Hey everyone - here is the latest from Sister Tait...news and pictures too! Love Mondays :)
So it has definitely been the longest fastest month of my life! Can you believe it!? It's been a whole month!!!! AHH! I sure can't believe it! It's so crazy!!! So let me just tell you...somebody in the ward told us this is week and it's definitely true.. "Every week is good! Some are just better than others!" So yes! I've had good weeks every week! But this past week was really good!! :)
So on Tuesday we actually weren't even in our area! The sister training leader that's over our zone - Sister Caffall had to go to Machester for a meeting so me and Sister Sowards went to Yarmouth Tuesday morning to be with Sister Brown! It was super great! It was fun to go and be in a different place and it really was so different from here in Brunswick and Topsham! We had a really good day there just kinda going with the flow since we knew nothing about their area but we got to teach a lesson to one of their investigators! It was so awesome! It was this guy and he is just a golden and then his mom and sister decided to sit in on the lesson! So we just talked about the restoration and the plan of salvation and it was super great! It was cool to actually be in a lesson teaching an investigator! since we haven't had that experience yet... haha but we're working on it and trying to find new investigators! Our area hasn't had a new investigator since January! We're gonna change that...don't even worry! It's happening!
So we taught that lesson then got to watch mormon messages on mormon.org at the library. I always love doing that! Which by the way...ideas for FHE.... watch some of those videos! they are SO awesome!! :) So after that Sister Caffall foudn out she was coming back early... so we ended up calling the members that we were going to eat dinner with and asked if they would be okay with all four of us... it was really confusing but we worked it all out and they were totally okay with it! So all four of us sisters went to dinner at the Estes and they were just the cutest family ever!! Ah! I love them! We taught a short lesson about prophets... played charades and the cute kids acted out their favorite prophets! It was the cutest!! :) then we did our exchange and Sister Sowards and Brown went back to Brunswick and I stayed with Sister Caffall!! Ah! It was weird! haha actually it was really awesome! Sister Caffall is amazing and taught me so much in just one day!
So wednesday I went tracting for the first time!! Pretty exciting... haha lots and lots of walking! People don't live right next to each other there's like a billion trees in between each house! But we talked to lots of people! It was great! I had lots of opportunities to teachify! I learned how to teach when you find and find when you teach! and to just talk with everyone!! We found some people who were interested so it was really great! Then we had dinner at a members house and then we went back to Topsham and exchanged back!
When we got to the church to switch the elders were there and they said, Sister Tait did you hear what you got? I thought he was gonna say a package or something... haha... I said What??!?! and he said.... A baptismal date! :D Alex....one of the Elder's investigators moved into our area and so now WE have a baptismal date! :D yay!! haha so it was supposed to be this sunday but now it might have to be moved because of some complications... but i'll let you know how that all works out! How exciting is that!?!? :D oh and then I found out I did get a package too... actually five :) haha I LOVE you guys!! thank you for sending me all that I needed! and then more! Tell nana thanks for the package - we loved it! Thanks for all the letters and packages! Thanks to you we did have a good 4th of July!
Oh yeah... fourth of july!! I LOVE the Fourth of July! But...it wasn't very exciting here...we were pretty disappointed... didn't see any fireworks or anything! But we did get to meet the new mission president... The Stokers!! I love them already! They're going to be so great! :) So it was a good day... we didn't know what to do...so lots of walking around in the beautiful sunshine!! loved it :) and then since the town didn't do anything anything exciting we had our own celebrations... glow stick fireworks!!!!!!! Better than the Stadium of Fire...you should all be jealous! :)
haha friday and saturday were good days...taught some people...you know... the usual... missionary work... wooo!
haha but sunday was really awesome! So it was fast sunday so those are always really good! testimonies! OH! you know how I couldn't remember if it was bear or bare? well... it's bear... haha but I have a cool scripture you should all look at! But you have to look in like the real scriptures not on your phones or ipads or whatever! technology...psh! anyways it's Moroni 7: 26 and 31 I took a picture of it... look! it's awesome it goes straight across and says... "and as surely as Christ liveth...bear testimony of Him!" I think it's pretty awesome how it just goes straight across like that :) see the picture below...
But yeah sunday was great! i love going to church! We have an awesome ward with lots of really great members! After church we taught Greg one of our investigators.... and it was a really good lesson! Like REALLY good! We talked all about Christ and the miracles he performed and all He did when he was on the earth and Greg really participated in the lesson and it was just great! Hopefully it will figure it out and just decide he needs to be baptized! :)
So after that we went to the Rainey's house! There is some music festival that happens every summer at Bowdoin college so tons of students from all over the world come for it! There were a bunch that were here for it so they came to our ward and they were talking to the Rainey's and somehow planned a lobster dinner and we got invited! haha! So it was really fun! Quite the experience... I was super worried... I mean think about it... let's just crack open an exoskeleton and eat the innards of this creepy crawly creature... yum! haha I didn't think I could do it!! But guess what!? I did it! And I ate it and didn't hate it! There's a few pictures of that :) Oh man! I still can't believe I did that... hahaha it was really interesting... I just don't even know what to say.... haha and we got to teach a short lesson to some non members that they brought along! and then had smores! :) so it was really super great!! :) haha so that was my week :) hope you all had a wonderful 4th of july! It's been pretty nice here! I hear you're all melting in Utah! Stay cool! Eat lots of snowcones and otter pops :) LOVE YOU ALL :)
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