Pday was not very long ago so
not very much has happened since we last communicated, but it's still been fun.
Yes, I received revelation! I've been thinking a lot about how to get feeling
better and get back on track to not come home looking like a blimp. I know it's
not bad, but still not good. So I had a dream......... :)
And it's been
working!
One hour I eat a cup of food. The next hour I guzzle water. And that
repeats through out the day. It's difficult when members expect you to eat a
lot, but I can't do it! I've been feeling so much better this past week! It
doesn't work perfectly everyday, but it's a start.
Pam told us that every time
you find a penny on the ground it means an angel is thinking about you :) So
now sometimes we spend too much time looking at the ground. But I love that
mentality. And I love finding pennies that have been sitting on the ground for
a VERY long time, because it makes me think that it was placed there a long
time ago for me to find days, months, years, later :) It makes me feel special.
Dennis is right on track to
keep moving forward! Personally I think he should be teaching the Gospel
Principles class, but that's just me.
Pam didn't make it to church
again this week..............ugh. She had some testing done overnight in
Charleston and didn't get home til right as church was starting. We've been
checking to see if we'll have to re-baptize her after a certain amount of time.
We're REALLY hoping not! But she's been doing good with her reading. She sat us
down and went through 2 pages of questions from her reading since we last saw
her. And she tried to answer most of them, but wanted our inputs. She's
awesome. It was also Emily's birthday. Emily has been less-active but was
recently a "save" after coming to church consistently. She's been
coming with us to see Pam at least once a week and this time we had a party for
her birthday. It was fun!
Thomas is working on quitting
smoking and he's been fun to teach. He's still rip roaring to be baptized June
13th! As long as he can kick the smoking it will be no problem! I like him
because he reminds me of my big bros :)
Carrie is a lady we met while
walking around Tammy's neighborhood. She was tanning so we obviously were
talking about tanning and the best methods, etc. (this is why the world needs
Sister Missionaries) and it came about that she has Native American ancestry.
So I got all excited and gave her a Book of Mormon and told her about her
Family History! We saw her again Sunday and she promised she would read from it
before we see her again Thursday :)
Tammy is officially,
completely, avoiding us. The APs are super bummed too, because they're the ones
who first met her. But you keep moving forward.
Jeannie has been pondering a
LOT about getting baptized (or bap-ip-tized as she says). She's so concerned
about her health that she is worried about coming to church, what would happen
when she got in the water, etc. But she knows it's what she wants to do, and
what she needs to do. So we challenged her to sit down with a calendar and pray
to know what day she should be bap-ip-tized. Because if it's the day Heavenly Father
picks he'll make sure it's possible. She really liked that idea so we'll be
seeing her soon to see what she came up with.
We really need to be finding
more people to teach.
On Sunday Sister Campbell and
I spoke in Sacrament meeting on discipleship. We've been REALLY lacking on meal
appointments with members so I got up and just asked people to let us come
over. There were some eye rolls, but apparently it worked! Because we have a
meal appointment EVERY single day this week now. And the Elders filled up too.
Why don't people want us to come over? We get sad and need to laugh and have
fun with families. So call the missionaries in your area and invite them over
for lunch, dinner, anything. Make it work.
We had a "funeral"
for Elder Erickson, since he "died" as a missionary and went home. It
was fun. We miss the blonde, but the new guy is alright.
Lets talk about the buttercups
that are EVERYWHERE! I love the buttercups. They are my favorite flower
after all :)
Yesterday we spent 3 hours at
a members house. We hand washed our car and even buffed out all the scratches
and vacuumed the inside. They made us lunch and we watched "Meet the
Mormons" with them. And most importantly, they let us do laundry at their
house. Goodness gracious, we got to do laundry for free. That helps so much.
They're the best.
Then we went to Charleston and played basketball and a REALLY
intense game of chair soccer. I've got a welt the size of a golf ball on my leg
from it. And then we practiced a song we'll be singing at our Mission
President's Fireside Sunday night. It was so much fun.
People here didn't barbeque
like I expected. And there was no Ward breakfast :( And there weren't many parties or swimming going on. Maybe everybody left and did it somewhere
else, but it was weird.
I'm sure there's more that
happened this week that I was going to tell about, but I don't remember.
OH! Dennis turned 75!!!!!!! We
went out to lunch with a few other people and a member made the best cupcakes
I've ever had in my life. He laughed that he never would have guessed that at
75 he would be at Bob Evans with a bunch of Mormons :) But it was also the
first birthday party he's ever had in his life!
-Sister Packard
Best:
1. Buttercups, obviously.
2. I didn't delete my pictures
this week.
3. REVELATION.
4. Cute kids to play with at
dinner.
This kid was sucking on his drink looked up, winked, and then walked
away smiling. He's so funny.
Worst:
1. Sometimes you feel like a
booger and just want to take a nap!
2. Plantar Fasciatis? Or
however you spell it. And a strained tendon.
3. The sweating has begun!
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