12/5/16--Crazy Busy, Crazy Successful

Well just like the title says this week has been crazy busy. We hardly stopped moving the entire week! We went from one thing to he next and had so many lessons! We had 21 lessons which is the most I
have done in my mission so far! Plus all these people are willing to meet with us again and we will make so much progress with them! I am so excited! This is awesome! I am excited to see how this next week will go! Anyways I don't even know where to begin! So first Monday we had a dinner with our five star chief and some of our members and his Italian friends hat are staying with him. Oh yeah this member Marco is from Italy. Anyways he lesson was crazy because I would say part of it in Spanish so the couple of Spanish members could understand then Hermana Johnston would translate it into English for the English people. Then Marco would translate into Italian for his friends. I mean it was crazy having three languages and so much translation. It was super cool! Plus the food was amazing! Oh we got feed well that night! Five star chief cooking from Italy! I was in Heaven!

Tuesday it started to rain like non stop all day long from Tuesday to Wednesday we didn't have more than a 2 min break on rain! So we mainly went from appointment to appointment and did look ups trying to find people. We meet a less active named Deb and she is super cool and still has a strong testimony so we are excited to help her move forward. Wednesday we had district meeting and more rain so we looked people up and shared the Christmas video to anyone and everyone! Then Thursday we had to do deep cleaning of our apartment and then had a lesson with an investigator named Juana! Oh my goodness she is amazing! She so wants to know more about God and come to the right church! Our lesson with her went amazing! We are super excited! Then later  that day the English Elders and my companions and I set up the Christmas tree at  the church. We had a blast and had so much fun just talking and helping set up the tree. I am so excited for Christmas to come!

Oh and Thursday we had deep cleaning. Well let's just say that Hermana Johnston accidentally dropped part of the vacuum into her dumpster. The funny part was when she came running into the apartment yelling "Sisters I am in pickle!!!!" So she went climbing. The best part was the dumpster truck drove by! No worries we got the vacuum piece!
 

Friday we spent in the city because we had to go there for an appointment. So while one of my companions was at the appointment me and the other one walked around the mall and got Chick-Fil-La because there is only three in the entire mission and we don't have one of them in our area. Then we tried out being a city missionary for a couple hours. Let's just say that didn't go so well. We spent like 10-15 min just trying to talk with one person we walked around the entire mall twice and still hadn't hardly talked to anyone and stood in the subway just staring at the wall for like 5 min and then left because we didn't talk to anyway. Finally we talked to someone and got into the swing of it and I hope to never be a city missionary because I don't know if I could do it. Then we looked over some of the stufffor lighting the world. I hope everyone is doing your mini services this season! I know this is the perfect way to share the gospel by just doing small service.

Then comes my most exciting story! So Saturday we were out knocking in East Hampton. We knocked into his guy who let us into to his front covered patio. We shared the Christmas video and started talking. First off he was saying how Mormons are strange and how he could never be a Mormon. Then we went into talking about the restoration and the story of Joseph Smith. He listened with open eyes. Then we explained how he was reading from the Bible a second time because he didn't understand it the first time. So we explained a little about the book of Mormon and the purpose of it. Then he lite up and told us about how the other night he had been seating in the patio praying to know which church to go to. When his phone popped up with something that he wanted to show us. So he got his phone and showed it to Hermana Spencer and her face lit up. Hen Hermana Johnston saw it and her face lite up. Now I am confused and want to know so badly! He finally passes me the phone and it is a quote form D Todd Christofferson. For those of you who don't know who that is that is an apostle. So we explained who he is and how he is the apostle for the church. This man began to weep and cry in pure happiness and desire to follow God. It was a true testimony builder.

I know that God sends us to the people are prepared and ready to listen to the gospel. I know that this gospel is for everyone. I know that the church is true and the Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. I encourage everyone to share your knowledge and belief in God. I love y'all!