Hey eveyone! This week was fun and awesome!
On Tuesday, we started off by making cookies for a bunch of our friends. Then, we went to a members house and had a good lesson. We had dinner with this sweet lady. She made tuna melts and put extra cheese on it. Sister Chatwin doesn't like cheese so while our member was in the kitchen doing something, she pulled the cheese off and me, being the kind companion that I am, stuck it on my sandwich and ate it. We were laughing so hard! It was hilarious! We then had a good lesson with our friend Jackie. She is so funny!
Wednesday was a party! We had Sister Lyons with us. She is a service a missionary in Sutherlin but she really likes us and wanted to come spend the day with us. We went to drop off the cookies we made. We visited with one less-engaged member who has a bunch of puppies. We had a good time playing with the puppies. We had a few good interactions and little lessons. We had a lesson with our friend Andy. We are meeting with him 3 times this week because he's getting baptized next week and we needed to cover a few things. The lesson went really well! We dropped Sister Lyons off and headed home!
Thursday was a blast! We got to go to the temple in Medford! I love the temple! I love how much joy and peace I feel while I'm there and afterwards! Medford has quite a bit more shopping there as well so all of us sisters went to REI, Trader Joes, Bath and Body Works and Target! It was so much fun! We also went to Chickfila! The whole day was a party. We drove back to Winston and had a lesson with Andy. He is so ready to be baptized, its awesome!
On Friday, we got to visit with a ton of members since a lot of our lessons canceled. One member had chickens and gave us eggs. They even let Sister Chatwin hold a chicken! It was so funny to watch! Its funny how it seems like there is always some member in every ward I've served in that has chickens and gives us eggs. We were feeling a little discouraged since so many lessons with our friend had fallen through but on the last house we visited, we were finally able to catch these less engaged members at home and had an awesome little lesson with them!
It rained all day on Saturday!! We needed the rain so bad. There have been so many fires and its been so hot. The rain cooled everything off. We went and helped a member pack up her house. One of our favorite members has been sick for the past month so we really haven't been able to see her. But we finally were able to go over! She is doing so much better! They invited us over for dinner and we were there for way too long but we were laughing so much and having a good time. They gave us blackberry pie and it was so good! We had another lesson with Andy and finished planning a few things for his baptism.
Sunday was good! We went to church, then did some planning and such. We had dinner with a fun member family! We were there for way too long but its so hard to leave when you are having a good time!
Something that stuck out from my personal study was in 2 Nephi 5:27
“And it came to pass that we lived after the manner of happiness.”
The Nephites were happy because they followed the commandments and loved God! We can be happy too when we keep our covenants and continue to follow the Savior! I hope you all have a great week and are able to find happiness!
Love,
Sister O'Barr
