Hello all(:
The mission is good! I just wanted to share a sweet experience me and Sister Snow had last night. We found this girl on facebook and we video chatted her with a member. This girl grew up religious, but kind of fell out of it. She is living away from her family right now and when we first video chatted with her, she didn't believe in God. She said she had prayed so many times and never felt that "feeling" everyone felt. So she stopped. When we first met her, she said she would try praying again, but when we met with her again, she said she didn't feel anything. We talked about prayer again during the lesson and during the lesson, even though she still has not felt anything while praying told us, "I think a belief in God is so powerful. I've surrounded myself with people who don't believe in God, but I like surrounding myself around you guys" she also shared that she will continue to pray. This girl's faith amazes me and I love her! She is just so prepared.
Other highlights of the week include me and Sister Snow taking a walk and passing by someone and he started yelling at us in our face that we were Mormons and then he started swearing at us and we were backing up, and scared out of our minds, and then a man came out of his van and yelled at that guy to leave us alone. Bless him for saving our lives, we both turned around so fast and were walking so fast and just grabbing onto each other but also laughing so hard and were like, what just happened lol.
Talked to our friend Tina about temples and family history and she loved it!! We were so so happy and we set up a tour at temple square with her!
California is also doing okay, we just can't meet people in person anymore, even outside. Rip.
Oh and went on exchanges with this cute sister!! It's her last transfer and she taught an ASL class. She is GOOD at that. We also taught a Chinese man together which was so fun! Taught him about the relationship between him, God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, and prophets.
Also taught family in our ward and I was dying of laughter because their kids are hilarious without knowing it. And then their kids were like, our mom has a baby in their tummy. And the parents were like "they're not very good at keeping secrets." Haha and so we were like, don't worry, we already forgot what was said.
OKAY LAST STORY and then a spiritual thought. This email is so long, oh well congrats if you got this far. We wanted to make dinner for our zone leaders, and we were planning on making Honey Walnut shrimp, like the one from panda Express. And so we were like, elders, do you have allergies? And they were like, not except nuts and shrimp. We were laughing for 20 minutes about it. Oh well, we made them pulled chicken sandwiches instead.
Spiritual thought: during the Christmas devotional, I loved Elder Nielsen's talk! While he was talking, I reflected on the gift all of us recieve, not just on Christmas but every single day. The Gift of Jesus Christ. The reason why we don't have to stay the way we are is because of Him. On my mission, I've made mistakes and feel like I fall short of who I want to be. Sometimes you feel alone and sad and just need someone to be there for you. And every time, Christ has been there for me. I love all of you, if you all ever need anything, please reach out to me!!
-exchanges with Sister Goodrich
-last of Chinese district
-a member gave us gifts. Shout out Brother Cook
-me and Sister Goodrich watching Sister Chan's performance on the Christmas devotional and being amazed
--our lesson with our friend about his relationship with God
-took some pictures(:
