Well...here we go...last week of the transfer! this may or may not be my last week in Portsmouth! We'll see what happens....... transfer calls are this Saturday!!! :O ahhhhhh!! can't believe it's week 6! This past week has been pretty awesome!!! Lots of miracles and great things have been happening!! :) So last Monday we had district pday so we all went to Exeter and had District Olympics again! We decided that everyone must have come up with their games on fast sunday...because basically all of them involved food... :P haha we did the skittles game, "face the oreo" where you have to get the oreo from your forehead to your mouth, face stuffer - eating a whole box of Swedish rolls as a companionship...yeah right!, cheese toss...throwing cheetos at your companion covered in shaving cream, digging for gummy bears in whipped cream... and then there were some other ones that didn't involve food - cup staking, chair soccer, capture the flag, and ultimate frisbee! So we had a lot of fun! :) Then we went to Sister Whitney's and had fhe with a few different families in the ward! We have been working on really talking with everyone and inviting them to learn more... we call them ITL's (invite to learn) and our goal is to get 10 ITL's each day.... It's been hard sometimes but this week we were determined to do it! So we got home from fhe and we only had about a half hour before we needed to be in.... but we hurried and walked over the bridge into Portsmouth! At first we were having a hard time even finding people that we could talk to! But we found some and then we had walked around downtown a bit and then it was time to turn back and we had only gotten 7 ITL's..... but we just said okay Heavenly Father, we want to get these 10 ITL's........ and then there was a guy that came out of a store that he was closing so we talked to him! and then the bridge was pretty empty but we were walking and then there was a couple walking along and we talked to them! Invited them all to visit Mormon.org and to learn more on there! It was awesome! The Lord always provides away! :) And even though not all of these people were interested, some of them just said they were "all set" and told us no, but we still tried and did our part to talk to the people that God placed in our path :) oh! wanna hear my new favorite quote? "You can count the seeds in an apple, but you can't count the apples in a seed." (thanks mom and dad for sending me this! it's too perfect!) :) You never know what's gonna happen with these people, but we just gotta plant the seeds! I really love that!
Tuesday we went to footprints and then after that we went to the church to practice the musical number with sister keele! Then we did some more street contacting and got 11 ITL's :) We met lots of different people again...there was one person we met Ethan who actually stopped and talked to us for a while! We basically taught him the whole restoration right there and answered some of his questions and then he told us what he believes! He doesn't think there should be set religion but he was going to the park to meditate and pray! We had a good conversation with him though! Then we had a quick dinner and then went to the church for the relief society activity! Sister Keele taught an awesome lesson and talked a lot about our potential and things that inspire us! So one of the things that she talked about that inspires her is music! So then we did the musical numbers :) It was a really great night!
Wednesday we had our last district meeting! This week we have zone conference and Elder Wilson of the seventy is coming! But we had a good last district meeting and then we went on exchanges and I stayed in Exeter with Sister Houston and Sister Beus and Sister Kotter went back to Portsmouth! :) We spent the rest of the day just trying to contact less actives and then visited with one less active and read the Book of Mormon with her! Then there was really nothing else to do so guess what we did? We went tracting! woo! We got two ITL's! So that was exciting! then we came home and had dinner! then the next day we went and taught their investigator Stacy the gospel of Jesus Christ and she committed to baptism! :) That was pretty much all we did that day on exchange, then had lunch and then went to Orange Leaf to exchange back! :) Then Sister Beus and I had to hurry home because we got a call that they had a new fridge for us! surprise! so when we pulled into our driveway there they were standing with a new fridge! we didn't even know we were getting a new fridge! haha so we had to run in and unload all our food and then they switched our fridge! now we have one that doesn't make alien sounds! haha then we went to Durham and stopped by and visited with Sister Smith! Then we had dinner with the Baca's! and then went to the Hafen's and had a lesson with Tiana! She is so cool! The elders found her at the beginning of this year, they were just street contacting and met Tiana! And she just said sure, they could teach her more! And then she got baptized in April! So there's proof that street contacting does work! Just gotta find those prepared people :)
Friday we did our weekly planning then did some street contacting and got 12 ITL's! Then we went and read the Book of Mormon with sister Bromfield! then had dinner with the Regans! :) and took a trip to the beach! It's starting to get a little chilly here :P we had to borrow a jacket to go out! Then Saturday just got worse! We had to turn the heater on in our apartment... oh manny.... the cold is comin! :/ But we had a good lesson with the Keenes and then just went and tried to contact some less actives out in York and stopped at Mount Agamenticus to take some pictures since we were so close! Then it started to rain...so we couldn't go see Brother Momna because we always just sit outside... so we went and saw the Foggs! then we were trying to find some other people to visit and went and saw Sister Seamons and she just got back from visiting her family in the Philippines so she gave us a bunch of snacks from there to try! then we came home and had dinner!
Sunday we had ward conference! It was really good! They talked a lot about our vision and knowing that we are children of God and sharing that with others and being missionaries! And the ward choir sang "Thy servants are prepared"! After church the sun came out so it was warm enough to make street contacting okay! So we did that for a little bit! then we went to the Hafen's for dinner with them and Victoria! And we had a lesson with her and invited her to be baptized! and she said yes!! She really wanted to do it before transfers... which meant this Saturday... but she has work :/ but we are planning on September 27!! So exciting!!! :) She is so amazing! Just showed up at church that one day in June and has been coming ever since! Everyone thought she was already a member! nope...but soon! :) So yeah...lots of good things are happening and it'll be another great week this week! Oh another thing that happened this week is that President Stoker has challenged all of us to stop wherever we are in the Book of Mormon and to start over...and to read it from cover to cover by next zone conference which is October 21 and take Moroni's promise again! So we had 42 days when he came up with this challenge! So it's about 12 pages a day! I just love reading the Book of Mormon! There's always so much to learn from it! I know that no matter how many times we've read it we can always learn from it and that as we take that promise to read, ponder, and sincerely pray about it that we can again receive the witness from the Holy Ghost that it is true! :) Hope you all have a wonderful week! Love you lots!!! :)
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