Monday we went to the ZOO!!! SO. FUN. AND IT WAS FREE!!!!! Yeah I know, it was such a blast. I felt like a little kid again. Haha I love the zoo!! Ma you know how much I love the zoo ;) it was such a good time.
Tuesday we met such cool potential investigators!! We also had a way good zone training. I was feeling kind of down but then went to zone training and at the end, there was time for missionaries to bear their testimonies. They were so uplifting! And a lot of them mentioned how we are so blessed to be serving missions and we need to enjoy every moment. Because in no time I'll be coming home! I'm trying to enjoy each day like it's my last. Keep on keepin' on! :) We also went to Chik fil A!! BLESSINGS. Seriously, it was much needed. "My pleasure" anyone? ;)
Wednesday was an amazing day, holy cow. We were able to have lessons with both of our investigators with baptismal dates! Diane and Kayla and even Kayla's friend Brianna was there. Brianna is really interested in learning more as well!! Which is so amazing we are so happy!! Diane is just changing in front of our eyes and Kayla's desire to change is growing so much. They both are recognizing how much they need the gospel and Christ in their lives. They both want to draw closer to Him and change. I am just so GRATEFUL to be a missionary and to have this special opportunity to watch people change as they accept Christ in their lives. It is so amazing, and nothing has brought me greater joy. P.S. Funny story, Kayla's 4 year old daughter Zion was there tonight and it was so funny. She picked up this cheetah print bra off the ground and looked at Sis. Lang and then me and asked "Is this your bra?!" HAHAHAH IT WAS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER! And Amber was able to come to the lesson! She is a complete angel rockstar. We also taught a new investigator Cheyenne!!! We love her. She is a strong protestant but has always been interested to know what Mormons believe. So we are teaching her!
Thursday was quite the day! We had a meeting called Return and Report, and that's when all the new missionaries come back and have a little meeting with their trainers, President and Sister Huntsman, the office elders and the assistants. It was super fun!! I loved it! During the first part of the meeting, President was talking about something and he was getting emotional so he like stops in the middle of this spiritual moment and says, "sorry, man tears" and laughs at himself. HA! It was so funny I couldn't stop laughing. Then later on he was talking to us about enjoying our missions and things like that. And then he said he wanted to show us a video but it isn't an approved video that we could watch hahah but it's president! So he does his thing. haha He was like, "I could get in huge trouble for showing you this video but I'm going to do it anyway because it made me laugh." hahah It was a video about a woman buying herself a Chewbacca mask from Kohls and then putting it on and laughing at herself. Have you guys seen it? Apparently it's like a popular video. hahah Anyway we were all dying laughing it was hilarious!! Later, Sister Huntsman was stressing out because no one wanted to take the 5 leftover pizzas from the lunch we had, hahah she is the cutest person, I love her!! Seriously President and Sister Huntsman take such good care of us. No worries Ma ;) They are awesome. When the meeting was over, Sis. Lang and I walk outside and the Hermanas were just chillin' in a car seat in the middle of the parking lot. Ya don't see that everyday hahaha. That night we went to go teach a PI (progressing investigator.) We were in the middle of teaching the restoration on this girl's doorstep when Sister Langford had a coughing attack. She had to go around the corner and all we hear is her like dying. haha Anyway, she comes back and not even five minutes later, she runs around the corner again because a bug flew up her nose and she had to snort it out. She runs away yelling, "take it away sister!" Hahaha. Later in the same lesson, Sister Langford yells "don't move" and tried to get a tick off my shirt but pretty sure it went down my shirt. So a tick went down my shirt in the middle of a lesson. Awkward.
Friday was planning day is a good day! Haha jk Planning can be a struggle sometimes. But Sista Lang had an idea of going to plan down by the Potomac River. The Potomac is right by us, and our church is right on the Potomac as well. So that's what we did! We planned right down by the Potomac River!! In a van down by the river ;) eh eh haha. We brought some food, our planning whiteboards, a blanket and everything! AND we planned for a grand total of about 30 min. It was good for the first 10 minutes, when all of a sudden a lady comes over and told us she had just seen a huge black snake slither around in the area we were sitting, as well as a baby beaver. Uh okay?! Haha then red ants and weird contorted bugs started crawling all over our blanket. I got attacked by a huge weird bee. Sister Lang got attacked by a lighting fast spider. We moved to a different spot but that didn't help because there was pokey pine cones everywhere. And it was stinkin hot. I was being cooked like an egg on a sidewalk. Ha ha eh eh jk terrible joke. So we gathered all of our stuff back up again and drove home and finished there. Not as fun, but much more effective. ;) Then we had an awesome lesson with Diane that night! She is getting so pumped for her baptism, we are so excited for her!!!
Saturday was H.O.T. SO HOT! MY LANDS it was a straight oven on fire. And I'm expecting it to get worse! haha I was sweating like crazy! It was a great day though!! Funny story. So we bought butter when we got groceries the other day and apparently we forgot to bring the butter inside. Because on Thursday or Friday, I don't remember what day, when we were headed to an appointment we went to go get something out of the trunk. I was walking away when Sis. Lang was like, "SISTER. THE BUTTER." I was like whaa? Haha She's like, "THE BUTTER! We forgot the butter!" And when she went to grab the box, there were definitely no sticks in that box. HAHA Yeah so butter melted all over the trunk of our car. All over our pamphlets and Books of Mormon! Haha Sooo we cleaned that out! That was a good time. Ha But we were able to have lessons with some new investigators, it was awesome! We had a few lessons with some progressing investigators, and we got one on date! Her name is Jennifer and she's 15 I think. She's stinkin' cute! We hope her whole family gets on date soon! It's hard to meet with them all together though. They are never all home. But we are so excited for her!! Heavenly Father is blessing us SO MUCH. Wow. It's just been amazing. It's been a long week. I've been getting down a little bit lately. I've been trying to work on enjoying each day to the fullest and looking for the miracles in each day. It's easy to get homesick or distracted, overwhelmed or stressed. Satan wants so badly to make us miserable! But we just gotta fight back and keep on keepin on. Missions aren't easy. I'm understanding that lately haha. But they are worth it.
Sunday was wonderful. I look forward to Sundays. I love them so much! Diane came to church with her son again, WOOT WOOT! We had dinner with the Hales family, and then had a little lesson with one of our new investigators, Aminata. She's pretty young, like 11 I think. We then went to go see Gramma but she wasn't home. Then we had what's called the New and Returning Member fireside. It's a meeting put on by missionaries, where new members or members that are coming back to church, can come to. New members bear testimonies and some missionaries do too. It's awesome! It was so uplifting to hear testimonies from people whose lives just flipped around because of Jesus Christ and His gospel. It's what I needed to hear. I learned a lot from each of them.
I love being out here. It seriously is the best. I learn so much every day, I am so blessed to have this opportunity! I love you all so much and hope you have a happy Memorial Day! Stay safe out there! ;)
GO, LOVE, SERVE! :)
Love love LOVE,
SISTA HYMAS :)
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