah, they didn't know that we could hear them -- and the ENTIRE building could hear them too. It was great.
wednesday was zone conference and it really was cool. president nelson is pretty funny -- he always smacks me on the arm and calls me smitty. he thinks it's pretty funny that we get a bunch of flack for being sister smith and sister smith. but yeah, we just talked about loving the people you teach and doing things for them. i'm so excited for the next two months -- you can tell that president nelson really was inspired to set a goal of 800 people to baptize for our mission and we are going to see a LOT of miracles to get there.
friday was REALLY interesting. that was the fire dept. day. we went to see carol, she got baptized over 30 yrs. ago and doesn't know anything about the gospel, she just got baptized because her sister told her to. so we went over to visit -- she lives in one room of a house that is in the basement so you have to knock on her window to let her know you are there -- well she was coming out of the house when we got there. we asked her what was going on because she doesn't usually come out of the house and she said it smelled like smoke and fire in her basement. so we went in and it smelled like gas SO BAD. so we ran out and told carol to get out too. carol is pretty stubborn and she would not come out of the house. she wanted to lock all the doors and make several phone calls and i was yelling at her (very forcefully :) ) to get out of the dumb house. and i got to call 911! so the fire dept. came and got everything under control and it turned out fine. carol's boiler is BAD and it was leaking gas and that was the problem.... as well as carol's attitude but whatever. the firefighters were getting so mad at her -- it was kind of funny.
friday we went to see an awesome family too. it was SWEET!!! stacy is from idaho and she got married to chris who is a nonmember. well -- stacy hasn't been to church in a long time and we taught them both and it was so cool to see stacy bear her testimony to chris. you can tell that it really stresses her out that he doesn't understand her religion and that part of who she is. and you can also tell that she doesn't want to bring it up because she doesn't want to force him to change -- that's where we come in! (not forcing him to change of course) but it was cool to teach them both and their assignment was to watch the restoration -- stacy called yesterday to apologize because she wasn't going to bring it back to us because chris wanted to watch it again! woot! and we are going over tomorrow to teach them again.
Winford has been talking to us every night -- he is doing really well. he is reading a lot of anti-crap though and it has been confusing him. never fear -- God can definitely handle the situation. however, it frustrates me to no end that someone who knows the church so well would say some of the things they say. sis. smith and i were talking about how alma the younger was considered the "vilest of sinners" because they were trying to destroy the church and how much more people will be accountable now because the internet reaches SO MANY PEOPLE and how much more those people are destroying the church. yeah, glad i'm not in their shoes.
sundays are always REALLY interesting here. :) i love it. the ward is almost converts and most of them are pretty new. so yesterday we had a discussion on how to get less-active people to church. carol came up with the idea that we all need to pool our money together to buy a church bus and go around to all of them and force them to get on. well -- it actually was discussed as a real option for 15 minutes as the missionaries kept saying that we CANNOT do that. :) but there are so many incredible people here! sister denniston is an older woman in the ward that always feeds missionaries and she is so cute to us. she always says that it is her job to make us feel like we have gone out to dinner -- that means we CANNOT help with the dishes. one of the elders, elder olsen tried last week. she smacked him on the bum. HAHA!!!!!!!! i wish i could have been there to see it.
well fam -- i love you. all. and anyone who reads my blog :) you all make me happy! thank you so much for your letters and support. you are all incredible. good luck with school -- bahaha!
God is real and the church is MOST DEFINITELY true!
have a good week!
sister mich
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