How's girls camp going? I hope your service project went smoothly, and I'm glad that you didn't end up having to cook for the 4th years all by yourself haha! That's sweet that Chloe and Olivia each have an awesome leader in their cabins, I bet they're having a blast. It looks like you guys had a ton of fun with tubing, the Colorado river trip, and winning the dive meet too! Was it a Wilson kid who taped the Nintendo to the cabinet? I can't believe that Tiffany's going to Oregon and Sadie's going to Texas!! They'll have so much fun and they'll probably get iPads/iPhones too! Tell them I said congratulations (:
I don't know if you've hear this already but Alli Rawlin's twin sister Amanda got called to Argentina/Paraguay and she's going to the Provo MTC in October!! I guess it's one of the new missions called Posadas or something and it covers half of Paraguay as well as Argentina. I'm so excited for her & that I'll have someone besides H. Hales to speak Castellano with when I get back!
So I did actually get some more news about my visa. When we were in the office last Wednesday for our district meeting I talked to one of the office ladies and she informed me that if I didn't get my visa by that Friday, that I'd be staying here in Ogden for at least another six weeks. Well I didn't get it before Friday so it looks like I'll be here for a while longer! I'm fine with it because I love the other hermanas here, our branch, and our investigators, so I'm cool with hanging out with them for another month or so. It was kind of frustrating at first that my companion gets to leave soon and all that, but obviously the Lord needs her over there for whatever reason and He needs me here for something. Patience is also a Christlike attribute that I'm trying to develop more as a missionary, so I'm just accepting that everything's on the Lord's time and it's for the best. I'll be alright, and I'll get to Argentina when I need to.
It was kind of funny because H. Hales and I were talking the other day about our missionary "childhoods" and how messed up they are- especially mine:
I was born in the U.S. even though in the pre-mortal life I was supposed to get sent to Argentina. I only lived with my mother for 3 weeks before the government took me away and stuck me with another foster-child and had us go to work even though we still didn't know how to talk (speak Spanish) very well or just do the work in general. And then my mom (who was already near to death) skipped town a transfer later, giving the same fate to her daughter Hermana Gaines (and the same thing happened to Hermana Vergara too). So all of us foster kids are living with our adopted mom, Herm. Kreutzer, and her biological daughter Herm. Conrad. But in a few weeks, my sister- who I've never lived without- is going to get shipped off to the country that she was also chosen to go to in the pre-earth life. When that happens I have no idea what crazy fate is in store for me next- I could just be traveling back and forth between working with my adopted mom & her daughter and working with my sister & half-sister, or they could send a stranger to replace my sister H. Hales, or they could ship me off into another part of the Ogden mission before I get shipped off again to a foreign country.
Hahah it's pretty funny when you think about it. Anyways yeah so this week wasn't too bad. We worked a lot and knocked a lot of doors because we're starting to run out of people to teach and we need to find more. We actually did find 3 or four new people who are willing to let us share a message with them, so hopefully we'll have some more lessons this week! It's been kind of a crazy week too because since H. Hales will be leaving soon, we need to start acquainting our investigators with the other hermanas who will (most likely) be covering their areas when Hales goes. So we've been doing exchanges for pretty much every single lesson and it gets a little complicated some days, but it's been fun. Herm. Hales and Herm. Conrad were actually able to set a baptismal date for Hermana Toledo and for one of our investigators named Jasmin who used to be a Jehova's Witness! As far as Jenna and Michelle go, we've had some interesting developments. Apparently (according to her mom), Jenna is no longer interested because she doesn't feel like she's ready at this point. It was kind of weird to hear that because we thought the lesson went really well and we both felt the Spirit, but I guess it's just not her time right now.
And then with Michelle we had sort of a sticky situation with the elders in our area. Before this transfer we had gotten it all figured out that we, the sisters, were going to be teaching her because the Elders had been trying to teach her for months and just hadn't been able too because her husband works so much that he's hardly ever home and they had a hard time getting members to come with them to lessons so that they could go in and teach her. Since we all just wanted her to be able to be taught, the Elders and the ward mission leader both decided that we should do it because we'll be able to go a lot more frequently. Anyways, so when transfers came along last week we got a new elder in our district who's probably one the most notorious elders in the mission. He decided that he was going to take Michelle back despite of the decision that we all had already made because it's his area and we shouldn't be doing his work for him. Even though we disagreed we just let him have her back because we didn't want to fight or anything, but we let the mission leader know what had happened and he was kind of upset because he had worked with this elder in past transfers and they had had some difficulties with him in their ward and in other wards in the stake as well. So we went to stake correlation this Sunday for the stake that he covers as well, and we talked about what happened and that the Elders would be teaching Michelle now. Then the Elder starting saying some crazy stuff about how apparently one of the solutions that had been come up with for problems like the one we had was that they would just have the Relief Society presidency go over alone and teach investigators the lessons and then just have the missionaries interview them and then they can get baptized... Yeah that's not a thing.
Anyways so we left the correlation early because we had our dinner appointment, and we got a call from the ward mission leader that night that apparently after we left, the other leaders in the meeting corrected the Elder and put him in his place saying that they had requested that we teach Michelle and they didn't want him teaching her and stuff like that. So the Elder texted us that evening and said "Apparently there was a miscommunication. Ya'll go teach Michelle. Have fun". He's just a really difficult elder to work with and he's said to people on multiple occasions that he hates sister missionaries and doesn't trust them with anything. So yeah, it's going to be interesting to have him in our area for this transfer to say the least, but we do get to teach Michelle now and we have a lesson with her tonight which we're extremely excited about! Hopefully she's there and she feels up to it!
Other than that there's not really a ton that's happened. It's been SO FUN having H. Vergara in the house because we all get along super well, and since she's Mexican she's been able to help us a lot with our Spanish. So yeah, hopefully we'll get a lot of work done this week and we'll have some new investigators and be able to help the ones we already have to progress. I'm still loving it out here and I learn more and more every day! Have fun at Girls Camp and don't forget to pull some good pranks in my honor! You're the best.
<3, HermCrawfish
PS- Thanks for the no-bake recipe and don't worry at all about being late with it! I don't think we have a ton to do today so we'll probs be able to have our bake-off (:
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