Good Morning Family!
I feel like I don't have much to talk about this week, but I'm sure I'll whip up another lengthy letter. I always seem to find more to write about than I thought I would.
I'm glad to hear about all of your fun trips to Idaho and Time out for Women. There was a Time out for Women in Austin in the fall and we got a flyer for it, I wanted to go pretty bad, they sound Awesome. And Hilary Weeks is one of my favorite LDS artists mom, her music is very good. Kimber Hayden introduced me to her in high school when she gave me a book for my Birthday by her, it's called "Believe in what you are doing, Believe in who you are" or something like that. Watch the music video for A Beautiful Heart Break by her, it'll make you cry, that song actually helped me while being out on my mission.
Soccer and Track sounds fun, I hope everyone is taking pictures for me so I can catch up when I come home...
So this week, we had basically an awful weekly planning session. We wiped the board clean and are going to focus all our work on more on finding. We've been working with the ward council trying to find information about people on the ward roster for the past 9 weeks and we haven't been finding very many new investigators. It was a nasty day, but I feel good about our plans now. We've set the goal to have at least 1 member present, 1 other lesson and one RCLA (Recent Convert/Less Active) every day this week. I'll tell you how it goes. We're also pulling out the bikes again, we're going to drive to some of the towns and then bike around so that we can meet more people outside while we're on our way to lessons and things. We'll see...
On Wednesday, we stopped by a part member family to get to know them and they were just leaving to go and feed their horses, so they told us to jump in the car and come with them. Sister Staker was in heaven since she's a rodeo girl and has horses, I was in heaven since the lighting was perfect and got to take pictures.
The biggest part of this week was when we did our second exchange on Friday with the Converse Sisters. Sister Staker served in Converse in the beginning of her mission so she went there this time and I stayed in Pleasanton and Sister Johnston came with me for the day. So I first saw Sister Johnston at Transfer meetings, and I kid you not, she looked just like a friend of mine from high school, Chessa Staley. So when we got to th exchange I asked if she was related to any Staleys, she said no but her old neighbors in Utah use to be Staleys, turns out it was the same family and she knew who I was talking about. It's a small world after all...
So as we're driving to the gas stations to meet the Converse Sisters Thursday night, Sister Staker says "I think we have another flat tire...stick your head out the window and look." We then proceeded to try and stick out heads out our windows to se which tire it was. Turns out, we had driven over BOLT, not even a sharp one. So At the gas station, we can hear the air wheezing out of it, and as Sister Staker pulls out the bold, we watched the whole tire deflate and the car tip. Great. Luckily, there where some Elders in the area, and this time I watched them fix it a little better. Next time, I might be able to change the tire myself. And thus started out exchange.
Sister Johnston is English called, so go figure all of our Spanish lessons would end up the day of the exchange because going into the day we had...3-4 lessons in Spanish planned and dinner with members in our Spanish Branch. Flying solo that day, but Sister Johnston was awesome, she even learned how to bare her testimony in Spanish and Shared it in a few lessons. I think I learned the most in my Spanish study that day than I have my whole mission, because I needed to know how to say very darn thing by myself. It turned out good though.
We had a lesson with Viridiana that day, and I had known she could speak a little English, but I didn't realize how much until we taught her in English while on our exchange. Learned a lot of things that day about what was holding her back. She wants to get married in the Temple, but she doesn't understand why she has to be rebaptized. We talked a lot, and tried to set her with a date for April 12 for Baptism and she said it was too soon. Her idea of a good time was July. Pretty sure my mouth dropped to the ground. JULY?! I would be old and married by then...not really...still a missionary...but JULY?! She laughed at me and told me I needed to have patience with her, and remember that I said I wouldn't push her. I ate my own words and she laughed. I love Viridiana so much, we almost were going to stop meeting with her since she had cancelled so many lessons and we hadn't met in almost a month. I wanted to cry, I just keep praying she will get her answer, and that I'll actually be here. I've had a really hard time having patience with being moved around so much and missing things.
Earlier in the day on exchanges, we met with a less active women who has been struggling with her health and therefore not been coming to church. She brought us 32 oz glass mugs full of water at the beginning of the lesson and then she went in the back room to change, Sister Johnston and I may or may not have sneeked pictures holding those huge mugs. Then I dared her to drink it all before the end of the lesson...anyways. At the end of the lesson she took us to a room and started pulling out clothes to give to us, they were...really nice clothes from the 80's with puffed sleeves and among them was a really fine floor length floral shirt and skirt set...stylin. it gives on a headache if you look at it too long. Anyways, we took them and I thought that maybe Sister Staker would like the skirt at least if you didn't wear it with the shirt. She laughed at me when I showed them to her and we had to wash them once or twice to get the smell out of them. As she was trying on the skirt, I had the idea that I should wear the shirt and she should wear the skirt that day and we could be all matchy...it was an awfully brilliant idea. So we did it, and we made them look good haha we got a lot of questions from people. We also went to get our tire fixed wearing them, we felt like a circus walking around, we probably looked like one too. We're so cool.
Well family, that's all for now. I've been thinking of y'all a lot, I'm really hungry for what everyone has been doing.
Love,
Hermana Montgomery
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