Another Week!

Well this week was pretty good! It has gone by so fast! I can’t believe it is already p-day again.

We had a lesson with Lisa again. She even invited her seventh day Adventist cousin over. We went over the Ten Commandments. I think it was good for him to realize we aren’t weird and we believe in living them too. The kids also LOVED the hand signs.

The rose garden is SO pretty! We do service there every week and the lady we work under, Jill, loves us! We took pictures with her this week. She is great.

We watched the Joseph Smith movie with the Nancarrows. They are a part member family. He said he is looking for a church to go to, one he feels good at. Then he tells us how when people of other faiths come to his door he tells them he goes to the Mormon church and tells them he goes there.

We had a creeper referral from the elders. They insisted on coming with us to the appointment so they came and yeah… they were right. The man opened the door 3 inches, saw the elders with us and said, "Hold on a second" He leaves and 10 minutes later one of the elders calls him and he tell him that he can’t meet today and isn’t really interested anymore.

We had an AWESOME lesson on the priesthood and patriarchal blessings with Paula this week. It was cool to watch how everything just clicks with her. She was really excited to hear about the patriarchal blessings and how personal it is. My birthday was AWESOME!

Got lots of flowers and birthday wishes and good food :] I even got to hold a parrot at the street fair. It was some guy walking bys pet lol Can't lie I was a little bummed being 25 but by the end of the day I was LOVIN' it lol

The Stogner’s in the Duarte ward are AMAZING people! They have had us over for dinner 3 times now. Each time we hope that Tess, their less active daughter will be there. Well, yesterday she was and she actually talked to us! We met her on Easter but she was pretty quiet. Yesterday though she was laughing with us and listening as we were sharing our message. I hope it clicks with her.

We also met with another part member family, the Smallwood’s. Two of the daughters are investigators. One of them, April (10) we thought would be more open to be baptized than Anna (14). We asked them about it last night and April was SUPER quick to say no. But Anna said she wants to be but she felt pressured from the past elders. We told her it is between her and her Heavenly Father. But we asked her to pray and ask Heavenly Father when she needs to be baptized. She said she would. I’m excited to find out about it this week

My favorite scripture from the week… well I finished Doctrine and Covenants and I LOVE section 135! It is about the martyrdom BUT the testimony of Joseph Smith is wow. I love in verse 3 when it talks about how great of man he is and in verse 6 when it says, "…that if the fire can scathe a green tree for the glory of God, how easy it will burn up the dry trees to purify the vineyard of corruption." Wow. I do NOT want to be dry.

LOVE YOU!!
Sister Arbogast