Hey everyone! This week was super busy again. We had so many lessons!
On Tuesday, we went and visited with quite a few members. We were all over the place. We also met this guy who is going through such a rough time. He asked us why God lets bad things happen to good people. We had a good discussion on it and he said we could come back and talk more!
Wednesday was fun. We had some extra miles so we decided to go out to one of the small towns we cover called Looking Glass. We visited some of the memebers we have out there as well as some previously contacted people. We were able to share a lesson with someone and she said we could come back and share another! Satan was definitely working hard though because it took us 4 wrong turns down other driveways and knocking on the wrong door before we finally found her house. We then had dinner with sweetest couple! They joined the church a couple years ago and are the sweetest ever! They want to be so involved with the gospel and help us. For dessert, she had these awesome little blackberry sorbet bars and they were awesome! Sis Wilbur told us to stop by whenever and snag an ice cream bar. I love her so much! Then we went to the elders quorum presidents house. We meet with the relief society president and the elders quorum president every week. He is known for giving what the sisters call a Bro Averett Ted Talk. We definitely got one and it was awesome! He is super smart and he definitely gave me some good insight on the gospel. He talked about how we need to come to our own knowledge of the gospel and that it's true. When we fully commit to our Heavenly Father, He can help us more and more. It's us that prevent the help we need!
Thursday was so fun and a little stressful. So we are doing another Restoration devotional in Roseburg so now I have so speak again. We also found out that we need to figure out musical numbers and the elders put us in charge of that. So we spent our morning trying to get another musical number set up. We had a fun lesson with a new member named Melanie. She is the sweetest! Her daughter just had triplets and 2 of them weren't doing so good. So we talked about the power of fasting and we all fasted on Friday for her grandkids. We then went to the Family history center to help our friend Tami do some family history. She loved it so much!
Friday was busy but awesome! We decided we were going to hit the furthest town in our area, so we spent all day in Camas Valley and Tenmile. It was so pretty out there! We were there visiting people from 1 to 6! I was so tired afterwards. We were in the middle of the woods with no one around for quite a few contacts. It was fun! We then had dinner with this super nice old couple. It was one of their birthdays and they had an awesome cake! So fun! We were able to have an awesome lesson with Andy and the Wilburs were awesome! After everyone left, Sister Wilbur comes out with a box of those blackberry sorbet bars and gave it to us! She is the best!
Saturday was good. We were both so tired after our busy week. We contacted more people, then went to visit a bunch. We decided we needed a little treat so we stopped at dutch bros. We then went to this trailer park where we had quite a few contacts for people there. It was awesome because we were able to have a ton of nonmember lessons. We even found a guy who wants us to come back, and a cute family that we gave a Book of Mormon to and they want us to come back as well! So awesome! We then had a really wild lesson with this lady who lives in the middle of nowhere. She's a really old member who definitely has some memory problems. We had texted her and set up a time to vist, then when we showe up, she said that she didn't remember texting us or calling with us. Oh well, we were able to have a little lesson with her. We went to the church and I practiced piano because I was asked to play for zone conference next week.
Sunday was good! We went to church, then they had a ward potluck, which was fun. We did some weekly planning and had dinner with a nice family!
This week is going to be a blast! We have pday, then some sisters are going to stay the night with us on Tuesday. We have zone conference on Wednesday! Thursday is the Fourth of July, which should be fun!
I hope you all have a great week! Have a great fourth of July!!
Love,
Sister O'Barr
