Tuesday I got my new companion Sister Weaver! She is from Nampa Idaho and has been out for 13 months! She is a super obedient and hardworking missionary! Which are my favorite qualities in a companion! Plus she is hilarious and very very sassy. Needless to say we work extremely well together!! ( I have always been blessed with wonderful companions) I picked her up in Bakersfield, then we drove 1 1/2 hours back to our apartment! The drive was awesome because we got to see the grapevines and fruit orchards and all the pretty agriculture! I can not wait to serve in Bakersfield! We stopped by some potentials and were able to pick up two new people to teach! Carlos and Maylee! Carlos has investigated the church before, but lost contact with the missionaries and Maylee use to have the sisters come over every week to read the Book of Mormon with her! We are very excited to start teaching them! We had dinner with the Sweat family. Then we had a lesson with Shawn! We are helping him to prepare himself to go to the temple to do baptisms for the dead:)
Wednesday we visited with Sister Sheils and taught her the Restoration. I love going over the Restoration with members, I think it is so important to continue building your testimony of Joseph Smith, plus the spirit is so strong when you testify of the power of the priesthood. We found two more people today! Billy and Julie! Billy was an old refferal that we decided to stop by! He is very interested in the gospel and has gone to church a few times. Julie was a potential that the elders found. We were able to get a return appointment with her! She has never heard of the Book of Mormon before and was really excited to learn more! We had a lesson with Liberty and Luis and we taught them the importance of coming to church and how families can be together forever! Liberty gets so excited and loves teaching her husband and kids more about the the things she is learning! She is just so cool!!
Thursday we had weekly planning day! It was so fun telling Sister Weaver about the wards and the people we get to teach! Then we rode bikes to Sister Valencia's for a lesson. She wasnt home but we ran into some awesome people and invited them all to church. We were stopping by potentials and ended up picking up Christian. He is super cool and is excited to read the Book of Mormon. We had dinner with the Von Arxs. Then we went to read scriptures with the Kellys.
Friday Friday was a crazy day. We had a lesson with Jenifer, but instead of teaching we got to help her bake a pie and some lemon squares for one of her dear friends. I love baking so I was seriously in heaven!! Plus I just adore their puppy Lu Lu. Sister Weaver is from the same place that Jenifer's son Easton is serving in, so that is way cool! Easton will be coming in home in October so everyone is way excited! We stopped by the Burgess family and read more scriptures with them. i just love them so much. They are the funniest older couple I know! We had a lesson with Rickey but when we got there he told us he was no longer interested in hearing our message. It was so sad!!! My heart really hurt... then we ran into a guy was was not happy to see us!! Dang it Satan!! We stopped by a few more people, then we had a lesson with Jesse. Sister Duncan came with us and helped us teach the plan of salvation. The kids were very wild and the power went out twice!! But Jesse still accepted to be baptized on August 18th!! yay!! Take that Satan! It was crazy because the spirit kept telling us to ask him but we were fighting it because of how nuts everything was.... but finally we asked and the room was just covered in the spirit!! When Heavenly Father wants somthing done He provides a way! We had dinner at the Lamersons which is always one of the, highlights of my week.
Saturday we had another lesson with Sister Sheils and we taught her the plan of salvation. Her husband was home but he didn't want to hear our lesson. We had a pretty awesome lesson with Myiluv! We taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ and she asked a million amazing questions! She is learning so fast and loves to read the Book of Mormon! She is by far the smartest 13 year old I know, plus she loves church and young women's... so she is set for sure! We were stopping by people and while we were standing in a doorway I noticed a poor lizard stuck on a sticky mouse trap!! We saved him and took him to Christie who did everything in her power to save him but sadly he died.... Good news though we got a return appointment with her for Sunday. So I guess God works in mysterious ways.
Sunday Myiluv was the only one who was able to make it to church and she was having a ball. She always cracks me up in sacrament though because she says our music is way too quiet and that everyone needs to step it up when they are praising Jesus.... I honestly agree with her! Come on Solemint!! Step it up!! She loves to tell everyone that she is going to be baptized on Aug 25th so its great to see how excited she is! We were able to share the showers of heavenly blessings with Christie and invited her to start reading the Book of Mormon again.
I love you all! Have a wonderful week and keep praising Jesus!!!
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