(Going to apologize in advance, I forgot my card reader so there are no pictures :( but I will send lots of pictures next week)
July 5: We had a nerf war with most of our zone (which is a whole lot of Elders) and I'm not going to lie, I was totally awesome and even had an awesome shot where I hit one of the Elders over the door across the entire hallway. Yeah it was worthy of the movies.
July 6: Today we had district training and we are the only sisters in our district with a whole bunch of Elders, so yeah definitely one of the Elders. I'm so excited though for this transfer because there are a lot of new faces and a lot of new energy. Well we had the coolest lesson today. We went to go teach Paul (who we found on the 4th of July) and as we walked up for our appointment his cousin was just getting him home, so we dragged the cousin into our lesson. The coolest point, at one point during the lesson Paul was confused about why he needed to be baptized again and we tried to explain the need for the correct authority from God, and Peterson turned to his cousin and said: "Paul, there are good baptisms and bad baptisms, you gotta have the good baptism." Yeah the two of them are super solid and I'm excited to be working with them.
July 7: While knocking we met this guy from India, and we offered to say a prayer with him and he asked us what prayer was. So after explaining to him what praying was we said a prayer with him and he just thanked us so much for all we do. He then was super sweet and walked us all the way out to the parking lot (where our car should have been, except we snuck into this gated community to knock) to make sure we made it to our car safely. Well I then thought, that is the most effective way to get rid of the missionaries. But seriously he only did it out of kindness and respect but it was still super funny.
July 8: Today we took an investigator out teaching with us all day because she wanted to see what the average day of a missionary was like. We are still working with her on some concerns that she has, but I think it was good for her to feel the spirit for an entire day (like members do) and not just for the short time when we come to teach her. The cutest experience happened though while we were knocking. When we knock doors we hand out lots of pictures of Jesus that say on the back you can get this free dvd called "Finding Faith in Christ". Well not many people actually call the number to get a free dvd, but while we were knocking we met this cute little old spanish guy who got so excited when he saw the card we gave his wife. He ran and grabbed his own card and was pointing at the dvd saying he wanted one. So we went out to our car got him a dvd went back and gave it to him and he was so happy. Just super cute how excited he was that we came so that we could give him his free dvd.
****Happy Birthday Dad*****
July 9: Well today was awesome (a little bit of sarcasm) we came home and our AC broke down yesterday so we came home today to a 90 degree house. Yeah that is a lot of fun. Not really but it is getting fixed. I got a little bit of a taste of what it would be like to serving in some more third world countries and man I missed the AC. But hey learned a lot of lessons about patience as a result so that is a plus.
July 10: We had several investigators come to church today!!!! Which is awesome. We also had one walk up to us who we'd never met and said, I've been needing to talk to you, I want to be baptized. Yeah that happened! Also while we did introductions in our sunday school class, two people said the best part of their week was having us visit them (yeah that melted my heart). Also we had a member make us Brazilian food which was amazing. And he promised that next time he'll make home made strogonoff, yum!!! Overall a really really good day.
Well love ya all.
Just in case you are still confused about my title.
#1 Playing nerf wars with all the elders (4 sisters and 12 elders)
#2 Only sisters in our district with 8 elders
#3 Currently of all our investigators we are only teaching 1 girl the rest (all 8 of them) are guys
Yeah definitely one of the boys/elders, and loving every moment.
Love,
Sister Jennings
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