Hey everyone! This week was pretty good! I saw lots of little miracles and lots of good things happened.
Tuesday was the day to feed the missionaries Dominos pizza. We had lunch with a less engaged member and she got dominos pizza. We also had it for dinner at a different members house. We had a bit of a slower day, visited some people and had a good lesson with one of our friends. Dinner was with one of my favorite member families! Their family is just so cool and focused on Christ! They build a giant fort for general conference!
Wednesday was good too! We went and visited with this lady. We've tried to get in contact with her daughter and we finally caught her! We had a good little lesson with them. Then we went to an old couple who love to talk and they are everyones grandparents. They are so sweet! They have a candy bowl on their coffee table and always tell us to take whatever we want. They gave us watermelon too. Its so hard to get out of there because they just talk a ton but its fun! We had dinner with another sweet old couple. Sister Maile and Sister Bills came and stayed the night with us since we had to leave early for zone conference. We made apple crisp out of some apples a member let us pick from their yard. It was delicious!
We had zone conference on Thursday! We left bright and early so we could get chickfila for breakfast! It made me so happy! Zone conference was good too. Lots of good instruction and things to apply in my missionary work. They focused a lot of being righteous leaders and making sure our motives when correcting others is good. We had car inspections, then headed back to Winston. Our members who were gonna have us over have a sick kid, so guess what they dropped off? Dominos pizza! It was a good day overall.
Friday started off good! We helped a lady in our ward pack up a trailer. Then we had a good lesson with a friend named Austin. There are always a bunch of little kids running around during the lesson. We contacted a bunch of people, then went to a mexican restaurant with one of our friends. It was some good food!
We had a blast on Saturday! We started off by going to the melon festival they held here in Winston. They had a parade and it was so fun! We helped a member staple some netting stuff on a fence, then went out to Camas Valley to do some contacting. Camas is about a 20 minute drive from Winston and it is gorgeous! We visited with the coolest member ever! We visited a few less engaged members out there. A huge miracle was that every door we knocked on, we got a positive response! We had dinner with some converts and it was so fun! Then we had a very interesting lesson with a guy and we've decided that we won't continue to teach him.
Sunday was good except for Sister Lunt wasn't feeling well. I was asked to play organ and it went well. We ate lunch, did our studies and planned. We had dinner with a family that has 6 crazy kids. They live in a really pretty area too.
Overall, this week was pretty good and we had some awesome lessons! There were so many little miracles that I saw. I recently read Elder Dieter F Uchtdorf's latest talk, “A Higher Joy” and I love what he says about finding joy:
“If we seek reasons to be angry, to doubt, to be bitter or alone, we will find them too. However, if we seek joy—if we look for reasons to rejoice and to happily follow the Savior, we will find them. We rarely find something we are not looking for. Are you looking for joy? Seek, and ye shall find.”
Hope you find ways to look for the joy this week! Love you all!
Love,
Sister O'Barr
