I Just Got Hugged....by a Dude!!!!!!

Hello everyone!!! So I've been in the mission field as long as I was in the MTC and that's weird.... this week has been a pretty crazy one! We had zone conference which was pretty lit because I got to see some of my MTC sisters.

We also got smart phones at zone conference!!! Ugh it's so nice. Now we can copy and paste!! And send pictures! And navigate! What a world! What a day to be alive!

We also had a super cool experience to meet and listen to an apostle.  Elder Stevenson came and he is awesome! He is seriously so inspired, you could feel the power when he spoke. And he didn't just speak from the pulpit, he had on a body Mic and walked through the audience and interacted with us. Ugh what a guy he talked to us about how our calls are divine and there are specific people that need us in our area. There was a moment where he looked at me in the eyes and said "you might not want to be here right now, but this is exactly where the Lord wants you" and I about cried. Afterwards we went to this random little restaurant by the temple called Yellow Dog Eats and it was so good!!!! 

We've been getting to know the members a lot better which has been fun. Ugh the ward members are the best and so willing to help us and feed us and give us rides. The ward mission leader and his wife are like our adopted parents. They literally always have our back. One of my favorite people is M-. She's this old black lady from Haiti who got baptized about a year ago and we're teaching her the new member lessons and she's hilarious!! She told us this story about how the Jehovah's witnesses came over and we're asking her all these questions and being super invasive and she couldn't get them to leave. So she went into her closet and put on a white bikini and came out and they booked it!! Hahahaha!! She's so funny. And she just did baptisms for the dead for the first time and she raved about it. She wanted to take pictures and take the oxen home to put in her house.

It has been a good week for finding!!! Of course there are always some that are nice and you never hear from again... And a lot that slam doors.. But overall we got 3 new gators!!! And we have a couple progressing and some that want to learn more but are so hard to get in contact with and we feel like they're just stuck.. so we don't know what to do about them.. So I think overall we have 8ish? Pretty good for whitewashing if you ask me! 

R- and her 2 kids came to church again!!! They loved primary and wanted to come again, her daughter is 6 and her son is 9. She actually had a decent week and we helped her connect that it was because she came to church last week. She seriously has the worst luck and every time she meets with missionaries something bad happens. So please pray for her! We hope she's getting really close to baptism. She's been taught by like 7 sets of missionaries. She knows it's true is just making the leap of faith. 

Miracles!!!  we had a Meet the Mormons movie night at the church which we were trying to get investigators to come to. All of the other missionaries in our district were bringing people and we had called and texted everyone!! Even less active members and active members, Potentials, everyone. No one could. Then we were biking down this street and we said hi to this chick and she asked us what we were doing. We stopped and talked to her for awhile then she told us that she had an emotional breakdown the night before and had been thinking she should get back into religion and she was taking this as a sign. We told her about the movie night that night and she agreed on the spot. Then she brought 2 of her sisters and the youngest was the cutest little black girl ever! She loved me and Sister Hunsaker. When we picked them up she gave me a hug and held my hand wherever we went. So we're hopeful we can teach her family.

Then we were doing a blitz with the elders in our area doing more finding and the people were pretty friendly but not really interested. The last door we knocked on this 16 year old came out and we started talking to her and asked if she was religious and she said her family was but she kinda felt like she'd been abandoned by God and almost commit suicide. Sister Hunsaker shared a message and I told her that we share a message about peace and direction and that she has a Father in Heaven that loves her so much and never left her and that it wasn't a coincidence that we were here right now, that this was God reaching out to her right now. And she starred crying!!! Ugh the spirit was so strong and she felt it too and she said we could teach her. Ugh she's the cutest and I really hope it works out! 

Oh I never said what my caption was about. We were biking and ran into these guys and started talking and realized he was dating this girl whose mom was a member and when he was leaving HE HUGGED US WHILE WE WERE STILL ON OUR BIKE!! Sister Hunsaker was traumatized. It was a crazy day!!