Week 42- and they ran from us...and weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth.‏

Dear Family!!

 

How ya'll doin? Things are going really well here. Surprisingly enough there are not to many stories this week..but we did have some awesome days..

This week we had zone conference on Wednesday. We learned and were taught great things about finding and getting the mission ready for the new mission president. One way we are going to do this is by additional inviting 10 people everyday and having 4 new investigators a week. Additional inviting is where you go up and talk to someone on the store or on the street find common ground, testify about the gospel, offer them hope through the restored gospel..invite them to church or to learn more about the church and get a referral. These are supposed to be short. Also someone is considered an investigator when they have been taught a lesson and have a specific return appointment. 

We talked about miracles and how our God is a God of miracles. Miracles do not stop because God does not want to bless us anymore..they stop because of our lack of faith. 

Monday we had some really good seafood gumbo for family night with this awesome family. ( isn't it funny that eating gumbo makes me feel at home..?) I tell you about this because I have included a picture of me with the seafood gumbo.lol
We also had another family night with the other family and their house feels like a temple.

 

Do you remember me telling you about that really great family we had found 555ing before a dinner appointment?.. well They ran from us.  We were going to see them and their front door has a window and you can see right through it. As we are walking up to their door you can see someone run, we look through the front door and then two adult figures run to the back of the house. Laughing we knock on the door. This other man comes to the door and we ask to talk with either the husband or the wife of this house if we could, that we had talked with before. He said " I don't know what ya'll did but they just ran from ya!" ..We said we didn't know what we did either and we are really nice. So we asked him to go ask them why they ran from us ..he went back and a few seconds later came back and said " They wont tell me why they ran from ya'll, you're gonna just have to catch them when they're outside." we said OK and away we went.. The golden family has gone into hiding..funny part about this is one of our favorite members told us not to give up on them because they did the same thing to the missionaries before they joined the church. We'll get um one day!

 

We did service for a member this week, helping her clean out her girls room. She told the girls that "the sisters are coming on ( this day) at ( this time) to help me clean your room unless ya'll clean it.." and they didn't..so we went through and threw away a bunch of stuff..took out a bunch of their toys that their mom hid in another room and cleaned the whole room. Now it sounds cruel but they still have a lot of toys. After we were done cleaning the room it looked so good. We weren't able to leave before the girls got home from school though and they came in and ran straight to their room. Then came the noise..you would think they would be so happy that their room was clean and they do not have to do it..but no weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth came from the back room. They were so sad and thought we had taken all their toys to give to the people we are teaching. The mom reassured them that if they kept their room clean for a few days, they could have some of their toys back. It was too funny. The whole time we were cleaning I just kept thinking how I needed to write home and apologize to my mom for being so messy. Mom..I am sorry for being a hoarder, pack rat, messy child. I promise I have changed and seen the error of my youthful ways. Also thank you for all the times you have cleaned my room and picked up after me..I am forever in your debt. Please forgive me! :)

 

Saturday we went into Jackson and met this Japanese lady. We were trying to find her daughter who is a member who lives at that address. The lady would not give us her daughters number, we did, however, loan this sweet Buddhist woman a copy of the book of mormon. Sister Aebischer had the impression to ask for it back and sadly, we are pretty sure she turned around and burned it. She got really mad when we asked for her daughters number. She said no! its a secret! and was not happy when I told her that missionaries would keep coming back until she gave it to us. One good thing out of it though.. I learned that my name in Japanese is a flower.. urie is yuri..pretty cool.

 

last story.. we went to visit this cute little old woman who lives in this apartment complex on Sunday. After visiting this sweet sister we had 20 minutes before our dinner appointment. We felt impressed to knock on some doors. The first door we knocked on is the one I sent you a picture of. The woman really liked LSU and put that thing on her door. ( it is made to be put on a tree). She was nice but was not interested in our message. As we turned the corner to knock on another door we saw a man sitting at the top of the stairs. After talking with him for a little we learned that he lived upstairs in the apartments and that he was waiting for his ride to come. He had a copy of the book of mormon at his house and had talked with missionaries before. We asked him the question what he would ask the prophet if there was one of the earth today. He humbly said he would ask him for forgiveness of his sins. We read him some scriptures from the book of mormon and testified to him of what the prophets have said about forgiveness and repentance. Also, we asked him if he would want to be baptized and he said that would be something he is really interested in.

I am really excited for this week and the area. Spring break is this week and I know that we will be able to find a lot of families together and at home. Bring It on! We just keep praying that we will be led to those prepared to receive the gospel, 

May God be with you this week family! I pray that he watches over and protects ya'll. Hope you are able to see many miracles in your lives this week, as I pray we do here in the field.

Love ya'll!

Sister Urie

 

Southernism: Did you know that a switch is a twig or a tree limb that is used to " whoop a child"..pretty awful..I learned that this week.

Scripture: Mosiah 25:14-15

Tracting tips: Zero.

 

oh ya! we went into Jackson this week and didn't even need to use our pepper spray! oh yeahh!