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Feb 12-18

Wow! Another week done..... where is time even going?!


Monday: basically felt like we were running around getting everything done. But I'm not entirely sure what "everything" is now that I look back on it..... during district activity I cut one of the elders hair. That was fun. We then ate with one of the senior couples in the ward, so that was sweet of them to feed us!! #blessed. For FHE they did "speed dating" so we watched😂😂 

Tuesday: today we had a super awesome day planned, so you know what that means..... none of it actually happened and we still ran around like chickens with our heads cut off.... we had a lesson with a returning member named Clay. It.... was interesting😂 the conversation went literally everywhere and we tried to bring it back down to earth but it was too late at that point. BUT the miracle of it all........ after we left, he told the member that after our "conversation" he realized he really wants to stop drinking. Friends... I testify that God works in mysterious ways. There is no way anything that was said could have resulted in that. But just the spirit of having missionaries in his home helped the spirit testify to him that he needs to make some changes. God is so good. Later we went to a lesson with the other sisters in the ward and taught their investigator Stephen about obedience and Heleman 5:12. Man, I just LOVE teaching anyone and everyone about this beautiful gospel! Then I did my plan 🤐😝. Nah it wasn't too bad. Just learning about being self reliant. While doing my plan the office missionaries (3 couples) asked us if we would run the office for 2 hours while they went on an assignment, so we got to feel important and answer phones left and right and help everyone! And by that I mean we finished my plan and answered like 4 phone calls. But hey, it was still fun! We then had institute and Clay came! Yay!! 


Wednesday: ah, the day of love. I was blessed to have my cute dad send me flowers #daddiesgirl⚘ we had a lesson with a less active member about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It went really Well! He said he would be at church on Sunday:) then we went on Ventura College campus and boothed. We had a white board with a question " HOW DOES GOD SHOW US THAT HE LOVES US?" tons of people came up and wrote their answer on the board. We got lots of contacts that day and handed out a bunch of copies of the Book of Mormon. Man, handing someone a copy of that wonderful book just makes my heart leap for joy every time!! I am so blessed to be able to talk to people about the Book of Mormon everyday!! Then we ran over to the stake center for interviews with President Nakken. My interview was super short because we are gonna have a big one in like 2 weeks so we just talked about life and all that good stuff. While Sister Brockbank was in her interview, Sister Nakken and I went on a fun drive around Ventura to deliver stuff to some people. It was fun. It felt weird to be without my companion. But she joked around and told me it was my form of my plan for the day. 😂 (my plan is a program that prepares you for home.... I forgot if i explained that already) anyway, then we were driving home to get food before institute and as we are pulling up we get a text from our new investigator saying he wants to have a lesson right now if we are free. Mind you, we haven't eaten since 11:30, and it's like 6 at this point... We sat and contemplated just getting food and pretending like we didn't see the text but we decided that wasn't what Jesus would do so we drove away from our food and went to have a lesson with Jordan. About a year a go some elders had taught him and we just started teaching him again this last week. I am SO glad we did decide to go to the lesson though because that lesson was such a powerful lesson about the Restoration of the Gospel. The spirit was so strong there! Jordan kept awkwardly smiling so we figured something was wrong so we asked him what was going on in his head. He then proceeded to tell us that he has never heard the story of the Restoration in so much detail and said so beautifully. He couldn't help but smile because of the feelings that he was feeling. (Not gonna lie I almost teared up..... almost) at the end of the lesson he told us that he had a Valentine's gift for us to share since we took time out of our Valentine's day to come over. He gave us a bunt cake from "nothing bunt cakes". As we left we looked at the time and realized that it was 7.... institute time. So we started driving to institute with our stomachs making the sound that only a sea monster could make. As we were going to turn into the street the institute was on, we get a call from a member asking if we were coming, we said yes we are almost there! He then tells us that institute has been canceled and President Clark (the teacher) was taking everyone out for dinner and milkshakes for Valentine's day! Yep. We cried. Miracles are REAL. And God is mindful of every people! 


Thursday: I bet you are all thrilled to hear that nothing really happened today..... considering the last 2 days had a novel written about them. Oh wait.... We had dinner at this super cute taco place on the pier. Hahahaha my mission is so great 😄😄 
Friday: we had district meeting, which is always fun, we then had ice cream after so I can't complain. Well my mind is drawing a blank.... I know we had sports night.... But that's all I remember. 


Saturday: we went and visited a bunch of people today. Man, I'm the worst. I put so much effort into thinking about what happened Tuesday and Wednesday I can't remember anything that happened over the weekend. 😣😓 


Sunday: today was good! We had ward council and coordination before church. Then church, Clay and Jordan both came!!!! It was awesome!! The talks were really good. They were both about sustaining the Prophet. Sunday school was good. It was about the creation and the fall of adam and eve. Then relief society was about the family: a proclamation to the world. Then one of the senior couples called and invited us over for dinner #blessed 

Lately I've been studying the Saviors life in the new testament and it is so amazing! I love learning of him and his doctrine and then turning to the Book of Mormon and seeing that same doctrine taught to those in the ancient Americas. These books truly go hand and hand together and testify of our Savior. We are so blessed to be able to have this Gospel in our lives. Never take it for granted! I testify that this Gospel truly blesses families and every single one of Gods children (that mean all of you 😉) 

1- being an office missionary!!  

2-3: booooooothing! 

4-7: Valentine's day 

8: dark photo but dinner on the pier