Week 23 Who ever said I was a Burly girl!? 5-12-14

So this past week has been...eventful and hard as usual.

On MONDAY

we went to the park and played kick ball (I actually hit a home run, but I think they went easy on me) and then an Elder made a piñata that we all hit and hung it from a tree. He had no candy to stick in it so all it had was missionary materials. ha-ha. We had dinner with a family that had a bunch of soccer players from the high school over for dinner too. With hopes they would ask questions about us. Not sure if they did.

TUESDAY

We taught Karen with Sister Galloway.  I am afraid she was a little too bold with Karen.  We tried our best. She had bought more coffee because going without it gave her headaches.  We encouraged her to pray for strength. She said she kept praying and knew she needed to get baptized.  And that the church is true. So that was awesome.  We tried a part member Mexican family in our ward since Sister Nash has decided to find like the five Latino families hear and teach them so she can practice her Spanish.  It makes me laugh. But I can at least say  "I know it is true" in Spanish so if we ever do teach anyone I will do just that and nod and smile! hahahaha

Wednesday

AHHH! So long. SO MANY MEETINGS!  But one good thing is this tiny little old guy who works for the city of Goddard texted us and told us to come to city hall and have lunch with him so he could thank us for helping out at the pancake breakfast.  So we showed up, and it was us, and the senior club of Goddard! hahaha. He wanted us to sing for them. He seems to think I have a great voice...hope I don't let him down?  He is super funny.

But Wednesday night, Karen left us a note telling us to never come back, never teach her again, she changed her mind because she can and to leave her alone. I was crushed. I know she knows it is true, she is just scared.  I just can't give up on that woman!

Thursday

Karen knocked on our door to see if we got the note. ha-ha. We did. She said good and then left.  We tried a bunch of people who were not home. Had an apt with brother Faber and his daughter, but they were not there when we got there, so we called and found out he had a blood clot in his leg and they rushed him to the hospital to have heart surgery! We asked if the elders could come give him a blessing and his wife said yes.  We then taught this guy that the elders had a problem with because he had a problem with priesthood.  We tried our best, but he is a spunky guy who just shot deep doctrine questions at us, but he didn't understand our answers because they were deep doctrine but he wouldn't let us teach him a basic lesson that would have answered all of his questions!  I though he was tough, but sister Nash though it was fun.

Friday

Zone training. It was good. We talked about how to teach people BETTER. Which I needed.  We then went and taught one woman who thought we don't believe Jesus is the son of God, which we told her we did and explained our basic beliefs to her.  We also taught someone who seemed like they might actually be interested. And a nice catholic man whose wife was baptized in the church, but she doesn't consider herself to be a Mormon. She is catholic but he was nice.

Charee cancelled on us because she was sick.  We then went to this house waaaaay out there and they had a no trespassing sign, but we figured if we went all the way out there, we would at least try knocking.  So we did, she didn't answer so we left a note. Five minutes later, she texted us (because we left our number) and she was angryyyy. on the bright side, she actually used the phone number we left on our card! Never seen that happen before.

Saturday

WE got DOWN AND DIRTY!  Goddard was having its city wide clean up, and we were told everyone would be down there helping and throwing stuff away and they could use our help. So we though "why not?" So we went there. But, we showed up and there were a bunch of big, burly city worker men there who were putting old doors, chicken coops, trees, wood, pigeon houses, tractors, you name it, that people brought in these giant tractors that then dumped it in this GIANT dump. So then we show up "here to help!" and they were all "uhhhh...okay" us scrawny girls. hahahahaha.  But, I think it went well. it was fun! It was hard work though! I SO wanted a nap after that because I was pooped, but we just don't have time for that!  I felt like such a stereotype American out there with tractors and construction men throwing away farm supplies!

Here we are at the community clean up.  With all the Burly Men.  We totally fit in.  NOT

SUNDAY

CHURCH! It was so good. They gave all the mom's mother's day candy bars and they had extras so they pawned them off on us even though we are not moms.  Maybe because they realize how much we have to mother the elders! hahaha. But really,. They never know what's up.  We then gave away a Book of Mormon to a woman who seemed to have great potential and then went over to the Hanna's to Skype our families! That was so weird but I loved getting to see my family :)

So that was my week. It was rough.  But I love being a missionary and I know without a shadow of a doubt that the Book of Mormon is true and I invite anyone who ever wonders to read it for themselves and pray about it. Because I started reading it back at the beginning of April and I am only about a third of the way through it, but it has really helped me a lot this past month (give or take)

Have a great week!

Love,

Sister Robyn Cramer