Hola
familia! how is everyone doing?! is everyone being nice to eachother? well, if
you aren't you can always start today!
my week was
pretty good! we do so much during the day that it's really hard to remember
exactly what happened during the day so I just wrote down certain things that I
wanted to tell you guys!
First off,
being a missionary can either be the best thing or the worst. and guess what
determines that? your attitude! we had a zone leader training this week (a
meeting where all the missionaries in our zone come) and the zone leaders gave
a lesson on attitude and how it really determines how our missions go. now,
this might be a huge surprise to EVERYONE but... i have not always had the best
attitude about certain things. but I had this huge realization (a blessing from
Heavenly Father for sure) that my mission is determined by my attitute. and
yeah i could have a really bad attitude for the next 18 months but that won't
help anyone, especially the people we teach. OR I can choose to have a good
attitude and blessings will come pouring out of the heavens and i will be
happy, family at home will be happy, my investigators will be happy, and most
importantly Heavenly Father will be happy! so. I have decided to make the next
18 months the best by always remembering who I am doing this for and doing it
with a smile.
Since we are
white washing this area we have basically had to find all new investigators.
anyways, we found a few! the first is John Edwards (isn't that a politician in
mesa or something?). He is in his 60s and has a TON of questions that most of
the time i have no idea how to answer. He is blown away by the Plan of
Salvation. So that's pretty awesome because he is so willing to learn. then
there's Patti and Dakota! Patti is the mom and she has been through a lot in
her life. she lost two of her kids and husband in a car accident and now she's
a foster mom to Dakota! Dakota is 18 (really weird teaching people my own age)
and he has been through a lot also. His mom has had a few brain surgeries and
just got another one this last week. They both are so willing to feel the
spirit and learn!
We always look forward to teaching them.
This past
week one of the ward members passed away and so there was a funeral service for
him on Saturday and a dinner at the church building. When we walked in the building
to help set up for the dinner and closet door was open. and so me being the
helpful missionary i'm trying to be, closed the door. makes sense to do that,
right? wrong. appearently this closet door has to be left open because there's
a pipe in there that bursts if it gets to hot. anyways. we go about helping the
dinner and all of the sudden a fire alarm starts going off. long story short,
we left when the fire department got there because we had another appointment
and the fire alarm goes off a lot when they cook in the kitchen. the entire
time no one ever mentioned the closet door being closed so i didn't think
anything of it. well we left the building and then the elders called us and
they said "so church might be cancelled tomorrow because the pipe in the
closet burst" my heart sunk, i told them how it was me who closed the door
and they tried to tell me that it was totally fine and that it's happened
before. needless to say, i felt like a horrible person until we went to church
the next day.
i love you
all and so does Jesus!
love sister
oberfield
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