Wengapo!!
Well wowzers have i got some news for you! This week was oh just ya know great as ever:] but really, it was pretty good.
On
Tuesday we "attempted" to make cookies so that as we were visiting less
actives they would feel more inclined to either let us in or at least
be nice but the cookies ended up being an epic fail so instead we just
drew on all the paper plates and stuck them to the people's doors. haha
the best one was we decided to put some on mama blattman's cuz she was
having a rough day. i think it added a little bit of cheer to her life,
so it was worth it:]
Wednesday so ya know our typical go to the ranch day except this
week we witnessed a small girl get trampled!! it was TERRIBLE. i have
never seen someone become a such a rag doll in a matter of seconds, she
was bruised up pretty badly but it wasn't anything too serious...
luckily.
I had some divine revelation for the fairfield ward that day
and it was awesome! As we were studying i finally figured how we were
gonna start getting some new investigators! So just listen, the people
of fairfield are pretty prosperous right? they have their cars, they
have their nice houses, no one is really "searching" for anything. They
have good lives, but i know that every human being has the desire to be
wanted and needed. Everyone wants to feel like they made a difference in
some way or another so we're switching our perspective. Instead of
thinking they need church, they need the gospel, we're trying to find
ways of how the gospel needs them. why our ward needs this person, we
think of their strengths and then invite them to do something for us!
It's actually started working. Mama blattman's neighbor nicole loves us,
loves us, loves us. But hasn't been to interested in coming to church,
so we've been asking her to give us rides to appointments. She's all
about helping us, so on the way to our lessons we'll discuss with her
what we're planning on teaching that person. She pretty much gets the
lesson without even realizing she's getting the lesson. We're just
asking people to help us, which is weird for me. All the time i'm trying
to be the hero that comes in and saves the day, but that isn't what
people really want.
We went to the old people's house to sing again and this time
was actually a really neat experience. We sang a song or two and then
we're just talking to Angela and Ms. Dubea, when i just decided to ask
them What do you guys feel when we come over? They we're quiet for a
second and the Ms. Dubea looked at me and said Well i feel like i'm with
God. Whoa. The spirit was so present there, we started reading the book
of mormon with them and she said I've never felt this way It's like i
almost want to cry. SO SO cool. By small and simple things:]
We didn't have too much luck getting in and teaching lessons
this past week and by Saturday i was feeling kinda like well crap we've
done nothing. So that night i decided to say a little prayer, i said
Heavenly Father please let someone in our ward bring people for us to
meet tomorrow. Ya know, nothing miraculous just a simple request. We had
10 investigators at church! It was awesome. A family brought a couple
for us to start teaching and another family has a foreign exchange
student for Ukraine living with them this year. The Ukraine girl's name
is Victoria and she came right up to me and start talking. She's
gorgeous and had a LOT of questions about church so i'm excited to see
if we can start teaching her or what:]
The other night we were out biking like usual and we always
pass by this group of guys playing basketball, well since the first time
there's always one that yells stuff like Hey baby girl, Ride over here
sweet thing. bleh just all this stuff that makes me feel somewhat like a
piece of meat. Well finally i decided to stop. I stopped and i said
what's your name? He said Jamal. (ha typical i know) Well jamal, i'll
make you a deal. Let's play 1 game of horse if you win, you can keep
calling me whatever you want and i'll leave with something really
special to me. If i win, you have to call me sister bowden and let me
tell you why we bike past you guys so much. He said deal, and I hate to
admit this but the spirit didn't take over and i didn't become Michael
Jordan. BUT i did leave him with a book of mormon and i hope that maybe
just a dumb game of horse changed their perspective on missionaries:] As
we were leaving he yelled hey sister bowden! i turned and said what's
up? He said you have really nice big eyes. hahahha i just laughed and
said well, as long as you say big eyes and not big thighs, we're good.
His whole little gang started laughing and then me and Tau just got back
to it.
I realized something this week though, because of the success me and Tau
have had while serving here in fairfield especially because we
whitewashed the area a lot of Elders will ask us what our secret is.
Haha i've always kinda laughed because there is no super awesome hidden
secret. I've just felt that we just work. But i realized that even
though teaching lessons and this and that is important, of even greater
importance is who we are. Plain and simple. There is no secret thing
that me and Tau do, it's just the girls and missionaries that we are.
It's the in-between things that make it count. Ya know thinking outside
of the regular missionary things. That's what shows people that you
really care about THEM. Leaving notes on their cars when you leave,
stopping and playing basketball with their kids, just simply being
myself has given me greater success than anything.
I love the gospel, Todd Henke is now talking about WHEN he is
going to be baptized and WHEN he will be able to receive the priesthood
and WHEN his family can be sealed. There is no more IF. I'm just so
truly grateful for the spirit and how you can seriously watch people's
outlook on things change because of it. We went over there yesterday and
as we were talking about the priesthood he started tearing up and said
It just holds men to a higher standard. Yes, it should. All priesthood
holders should realize that they have this amazing sacred privilege and
that yes Heavenly Father does expect you to strive to remain worthy of
it.
When we got home last night the Grovers wanted to play a game
and I got to pick CLUE! ah it totally ended my day on the best note
ever. Back at home me and stac face and bri had our designated Clue Club
and every so often we would invite somebody else to come play, haha
they had one chance to win and if they didn't they weren't allowed to be
a part of our club. haha it totally took me back to it and i told Tau
that if she wanted to be in my club she had to win. First guess and she
got it right. haha i was so freakin ticked. This dang tongan has
seriously become one of my favorite girls in the whole world:] She has
no idea the example that she has been to me these past 3 months.
But yep, that's pretty much the happenings of the week. Just
causing trouble and breakin hearts! I feel truly blessed to be serving
here in fairfield! Transfers are this thursday and i have a terrible
feeling me and Tau will no longer be serving together. As prez would put
it "we gotta spread the good around" haha we'll see. I'm not really
looking forward to it but hey it's the mish life:]
I love you all more than the flowers love the rain..
hahahaha oh woof. ok love ya lots, miss ya more. I hope that everything
is so great for y'all. (That's right i said it) I'll talk to you guys
next week! Thank you for all the love and support, it means more than
you know:]
Love, Sister Bowden
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