Hello!
How are you all doing? I hope everything is going well. We
had a busy week this week!
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| Beautiful California Sunset |
On Monday, after P-day, we had dinner with a family in the
Capitola ward. It was a young married couple with a new baby. They were so
nice! We had a great dinner outside on their back deck and
talked. The
husband also has a love for languages, so we talked about languages for a
while. After dinner, we went to FHE. For FHE, everyone was painting with
water-colors. It was fun to just draw and paint! :D Everyone had really great
pictures, too!
On Tuesday, we had an appointment with Nicolette. We taught
her about The Gospel of Jesus Christ. She had a lot of really great questions.
She is hoping to leave for school soon, so we may not have much longer to teach
her "new member lessons". After that, Ruby met us to go see Juana.
Ruby did a great job as an interpreter. The only problem is that Juana
remembered that I prayed in Spanish last time, so she asked me to pray.
*facepalm* Ah well, if she wants to hear my horrible spanish, she wants to hear
my horrible spanish. We talked to Ruby afterwards about Juana, and we have
decided not to teach her the lessons. Given her age, she just doesn't
understand what we are teaching her. We will still come and share a spiritual
message with her, though. She is so cute and she loves it when we come. :) We
then went and saw Renee. She had a lot of questions about what she learned
about in Church, so we mainly talked about that. She and I also talked about
twins and nerdy language-loving stuff. :) It was fun. We then had dinner and
then went to see Brenda. Brenda's lesson was...well, it was a learning
opportunity, for sure.
On Wednesday, we were on exchanges. But, it wasn't a normal
exchange. So, we had our morning routine (exercise, breakfast, personal study,
companionship study) together, and then the STLs came to our apartment and we
split off. I was with Sister Snyder and we went finding. Meaning, we talked
around the mall and talked to people. We had an interesting conversation with one
guy.
Him: You guys are Mormons?
Us: Yes! Have you seen missionaries like us before?
Him: Yeah. I usually reject them.
Us: ...Oh.
We did end up giving him a mormon.org
card in case he ever changes his mind. :D After that, we had lunch and did some
more finding before going to the Church for interviews with President Mella. My
interview went well. He asked how everything was going and we had a nice chat
about it. I needed that. :) After that, we changed companions and I was with
Sister Scarr. We went to a park and looked for people to teach, too. After
that, we went to dinner. Where I was attacked by four adorable fluffy malteses.
It was fun. :) After dinner, we exchanged back and Sister Kelly and I tried to
go see someone. She wasn't home, though.
On Thursday, we had a lot of our plans fall through, but it
was still a good day! We went and saw Glenna, and shared a message with her. We
then tried to visit former investigators, but no one was home. We then had some
appointments cancel, so we tried to find a referral someone had given us. We
found her and she is going to call us when she is available!!!!!! :D We then
had an early dinner and checked out this chocolate shop near our apartment. It
was so cool! I got a tiny chocolate Eiffel Tower! :D I totally want to go back
there! After dinner we prepared the part we were supposed to teach in
On Friday, we had ZTM in Watsonville. It was really good.We also
had lunch as a zone before leaving to go back to Santa Cruz. We then weekly
planned before going to see a less-active who the elders asked us to see (they
have been giving us less-actives to see! Yay!). We had a great lesson. We then
had dinner before going to see Krystal. We had a really good lesson with her.
We read 2 Nephi 31 and talked about it. She shared some things with us that
were really helpful to me. I love it when that happens. :)
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| Our 3 practice "investigators. They listen very well! :) |
On Saturday, we worked a lot on training. I have been training
Sister Kelly on The Plan of Salvation. She is doing well with it. :) We then
went to SLV. We saw Alice and answered some last-minute questions about the
temple (she goes through this Saturday!). It was fun. We then saw Dottie and
shared a scripture story with her. After that, we had lunch with our ward
mission leader and his wife. It was hot in SLV that day. Our car said 108!
Anyways, after lunch, we went to see Sister Dallenbach. She is doing about the
same. :) We then had dinner at home before working on finding and calling the
ward mission leaders for Sunday.
On Sunday, we did the huge stretch of Church again because
we had invited some people to come on Wednesday. They didn't come, though. So,
we had ward council at 8h00, then sacrament at 9h00, then ward council at
10h00, then sacrament at 11h00, and a quick lunch at 11h30. Then, instead of
branch council, we were asked to teach Gospel Principles, so we did that
instead. And, lo and behold, a less-active, who I have been trying to meet ever
since coming to Santa Cruz walked in! Now I know why we
came to those
wards! We are going to try to meet with her this week. The lesson itself was
good. We taught about talents; always a fun topic. We then had sacrament at
1h00, sunday school at 2h00 and relief society at 3h00. Poor Sister Kelly was
exhausted. She isn't used to eight hours of Church! After that, we had dinner
with a family in Santa Cruz ward. It was really fun. We then did some training
and Sister Kelly and I mainly worked on the Plan of Salvation. It was
great.
Today has been a good day so far. We did laundry and studies
and now we are emailing. We heard that a whole bunch of zones are coming to the
beach, but we will see. If they do, we will go hang out with them. :)
My comp took the great pictures. :D
Love you lots! Have a great week. :D
Love,
Sara
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