December 3, 2018

December 3, 2018

This week has been so busy and filled with lots of miracles! I hope you all had a great week and very happy first day of December! (Christmas is coming!) This time of year is honestly the best, everything is so happy and the time just seems to fly! Probably because there are always things going on that are exciting :) 

The Russian Sisters call us the other day and ask if we can take them to the denstist because Sister Pryshchepchuk had to get two of her wisdom teeth out because  they decided to poke through the surface of her gums and sister Korelova can't drive. It was a blessed day being able to go to Bothell! I miss this place and it is literally 15 minutes from the area i'm in now haha. So we get to the dentists and the dentist is from somewhere in Europe or the Middle East or something and also speaks Russian so that was cool haha. We seriously thought that it was going to take a long time for them to take these two wisdom teeth out, but it was straight up like 15 minutes and she was done! They took them out whole as well, they didn't have to cut them in half or anything. I only had one and I was put under because I was not about to be awake for it, and I swear it took at least 30 minutes, but I could totally be off because I was sleeping lol. The rest of the day it decided to start down pouring, we decided to walk to someones house that was just a couple streets down no thinking it would be bad, by the time we get there, I was drenched! It was crazy.

We made sugar cookies and it was a huge success! We delivered them to some members, potential friends, and a former friend Chad. Let me just say, Cookies are the way to a persons heart. We were able to pick him back up as a friend this week and will meet with him tomorrow! He is way cool, he has just been so busy with his new job and has crazy work hours, but he came to President Nelson's Devotional at Safeco Field when he came in September. We also went to a Potential named Chris, we have had some solid contacts with her, but we when she opened the door she told us she was in the middle of eating dinner but once we said we were just here to drop of some Christmas cookies, she was so grateful and thought it was the sweetest thing. So we set up a time this week to go back!

So district council we set some goals as a district and one of those goals is to talk to at least one person before you can go back to your car, and there was a guy walking his dog and we haven't prayed yet, so I pray super fast and get out and start heading towards this guy and yell hey! he looks at me and  keeps walking and so I start running to catch up to him and start walking with him bahah. He really didn't want to talk, but it was worth it because the people we were trying to see weren't home and there was no one else who was out.

We got the Text Friday that we are officially not having member dinners and doing our new schedule for prim proselyting time..So we have to cancel all the dinners we have in December with members, but all is well. 

WORLDWIDE DAY OF SERVICE! it was such a good day, we went with our district to Habitat for Humanity and this is how an elder described it to me, "it's as if Home Depot and the DI had a kid." and that pretty much sums this place up haha. They had us all sort through a lot of tile and we pretty much threw out a lot of tile that there just wasn't enough to use in a bathroom or a back splash, who knew how heavy this stuff was holy moly! But we got to take huge loads of it to the back to throw away and you chuck it into a huge dumpster and it is way fun! haha Just imagen lots of missionaries throwing tile and it shattering, nothing could be better. Our Zone leader found a huge white board for $6 and they buy it, and it ends up not fitting in their Rogue, so they go back in and find rope to tie it to the top of their car, but they live down in seattle which is a ways away from where we were, and they end up just taking it to the other elders apt. because it was not safe lol. All us sisters had lunch together at Qdoba and apparently Colby Wilding (President and sister wildings son) works there! The other sisters got there before us and already got there food, and when we got in line, and are making our burritos, a member comes up to us and gives us cash to pay for our meal, it was the sweetest thing! Colby ended up giving us his employee discount so what was going to be $18 for both of our meals only was $7, we tried to give the member the rest of the money he gave us, but he would not accept. So Colby was getting off his shift and some of the other sisters were like we should get Bunt Cakes since it was across the street, but it is in a different zone so we can't go to it, so we ask Colby if he could run over there an buy us some bunt cakes hahah, he is so sweet. We later had our Ward Christmas Party and it was super cute, They did it family style so they had all the youth bring out the food to each table so there was no line or anything, super smart. 

Sunday was really great, Aaron our recent convert got a job over in Nebraska and is moving this Wednesday, but he bore his testimony in sacrament and at the end he goes "Merry Christmas to Ya'll" and then walks off haha it was awesome. I also had the chance to bare my testimony and talk about Light the World and share a scripture I love to share with people, especially this time of year, Mosiah 16:9,  "He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more death."

I am grateful for His light in my life, I hope you all can do things this Christmas season to light others and also light your own lives through our Savior Jesus Christ. Have a wonderful week!

love,

Sister Stokes