So Monday for preparation day we went minigolfing because the church was being cleaned. It was so fun!!!
Yep Tuesday we certainly had a tornado, however nothing exciting. We were at the church eating lunch when they told us to stay inside and not leave. The clouds didn't even look any different, a very big disappointed. Apparently the funnel cloud was by the race track, which is only about a mile from where we live. Definitely not the tornado I wanted to experience. I didn't even hear the sirens! Once we got released from the church we drove up to Carmel to the mission office to pick up some copies of the Book of Mormon and then headed to our dinner appointment in Fishers. I love the mission office! Also the member was filling us in the Ordained Woman stuff. Both Sister Gil and I came to the same conclusion, both of us are just fine with not knowing about what is happening in the world. There is definitely a different feeling when you know you are set apart from the things of the world.
I wanted to share what I learned in institute on Wednesday. We talked about the story of the talents. Obviously, each person starts out with different amounts of talents. Our responsbility is to not worry about what we started out with, but allow out talents to increase. We each are given a different amount in different areas at life. Say someone is given a lot of talents to be a missionary, but maybe they struggle with going to school, or vice versa. It doesn't matter what we start out with, but how we allow it to grow. Hopefully that makes sense! I hate explaining things over typing. Before institute the elders had a baptism. We had met Megan on campus the week before but hadn't actually taught her. She came to the baptism! The crazy thing is she's only in Indiana for a few weeks visiting her sister before she heads to Penn State for grad school. During the service she asked Sister Gil how long it takes for someone to get baptized. So we had a lesson with her on Friday. The minute we said the opening prayer she asked if she could get baptized!!!!!!!!! We were both really excited for that whole lesson. She was raised in China but has converted to Christianity since coming to the US. We committed her to baptism and he said yes. We thought for sure she would be coming to church yesterday but then she said she couldn't because she's moving this Friday! We're kind of freaking out and really want to teach her before she goes. Luckily we already have the number for the institute teacher at Penn State. It was such a miracle lesson though.
I have officially become the "matriarch" of the missionaries. The elders are kind enough to refer to me as "mom". haha I guess that's what I get when you clean up after dinner at the church.
Saturday night we had NOTHING to do. Pretty typical for a campus missionary. That morning I had the thought to text all our investigators and invite them to play volleyball that night. They actually came! We had a lot of fun with them. So I have no idea what I've told you before because I can never remember, but Yolanda has changed completely since I've come. We've been meeting with her regularly and she's been coming to institute and church! Yesterday she was even joking around with me! Before she didn't even smile. I think my favorite part was when we were teaching her on Friday and she was laughing and smiling about what she had learned from her Book of Momron reading. At first I wasn't sure where she was going to go, but we've definitely seen a miracle happen right before out eyes with her.
I got waffles last night!!! Fancy Norwegian ones even. The Larsen's (senior couple serving in White River Ward) usually have the missionaries over on Sunday evenings.
This week is going to be a bit crazy. We don't have a full preparation day today because we are going to take the rest of it on the 4th. We also have MLC, interviews, and exchanges!! But I'm excited to work on campus on a Monday! I look back and the end of my mission is definitely a lot different from the first, even though I'm even in the same area! It's been fun to see how I've changed over the last year or so.
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