This week was awesome. So we were basically stuck inside Tuesday through Thursday because of the snowstorm. Which, the snowstorm wasn't even that bad, Georgians are crazy. You shoulda seen the grocery store last week. THE MOST PEOPLE!
On Tuesday we walked to a members house....It took us two hours to walk there and it was misty and cold. But I actually kind of liked it,I just love walking so it wasn't that bad. Then we did service and helped Heidi clean out underneath her house in this basement ish thing.
Wednesday we couldn't go anywhere. Too much ice on the sidewalks and streets so we weren't allowed to leave. So we went over to the Spanish Sisters aparment since it's in our complex and we had lunch and then we basically did nothing...It was so sad. But before dinner we all worked out together then we played Clue. I forgot how much I like that game. Then we put our mattresses in the living room and had a sleepover with the Sisters. Any other day that wouldn't happen, but we basically knew we wouldn't be able to do anything on Thursday so....There you go. It was a lot of fun!
Thursday we worked, even though we were inside. We cleaned our apartment and weekly planned so we could spend all of Friday and Saturday contacting instead of being inside Friday to weekly plan. And we did the most genius thing ever. We made heart shaped sugar cookies and frosted them pink and red. We don't know any of our neighbors and I like being able to say hi to my neighbors wherever I live, so that's why we bought and made the cook mix. So on Valentine's Day we put them in these super cute baggies and taped a mormon.org card to them and went and gave them to our neighbors... People like you much better when you have cookies. We only had one person be mean to us. Everyone was really nice and we told them why we put our card on their and what we do as missionaries, etc. It was really cool. Really awesome finding tool. Doing that for every holiday now for sure.
That made Valentine's Day really good. Typically we talk to about 11 people in a day about the gospel, but on Valentine's Day we talked to 28 people! And Heidi made us a Valentine's breakfast with heart shaped, pink pancakes and she bought us our favorite flowers with dark chocolate. So cute! She loves us. We love her too! :)
Saturday Sister Andrus and I were asked to sing at the Zone Leaders' baptism, and we sang in Sacrament meeting yesterday, so we went over to Katie Nielson's to practice for a couple hours. We did "Joseph Smith's First Prayer" to the tune of "Homeward Bound," way prettier than the original! It sounded really cool and it was fun to sing. Then yesterday we sang "Write Thy Name Upon My Heart," by Sally Deford. It went really well. We wished we could have recorded it because we sang with the Spirit the most when we performed it rather than when we were practicing. (That's why my subject line is what it is because those are all instruments that I found in Daniel and we did a lot of music so I thought it was appropriate). (Also, a sackbut is a triangular instrument with strings. Thought y'all ought to know right?).
The baptism we sang at was awesome. Shahrad, our Persian, came and he really enjoyed it. We told him that Sister Andrus was leaving and he wrote her a note because he had a hard time saying it in English: "I love you because you have been my guide. I will not ever forget you-- SHAHRAD." Then he pointed at the program for the baptism and said, "Baptismal service for me... Next month." !!!!!! Shahrad is getting baptized! He's the most cool person ever. His entire journey in the gospel has been by the Spirit. He came for a month before we could find a member that spoke farsi! We rarely meet people that speak English that are as devoted as he is. He's inspiring and hopefully he's slowly opening up a door to more farsi resources and stuff.
Well, those were the highlights of the week. Our sacrament meeting was really good yesterday because 5 new members were confirmed. It's nice to have spiritually enriching sacrament meetings :)
Love y'all so much!
Jocelyn
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