August 12, 2013

heeeellooooOOOOO!!! 

FIRST. very impprtant announcement! transfers are this neext week, and so don't send me any mail after tuesday! or if i move apartments i won't get it! so next monday i'll know my new address. thank you all :)

man this week was a week of miracles people let me TELL YA! our new president as been suuuuper hard core about obedience, and me and sis. judd have always been obedient, but this last week we made WAY high number goals for member presents, less actives, new investigators, etc, and we were like... hm....shoot.... hahaha so we decided to step it up, and be exact to the SECOND with everything! times for studies, bed, morning, leaving, everything! and it was AMAZING!!!!! every single day we had an AWESOME miracle! 

i'll go through the week :)

MONDAY: we both felt prompted to go by a less actives, she is NEVer there, or is there and ignores us, or says she can't talk, or blows us off, etc etc, she has never had a desire to return to church, well we went by and she was OUTSIDE!!!!!!! miracle in itself, haha, then we went to talk to her and she told us that she is coming back to church......................... what the heck...................... AHHHH!!!! just randomly. haha so that's awesome. okay that isn't HUGE but it's huge for us! 

TUESDAY: got prompted to go see another less active when our plans fell through, went, he ALSO is never home, or never answers, and the last time we saw him he said he wanted his name out of the church, went to his door, knocked three times, didn't answer! we were about to leave but i was like NO! we have to see him! so we waited, and he OPENED! and said, hey! i've been waiting to see you girls! i decided i'm staying in the church, i'm a mormon forever. and i'm coming back, where's the address again? WHAAAAAAAT. i literally screamed and freeeeaked and jumped all around ya know, i just get excited!!!! haha anyway yeah, MIRACLE. 

WEDNESDAY: first of all, there was the weirdest catepillar ever on our windshield wiper while driving.... and of course i had to pull over and get it off or it could've fallen and died! anyways, it looked like a cat, but at the same time... some sort of alien, but also kinda like the animal that he cuts open to sleep in so he doesn't freeze in star wars, and yeah.... it was weird. probably not that weird... i MAY be over exaggerating... but IT WAS WEIRD! haha ANYWAYS that's all besides the point. SO. we so Jose again, the guy from church! and we got a date with him THIIIIISSSS SATURDAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

YOU GUYS MY FIRST BAPTISM I CAN'T BELIEVE IT CAN YOU ALL BELIEVE IT????????????? ASDLFH;ASUIODFBASKDFYAGH;SDIJKFHA;SDFHASUDHFYI;ASUDFB;ASDUAISDFASDFKASUIO;DFYASJKDBF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh my heck. he's getting baptized. AHHHHHHH!!!!!! i'm freakin out. anyway MIRACLE!

and that night we visited a less active and we got her to OPEN UP!!! never happens, and that was a miracle too, trust me!!! it was awesome, we actually could feel the spirit while we were testifying to her, and it's usually hard to get it there very strong! awesome.

THURSDAY: went to see one of our favorite investigators, emilio! the one who opened the door and sang you're unbelievable while guitar strumming, hahaha anyway SO we just weren't progressing a ton with him and we both looked at eachother when he left the room real quick and i was like we need to talk to him about his family, and sis judd was like yeah that's what i feel too. and so we just started asking him questions and HE opened up too! and explained a lot, and then he found out we do this full time and we don't live with our families and he was like.. wow.... (sang the you're unbelievable song again) and said he was gonna take advantage of these lessons a lot more. WOOOO! miracle. 

FRIDAY: we got our THIRD DATE SET FOR THE WEEK!!!!!!!! WOOO! miracle :)

SATURDAY: Jose's daughter agreed to be taught by the elders in her area!!!! MIRACLE! 

SUNDAY: we didn't have ANY new investigators the whole week and were like DANG we failed.... :( well we found and AWESOME mexican family and then some friends of an investigator and they all will now be baptized soon :) they don't know that. but for real. I SEE IT!!!!!! 

ANYWAY. ummmmmmm so noemi has a date but she's MOVING SOON! ahhhhhh so we don't know if she'll be baptized here or there, and her health is still pretty bad but she's recovering fast :) WOO!

also this one day we were leaving a less actives and it was a HUGE storm and she's like, you guys need to stay! it's dangerous! and we were like... naaaaaah we'll be fine we're invincible. and so we left and it was down pouring harder and thunder every half and second HUUUUUUGE thunders and then we got an alarm on our phone for a tornado in our area and we were like WE ARE SO STUPID. hahaha but don't worry we survived anyway it was just exciting!!!! 

well. i think that's all....... I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!! oh P.S. that cockroach picture ffrom last week? i gotta clarify. i actually didn't catch it...... i went to go catch it and then it started running around like 50,000 miles per hour so i freaked out and made hna judd do it.... hahaha but i'll get to that point some day! 

ALSO! here's a wonderful quote. 

"Doubt leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to suffering." -YODA

guys don't let your doubts control you, don't let fear control you. confront your doubts, turn it into faith, and hope, which lead to happiness :) i love you all SO MUCH! 

much loooooove! 

Hermana Jessy russell :)