Highs & Lows of Mission Life

Highs:

Wednesday we had meant to stop by some less actives and such, and we picked some streets that we thought were close to those less actives to tract at. When we were going to tract and began driving toward said street, it was farther than anticipated. But, I just kept on driving deciding that I was too lazy to try and pick somewhere else to tract. Just kidding, I just felt like we should go with what we had planned so I didn't say anything. We get out and begin tracting. To me it's a typical session of tracting, some pretty good contacts, no one entirely interested, eventually one will come, so we move on. We keep going and determine where we will end. After we're finished we start heading back and suddenly Sister Kafoa says, "Sister Smith?"

"Yeah?"

"Can we just do one more door?"

Earlier she and I had been discussing spiritual promptings and acting on them, so naturally I said, "Sure." Not really thinking it was an actual spiritual prompting. Go me. 

We knock on the door and this cute red headed lady answers and tells us to come in... ! Don't mind if we do. We get to talking to her and she informs us that her sister is actually a member of the Church. In fact, she grew up in Arizona and she knows that most of the stuff out there is fake. She then proceeded to tell us that she and her husband were recently talking about how she wants to find a church and the one she's interested in is "Mormon Church." She had actually met a couple of Elder a while back, but she couldn't find their card and wanted to give them a call. Instead, we showed up. :) We set up a lesson with her and it went really well! She came to church and she's already excited to come next week and she's going to bring her husband with her. We can't meet with her this week :(, but we'll keep texting her and making sure she's still reading and such. Oh and after our lesson with her she was surprised with the entire lesson. I don't think she expected it to make as much sense as it did. It was kind of cool. 

Other High: Temple Trip :D and Christmas party all day. Woot woot! So much fun, I sent a couple of pictures. I took none with my camera since mine dies after taking like two photos, so I have to wait until other Sisters send me the pictures they took. 

Low:

Friday I woke up sick, I was able to go to a lesson and we helped make cookies to give to our investigators. I got a fever, and it was horrible! So Saturday I was basically recuperating. I had absolutely no energy. I only had enough so that we could do a church tour, and we came back for lunch and I was out. I slept basically all day and I slept through the entire night. No bueno. Yesterday I began feeling better. My voice sounds hideous, so I didn't get to sing yesterday as planned, but that's fine. And now all I really have is a cough which I'm hoping will go away sooner than the mission nurse said it would. 

Barry is sick too :(. But we'll be seeing him and his daughter on Christmas Eve and Christmas. 

Love y'all,

Merry Christmas!

Sister Smith