Week 3

8/15/16

I can't believe that it has only been three weeks and at the same time it feels like it has been so much longer than that!! I feel like this week flew by and I don't remember much of what happened. We did more finding, which didn't go too great because no one was home and when they were home, they did not want to talk to us. the people who do listen to us, have no desire to have religion in their lives. They say that they believe in God and stuff like that, but they don't see the importance of organized religion or going to church. We did have a lot of service this week. People in Bend will rent their homes to people who come here on vacation so we went to a potential investigator's home to deep clean their home since they would be renting it out. That took six hours with my companion and I plus the two other Sisters. It felt good to do some good hard work. We have also been helping a member move. She is moving into an apartment in another members home so she was trying to get rid of a lot of her stuff so she gave us a lot of food haha. I was very grateful for that. We helped with the Great Giveaway which was crazy. So on Thursday and Friday, people can bring in donations and then Saturday morning they open the doors for anyone to come in and just take anything. It is all free. They had it on the news so there was SOOOO much stuff donated! It happens in the Stake Center and every room was packed full. We helped organize and fold clothes on Friday and then we went to help out for a little bit on Saturday. The place was a disaster zone so we helped organize what was left and then came back later to help clean up. When we were cleaning I found a stuffed animal so I took it because it was super cute haha. 

We had an awesome day on Thursday. A member was going to bring us dinner but she got called into work. We were fine with that because we were at the apartment anyway for weekly planning so we could have just made dinner. She insisted that we come to her work, take her card, and go get dinner. So we did haha. We stopped on the way to get our tire tread depth measured and so I was standing there, looking at a map, trying to find where she worked. I probably looked prettty stupid so this guy walks up to us, introduces himself and asks where we are trying to go. I sadly can not remember his name because I was trying to remember the instructions he was giving me but he was in a UPS uniform. So this very kind UPS guy helped us find where we were trying to go and then an awesome member provided us with food. I love the people here.

On Friday, I had my first Zone Conference! It was in Redmond which is about 30 minutes away from here. They do a car inspection and hand out prizes for the cleanest cars so we got our car cleaned this week. We got 2nd place, the prize being a box of Cherios. We talked about teaching with the Spirit and they gave us some training on the cars and transfers. It was really good. We had an appointment right after the conference so we rushed out of there, but our appointment got cancelled..again. We had dinner with some members that took us out to eat :) and then they sent a picture of me to my mom! They are so great!

We had someone refer themselves to us so we went to contact him. He just wanted a Bible so we gave him one and then I gave him a Book of Mormon and we taught him about that. He didn't want to set up an appointment to take the lessons right now, but he took our number and said he would call if he had questions. I finally got to meet one of our investigators this week. We talked with her for a long time and it was really awesome because everything I said and taught her was totally guided by the Spirit! I was pulling out scripture verses and passages from the pamphlets, it was really cool. She is going to take a lot of time, but I know we can get her there.

We actually had an investigator at church this Sunday!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!! He has health issues and he only has a bike to get him places. His doctor told him to not ride it right now so he said he couldn't come. We asked our ward mission leader if he could give him a ride so he got ready and came! It made me so happy! That was my first time meeting him because he always cancels our appointments. 

I got a package from my family!!! That made me so happy! My mom sent me everything I needed, she is so wonderful!  

That is pretty much it for the week. 

Love,

Sister MacKay