Monday: Surprise lesson with M** (He's a new investigator, I'll talk about him later!).
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| Allergic reactions... the other bites were swollen, but not as much |
Wednesday:
Elder and Sister Andrus came from the mission office to bug bomb the
place because we were still getting bit. We had to be out of our
apartment for at least 3 hours. When we came back, we started airing out
the apartment and filling out teaching records. Out of nowhere we see a
huge brown spider run across the floor. Sister A** dropped the Area Book on it. We picked up the Area Book and were looking at the crumpled
spider when all of a sudden it pops back up and runs under the couch. I
don't think I have screamed as loud as I did in a long time haha! The
spider had to be killed though, so we put on socks and pants under our
skirts and, armed with tennis rackets, moved the couch. The spider was for
sure dead after we were done with it!
Thursday:
Still getting bit, but we can't find a sign of bed bugs. Elder and
Sister Andrus come again. They help us wash and bag up all of our
clothes just in case we do have bed bugs. We slept at the Sister
Training Leaders'.
Friday: Pest control came.
They couldn't find any bed bugs either. They were able to spray for
spiders though because we have seen so many (We have seen so many baby
and adult spiders. We even found one in my bed one day...). We had to
leave the apartment for most of the day. We did all of our studies at
the church. We had so many bags of clean clothes in our car as well. It
looked like we were living out of our car. We slept at the Sister
Training Leaders' again.
Saturday: We walk in
to the apartment and see a spider on the wall. If you were wondering,
yes, Sister A** and I are DONE with crawly things!
We
have come to a conclusion with all of our bites. It was a mix of
mosquito and spider bites. It's been lovely haha. The mosquito bites
don't look like the ones I normally get though and they itch soooo bad.
It looks like I have a disease on my ankles and feet. It's ok though,
the work goes on!
During all of this we started
teaching M**! He is Ethiopian and is so cool! We went to
follow up with him on Monday to see if he had read any of the Book of
Mormon we gave him. He said he had and he wanted a lesson! We have
taught him a couple more times since then as well. He is awesome! He
loves it. His first language is Amharic and he really wanted a Book of
Mormon in Amharic so he could understand it better. We have one coming
for him and it will be here next week. Guess what though! Yesterday we
saw him as we were walking to our apartment and he was so excited to
tell us that he had gotten his book! He had gone onto mormon.org
and requested one himself! I have never seen someone so excited about the
Book of Mormon before. He got the pamphlets as well in his language. He
kept saying how excited he was and how he understands so much more. It
was such a cool experience! We were going to set a baptism date with him
on Friday, but he ended having to take his break to meet with us
because he had to work. We did set a goal with him to stop smoking. We
were talking about repentance and he said that is something he really
wanted to stop doing. We know he can do it! He will be out of town this
week so we will teach him next week, but he said he was so excited to
take his Book of Mormon with him haha. We hope he isn't YSA...
That
was pretty much our week. We taught J** again. She is 9 years old.
Her mom is Cuban and her dad is Italian. Her mom doesn't speak that much
English so we are hoping to take one of our members with us who does.
J**'s parents haven't sat in on the lessons yet, but we are hoping
they will eventually.
President and Sister Nakken are here. I haven't met them yet, but my zone is meeting them on Saturday. I heard they are great!
Oh,
something else that was cool! We went and did service for a less-active member and her
husband. We helped with her horses. We walked them around and bathed
them. I have never done anything with horses before and Sister A**
has always wanted a horse, so we loved it! They had us over for dinner on
Saturday as well which was huge. We are so sad though because they are
so far away from the Savior. We love them and hope one day their hearts
will be open. We are going back to do service for them again!
I hope everyone is doing well! Have a great week and please don't get bit by anything! hahaha
xoxo,
Sister G
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| Our District+ Zone leaders...We have a blast! |
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| Our apartment has been a disaster. This is what it usually looks like. |
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