People are Crazy Week 16

 Hey everyone! I hope you're all doing well and loving life and just having an overall good time

My week was kind of crazy (yes, I know I say that every week) but it's true - we're always busy. So what even happened last week?

Monday:

Pday! We had breakfast with all the sisters in our Zone because one of them had a birthday! It was a lot of fun! Then we went to the zone activity and played board games! After pday ended we had a pretty awesome lesson with two of our friends, Yoan and Luis (brothers) about the Book of Mormon! It was pretty great! 

Tuesday: 

Not a ton happened. We had weekly planning (which takes, like, two hours) and both of our lessons fell through so it was just a lot of knocking on doors

Wednesday:

Again, not a ton happened...we had lessons set up - none of the worked out. For some reason, lots of people recently have been sending in referrals (requesting missionary visits, or looking for a church, or interested in English class - things like that) but sending in fake/wrong addresses, si we went to lots of houses where we were told that we're at the wrong house. It's frustrating, but fine. 

Thursday:

This week has just been a struggle - all of our lessons fell through again today. But we had english class which was pretty fun! We also had zone council - which was pretty average in and of itself - but afterwards all the companionships who didn't have a member come with them to a lesson or door knocking got pied! It was pretty fun to watch. Our zone is starting a new thing called "member Monday madness" and if you don't do missionary work with a member on Mondays, there's a penalty after zone council on Thursday. So, hopefully we can get someone to work with us today! I think the next penalty had something to do with peppers ...

Friday:

Exchanges! I went up to the Yucca area for the day and it was a pretty good day! 

Saturday:

Can you believe it? All of our lessons fell through today too! We even had one lady tell us to come back at 5 (they were busy when we stopped by) and she wasn't home. But we did have more success tracting and were able to find some people for the English missionaries to teach! We also met this one guy, Nathan, who said he was interested in coming to church. So we got his number and sent him the church info and everything. Turns out he was only interested in hitting on us  Funny to look back on - not appreciated in the moment. But we sent his info to the English elders so hopefully they have fun with him 

Sunday: 

A pretty good day! We had one of our friends come to church and another guy who showed up randomly who's interested in learning more!! It was quite the miracle! Then we had lunch at the church because one of our members is the sweetest lady ever and makes us lunch on Sundays and it was so good! She even let us help her make it (that hasn't happened before)! Then we went door knocking with one of our members - I felt so bad for her. Only English speakers answered the door (she only speaks spanish) and we met probably the meanest lady ever. She was not happy. But it was all good

So that was my week. It was a bit of a struggle - but good nonetheless! If anything, I've learned the power if optimism. It didn't change the fact that all our lessons fell through, all our tracting neighbors had already been tracted by the elders, and some people were straight up rude - but it made me enjoy everything a little bit more. I was able to see and appreciate the good things around me and have hope. That made the week good and I'm so grateful for the hope that comes through the gospel and through knowing that I have a loving Heavenly Father who is aware of me and my life. 

I love you all and hope you have a great week! If you got time, write to me and let me know how you're doing! 

 Hna. Erickson 

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