Can anyone else believe this? Because I am freakin out a bit :] I have officially been on half of my mission! Here are the happenings for the week!
1. We had an AWESOME lesson with Elizabeth! She is a CRAZY busy 19 year old girl. We had a lesson about the restoration and she was really paying attention and asking good questions on the subject. She does work on Sundays which will be hard BUT I feel like there will be a way for her to come to church we just have to help her see it.
2. In meeting with Brother Stepp we have decided to not meet with him and have lessons but to have him come to the class we have on Tuesday with recent converts. We hope that with not meeting with us he will see how much the gospel has blessed him and how much he needs it... He said he will still read and pray and come to church so that is a good start!
3. We went to a members house who is struggling a lil' bit and we had root beer loats! I feel like I haven't had one of those in FOREVER! So yummy! The lesson was good too! We shared some talks with her and hopefully it helps!
4. With one of our meals this week we went to the Daines... Shout out to Darin... does that sound familiar? Eric Daines, He served in your mission!! He said he thinks you were leaving about the time he got there... he was companions with Elder Jensen and Butler. ANYWAY! We ate there and one of their sons totally whacked me over the head with a FIRM, foam baseball bat. I played it off, don't worry. Life of a missionary :]
5. Since being here in California all I hear about are Black Widows... I never saw one! Until this WEEK! It was HUGE!! It was probably the size of a 50 cent piece! Saw the red hourglass and everything!
6. A less active we work with has been having trouble with quitting smoking. On Friday during our lesson she was telling us she smoked that morning. I asked her if she had any more cigarettes. She said yes. I said, "Well, how about you go get them for me and you wont have them there to temp you." She was hesitate to do it BUT she did. She is progressing in SO many ways! The smoking is holding her back. BUT she is trying and doing better than before.
7. Well my half way was Saturday... weird. I had a lot of feelings that day. Excited to be able to come home and see everyone then sad because where did the time go?! Have I done what was needed? I got a little nervous haha BUT I have 281 more days to serve and I am SOOOO grateful!
8. Alice is still GREAT! We gave her an assignment to read one chapter and she read 4! Then we went over again and she was sharing with us a scripture that she was relating to her life... She is great! I can feel that she will be baptized... when is the question still. But she will.
9. We got to watch the music and the spoken word yesterday in memory of September 11th... WOW! It was beautiful! I still cant believe it has been 10 years! I still remember telling Dustin that someone stole one of moms planes! :]
10. Favorite scripture this week... Mosiah 4:5. It is hard for me to understand how people don't realize how much Christ loves us individually. The imagery with this scriptures brings it alive for me. With His stripes we are truly healed.
I LOVE and miss you all like CRAZY!! I hope you are doing GREAT!!
Sister Arbogast
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