The Week of Eyebrows

I'm gonna brag for a second.

But first, some back story!

When I was 11 years old I snuck my sister's razor and shaved my uni-brow, only I really shaved half my eyebrows off. And I never thought it would grow back the right way so I never tried. Then in March of last year I realized that I was the crazy eyebrow lady. They were so far apart, and so thin, it just looked ridiculous. So I went bushman for MONTHS of no plucking or nothing til they grew back. And now I get compliments left and right. I'm still learning how to say thank you because it's been my biggest source of self-consciousness for all this time.

So yeah, I've got rockin eyebrows apparently!

 

Now to the serious stuff. Pam and Dennis passed their baptismal interviews and are all ready to be baptized on Sunday! We're excited. They're excited. They've really been our focus this week and we didn't find any new investigators, or really even see any of our other investigators........nobody seemed to ever be home or available.

 

Saturday our plan was to walk and walk and walk all day. So of course it was DUMPING rain all day..........so we tracted! And we were soaked. But it's amazing how much people will open up to you on their doorstep as you're taking a non-stop shower. But of course they don't invite you inside.

The "best" is when they open the door and say, "Girls the weather is terrible! 

Get dry!" Then they shut the door.

Thanks. But it was also funny to walk up to a door that magically a sign had appeared saying, "Don't knock on my door and don't ring my doorbell." So we didn't. But I really wanted to put a sticky note on there that said, "Ok, we won't!" But, I'm a dork. Anyways, that was a very wet day. But fun!

 

For church this week we participated in a 100-something Stake broadcast from Salt Lake for the North East area. It was awesome! 

Elder Kacher spoke about the importance of living your life as a member to be an example!

Then Sister Reeves gave a very powerful talk about Repentance and the joy that can come from it. I definitely received inspiration during her talk. But my favorite part was when she was explaining how sometimes we think the most unselfish thing to do with our sins is hide them and not confess, so they don't hurt others. But she made it very clear how that is the most selfish thing we can do. It was cool.

Then Elder Neil L Anderson spoke a LONG time about member missionary work and how easy it really is! Perfect! He also talked a lot about having the missionaries in your home any chance possible. I liked that part :) Then Elder Hales spoke about the importance of family and strengthening that nucleus first. All good stuff.

 

Sunday afternoon I kept feeling like we needed to go visit a member who's been in the ICU in Charleston for a while and we haven't visited her in a week. Sister Campbell was on board so we headed over and walked right into the room to see 2 women standing around the bed. We just started talking to them about their sister and how we're always around as missionaries. 

Finally we looked at the bed and realized it wasn't our member. They were complete strangers. Never talked to missionaries before. Awkward. But we admitted our faults and we all laughed. Sister Campbell shared an extremely powerful scripture from the Book of Mormon (that I can't even remember right now) and we were able to teach them about the Restoration of Christ's Gospel to the Earth and his Church. God works in mysterious ways I guess.

 

I'm excited for this next week. It's going to be great!

 

-Sister Packard

 

Best:

1. Homemade granola and yogurt from a member in the Ward........oh yes!

2. Dark chocolate covered acai and blueberries. Fruit snacks for adults. They're wonderful.

3. Biscuits and gravy. I really am getting quite pro with making that.

4. All of my "bests" this week are about food :)

5. Nana said she was going to send me entries from her journal......coolest thing ever. Journals are so important!

 

Worst:

1. We found a blender in our apartment and this morning I put in all the ingredients for a super yummy and wonderful smoothie. The blender doesn't work!

2. This is also a "best" I guess. But I think we cracked the code to what is a big part of me getting so sick. We think I've developed an intolerance for greasy things. Oil, butter, etc. which is great being in the land of Paula Deen where butter is their life blood. Oh well.