Week 22 A new Companion! 5/5/14

This week has been interesting! BUT AWESOME!

Monday was all about getting sister Taylor ready for transfers.  That sister has SO MANY Clothes! AND THEN THE TINIEST SUITCASES EVER!  So that was an adventure for sure!

Tuesday

More packing. But we also taught Karen, the word of wisdom AGAIN! She just loves to ask us questions about it. She told us how much she LOVED church and that she didn't know why she was so scared to go before, because it was awesome!  We asked her if she would be willing to be baptized and she told us for sure she would now that she has seen the font and been to church!

We also taught Charee and her kids the plan of salvation and about how God loves us! They had some crazy questions!  Charee's son thought we believed in reincarnation because one day he wants to be a monkey or something. Which we told him we do NOT believe in. hahaha. but it went over pretty well.

Saying Goodbye to Sister Taylor.

Wednesday

CRAZY TRANSFERS.  Sister Taylor loves to be on time to things so she made sure we got there almost an hour early!  But I got to see Sister Payton, so that was nice to see her before she goes off to Colorado!  I met my new companion, Sister Nash. She is super nice and it's weird because she is almost as tall as me and is about the same size so technically we could share clothes! I’m so not used to that.  Sister Nash came in to the ward right after Karen got super solid so she doesn’t quite get why I get in such a panic every time! I keep telling her "sister, you just don't know!" hahaha. She thinks I am quite the hoot, so we get along great! She is kind of touchy feely and stuff, so that's different for me, but she's super awesome!  She totally knows her stuff!  She just came from western Kansas where it is like a bunch of Latinos, very humble people living in shacks and everyone speaks Spanish! (she's an Hermana) so it's a quite a shock for her to be back in the suburbs! hahahaha.

Me and Sister Nash  2 tall skinny girls!

Thursday

We taught Karen and she gave us her coffee!  When we asked how we could help her to keep the word of wisdom she said it would help if we took her coffee away from her. so, we did!  We taught the Faber family and we invited them to church but they just are not ready for that yet. One day though, I think they will be.

throwing out the Coffee!

Friday

We went to go contact the one Hispanic family in our ward because Sister Nash really misses Hispanics from the wild west.  This area is a so weird to her. I think it's funny.  So we went and tried to meet with them. I guess that didn't go over too well. But oh well! We then taught Charee where she talked about why she is happy to not be baptized but study the church.  It's super hard because she is complacent with just reading the Book of Mormon and hearing about the blessings of living the gospel, she just...won't live it!  She is too scared. And so is her husband.

Saturday

Saturday was the Goddard wide garage sale. We went and served at the Lion’s Club pancake breakfast because we thought it would be hoppin'. Well, it wasn't. Then we went with Karen to go teach a  less active. Karen loved it! Especially since she used to be a nurse before she retired and Sister Henderson is in a nursing home. We then went with Karen for her to get a blessing at a member's home. She really liked that. And THEN we took her to go see a baptism! They put it in this super tiny room and she got claustrophobic and left as soon as he was baptized. And she got a little scared because she had to be baptized 3 times because his foot kept popping up.   But she still is super solid so we hope all is okay!

Sunday

Karen got a ride to church from Sister Galloway and they became the best of friends!  Seriously. It was so great! Karen asked if it was okay that she sat with Sister Galloway and not us and we were all "uh YEAH! Do that!" So that was awesome.  We had dinner with the Adams whose son is in Ghana and she was talking about how hard it is for her and stuff.   It was interesting to see the other side of it since I never had siblings or cousins serve missions.  So I never really have had anyone I have been close with leave.  So that was interesting, I hope she is able to keep going because she gets worried about him being in Ghana

That's all! Not much of excitement this past week!   I know the church is true and Jesus is our Savior!  Love you all!

Sister Robyn Cramer