Hello!
How is everyone? I hope that you are all doing well. This
has been a week to remember! :D
On Monday night, the Sister Training Leaders called and asked if we could move
our exchange to Tuesday. Meaning that we would be exchanging that night. That
wouldn't have been an issue if we hadn't had a lot planned for Tuesday, and
that the STLs are all the way in Monterey! We said yes, though, and offered to
meet them part way (we met in Salinas). I was with Hermana Sinclair, who I know
really well from my time in San Jose. :)
On Tuesday, we had studies and then we went to a service
activity called Project Homeless Connect. We went to this arena where they had
a bunch of booths set up for the homeless people (ie. food, clothing, medical,
legal, emotional, housing, etc.), and advocates (volunteers like us) walking
them around and helping them. Hermana Sinclair and I were there for a few hours
and helped some people. Some of them were really grateful, and some of them not
so much. Oh well. Apparently, they have been doing this service for years. They
are going to do another one in about six months in Watsonville, too. After the
service, we went to some appointments and then to dinner. Our dinner was with
the Hickens (who we are good friends with). Sister Hicken is Thai, so she made
us Thai food. Yummmmm! After that, we met with our investigator, Tiana. We
taught her the Plan of Salvation and drew it all out. It was fun. After that, we
went back home so Hermana Sinclair could pack up and exchanged back. It was a
good day.
On Wednesday, we went to Cabrillo to CSU campus. The semester is ending,
so this week will probably be our last time there. After that, we were going to
meet with our investigator Sheena, but she forgot. We then had lunch and went
to a birthday party for one of our less-actives named Phillip. He was so happy
that we came! After that, we did some visits and visited a recent convert named
Laura. She has been really sick (she has cancer) and she was glad to see
us.
On Thursday, we were back at Cabrillo and I got to talk to
Chelsea!!!! She walked up to the table and I seized my chance to ask her if she
spoke French. It is her first language! We spoke in French for a while at the
table and I was bold enough to ask her about the Church and if she wanted to
learn more. She told me that she is Catholic, but she is reading The Book of
Mormon and she is interested in what she has read. She said she is kind of
"between the two". She will be at Church this Sunday!! :) After that,
we met with some more people before having dinner. After dinner, we met with
Tiana again. We taught her about The Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was great! Also, I finished reading the book Jesus the Christ! I loved it! You should try to
read it again! :D
On Friday, we were doing service at the soup kitchen. There
were a lot of people there. It was fun to work and really feel like we were
being helpful. :) We also went and saw a member named Renee. She reminds me a
lot of me. She is an introvert, a twin, and she is multilingual. We taught her
about prayer. We also went around looking for places to go contacting. Santa
Cruz is so beautiful! We also have a good idea of a way to find people, that we
will be trying this week (stay tuned). We then had dinner at the Judd's. I gave
her a hug for you Mom! :D I love eating with them. We then went and saw a
less-active named Krystal. We saw a miracle on the way out of Krystal's
appointment. We got out of her appointment late, and we had to walk down the
street a little ways to our car. As we were walking, a guy was walking down the
street the other way, making a lot of noise (probably drunk or on drugs).
Sister Wolfe grabbed her can of mace and I was ready to beat him with my bag.
We walked past him and he didn't even see us. He didn't even see us! What a
miracle! We ran the rest of the way to the car!
On Saturday, we were in San Lorenzo Vally visiting people.
We visited that older lady (she is still completely crazy and the dog is
still trying to eat his foot off. Still no meat cleaver). We also saw Dottie.
She is an older woman who has almost no hearing. So, there is no pressure if
you say something wrong. :) Also, to keep ourselves entertained while in the car, I
have been telling Sister Wolfe the plots to classic books (she loves it). We
are almost done with all of Jane Austen's books. After dinner in San Lorenzo
Valley, we spent time with our YSA. It was fun.
On Sunday, we had nine hours of Church. D: At 7h30 we had Branch Council in one of our wards and left part way through Sacrament meeting
to go to Ward Council in another ward. We went to part of their Sacrament
meeting and left early for lunch (a member in one of the wards brings us lunch.
We love her!!). After a quick lunch we taught Sunday School in our second ward
and we also went to Primary (they asked Sister Wolfe to play the piano). We
then went to Gospel Doctrine class in our third ward and Relief Society. We then had
dinner and came home to weekly plan. It was a crazy long day! It was better
this time though, probably because I had food this time (last time we did this
was on Fast Sunday).
All in all, we have had an eventful week. We have a lot
planned for this week, too. Today, we have errands to run and we will probably
go to the Zone Activity.
Love you!!
-Sara
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