Last week went by in a blurr! Everyday we had an appointment, after
appointment, after appointment! it was so crazy but awesome!
We have been so busy and very blessed and alot of great things have been happening here in Wenatchee.
Last week we were given a list of people who are in our ward, that
nobody new about, but the bishop wanted us to go see. we did the whole
list except for this one name because on the side of her name, it said
"DO NOT CONTACT" hates missionaries and the LDS church. This made Sister
Fletcher and i a little nervous but we finally got the courage to knock
on her her door. As we were standing there, bracing ourselves for a
lady to come scream at us, a cute little 14 year old answered the door
and started talking to us, she was really nice and seemed interested in
what we were saying. while we were talking to her, her mom drives into
the driveway. sister Fletcher and i thought "oh no! here comes the
screaming!!" but when she got of the car, she was so nice and seemed
really interested in what we were saying too! she told us we could come
back the next day and talk to her and her family. so we went back the
next day and we started teaching their whole family! they have a great
believe in God and Jesus Christ and they told us that they have been
searching for a religion. we have another appointment with them tonight!
The funny thing about this story is the lady that was supposed to come
out and scream at us, nobody knows at that house who it is! it just
shows that if you are willing and have the faith to do what the Lord
needs you to do, he will put people in your path to teach and that are
ready to hear the gospel!
We had Elder Ballard, the Apostle come and talk to our whole
mission on saturday and it was so cool! he really got us excited for
missionary work and to not waste any of the Lords time!
so i have a super funny story to tell! So i have been praying for
an experience just like Elder Marcus Lindmeir had a couple weeks ago
with Robert. How he was able to find somebody in need, help him, change
his life and bring him closer to God. So last night we were driving in
the dark and we see a man walking up this hill by himself. So i tell
Sister Fletcher to turn around and see if we can go help him. we turn
around and ask him if he needs any help. he comes over to our car and we
find out he only speaks spanish. i can't speak any spanish and Sister
Fletcher can only say my house is your house in spanish and crazy
chicken! thats it! so were on the side of the road trying to figure out
how to help him, so we call the spanish sister missionaries in our ward
to talk to him, and they do, but then they hang up, so we don't know
what he needs help with. then we call the zone leaders that speak
spanish and talk to him a little while, then hang up on us too! so we
have no idea what this guy needs help with! we try to explain we are
missionaries, and then he starts handing us his passport and license and
all this other stuff and we are so confused! So sister fletcher starts
speaking the only spanish she knows knows which is my house is your
house and crazy chicken! then he starts writing words in spanish and is
trying to help sister fletcher understand what it means and he is
standing there looking deeply into her eyes and is trying to help her
understand what it means. i am on the passenger side just laughing
histerically because i know that one of the words he was saying means
beautiful and this goes on for like an hour! finally it gets a little
creepy so i start saying Oddyose Oddyose because he just wouldnt leave!
so finally we just drive away and go to our ward missionary leaders
house and ask him to translate what is on this paper. he translates it
using his phone and google and apparently it means something really
dirty and he just wanted to hook up with us white girls! hahaha the
morale of the story is, we shouldn't pray for missionary opportunities
like other missionaries have haha just kidding. i am not sure why we had
that experience but i have never laughed so hard in my life!
Everything is going really well here! i love all the people we are
teaching and we are having so much success! transfer calls are this week
and i am really nervous because i don't want to leave all these amazing
people we are teaching, i love my companion, and i love this area! but i
know wherever i go is where the Lord needs me. hope all is well with
Everyone!
Love, Sister Lindmeir
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