These
weeks feel like they go on forever...but they're gone in a blink. It's crazy to
see how fast they have breezed on by.
Monday:
We found our cow. It wasn't what we were expecting...but we got them. Word. That
night, we went to President & Sister Plumb's house ANDDDDDDD I got my GPS.
YAY!! We aren't semi-lost anymore! Happy are we.
Tuesday
We learned more about family history. We watched a couple video's on it and
refreshed our minds in what the whole reason we do it is, how we help others,
and how we can better connect ourselves to those who have gone on before us. We
got to do service at New Beginnings. This is a new Service opportunity that we
found...last week?? I don't know. My weeks keep getting mixed up. The Jensen's
are back in town!! We got to have dinner with them and my favorite glass broke
that night. Family, you know the one with the handle that you sent me with the
honey?? That one. I was a bit heart broken. It broke into like 5 pieces.
My favorite glass jar....broken :-(
Wednesday started with reading
the Book of Mormon with Alma. She wanted to read 3 Nephi again and so we started
it over with her. She has found that book in the whole book the most intriguing
thus far. I think it's because that is the climax on the Book of Mormon. It is
what testifies of Jesus Christ and the fact that He WILL come again. With the
rise of pride shortly before and the destruction of the wicked ending with
Christ coming down to His children here in the America's shortly after his
death. It's amazing. After finishing at Alma's, we went and did some service at
Freedom Hill and, after lunch, at Kruze Villiage. That evening, we went out to
Tricia's house and we got to visit with her and learn more at how we can best
help her to progress further...and we figured it out. It's awesome how the
spirit works and how we can best help those when we are continually seeking it's
guidance. That night, at correlation, Elder Hunter shared an awesome insight. He
quoted Doctrine and Covenants 98:8, "I, the Lord God, make you free, therefore
ye are free indeed; and the law also maketh you free." and followed it with this
statement, "God binds to free and Satan frees to bind." What a remarkable
statement. As each of us covenant with the Lord, through baptism, priesthood,
temples, sealing, etc, we are set free. It was such an enlightening moment to
think that all of these things are done for a reason: to set us free.
Thursday
we were able to do family history with Ann (FINALLY! Yay!). And it was awesome
to be able to start laying out her "map". after, we did our weekly planning and
had lunch then shot off to paint nails at the old folks home. Fortunately, it
was the fingers. I got this one lady who asked me the same questions: 1 Where
are you from? 2 What church are you with? and 3 Do you have a boyfriend? I
almost started making up stories about actually having a boyfriend after the 5
time she asked me...Sister Davis and I on our drive out to dinner started to
make it up...then we talked on a tangent. Before going off to dinner I got
this:
"Every Redneck's daughter should be prepared"
What I'm
holding is the knife I already own. Dad...thanks for the Leatherman. It's been
really helpful with scrap booking and lots of the girly things I do. One day
i'll find a use for it like how it's supposed to be used :) After dinner, we got
to help Sister Giles with family history. The Spirit was really in that room.
You could just feel her ancestors on the other side rejoicing. It was pretty
amazing. After that, we zipped the 30 minutes to the church for our lesson with
Jordache and Tanner. They are great. We taught him about the priesthood and his
preparation for it. He's just cool. I tell you this...but know that he is. For
sports night we had an epic game of ping pong, tossing a football around and
basketball going. All at the same time. Sister Davis had a hard time focusing.
:) All in all, we had a great time. That night the Zone leader's called us and
Elder Su'a said, "God loves you, He is proud of what you're doing." Our Heavenly
Father does answer prayers. I was talking to Him, God, the night before and just
wanting to know if what i was doing was okay. If i was doing my best. and he
told me through another person.
Friday
we had district meeting and finding. We are still trying to expand our teaching
pool. That night we had dinner at the Crawfords and a lesson with Jordache. With
Jordache we went over the baptismal interview questions, answered a couple of
his questions, and the baptism details. Next week he will have his interview.
It's so exciting.
Saturday
morning I woke up and couldn't move. like i tried to get out of bed and i just
fell to the ground. I knew i was sore from sports night...but i din't know if i
had had gluten earlier in the week or if the rain just made my muscles worse or
what. I felt like i had been ran over by something pretty heavy. So that was
quite the start to the day. When we got out, we went to visit the genealogy
library in town. I was able to make a few discoveries. I'm pretty sure the
"Carling" side of my line's changed their name when they came over to America in
1600's. I think they were Irish with the possibility of changing the last name
from "Carland" to make it sound more English. At that time, the Irish were
hated. That's something I hope I can work on more. That afternoon, we had family
history and I got to help the Elders learn how to use family search. I kinda
know what I am doing...Sister D is a better explain-er. I love having her with
me.
Sunday
we had meetings and I doodled a little bit during PEC. I was bad, I know. Then
we had church. and then we had lunch and studies and a bit of finding before we
headed out to the Biggs for dinner. The Plumb's are Sis Biggs brothers. It was
great being able to visit with them and then hit the road home.
Now,
today is Monday. We are going out to the Biggs to do so spoon bending and
hopefully make some rings out of them. I'll make sure to send pictures next
week!! I hope all is well in Arizona with the Beautiful rain ya'll have gotten.
Hope all is well!
Keep on
keeping on and just keep moving forward.
Have a
blessed day ya'
--Sister Carling
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