Yup you guessed it! I am now in GRAND JUNCTION!!!!!
Aw man it is awesome. I'll admit I love the city and the people in it, but it feels so great to be in the country again. Oh it is blessed land! I love it already. I have heard that the craziest missionary stories told in the mission are from when they were serving in grand junction.The assistants told me this hilarious story about when two drunk girls attacked them. I almost peed my pants/skirt it was the funniest story ever. I love teaching crazy people. It reminds me of Moses Lake.
Oh I met a lady who's family was taught by Shane Palmer (who's from Moses Lake). They said that he was instrumental in getting them back to church. how crazy is that! She said that he baptized her Grandson. I had no idea he even served here. So that's fun.
If Shane Palmer gets to read this, the Franklin's family say hi and that they love you!
This week has been so crazy and so fun! I am now with Sister/Hermana Bennett. She has been on her mission for 15 months (don't tell her I told you, she gets sad when she remembers she only has two transfers left.) She is a spanish speaking missionary but we are serving in an english area. She is from Canada and she is a HOOT! Oh man she makes me laugh all day long. I'm pretty sure she is the absolute perfect missionary. She takes missionary work to a whole new level. When we are going to appointments she will pull over the car and talk to people who are walking on the side of the road and she invites them to be baptized! haha I'm not even kidding. We taught this girl on her door step. (the first time we meet her) she invited her to be baptized! The girl said YES! and we set her on Date for october 29th.Woah it was unreal!! We also found 8 new investigators this week!! Seriously it has been so awesome learing sister Bennett's ways. She is amazing. She makes me sing to every single person we talk to. hahaha I am getting lots of practise singing so maybe i might able to carry a tune when I come home haha. Some people don't really know how to react to an invitation to be sung to, so most people say yes, even if they don't want a song. The other day we sang, "count your many blessings," to this mom and her teenage son. I kid you not, they laughed uncontrolably during the entire song. They kept trying so hard to stop laughing, but couldn't help it. I won't let sister bennett sing that song any more, because that one was torture. But most people are really appreciative. It's actually pretty funny to see peoples reaction to our singing. I think it should turn into some psycology project on human nature. Or be one of those youtube videos where the guy tries to hold hands with random people and he records their reactions. I seriously am loving my time with her so much! Next week we start exchanges and I'm sad I won't be with her as much as we have been.
We are the Sister Leader Trainers in this area and I am learning more and more each day how much responsibility I am going to have in the near future. I'm getting a little nervous but I'm sure it will be fine.
Basically we are Zone leaders but we are over alot more missionaries than regular zone leaders have. We are in charge of the sisters and this entire transfer we will be going on exchanges with them and help them become better missionaries. Which means that I need to be on my very best behavior and be as perfect as possible. I'm really happy that I am blessed to have an amazing companion to learn from.
Ok I have to tell you this story about sister Bennett that made me die! So the other night we called a member and she didn't anwser and sister bennett left this super long voice mail about how she would like this sister to come to a lesson with us and then we realized that we might have called the wrong number so at the end sister bennett said, " And if you are not sister Yeates we would like to invite you to visitmormon.org! Have a great day byyyye!!" We didn't really think anything of it and went on our day. Then the next morning this man calles us and sister bennett anwsered it saying, "HELLO sister yeates!!!!" Deep man voice anwsers and says, "Hello?"
Sister Bennett, "Oh......is this the Yeates family??"
Sister Bennett, "Oh......is this the Yeates family??"
Man, "No, this is the man you prank called last night....."
Sister Bennett, "uhhhh..........Oh your the person we invited to check out moron.org!!"
Man, "Yeah, it was some prank call about sister missionaries."
Sister B "But we really are sister missionaries."
Man, "RRiiight....."
Sister Bennett," We really are! Did you check out the website?!"
hung up.......
Hahaha!!!!!! OH man i was in the other room doing my hair and I heard the whole conversation and I died laughing! Man it was to funny.That is just a normal day with sister bennett! I'm really excited to see what the future holds. I hope everyone is doing ok and is loving life. Know that I love you, the lord loves you and Life is GOOD!!!!
Talk to you all soon!!!!!
Love sister Jones
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