Fun facts about Sister Howell:
1.
She LOVES the weirdest things: Vinegar, black licorice and chocolate
covered raisins. She says she could drink vinegar, she loves it so much.
2. She has a beautiful singing voice! mostly she loves to sing Italian arias if that gives you a clue of her skill level. :)
3. She is basically a Disney princess I decided.
4. She's been out 8 months and served the entirety of that time in Tucker/Norcross area.
This week in Snellville was BUSY.
Most
of the time was spent going to see members and getting Sister Howell
introduced to everyone. We have been running around everywhere! But
she's a champ and is handling it well. :) It's been fun to watch her get
to know everyone and it's funny because i'm starting to realize how
unique our ward actually is hahaha.
The amount of people we
are teaching is really small. When i say really small, I mean it's about
the size of 1. Being the one taking the lead in the area, I decided to
completely scrap most of those we were teaching because there was very
little progress being made and I couldn't figure out why we had held
onto them for so long in the first place. So Sister Howell and I will be
starting almost entirely from scratch which I am pumped about! It's
good to get some new blood in the area... it was feeling pretty dry. But
yeah, I've got this whole new fire for missionary work. I mean Ive
always had "greenie fire" but this is something different. It's exciting
to just get a change sometimes!
We've had a
ton of success with seeing less actives in the ward lately... that has
become one of my favorite things about missionary work. Getting to work
with people who haven't been for a while and befriending them and
helping them come back into activity. :) One person we've been working
with hasn't come for almost 20 years, so he remembers very little about
the doctrine. We pretty much just teach him like an investigator. But
this week, he told us HE KNOWS THE CHURCH IS TRUE! this is a huge step
for him so we were so excited! :)
We also have been working
with an older woman in the ward who is like 78 and is still fostering
children for a living. Right now, she has an 11 year old girl named
Erica and a baby boy who are THE CUTEST. Sister Howell and I have really
connected with her. Hanging out with her kind of reminds me of those
Oakcrest days :) So this week, we were reading scriptures together and
Erica wanted her own Book of Mormon because she gets bored sitting
around the house and she also wanted to come to church this week! WHICH
SHE DID! We had to do this mad-treasure hunt to find her a dress, but
mission accomplished. She totally came to church! We really love Erica.
Since she's a foster child, there are all these complications with
actually being able to teach her, so right now we are just loving her
and giving her some friendship and trying to plant some seeds for
further down the road.
The best part of the
week by far was introducing Sister Howell to my FAVE sis C (the one with
12 hairless cats). Man, she's a trip! I'll attach a picture she was
showing us this week that was the highlight of my life that i asked her
to email me.
MOM--WE SAW LUNJUA THIS WEEK
We
were driving down the road, and all of a sudden BOOM! I got hit with
the Spirit so hard that we needed to go see her and she was right down
the road. So we go and SHE WAS HOME. Oh my heck, it was crazy. And such a
happy reunion! I haven't seen her since my 2nd day out here...it was
nuts. But yeah, she's doing great and we are gonna try to see her again
later this week. :) THE SPIRIT IS SO COOL.
There
were so many other miracles this week that it's almost impossible to
count them, and some of them are too sacred to share. One thing that was
many very apparent to me as we went about working this week was that
God truly is mindful of ALL of His children, no matter the
circumstances. He cares about us individually and knows exactly what we
need, exactly when we need it. If we are doing the work, God will put us
into the paths of those who truly need to feel of His love. I have a
strong testimony of the power of prayer, and following the promptings of
the spirit and I know that He is ALWAYS there.
Welp, that's all folks.
Stay sassy.
LOVE YOU
Sister Lawson
1. The classiest and the sassiest District.
2. Us, Kate and Kangaroo scrotum coin pouch (don't ask)
(sorry no pics of me and Sis Howell because I stink)
3. The 12 hairless cats of Sister C
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