August 13, 2012

Me holding the hail, and me looking like a drowned rat Hey Family and Friends!! How are you all doing?? I hope you all had a FANTASTIC week!! Mine was pretty uneventful, but we got lots of stuff done! So I will tell you all about it!! So Tuesday we had Zone Conference...that i why I emailed so late...but it was a really great conference!! I learned so much. Mostly we studied contacting people and our purpose as missionaries! It was super great!! Of course right when the Conference was over, it started pouring rain...but not only that it was hailing! The hail was at least quarter size! None of us wanted to go to our cars...so then Elder McLaughlin came to the rescue! He had an umbrella on him....not that it really did very much. We were still completely drenched! I looked like a drowned rat for the rest of the day...Of course when we got in our car and started driving away, it stopped...that is just our luck. That evening we had supper with the Maunds and it was a really good day. On Wednesday we started the day off at Sister Sonnenberg's house. We did a few things for her and she really appreciated it. That afternoon, Sister Rees also asked us to come over and help her again. She really appreciates our help! Then that evening we had supper with the Low family which felt just like home. And then that night we had a lesson with the Oduneye's. It was another really spiritual lesson. Brother Oduneye asked us to talk about Judas Iscariot...so Sister Stockwell and I studied all we could about him...we weren't sure why he wanted us to talk about him, so we told him that we would tell him what we learned and then he would have to have his own personal revelation to get all the answers to his questions. So then we talked about receiving personal revelation. It was a great lesson! Thursday as you know is weekly planning....my not favorite thing in the world....Then that afternoon, we had a lesson with Cristina and her family. We talked about prayer because Cristina was asked to give the prayer in Sacrament in a few weeks, so we are helping her prepare. Then we walked over to Kenzie's house to say hi to her. I love them so much! That evening, we had supper with Brother Hall. He is a single man, so he invited his sister over so that he could feed us supper. It was fun visiting with them. With all of our lessons with members we have really been focusing on the Temple...and helping them invite their friends to attend the open house with them! Hopefully we can reach the goal of having 100,000 people come through! Friday was a day filled with stop-bys and tracting. We were able to talk to lots of people we haven't seen for a long time...mostly LA's and members. Then we had a lesson with Terry Lynn. She was feeling really down so guess what we did...we played the "Glad Game". It really helped and after a while we were all feeling more positive. It is amazing what counting your blessings can do for you. That evening we had supper with the Hernandez family and they are wonderful as always. They told us lots more stories of Mexico and it was fun...It reminded me of Tanner! Then that evening, we also had a lesson with Sister Leavens. She is so great and loves the Sister Missionaries...but lets be honest...who doesn't?! On Saturday we had a Zone Training Meeting. It was basically pointless...just an excuse for the Elders to get together to go to lunch...be we had to be there...Then for the rest of the day we did a bunch of stop-bys and tracting. Then that eveing we had to update all our records...because we haven't done that for awhile. It wasn't a very exciting day, but I got some letters which made it so much better!! Sunday was church. It was of course a great day. Byron even came!! Then we taught Gospel Principles about obedience. After church we had a correlation with Brother Root. Then we just did some stop-bys and we had supper with the Betournay family. They are a fun family. They were just sealed in the temple a few weeks ago. Then that evening we were kept awake for about an hour because of another crazy hail storm!! I don't know what is going on with the weather, but it is crazy! I am so happy you had fun on your trip to St. George!! I am so sad that I missed it! But it will come again next year! Good luck getting everything ready for the new school year!! I agree that summer came and went...but that means it won't be much longer til I come home! Have such a great week!! I love and miss you all!! Love, Sister Kaitlyn Marchant