Howdy!!!
Oh wait, they don't say that in Denver. They say "What do you want?" haha Just kidding,...but not really. Ya Got to love the city folk haha.
I am LOVING my new area. I'll be honest, it's not craig. But I seriously am enjoying myself so much back here on the other side. Sister Gregerson is BETTER! Yeah!! We now have been working our little tushes off here and we are definitely starting to see the fruits of our labors. We have 4 POTENTIAL FAMILIES to teach!! We are sooo pumped about that. We taught this guy named mike (he looks exactly like Robin Williams haha) who use to be anti-religion until he went to county jail for 30 days and that is when he found God. He now goes to the catholic church because that is where his parents took him when he was a kid. He was kind of tough to teach because he was so intelligent and he had a really hard time believing that the priesthood was lost from the earth after Christ and the Apostles died. But we got through it and the spirit was really strong. One of the members we brought with us bore a POWERFUL testimony about the book of Mormon and Mike said he would read it. During this lesson we were teaching in a park by a creek. There seriously was a cloud of mosquitos around us the entire time. I didn't count all of my mosquito bites but I'm pretty sure it was between 50 to 10,000 bites. I still itch just thinking about it haha.
Another awesome story that happened this week was when we went to a former investigator's house. We knocked on the door and we found out that the lady actually passed away. We were sad about that. We decided to go and check some other former investigator's houses. But when we were walking back to the car I noticed there was a little boy (probably around 6 or 7) who was holding what looked like a gigantic piece of chocolate. It seemed kind of funny so I asked him, "Hey, how's that piece of chocolate?" he turned around and I realized that it was a poptart and I said, "Oh it's a poptart! How you liking that poptart?" he said it was good and then I asked him what his name was. He said Albert. Haha such a cute name. I then asked him if he lived around here? He said yeah and pointed to his house. I then asked if his parents would be ok with us coming over to pray with them. He said, oh we pray a lot! and I asked him again if he thought his parents would like us to pray with him and he said sure. so he started walking to his house showing us where he lived. I didn't realize how extremely creepy that conversation was until we started following him to his house. haha I looked at my companion and she had this look of worry on her face and asked, "Is this creepy?!" I thought in my head "uh yeah!" haha But it told her um, just don't touch him or get close to him hahaha. So we walked like 10 feet behind him and before we got to the house he ran inside to get his mom. I was dying. I had no idea what this little boy was saying to his mom and I was pretty sure no matter what he said it was going to sound super suspicious. But much to our surprise the mom came out and was SUPER nice. She invited us in and made her entire family of 5 come and kneel down and pray with us. She said that they went through the Nebraska temple open house and they loved it. She also said we could come back!!! We were so pumped! I am also super glad I didn't get beaten by some broom by a mom who thought we were psyco's.
The last story I wanted to tell was about the other night around 8:30pm. It was dark and we didn't have any set appointments. That's always a hard time to know what to do cause some people get really mad if we knock at their door after dark. But I felt like we should go and knock on this door of girl who said we could come back. The mom answered this time and she said it was ok for us to say a prayer with her. Sister gregerson said it and then I testified of god's love for her and her children and that he has a plan for them. She started tearing up and said she really needed that prayer. She said it was a miracle that we caught her at a good time because she is never ever home. As she was saying that she got a phone call from her ex-husband saying she needed to come right away to come pick up one of the kids. We seriously went at such perfect timing. She said we could come back and that she would love to hear our message. She hugged us and told us we were her little darlings! Wow that was so amazing. I love how the lord leads us and guides us everyday to the people who need us. I.love.being.a.missionary. Nothing beats this feeling. Well I hope everyone is having a wonderful week! know that I love you and I think you are all the best!!!
Love Sister Jones!!
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