Monday: Our district played wiffle ball, board games, and signed transfer journals (pretty much mission year books). After that we went knocking in Concordia and found a new friend! We spent all night packing up for transfers the next day.
Tuesday: Transfers! Holy cow we got the craziest transfer news. Both me and my trainer were getting transferred and we BOTH got transferred to Valley Center, Wichita! WHAT! I am so happy that I get to stay with Sister Larsen. And guess what! We are living with 2 other sisters! I have always wanted to live in a quad and it’s seriously so fun. The other 2 sisters are the best. It's hard to get to bed on time because we all just love hanging out together. Something so crazy about this transfer is we are opening up a new area. We have no friends that we are teaching and we are starting the area from scratch, so that’s a little stressful but pray we can find lots of people who are ready and prepared to learn about the gospel! We spent the rest of the day unpacking and getting settled in.
Wednesday: We knocked all day which was fun because it was super warm outside, we were fed by members, and we went to our ward's young women’s and got to meet some members which was awesome. This ward is seriously so sweet! I love them so much, they keep us fed and make sure we always have leftovers and snacks at our house.
Thursday: I met my new district, we weekly planned, we were fed again, and then we had a relief society activity at the church. On our way to the activity we got a call from a sweet member, we had just met the day before, and she said that a guy had just walked into the church and was interested in learning more. When we got there we met Marco! Marco is so ready and prepared to learn more about the gospel. He said that he just saw cars in the parking lot and the church lights on and said that he felt like he needed to come in! We gave him a tour of the church and talked about Jesus Christ and his atonement, the sacrament, baptism, and pretty much how our church is run. It was such a good lesson and the best part was Marco recognizing the spirit and he said that it was exactly what he needed! God is so good!
Friday: We pretty much just knocked all day, nothing too exciting happened.
Saturday: We knocked all day in Lil’ Mexico which was hard because everyone speaks Spanish and if you know anything about me you know I don’t speak any español. It sucked because even my google translate was betraying me and the conversation pretty much ended after me llamo hermana Alexander, and then uno momento lo siento as I was pulling out my phone for google translate. Anyway, we eventually met someone who spoke English and he was talking about how he was taking lessons from the JWs but we got into a conversation about the bible and Jesus Christ. The spirit must have been there because by the end of our conversation he wanted a copy of the Book of Mormon! God is so good! ALSO Jose got baptized this day!!!! I am so proud of him but so sad I had to leave the area before I could see him get baptized.
Sunday: Marco came to church! and we had another amazing lesson. It got cold again. And we had the yummiest member meal yet!
Fun/Funny moments:
♡ We got fed pizza 3 nights in a row, and still have tons of pizza in our fridge.
♡ The temple is in our area! Pray I'll stay in this area long enough to help open it!
♡ This isn’t fun or funny but I've seen more roadkill since being here in Kansas than I ever have in my entire life and in little Mexico there was a dog who was ran over and has probably been there for over a month.
♡ The first night in our new place there was an insane thunderstorm.
♡ our house has 3 floors and has like no lights anywhere, it gets pretty dark at night haha.
♡ We have a pickleball court across the street from our house.
♡ We have to do a Facebook ad for our mission.
♡ Talked to a JW named Jared. He was a little grumpy to be talking to us, but we said we would look at the JW website if he took a look into ours!
♡ I misheard a man's name because of his thick accent, I thought he said Dano and his name was Daniel, when I found out I said it wrong I accidentally said “oh, I'm so white”. I then spent the next 10 min feeling super bad and embarrassed that I said that.
♡ I've watched the Easter message like 10 times, it's so good! Watch it if you haven't already. I'll add it in my google photos.
Scripture:
“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
—John 15:12–13
GOD IS SO GOOD♡ have the best week
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