We went to DC today with the Torgersens! :) Last p day of the transfer. It's so sad :( this transfer literally flew by! It's crazy! I can't believe it. This last week was FULL OF SO MANY MIRACLES! My lands! The finding fest as a mission was so amazing. We haven't found out yet if we found 300 new investigators with a baptismal invitation... But I'll let ya know next week if we reached our goal! :)
Monday was such a hoot!! We went to Target and ate lunch at Costco! Whenever I go to Costco I feel like I'm at home, it's so fun! :) sis liv said the same thing! Then we went to Aldi to grocery shop. We bought super healthy food this week. Fruits, carrots, salad... Ya know, the goods. ;) We went and emailed and I sent off a few postcards! It was a chill p day. Those are super nice to have sometimes. We went to dinner at the Robisons! Had a nice steak and sweet potatoe fry dinner :) SO GOOD!! Love those people. Rick Robison reminds me of Kyle. He has a beard and acts like him haha. Later, we helped Rita with family history!! Rita is so awesome! She is from Brazil and she served a mission in Brazil in the 80s. She is the only member in her family. She is less active now, but she wanted us to come by and help her put names in family search so they can have their ordinances done! Isn't that so cool!? We put a ton of names in! And her grandparents can have all the ordinances done now because there was enough information on them! Oh it was the happiest feeling, I was so excited!! :) family history is so cool and rewarding to do! I love it! :) Sometimes it's difficult haha Rita kept saying the funniest things. She was like, "ug I so confused!" Haha Rita also fed us dinner, a Brazilian dish. It was SO DELISH! It's called pancake, but it's like a burrito, a pancake wrap with meat inside. Super good. With strawberry salad and passion fruit juice! BEST JUICE I'VE EVER HAD. While we were eating, the power went out haha and I started laughing and I couldn't stop, I thought it was so funny. It was way fun too! There was a big storm and I just love storms, they're my favorite :) Rita whipped out her candles and we had a candlelit dinner :) for like 3 minutes then it came back on. We ran to our car and had a blast doing so! Sis liv lost her shoes on the way and I almost biffed it walking off her porch stairs, haha gotta love Virginia summer storms! :) love this place so much. Also, when we got home we discovered that Sister Livingston looks like....JB! JUSTIN BIEBER! It is the funniest thing, I'll send pics!
Tuesday was AMAZINGGG!!!! we had district meeting and I made myself a salad for lunch, healthy right? ;) Then... we went FINDIN LIKE CRAZY!! We talked with so many awesome people. None were interested but it's awesome to talk to people! We helped Kayla move into her new place!! It's super nice I'm so happy for her. We went to dinner with the Pews! Then we went FINDING!! And tracted, street contacted, offered service, talked to a ton of really different people... We were praying and praying Heavenly Father would guide us to someone who was prepared to hear the gospel. We were walking up the stairs to check on Fatimah, when we heard a noise hit one of the doors we had passed. I had the feeling to knock on it, so we did. We met a woman named Sronel. And guess what...she invited us in!! No one ever does that! Rarely!! And we had a restoration lesson right there and invited her to be baptized. She said she would read and pray about the pamphlet and message! We are going back next Tuesday!! P.S. She's a pediatric nurse and so SWEEETT! I love her so much it was a complete miracle sent from heaven. Then Fatimah got locked out of her house, unfortunately. It was sad. We tried to find people to help unlock her door but couldn'tfind any workers! I felt helpless. It was sad :(
Wednesday we served a few different members in our Ward. We cleaned some floors, and helped organize some things in a home. We had a wonderful time at Athinas! She made us a cute little snack, she is the cutest. I love her SOO MUCH! She said she was going to cry when I leave and no joke I'm going to bawl. I don't want to leave. AGH. Caleigh came out with us!! We met a man named Thomas while street contacting and he became a new investigator!! He is awesome. He met with missionaries a long time ago, and came to church a few times. Grew up baptist, but interested in learning more about the gospel.MIRACLES that God helped us find him!! OH ITS SO AWESOME!!! We then had dinner with the Torgies :) oh I LOVE THEM! They do so so much for us! I am going to miss them like crazy!! After dinner, we had Kayla's baptismal interview with president which went super well! She was so happy afterwards and president just loved her and her sweet spirit. Hesaid he wants to come to the baptism!! :) then we went and checked on peoples... And there was a lightning storm too! It was really cool, I love storms. Then it straight down poured right when we got inside our apartment. BLESSINGGGSS! :) funny story: we were driving home and I was jammin to popcorn poppin on the apricot tree, while we were stopped at a red light. This man pulls up and gave me the weirdest/trying not to bust up laughing look. Hahah it was pretty embarrassing yet super funny!
Thursday was so amazing. It was 10:37 am, and we had street contacted two people, and the third woman we contacted became a new investigator!! SOO AMAZING!! We were like: SAY WHAA?! God is SO good. We had a lesson with Michelle and talked about the restoration. I am so grateful for the knowledge of the restored gospel. It is truly a marvelous work and a wonder. Hannah Raeolina came out with us too! We had lunch, and went finding some more. We went and checked on a former investigator who no longer lived in the home anymore, because we met a lady named Keya! She just had a baby 4 weeks ago, p.s. cutest baby I have ever seen in ma' life! She is struggling to find employment, and asked us to pray for her. Anyway, she became a new investigator too!! MIRACLESS!! We had dinner with the Dartings and made our own pizzas. We had a lesson with Zac which was awesome, and we invited him to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. At the end of the lesson, Zac turns to me and says, "You're always so hopeful and positive, and then I just have to bat it all down...!" Because he is so philosophical and doesn't focus on feelings. Later that night he texted us and said he was thinking about coming to church on Sunday!!! WHATTT!???? Miracles!!! After, we had a lesson with Melanie and Sister Lewis was able to come!! She said she will try to come to church soon, and she understands now the priesthood authority. She said she was going to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. It was an amazing day!! I am so humbled and grateful.
On Friday we met people from Tonesia and Cameroon!! And guess what... The Lord guided us to another new investigator!! MIRACLES!! So many miracles! I felt like we should go knock on a certain door, and we did right before dinner. A kind man named Paul opened the door. He and his family are from Cameroon. We are going back on Tuesday and he wasreally looking forward to it! He is Catholic, but he told us he didn't turn us away because we came to talk about Jesus. He said, "Jesus comes in different ways, when you need Him." He is awesome! My heart was about to burst when he was talking with us, I felt the spirit so strong. AGH! It's so amazing! I have such a testimony of setting goals. I never had one before but I do now! God can't help you reach your goals, if you don't set specific ones. And write em down!! The Lord is definitely helping us reach our goals!! We also planned, and had dinner with the Beutlers! FUNNIEST THING. Cerefin, the 6 yr old boy, loves bread. And butter. That's all he ate at dinner, we had soup and salad and such. Anyway, Sister Beautler was like, "oh, what's that on your place mat?" And he's like "oh it's butter." And plops a huge tablespoon chunk of butter right in his mouth! And chews it for awhile and swallows. It was the funniest thing hahah gotta love butter! ;) reminds me of the movie life size when she eats butter. So funny. We saw Ashley Rivera and her kids one last time before I leave :'( andgramma! We sang and helped put her dishes away. She is my favorite African gramma. I love her with my whole soul. We also saw Agartha one last time. Man I hate goodbyes!! Or see ya laters, they are all breakin my heart!! AGH. Quote of the day: "Hey! Tina! I saw that, I saw you look at me!" Sister Hales. Hahah. LOVE HER!! P.S. The Hales know about dad always yelling Tina! Hahaha so they say it all the time now.
The spirit was so strong too. Kayla even was touched and got a little emotional! :') she has a great time. We planned for her baptism too! Then MIRACLES: we went to check on our big friend Maurice, he wasn't home but we met his wife, Candice. Who invited us IN! And she became a new investigator!! I can't even tell you how my heart was filled with awe and astonishment, and the spirit, and love, and gratitude.. It was going to burst! And not even 10 minutes later, we went to our Ward BBQ and we saw our less active, Zac, talking to some people. HE CAME!!!! MIRACLES MIRACLES MIRACLES!! The BBQ which was a blast. We got serenaded by Nate Hales while we were eating. Haha. That kid is so funny. I just LOVE THE FORT BELVOIR WARD!! I never want to leave!! I love this place so much, I love these people, I love LOVIN!! My heart is going to break when I leave. In half. BLEH ARRG. We went finding rest of the night. It was great. We met lots of kind people. And met a few potentials! It was an amazing day. My heart is so full. So many good things. God is So good.
Church!!! Sundays are the best ever. We went to Ward council. We got asked to teach the 16 year olds last minute, (and there was like 20 of them) so we winged that lesson! and get this: it was on MARRIAGE and family. Haha we didn't know how to teach that so we just really focused on family! Haha it was fun and turned out great. We went to Grammas to help clean her dishes. Bishop had to set off three bug bombs because gramma has roaches in her house. We helped her clean up some stuff and the dishes. We drove up to post after grammas to pick up a chocolate cake that Sister Darting so kindly made us. We pull up and the post guard was like "Here comes the church girls! WOOP WOOP!" Haha thanks kind post guard man, he's our friend. Basically all the guards know us now because we go on post so much, OR because we get pulled over, hahah. We had a lesson with our NI, Keya. She is awesome! We talked with tons of people, who are all so different! We got a ton of potentials. We had dinner with the Cardons! And then we went finding some more! We met this super energetic guy, super funny, personal trainer, really conversational. He asked if we liked sports and started talking to Sister Livingston about what teams she likes. Then he asked me and I was just like "uhh I don't really care! But I like watching!" Haha and he was like "Naa you seem more studious, like you reading 500 pages a day!" -Shareed. Haha oh, do I? He was super cool. He said if we ever run into trouble we could go get him and he would pummel some people. That night we were bout to go home, and we talked with one last guy named Kalin. Welp we say bye, I turn around, step off the curb and roll my ankle like a champ. I almost ate it. Smacked my hand on the car next to me trying to catch myself, made a huge thud noise. A big surge of numbness ran through my ankle. Haha I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe and sister liv was trying to help yet she was laughing. It was a hot mess. Complete hot mess. It was an awesome day!
We had an absolutely amazing, miraculous week! Heavenly Father led us to 6 new investigators. He blessed us with A TON of safety! Especially when driving. Kayla is preparing for baptism. We got to go to DC with the Torgersens, the best people ever! It was a pretty amazing week and I am so so grateful. That's all I have to say about that. :) I hope you're all enjoying this beautiful day! Whatever the day has in store for you, I hope you smile and love it :) I know that despite our trials and struggles, there is always something to be grateful for. God is so good! He blesses us so much. Always remember: "Count your many blessings, see what the Lord has done" :)
XOXOXOX
Sister Hymas :)
P.S. My ankle is A-okay Ma :)
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