First off I had a pretty embarrassing moment this week. So I have almost been out on my mission for 8 months and I didn't realize how AWKWARD I am until this week. We were having dinner with a family. The husband is a recent convert so he is still trying to figure out all the weird customs of the church, one of them being not hugging sister missionaries. So I go to shake his wives hand and then I realized I could hug her so I say, "Oh I can hug you." So we hug and then I go to shake her husbands (Phil) hand and he is making the motion to hug me, just some background information my ward mission leader always pretends like he is going to hug me and I have gotten use to him pretending to hug me, so I for some reason think that Phil is going to just pretend hug me and then I realize he is actually going to hug me and I freaked out! I shouted at him "I CAN'T HUG YOU!" and somehow ducked under his arm and ended up behind him. Everyone got really quiet and stared at me for a second and then they just started laughing, then Phil say's, "It's like I am Satan or something, you were so scared!" haha it was so embarrassing! So sister Paul, my comp, thought it would be good to tell a couple of guys in the singles ward on Sunday so after church a couple of guys from the singles ward kept pretending they were going to hug me and it was making me SO nervous. I am going to be so AWKWARD when I get home, Dad I don't know if I am going to be able to hug you haha because I still have 10 more months to get even more awkward and uncomfortable around guys, it's great.
On exchanges this week I went to Paradise, California which is also known as the place where everyone smokes pot. So we were going to see this guy Matt who is also a Christian rapper whose rapper name is Disciple. We pull up to this guy Disciple's house and his neighbor keeps looking out his window and then he comes outside and when we get out of the car he says "nice car" he was kind of sketch looking, but we go talk to him anyway and tell him we are missionaries and we share a message about Christ etc., he says, "Well if you will listen to my religion I will listen to yours" at which point he goes inside his house and we wait for him to come back. He comes out of his house with a GIANT bag of weed and says, "This is my religion do you agree with this?" the sister I am with doesn't say anything so I say, "No we don't" and he says "You shouldn't discriminate" I told him, "We don't discriminate we know that Heavenly Father loves everyone and that He loves you, however, we also know that there are certain standards that God expects us to maintain." to which he responds, "Well I know Heavenly Father loves that."(pointing to his marijuana) it was pretty funny I was dying! But we met a guy on that street named Bruce who is a raiders fan and who is going to read the Book of Mormon so we were there for a purpose and it was a great day, even though it was FREEZING the whole time.
But let's get to the spiritual stuff.
We had a lot of success this week, we had 6 people come to church that we have been teaching and during Sunday School Kathy, a girl we just barley met, asked Ian (a guy in the singles ward), "How long does it take to get baptized?" She is really prepared and you can tell she has just been searching for something more in her life and that she really want's to do God's will.
We also have a baptism on Friday for Tara! She has overcome a lot of opposition and her family still isn't 100 percent supportive but she has gotten to the point where she knows this is what God needs her to do and she is so excited to make those covenants (promises) with God. It is amazing! Once again I have come to realize that even though I do have weaknesses that God is going to make up for what I lack. He hasn't asked me to come out and be perfect and just all the sudden not have any weaknesses, He has only asked that I do my very best and He will make up the rest. I talked with my mission president, President Weston who I am pretty positive will be an apostle one day, about some of the things I have been struggling with lately, not big things just little things that make me feel inadequate, but He just told me that God loves me and trusts me and He needs me to do this work and that He has put me in the calling I am in because He knows I am capable of fulfilling my calling, well by myself I wouldn't be able to do anything, but with God I can do all things. I was just so happy this week and nothing HUGE or crazy happened I just felt joy and happiness. I love a scripture in the Book of Mormon in the Book of Ether, "And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them." I might have already told everyone this at the beginning of my mission but I love this scripture because it shows that when our weaknesses are being exposed it means we are coming closer to Christ. I love my mission! I love my Savior.
We had transfers this week and sister Paul is leaving, she is going to the south part of my mission. Sister Housley is coming to serve with me and she is awesome, she came out with me and I think we are going to get along great I am excited. But I will miss Sister Paul I have learned a lot from her.
Love you ALL!!! Sorry this is super long. But I hope you have a great week!
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