It hasn't been too cold, but it has snowed all week. I've still never gone sledding or made a snowman or had a snowball fight in my life (no time!) so my favorite thing to do in the snow is definitely running. The snow makes for nice resistance, keeps you from getting too hot, it's beautiful and untouched early in the morning...perfect.
Every time I sit down to this computer, all I can think is "What in the world did we do this week!?" and then when I come up with a blank, "Then why am I always so tired..." which I'm convinced is one of the many reasons we have daily planners
We just barely received this text from our investigator, Hailey: "Don't faint. Would you like to come over tomorrow to see me...around lunchtime. Probably a picnic lunch. I will read Helaman 5 in preparation or something else you may want to suggest." Quick background. Hailey has been an investigator for ten years and always comes to church (she's even on the ward list), her baptism issues are kind of complicated, she just says all the time that she's on the fence about it. She's raw vegan and one day I picked up her cookbook and she had made all these grammar corrections in it. I tell her all the time that if she would just get baptized, I would want to be her when I grow up. She has no idea how serious I am. Have I mentioned how I want to be vegan when I get home? I do. I kind of am now (Sister Johnston is very kind, she humors me and eats whatever I make) but I can't really control what members feed us, I just eat whatever is put in front of me and I am grateful. Anyway, long rant to explain why I am SO SAD we're going to be on exchanges in Gatineau tomorrow and won't be able to have lunch with Hailey.
And that effectively delayed me having to look through the planner to figure out what happened in the last seven days.
Yesterday was the farewell party dinner thing for someone in our ward and his mom invited the entire ward including us, AND she personally invited all of our investigators. And they all came! We had more investigators and less-actives at David Gagnon's farewell than we did at church.
We've had fun being in a new car, especially because we don't have the snow scraper things yet (accidentally left the ones we had in our old car) so we've been using creative materials to get the snow off all week.
We got to go back to the Embassy of Bulgaria to pick up Sister Quinton's visa and get it sent to her, and recontacted the Ambassador of Bulgaria, he told us he had met with the sisters in whose area he is and now he's planning to go to church and stuff so that's awesome. And he told us about how beautiful the weather is in Bulgaria right now and said "When there is white falling from the sky...I want throw up."
We've been getting better at using family history for retention, reactivation, finding, and teaching. I LOVE family history!! The general conference talks on temples and family history were so cool.
We have three investigators that are currently figuring out their own baptismal dates. Which is not my favorite method because it can take FOREVER but it has seemed to be the best option for them to communicate with Heavenly Father and be fully invested. I'm trying to be patient.
The three topics of conversation around here are the weather, hockey, and United States politics. I am so confused at what is going on with my country. I'm confused at this weather and hockey, too, but I don't expect to ever come closer to understanding either of those.
I said something really profound in an email to Steven last week so I'm going to quote myself:
"For the beginning of your mission: God loves the people around you just as much as He loves you. And for the end: God loves you just as much as He loves the people you've been serving."
I am touched every. single. day. by the ways Heavenly Father manifests his love for his children. His presence is so...apparent. If we are just willing to see Him. And recognize the reality of miracles. As my awareness of His love for the people here grows, I am dumbfounded by the truth that he loves everyone else just as much as the people of Chapel Hill, including me.
Being a missionary is great.
I love you, Souvenez-vous qui vous êtes ♥
Sister Lonas
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