Last week was just so weird because we felt like we had lost about half of our proselyting time. Thursday we didn't do much because we have service and weekly planning that day. When we went into service on Wednesday the ladies were so funny because they all knew our first names. I think it's a novelty to figure out missionary's first names. They knew because they had to be printed in the paper.
Friday we had a district meeting, thank goodness. I woke up in a pretty bad/frustrated mood. Luckily bearing your testimony tends to get ride of those kind of feelings and seeing other missionaries. We went out to lunch afterwards and I reminisced with some elders who also attend BYUI. After lunch we headed out to Bremen to work for the afternoon. It's another smaller town about 20 minutes away. We had some part member families, former potentials, and referrals to contact. No real luck there, but we did talk to a Hispanic guy outside for a little while! I also feel so much better when I have the courage to talk to everyone, something I'm still working on. We had dinner with a family who lives out in Bremen. They made us waffles and ice cream....probably the best/unhealthiest dinner ever. The elders were there too so we had some fun.
Saturday morning we set out to try some potentials in our area. Well they had all moved. So our back up plans were to go tracting, we tracted Indiana Ave and no one was home, a Washington St. was perpendicular so I figured, let's try that! Didn't work out so well either. We pushed through though until we had our appointment with our investigator. That lesson went pretty well, we taught Chastity the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was snowing again that day, always a pleasure. We went and saw a member that evening. That was a great blessing. It's always a relief to talk to someone who will actually talk to you.
I've been learning a lot about agency and forgiveness that past couple of days. I've been VERY frustrated this week because of the way our area looks. This has been by far my hardest area and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong/not doing. It accumulated Sunday morning and I had a melt down to say the least. That morning during personal study I was studying about repentance and humility and I recognized that I really need to work on both, especially when it comes to being a good companion. Luckily the power that comes from the sacrament is very real. I've come to cherish church A LOT more as a missionary. I often find myself during the sacrament reading "Savior, Redeemer of My Soul", the lyrics are incredible. Page 112 in the hymnbook, I recommend everyone to take a look at them. A couple of months ago President Cleveland wrote in his weekly e-mail "Christ drank the most bitter cup without becoming bitter". I've thought a lot about the line. While on earth each of us must develop the attributes of Christ, but we are each placed in different circumstances to be able to develop those attributes. I'm realizing that a mission was necessary for me to begin to acquire these characteristic. It's a hard place to learn them! Agency is also huge. Each moment of every day I choose how to react to my circumstances around me. Unfortunately I've made mistakes and haven't chosen to always react in the way that is the most Christ-like. I've allowed myself to have moments of bitterness, something I'm not proud of at all. When you have the Spirit with you, he reveals your weaknesses and a lot of the time they really hurt. It's easy to become like Christ until we allow ourselves to get into the way.
But I want to end on a positive note. We had gone to get our car washed. Well we didn't see the HUGE hole in the middle. The tire of our car dropped into it and we were terrified Chloe was going to have to get towed. Luckily I was just able to slowly back up and the tire came out. Well then we realized some of the front part (I forgot what it's called) came lose. There was a guy there working and he asked if we needed help. We told him what had happened and he was able to just screw the front thing back on. I was so grateful! Then he recognized our name tags and told us about how he had been to Salt Lake years ago, etc. Very nice guy.
Sorry this e-mail is kind of lame....just not a whole lot happened this week. Thank you for all the prayers and everything. They are very much needed.
Kenz I bought this hat just for you. Now we can match when we get home! It even says Indiana on it....and added bonus.
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