11/08/2010

Got the package with the wedding pictures in it!!! So cute, looks like it was a wonderful day. The package was heaven sent! The flavored water packets are so good. We have to drink a lot of water and having a flavor in it every now and again is so wonderful! Thank you!!!

Monday was good we ended up not doing archery but we had a fun lunch with our Elders. Then we walked around for the rest of the night.

Tuesday we normally have District meeting but our Land Lord come and fixed our heater!!! Yay were not going to die this winter! Man it’s cold here! I have to break out my long Johns soon I’m so cold! We had FHE and a meeting with our investigator we took her to watch this girl open her mission call. The girl is going to Temple Square. This will make two girls going there from here one in March and one on April 27th. There is one already there now.

Wednesday we were able to meet with our investigator Margareta and for the rest of the day we did as primary children. (Walked and walked and walked and walked….)

Thursday we plan for our week. Theses mornings are a little hard 3 hrs. of study followed by 3 hrs. of planning the week and goal setting. After we got all that done no meetings sad day . We had planned up with some ppl that didn’t work so we walked. We took part of our lunch and practiced our song for Zone Conference. I sang “I know my redeemer lives” as a solo. It was a lot of fun to sing again but I was way scared to be singing for ppl. I really wanted Natalie to help me with the song. Lol

Friday Zone conference! We found out a lot of new things and a lot of rules changed. Like we can no longer teach an English Class. This was sad for me because I really like my English class it’s a group of 3 to 5 Persians and we just sit in a room and talk English for an Hr. They took it well and asked if they could still come and see us every now and then just to see how were doing. We’re not allowed to teach Persians the Gospel but we can stay friends with them. The part that was really hard was we found out that we could no longer have Maids. I haven’t had a maid for most of my mission but we have a really good one here in Shengavite and I didn’t want to have to fire her. My Comp and I took turns playing Russian roulette I would call and she wouldn’t answer so a few minutes later my Queer would call and she still didn’t answer. But we both knew that sooner or later she would pick up and we just hoped that it wasn’t on our turn. I won it was on Sister Deaver’s turn. Not a good night.
Josh. 1: 9
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
This is what I have to remember to be of good courage. My mission President has given us a challenge to raise our numbers as a mission. Up in Vanadzor this would have been no big deal but here in Shengavite were going to have to work our butts off! Step #1 get the members to let us visit them……. This is a big step, our mission president told us to look to the members for referrals. Well I haven’t been able to meet with a member in a long time. All we really do these days is go to what we think will be a meeting to have them call us 5 min before were supposed to be there and tell us there not home and that they’ll give us a call when its good. And then once more like a dream that never stops going we walk till it gets dark and we can’t be out any more then we go home and make calls trying to get something to do for the next day.

Saturday dentist…. So I may or may not have a chipped tooth… I went to the Dentist that is closer to my house and … well I’m going to go to the one that’s a little further away. No worries they have better dental care here than I thought but I’m going to see if they can fix it to last me till I get home.

Sunday I made one of the box cakes you sent HOLY Cow that was really good cake. I don’t know how to make frosting so I blended up some sugar for powder sugar. After that I looked in the cook book I have from home and found the peanut butter frosting  it was so good on the cake!
Sunday at church was so much fun we had some ppl from SLC at our Branch. They are here to check out the work that some of the senior couples are doing here. One asked me what I was going to do after my mission and where I lived. I told him that I live in Lehi and that I’m going to go to USU after my mission to be a Veterinarian. Well one of his friends over heard that. He come and introduced himself to me asked the same questions and gave me his card. Dr. Lyle G McNeal the head Professor over the Animal, Diary and Veterinary Sciences Department at USU!!!! Told me that when I’m done here to give him a call and he’ll help me get set up. (I don’t know if you ever have seen a sister missionary do a happy dance at church… but when no one was looking I might have let one slip.)
After that we went to Gospel Principals and only English speakers came. So weird but the lesion was in English. I had forgotten how good it feels to sit and really learn and be spiritually fed. I’m so used to being the one giving not really understanding when it’s in Armenian. It was nice to sit relax and not have to correct faults doctrine it was just so refreshing.


Margarita is a cute but funny girl she loves to meet with us and says some of the most beautiful prayers ever. She knows the church is the true church but says she doesn’t know about baptism and won’t come to church. I’m afraid that were going to have to stop teaching her. I really don’t want to. Right now she’s the only one that will meet with us. Hopefully I’ll have better news about her next week.

Well I want to tell you all I love you and that I really am so happy to be here! Sorry my letter is a little down but that’s just how it goes here ya have one good week, one bad week. One thing that always makes me feel good inside is that I know it doesn’t matter if I don’t see and anything good come from my work. I’m just so glad to be here on the Lords agenda. I can’t even tell you how wonderful it feels when I meet someone on the street and I just know that I can help them. Then when we start teaching them and seeing how they change their lives. Seeing them remember that love they have for the Savior. There really is nothing like it! I have seen so many ways that my life has become better. I have really found who I am and who I need to be. The thing I have learned the most on my mission is that I really know nothing lol as funny as that sounds I see how much there is about this Gospel and the Atonement that I didn’t even know I didn’t know.