Hey everyone! This week was wild but super good! I also hit 11 months on Sunday!
On Tuesday we had zone conference in Medford. We carpooled with Sister Maile and Sister Bills. The drive was fun. The sisters slept in the back and Sister Chatwin and I just had a blast talking. Zone conference was really good! We had some good instruction. We ran to Chickfila and got frosted lemonade! Then we drove home and went to a lesson. It was a super fun day!
On Wednesday, we were busy. We went and visited with a couple of our friends. We had a lesson with some old ladies from the ward that can talk for hours. I was trying so hard to stay awake. We had dinner with the sweetest old lady. She's a widow and lives by herself. She made so much food! She said it was a salad type of day so she made macaroni salad, regular salad, and coleslaw with marshmallows in it. It was a fun time! We went over to Young Womans and a member in the ward who's a doctor told us all about first aid. We met up with Sister Bills and Sister Maile for exchanges. I went with Sister Maile to Garden Valley, which is right in Roseburg.
Thursday was wild. Garden Valley is a spanish area so the sisters have been working on their spanish and trying to find spanish speakers to teach. We spent our morning doing language study, then we went to a bunch of different grocery stores to put up flyers for an English class they do. We stopped at Chipotle for lunch, then went and visited some members. We had dinner with some of their members. We went to the english class and no one showed up but this one guy. He only spoke Spanish so him and Sister Maile had a whole lesson in Spanish and I just sat there. We exchanged back that night!
Friday was good! We had a couple lessons fall through but we were able to meet with one of our new members and one of our friends.We visited a bunch of records we had. We had dinner with some members and they made what they call Big Mac tacos. I've had so many random foods on my mission. Its so fun!
Saturday was pretty good too. We went and visited a bunch of less-engaged members and had a couple little lessons. We had a super early dinner with some members, then we went to this less engaged members house. She is the sweetest lady ever!! She was telling us all about these duplexes she had built, hoping that missionaries would be able to live in them, but they were too big. She was so kind and we had such a good conversation with her.
Sunday was pretty chill. We had church, then did our personal studies and planned the week. Then we went to Roseburg and met with Sister Maile and Sister Bills to do an NMT split. We had a meeting with the stake president, then back home for dinner. We met with our relief society president too.
Today is interesting. We had to do missionary work all morning, then at 1, we were able to do pday stuff. We are going to the temple on Thursday, so that'll be fun! We are going to hit up Chick-fil-a again and Trader Joe's. I'm so excited!!
In my studies this week, this quote stood out to me from President Ezra Taft Benson:
“Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable”
Heavenly Father's plan of happiness gives us the choice to choose! Happiness is our choice! How can you choose more happiness this week?
I hope you all have a great week! Love you all!
Love,
Sister O'Barr
