Hey y'all!What a quick week! I thought it would be extra long because P-day was moved, but here we are! And my 2 month mark is next Sunday.... how crazy is that?!? Time is so slow, but so fast! :)
So not a ton of lessons this week. We did however teach T and R! They still want us to come, and so we did! We brought a ward member, Sister Z, because we thought T was not going to be there and she was just going to plan on skyping us. But they were both there in the flesh! Member present lessons are really cool though! Some things she said were exactly what they needed to hear! We should hopefully be teaching them tomorrow about the Sabbath day, and get them to come to church!
Miracles: So Sister Brakey took a wrong turn... like she does a lot of the time ;) And so we were going down this dead end. She was just going to flip around and go back out when I saw an older lady trying to get all her groceries in the house. I thought "we should help her. Nah, we have got to our appointment, with Sister P." But then something inside me just said that was wrong and we needed to help her. So I said "Hey, let's help that lady." We pulled over and jumped out of the car. We asked "Hey, would you like some help?" Now most people are wary and are scared you are gonna jump them or something. But she said "Why not?!" We grabbed all the groceries and took them in! She then told us how she usually gets her groceries in. Several trips to the lawn. Several to the porch. Several to the door. Then finally a couple of trips into the house. Probably a total of 20-30 minutes. We did it in 1. Now she didn't want to hear our message, but we left her our number and told her to call us if she needed anything! She said "I will. Thank you, girls! I know God sent you!" So sweet. But I know it was the spirit guiding us to her house just to simply help her out! Super cool :)
We deep cleaned on Tuesday! Basically we set aside 3-4 hours to clean our house pretty dang good! We did an extra good job cuz we are moving the week of the 8th into an apartment in our area. We will start coordinating with our ward mission leader to get help from the ward to do that! Pretty excited!
Sister Brakey and I are bros man. We had a pretty good comp inventory where we talked about how similar we are! We decided to just be ourselves and be bros. So we are! When we are in sync (which is 93% of the time,) we call it a "Broment" A bro moment. Pretty legit :)
This coming Saturday we are doing something called a Blitz! That is where our whole district goes and works in one companions’ area for the day! And Elder Garcia was inspired to choose our area! We are so excited. We are going to see some great things happen! Hopefully we can find more investigators and track down some Less Actives! We are basically done planning this because we are so excited and on the ball on this one! I will tell y'all how that goes next week!
Thought for the week: You can't do it all, and you can't do it alone. Missionaries get stressed out because they try to be perfect all at once. Been there! But I have learned that we can't do it all at once. We just can't be perfect now. When Christ and His Apostles walked around and helped/taught, Christ was teaching them all along the way! They were nowhere near perfect, but with the Savior with them, they were constantly improving. Super cool! I am going to just take this whole thing one step at a time. With Christ on my side, I know He will help me and move me along the right way! And I know He'll help y'all too! So challenge for the week: find something you want to improve on (charity, scripture study, sincere prayers etc.) and work on it! Study it, pray about it, and then take action!
The work is moving along! Slowly but surely we are seeing hearts being softened and testimonies strengthened!
I love y'all bunches and bunches! Have a blessed week!
Love, your favorite missionary, Sista Poulsen
