Hey Family!
IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME TO SEE AND HEAR YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE ALL BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE INSIDE AND OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OLIVE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok anyway.... I'll come back to that. This last week.... was rough. But successful, we had a lot of lessons for how much we didn't get to work due to various issues. Bummer.
What's noteworthy... not sure. This probably won't be much of a novel but we'll see.
So last Tuesday Sister Graves had the opportunity to invite someone to be baptized! She was just as excited as I was when I got to do it the first time. The investigator accepted and it was pretty awesome. She's from NYC, thickest NYC accent I've ever heard! So awesome. Her son and husband are members, we're just workin on her now! Her husband loves us and thinks we're the greatest things since... probably fishing for him. Lol.
So Wednesday I saw Kristie (formerly Hall) like I told you when we skyped. It was so surreal and awesome to see someone I know! What are the odds! She's so awesome, brings back memories from way back when! Wednesday also brought us some practice singing for a baptism the elders had on Saturday. I can't remember if I told yall when we skyped that my companion and I were asked by their investigator to sing "I am a Child of God" at her baptism. We graciously... obliged. So we practiced, and it went much better than the first time I had to sing at a baptism... Sister Graves learned the separate part for the 3rd verse in the primary songbook version. It was pretty great!
Thursday.... Service basically all day. Kinda fun! I was sanding paint off of a deck. And the sander just couldn't handle me! I went through like 3 sand paper sheets in like 20 minutes. Ok so maybe I suck and sanding and that's the real reason why I was going through sheets so fast... The next service we did was clearing out a porch of a less active lady. She had been in Heber the last 2 years taking care of her parents and just got back in Feb. She rented her house those 2 years and the tenants destroyed her yard. So sad. But it's looking awesome! After we were done she took us to the Rio Grand. Gorgeous! But not all that huge. But still awesome. Thursday brought a great faith building experience. We met with this investigator for the first time and it was a resounding success! We brought a member to go with us, she's 16 and awesome. And our investigator is 19. So we all were just a bunch of girls hanging out is what it felt like! Anyway, we taught the Restoration, gave her a BOM, and she committed to come to church (even though she didn't end up coming... :/). She has super great morals and is super nice. Struggles with a lot, but we're glad to have had the opportunity to teach her. Come to find out after that lesson, the young woman who came with us had a rough day. Her friend who just got baptized texted her earlier that day that he felt prompted to let her know that Heavenly Father loves her. Without knowing she was coming with us that night, we got a similar text from him. Then that lesson brought her spirits up even more, increased my faith, and then on Sunday that friend of hers gave a talk in church and told that story (cause she told him afterward how awesome it all was) in sacrament meeting. He said in his talk that she was thinking about going on a mission when she's 19 because of the great experience she had with us. :) AW! Right? AND the ward knows how awesome we are now. :) So thank you all for your encouraging words on faith and prayers on my behalf. I'm feeling them! Keep em coming!
Friday.... exchanges. Scary cause I had never been on one. But it turned out well. I'll make it short cause it seems like my group wants me to finish.... Anyway, I was grateful for all I learned and hope to apply it in my own missionary work.
Saturday... Baptism! That we sang at and it didn't suck! We also survived biking basically all of Corrales.
And Sunday... I got to talk to yall! Which was soooo amazing. It's like I was there! It was so much fun to see all your familiar faces and to see home. I'm not homesick, promise! Just super excited that my family loves me so much. I am so blessed. In regards to mail... I do get a lot! And I love it! And it's not a distraction for me cause I don't read letters or open packages usually until after the day is done. But no one else gets mail and my companion seems irritated at me and I get made fun of. Lame right? I feel bad. So... either write my companion and the elders too or send less as much as it pains me to say that. What missionary asks for less mail!? Messed up huh. Anyway, the elder's address is the same, except they're #2111. There's more I could say but would feel bad cause I don't want to make my companion or the elders seem like bad people p... cause she's not. She awesome and I love her but she's a little too much for me to handle. Prayers.
Today has been the longest day of my life! We walked from 6:30 to 7:45 this morning to the other elders in our district for breakfast. We didn't know it was that far. It was fun, but they remind me of the elders in Taos who don't take being a missionary at all times seriously. Then walked home for an hour. Went shopping. Came back. Laundry. Bike up the HUGE hill to get to the family history center to email. And now I really should go... AAAHHH!H!!!!!H!H!HH!!!!
Well, olive ya'll. :) Much love.
SISTER SCHIEVING
Send me prayers!
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