Hey everyone! This week has been so fun!! I've stayed up way too late every night but its been a blast!
On Monday night, Sister Chatwin decided we should rearrange our entire apartment so we switched the study room and our bedroom. It was a lot of effort but fun! Sister Palmer and Sister Sterzer, some sisters serving in Eugene, came and stayed the night becausetheyvhad to present at zone conference in Medford. It was so much fun! We stayed up way too late talking. We just were having such a good time!
On Tuesday, the sisters had to leave pretty early to get to Medford so we didn't get to hangout much. We went and vacuumed our car at a members house. Our car was so clean! We went and contacted a bunch of people! We had an awesome lesson with a lady who we just met. She has 4 daughters and loves the bible. We had a really good study and hopefully she'll come to the restoration devotional this week! We had dinner with some members at subway. Sister Palmer and Sister Sterzer met us at Grandpa Jims and Jeanies, a member and her husband who we are teaching. They are the funniest and some of my favorite people! We played a round of dice and laughed so hard. We were making so many jokes and just having fun! We stayed a little longer than we should have. Oh well, it was totally worth it! The sisters came back to our apartment and stayed the night again! We were up talking for a long time again.
Wednesday was wild! We got up and made crepes for everyone. Then we left early to go get a carwash on our way to zone conference. We made sure our car was super clean because Elder Barker said whoever had the cleanest car would get a brand new truck. We got to zone conference early so we talked with Sister Cornelius for a bit and she is gonna take us to Costco next week after interviews! We had zone conference, which I played the organ for. It went well! Then we had car inspections and guess who had the cleanest car?? We did!! So guess who now has a brand new Ford Maverick? The elders were so mad! We are the only ones in our zone with a truck and the only sisters in the entire mission driving a truck. Its so fun! A member couple picked us up and we went to mutual which was at a gorgeous park! We had some good burgers and it was a party!
We had so much fun on the 4th of July! We started off by making jewlery with a member. She is the sweetest lady on the planet! Afterwards, we went to a BBQ at another members house and they invited all the old people! It was too hot outside but they were keeping their house at 67 and all the old people were freezing! They had some good food and we played corn hole! We also got so many comments on our truck. Everyone likes it! We then went to another members house for dinner pt 2. It was fun to hangout with everyone! One member liked our truck so much, he asked if he could sit in it and had us open the trunk and everything. It was kinda funny! We came home and texted people. Then I did probably one of the most disobedient things I'll ever do on my mission. Some members came and picked us up at 9pm and took us to go see fireworks. We didn't get home till close to 11! It was so fun though! Definitely a party and probably not nearly as disobedient as some of the elders!
Friday was good! So hot though! This whole week has been a furnace. It was 108 on Friday and it was so gross! When its that hot out, you have no motivation to do anything! But we still worked hard. We went and visited some people and had some awesome little lessons. We were standing outside talking to this guy for and hour and we were drenched in sweat afterwards! We had a meeting with some elders that night.
Saturday was so fun! We got up and went to help clean the church. Then Winston was doing a parade so we walked over and found a spot. We watched the parade, which was fun! Then we went down to the park where they were having this big festival with food trucks and booths. I got some lemonade and we shared some nachos. It was so fun! We went and visited some people, then had an awesome lesson with Grandpa Jim. Jeanie took us out to visit people. She took us for ice cream too because it was so hot. We came home and made some dinner, then did our personal study. Thats how crazy our morning was! We weren't able to do our personal study till just before bed!
Sunday was good! We went to church and then did some weekly planning. Overall it was a good wind down from the busy week! I'm really tired of the hot weather so I hope it cools down a bit this week!
This week has really grown my testimony of the power of fasting. One of our new members daughter just had triplets and one of them had been really struggling in the hospital. We decided we should talk ahout fasting with her and do a fast all together. We fasted on a Friday, then things seemed to just go downhill. Another one of the babies had to be hospitalized. But, a couple days later, both babies were doing so much better and both were able to return home! All three babies are healthy and at home and our member bore her testimony of fasting during sacrament meeting. It was so cool to see how fasting for others can impact them! If you didn't get an opportunity to fast this sunday, I'd encourage you to fast next Sunday! Prayer and fasting have so much power!
Love,
Sister O'Barr
