Hey everyone! This week has been wild and I don't a single day has gone according to plan, but its been awesome!
On monday night, Sister Bullock and Sister Week drove up from Medford and stayed the night. We were all carpooling to MLC the next morning. We had such a fun time hanging out!
Tuesday was busy. We got up and made breakfast for everyone! Then we drove to MLC in Eugune. That drive is so much shorter now that I'm in Roseburg. MLC was decent. Then we exchanged with the Springfield sisters. I went with Sister Boulter to Springfield. It was fun!
Wednesday was fun too! Its always interesting to see different areas and people. We had lunch with Sister Petersen, the mission nurse. She is the sweetest! Then we went to a service and scraped out old beehives so that they could put new bees in it. I've never done that before, so it was kinda cool. The lady let us try some of the honey and it was so good! We ran over to the Willamette Valley temple site and got to see how far along it is. We had a fun dinner with some members, then we drove to Drain, which is a tiny town halfway between Springfield and Roseburg.
Thursday was super good! We went to visit this less engaged member and she is so cool! She joined the airforce and was an aircraft mechanic for 12 years, then went back to school and became a nurse. The relief society president called us during the lesson and asked if we could come help with a service. So we ran home and quickly changed, then went to help pack up this ladys house. We helped for 2 hours, then our rs present found out we didn't have lunch yet and it was 4pm. So she took us to subway real fast. We ran home and changed, and did some contacting and had a lesson, then we went to dinner.
Friday was busy but good! We went out and visited a bunch of people. We drove past a gourmet hot dog truck and decided to stop for lunch. They had some fun hotdogs! Then, one of our members likes to take us out on visits with people so she drove us around and we had some lessons. Then we had a lesson with a new friend named Tami. She is so curious and its been awesome to teach her! We had a super fun dinner with this old couple, then another lesson with an old couple. This ward is really old! But its fun!
Saturday was good. We helped with a funeral for a guy in the ward that neither one of us had met. We helped clean up, then had lunch, then a couple awesome lessons. We had another lesson with Tami and showed her around the church. We had a member dinner with a lady who was a little lonely but loved having us over!
Sunday was a little bit more relaxing. We had church, then we weekly planned. We had dinner with another sweet old couple and did a bit of contacting.
Today was awesome! A member took us to pick cherries and it was so fun! I really appreciate all the members here. They are so kind. This week should be awesome! We have a lot of good things planned.
We went to visit this less-engaged member in our ward who has muscular dystrophy and can barely move anymore. But she was the most positive and happy person I have met. She is grateful for the little things she can still do. It is cool to see someone who is going through such a hard time but still has put so much trust in the Lord. She had this awesome poem hung up in her house and I think it really shows how much Jesus Christ supports us. Hope you take second to read through it!
Love you all! I know that we can find happiness and joy during the rough times if we just turn to the Lord! Have a great week!
Love,
Sister O'Barr
