Thursday, August 21, 2014

Small miracles, Pie social (yum!), Footprints, Newspapers, Looking for people, Kind of a slow week...

Alrighty so I feel like it was kind of one of those long dragging weeks...trying to find things to do and people to teach and stuff... but it was still a good week! :) Monday after emails we went to Walmart and there was this guy named Chris selling newspapers and he was trying to get us to buy one but then instead we started talking about the gospel! :) He saw our tags and asked who we were and so I explained that we were missionaries! After talking to us for a bit he said well do you want a free newspaper so you can at least know what's going on in the world? so then I told him that we don't read the newspaper while we're missionaries so then that led to a whole bunch of other questions! We talked to him for a while and he said that he wants to learn more! The only problem is that he travels a lot around New England for his job but he said he'll call us when he's back in Portsmouth in a few weeks so he can hopefully come to church and meet with us! :) we went to the Gray's for dinner and fhe!

Tuesday we went to Footprints and good news! This transfer we have interviews and zone conference that are non Wednesday meetings so we'll get to help out at the food pantry on Wednesdays a few times! They are so excited about that :) We also saw Brenda and we finished up the plan of salvation pamphlet with her! We always have a good time when we go over to Brenda's! And she is just so awesome and sharing it with her friends :) Such a good missionary :) then we went and had dinner with the Hafens!

Wednesday we had district meeting with our new district! fun fun! then we called bingo and then went and had coordination with Bro Hafen! Then we had the Bible study which was really good! and Steve was able to come! After we had a lesson with him and talked about the importance of church, prayer, and studying the scriptures :) He told us how he just feels comfort when he reads the Book of Mormon...the spirit! and just loves feeling that and knows it's true :) ahhhhh!! :) so wonderful :)

Thursday we went and saw Sister Bromfield! We read the Book of Mormon with her and then went out to her garden and got some vegetables and she shared some blueberries that she went and picked :) Then our other appointment fell through so we tried to see some formers close by but nobody wanted to answer... :/ later we went and had dinner with the Udy's! and then after that we went and saw another less active Kristy! we had stopped by earlier and she said we could come back later! She is really cool! She's from Utah so it was fun to talk to her! It was really cool how grateful she was that we had stopped by and she said she was surprised that she told us to come back but was really happy that we did and she felt the spirit :)

Friday we did our weekly planning and then went and tried to see some people...but it was another one of those days when nobody wanted to answer their doors... lame.... we got to have a quick visit with the Foggs but even they were busy! haha so then we ended up going to the young women activity! They were having a sleepover at the Udy's and we crashed their party and ate pizza with them! so that was fun :)

Saturday we got up and headed to the Grace's to help them pack up cuz they are moving to Oxford! There was a good turn out of people from the ward there! That was fun! then we came home and changed, studied, had lunch and made a blueberry pie! We went and took some to Larry because it was his birthday! We had to cancel our appointment because we didn't have a "chaperone" as he calls it....haha but we stopped by and gave him the pie and he was so happy! He said we just bring joy into his life whenever he sees us :) then we took some pie to Brother Momna too and he was so happy :) then we sat out on his porch and he told us all about when he played baseball :) then he went on to the navy stories and was talking about all kinds of ships...so we brought it back to the gospel with talking about Nephi building a ship! :) So then he told us the whole story of Nephi and Laman and Lemuel :) it was awesome :) then we went and had dinner with the Hafen's again :)

Sunday, oh I have a quick story to tell you about how miracles happen and prayer works! :) So yesterday we got up and were getting ready to go to PEC and so I go to dry my hair...and my blow dryer won't start... uh oh... so I tried a different outlet and still no luck... and bad news sister beus doesn't have a blow dryer...I made her try it and it wouldn't work! so I grabbed the portable fan and started drying my hair with that...haha but that was going to take forever!!!! so I said a prayer and went back and said okay one more time.... I plugged it in and guess what...it worked! just long enough for me to dry my hair!! phew!! dry hair and we made it on time to the meeting :) Heavenly Father hears our prayers! even for just a silly little thing like my blow dryer..haha he answers prayers and is always there for us if we turn to Him and have faith! :) So we had church and it was really good we had Brother and Sister Wood come and speak! He was in the quorum of the seventy and then they were the temple president and matron at the boston temple for a few years! So they spoke all about service and shared experiences that they've had serving in the church! It was really neat :) they spoke in sacrament meeting and then we had a combined third hour and they were in charge of that too! :) Then we had choir and then we went to the Gong's for lunch! Then we went and had a quick visit with Brenda :) and then went to the Reeve's house for the pie social! :) it was our ward and the Exeter ward was invited! Sister Reeve made 47 pies!! there was like every kind imaginable!!! it was delicious :) So that was super fun! now we need to go run a million miles though after eating all that...haha so maybe that's what we'll do today ;) mmmm but probably not...haha but I do need to go buy a new blow dryer..haha... love you all so much!! have a great week! back to school!?! :) oh manny!! have fun with that :) LOVE YOU!

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