Another thing that happened to me on Tuesday was we were walking down a really steep hill at night and it was raining on us. So i'm putting all my weight in each step I take because the hill was so steep, and I step on this medal plate that all sidewalks have, and my foot slid out from under me and I went face first down a steep hill and my companion looks back and see's me rolling down the hill Bahaha! it was not fun, I was soaking wet and bruised my knees lol.
So many things happened to me this week! so I was driving at night, and I turn this corner to sharp and hit a curb, it sounded really bad and I wanted to pull over, but there was no where to, so my companion just said just go home and we'll look at it later, so she got out with her flashlight thinking I hit the side of the car not the tire, and she's like it looks fine, but I look at the tire and go, "the hub caps gone!" So we had to drive back to find it, luckily it pooped back on, only scrapped up. Also, Yesterday, the weather was insane! The wind was probably 50 MPH and the rain was just pelting down, so I was driving back from church and we here a really awful scratching sound the car was making, we couldn't figure out what it was. The sound kept getting louder and louder and so we had to pull over on this hill in a "Median" but we were blocking traffic. We thought that the tire had popped because the sound it was making was so loud. So Sister Porter gets out of the car and the wind and the rain was blowing so hard. She looks under the car and there is a huge tree branch wedged under that we could not pull out! A very nice man pulled over and asked us if were okay, and we told him we couldn't get this branch out from under the car. So he started yanking on the branch it it would not budge. He had to pull so hard for it to come out, but luckily it did come out. Sorry all of this is not relevant to missionary work, but this week has been super funny.
Something awesome we had this week was interviews with President and Sister Wilding! They are so amazing, I love them so much. He asked us to come with our favorite scripture in mind, and I recently read over Alma 37:37 and felt like this was my favorite scripture in that moment in time. It was a really good interview, he is so caring and loves to here how things are going. I'm so sad so many in our district are going home! Missionaries are seriously the best, they are so much fun.
So we drove out to Lynden where we don't go very often because it is 30 minutes from bellingham and only contact people that have been referred to us to visit since we are YSA. I don't think I mentioned this, but our boundaries are the whole zone! So we aren't restricted to much which is way nice. But Lynden apparently has the most churches per capita in the U.S. but doesn't have an LDS church. There was probably a different church on every corner there, it was insane! But everyone we tried to contact wasn't home, but we did go to this famous ice cream place for lunch called Edaleen Dairy and made a custom sandwich and amazing ice cream! We even bought these funny cow shirts that smell like ice cream.
We had the opportunity to watch the Face To Face with Elder Ballard and Elder Oaks at the Institute and Teresa one of our investigators came with one of her friends! It was so exciting, we went to this Friends-giving thing with two of our recent converts and Teresa and a couple others and Teresa told us that she was reading in Matthew and had the question when should she get baptized in mind and she said she got an answer and said she thinks she wants to be baptized on December 9th! We are so excited for her, she is so ready and pretty much calls herself Mormon already.
Our other investigator Natalie is progressing extremely well for not having any background in religion. She has been praying on her own and is reading, we taught her the Gospel of Jesus Christ and she is way excited to know she can repent and be forgiven of things that she has not been proud of in the past. She goes to Seattle every weekend to visit her Fiance, but she brought up on her own that she wants to go to church, and asked if we have other meeting houses she can go to. We were ecstatic! She is so amazing and I am so grateful for her and her sweet spirit.
We teach 6 recent converts each week, and 5 investigators each week, they are all amazing, We teach some less actives as well, so we are always on the go.
So our p-day is only until 12 today, and then we go back to missionary schedual because President has given us the whole day of thanksgiving off! so we have "P-Day" starting from 8 AM to 7 PM so we are super excited for that. We have a place to go on thanksgiving and we are also doing something with the entire zone. This week is going to be great!
I hope you all have an amazing week, this gospel is such a joy and gives me so much peace and comfort to know that we are all children of a loving Heavenly Father, who knows us perfectly and wants us to reach out to him in all that we do. Going back to my favorite scripture, Alma 37:37, it reads,
"Councel with the Lord in all they doings, and he will direct thee for good; and when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, the he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day."
I know that God wants us to include him in all that we do and the things that matter most to us. Just like any father, He wants to hear from us, to know how were doing, He wants to bless us and give us strength. And I know that as we reach out to Him everyday and in everything that we do, you will feel His love for you, and will bless you according to His will.
Love,
Sister Stokes
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