No more chicken massacres, but this
week was really good. It flew by! I know I say that every week, but
it's true.
People have been telling me "oh
they're getting some weather back east!" but it doesn't sound
like it's hitting Michigan much? I'm glad you're enjoying the sunny
weather (although you need rain), remember when you asked Marie if
they ever get sick of sunny weather because you couldn't believe it?!
Well, I am so sick of the sun. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for
the beautiful sun, but life is GOOOD when it's cloudy. Especially
when it's raining & storming! YIPPEEE.
You're right on the money with the
whole dirt thing. (Dirt yards instead of grass) I thought I mentioned to you that since we're in a
drought people are getting paid MONEY to get rid of their grass:
"green for grass". But even before that started happening,
yeah, there's veryyyyyy little grass here. Only a few places: the
church, schools, & about 1/27 houses & those houses that have
grass maybe have a couple square feet of it.
That tarantula I sent a picture of
belongs to the Walters family who moved into the Oakhills ward which
is right next door, but not in our area, so unfortunately I don't
think I'll have another chance to hold it...
Remember last week I told you about
Antonio walking into church? Well, we had a lesson with him this
week. We talked about how the gospel can bless his life & help
him become the person Heavenly Father wants him to be. He has a great
desire to change & improve his relationship with Christ but isn't
sure how. I felt prompted to invite him to baptism, but I didn't want
to take that opportunity away from Sister Wagner (like I did last
time). ut I didn't know if she was feeling the prompting too or if
she'd act on it, so I kicked her leg subtly & pulled out a Gospel
of Jesus Christ pamphlet & turned it to the page about baptism.
She got the hint & like a pro invited him to be baptized. He
didn't say "yes", but he didn't say "no". He said
he wants to understand & get to the point where he wants &
asks to be baptized. We still felt good about the invitation &
that we were supposed to do that. We introduced the Book of Mormon to
him & invited him to read the testimonies. We gave him a Spanish
& English copy. After the lesson, we had dinner with
the Castros then a lesson with Mandy, and then with Sammie!
Wednesday after volunteering at the
library we went to contact a referral from the Andersons. Brother
Anderson wanted to to visit a woman named Yuridah who is renting on
of their houses. He told us she's really nice & Jehovah's
Witness. We were kinda wondering why he sent us there, because she's
not just JW, she's active & on Fridays she goes door to
door.... Well, we went anyway & we couldn't believe who answered
the door! A lady we see regularly at the library who has THE cutest 5
year old son. She was super sweet & gave us water. Our
conversation started slow, but quickly progressed to her telling us
how much she LOVES the Bible & there shouldn't be any other book
besides it. We bore testimony of the Book of Mormon & that's all
we could really do. It was interesting talking to a JW..something
I've never done before. It's awesome how much they love the Bible,
but sad that that keeps them from opening up to any more scripture
the Lord would send forth. So many people try to limit God on what He
can & cannot do. If He sees fit to send more of His word to His
people (and why wouldn't He?) who are we to reject it? It's our job
to find out if it really IS from God!
Also, Wednesday I hit 9 months.
Thursday I had my FINAL dentist
appointment! They re-did a couple fillings & sanded in between my
teeth that was causing sensitivity when I flossed. Hopefully I'm all
fixed now & won't have to go back!
Saturday we spent a good 3 hours
roaming around the desert with little luck, but miraculously we
happened upon a less active lady we've been trying to find but our gps didn't
know how to get us there! We tried a potential & she said that
her neighbor is Mormon, "Jo" & she was just getting
home. We didn't think much of it, but when we got back in the truck
we looked at our ward directory & found Jo R! She's the
one we've tried to find. So we walked over to her house & she was
SUPER nice & let us in. Her husband is not a member & is related
to Joseph Smith. Cool huh?
That was pretty much my week this week.
Sister Wagner & I were planning on
singing "Savior, Redeemer" in zone conference this Tuesday,
but earlier last week Sis Hobbs (mission pres's wife) texted us saying "Sister Viraldo, we
have a general authority coming for a mission tour in September. We
would like to use your musical number for that instead of zone
conference. Would that be ok?" So we'll be having a mission
conference in September & SHE WANTS US TO SING FOR A GENERAL
AUTHORITY. ahhhhhh! We've been practicing like crazy & so has
Elder Spriggs! Poor guy, the song is hard to play, but he's a champ &
learning it like a pro! The only thing is, the conference is next
transfer, so who knows if we'll all be in the same zone? If it's a
WHOLE mission conference it could work, but if it's split between the
valley & desert, it could be hard...
I did read the VT message for this
month! It was actually a message we shared with Sister Hutton about
being meek & that quote you sent is the EXACT quote I wrote down on a note card &
shared! Funny, cuz i loved it too :)
I love you & pray for you always!
xoxo Sister Viraldo
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