Hello All!
I have had an interesting week. I don't even know where to begin. So many miracles, that's for sure.
I guess I'll start with a funny story. We were tracting on a random road and we saw a house with a wooden question mark "?" on the front of it up near the pitch of the roof. My companions challenged me to knock on the door and talk to them. So I did and I said, "We saw that you had a question mark on the front of your house and thought to ourselves, 'they must have some questions that need answered!' So we're here to answer them!" and she let us in! Upon entering, we met the real owner of the house. It was an older lady named Leslie and she grew up mormon in Utah and is now an atheist. She told us that she has asked the Church never to contact her again. We let her know that we honestly didn't know and just knocked because we saw the question mark. So then we had a nice discussion of our believes and let her know that we wouldn't come back again. I just thought that the question mark was funny.
Other funny story. There was a woman in our ward who had all sorts of health problems and couldn't do much. She and her husband were only here temporarily for military training and they were preparing to move back to Washington. So we agreed to help her clean her house. We got there and the place was absolute chaos. (When I walked in, I thought to myself that Dad would have walked away and told them to call him when they finished packing) Anyway, I couldn't handle the mess and her telling us stories about every item in her refridge, so I decided to clean her oven. She didn't have any cleaning supplies, so I had to scrape it out with a plastic spoon. It was an experience for the journal, that's for sure.
Speaking of nasty houses. There is another lady here who has a lot of health problems and can't clean her apartment. So she asked us to do it. Luckily the Sister Training Leaders called us the day before to go on exchanges with them, so my Comp. and one of them went over there. They had to scrape up cat poo off of the floor with a knife and use dirty laundry as wash clothes. I thought that I missed that bullet, but she wants us to come again and I think we're going to count it as part of our service hours each week. I may or not be grumbling a little bit. I'm not perfect yet!
Another funny experience. I had my first double meal appointment. We did some service at a homeless shelter and then grabbed some food around 1:30. We had an appointment to visit an elderly lady at 2:30and when we showed up, she had cooked us fried chicken, mac and cheese and all the works. So we ate all of that and had seconds because she kept hinting that we eat more (I literally thought we were going to throw up.) We then had our dinner appointment at 5:00, which was once again a dinner and dessert. And then we tracted out in the hot humidity. I thought I was going to die. It was the worst. And both of the people sent us home with food. I'm pretty sure we threw it away.
Okay, enough with the funny stuff. We had a FANTASTIC week as far as missionary work goes. We fasted last Saturday to find 3 people and commit them to baptism on a certain date. *Spoiler Alert* We got it! We didn't think it was going to happen because we weren't teaching anyone, but we found people and they were so open and receptive to our message and wanted to learn more. We have never felt so invigorated and excited to do missionary work. I am truly humbled and blessed.
Another high point: We got a pet turtle! We named it "Sister Turtle." We let it go a couple hours later though, but I will never forget her!
Well, those are the high points. I can't write a ton because my P-Day is kind of crazy. My companion woke us up at 4:00 in the morning throwing up. Sorry I didn't write anyone! I still love y'all!
Sister McElderry
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