Week 4

8/22/16

Hello everyone,

Most of our teaching happened on Tuesday. We were able to contact a lot of people and we got two new investigators :D That was awesome because I was able to teach the First Vision for the first time!! The day after this fantastic day of teaching and spreading the gospel we had a not so good day. I had a door slammed in my face for the first time so that was fun. All of our appointments for that day were cancelled as well. But we did get to do service and got some free food out of it so that was good. That night we ate with a member who really lifted our spirits :) She was so happy and energetic and she took us to a fancy Italian restaraunt. So all of our appointments for the week cancelled so once again it was a week of walking and contacting with little success. The Lord keeps reminding me that I am in a sowing mission area and not a reaping, at least for now. I was told this when I had to give our white handbook training in district meeting. I was inspired to teach about service and how no efforts are wasted. So Sister Densley and I are trying to find opportunities to serve and plant those seeds. 

I love Bend because everyone has a dog! I get to pet dogs everyday which is definitely a tender mercy because my life is not complete without a dog in it. So since I can't have a pet, I get to enjoy other people's pets. I got to play with a Saint Bernard and a Newfoundland puppy!!  

I also finally found someone who knew where Taylor, AZ is! She has family there so she showed me her history books of Taylor and we talked about the town. It was really cool. I learned so much about my town on my mission haha. I did not know that the Post Office is the same one they built when the town was founded. There was an old picture of it and I was like "That's my post office!" Anyway, that was fun for me.

So...Saturday night. Its almost time to go home. The sun has set and we want to contact one more person, a less active that bishop asked us to see. We walk up to the door and it is open so we knock and this guy pokes his head around the corner with a huge smile on his face. He comes over, looking a bit confused, and looks at our name tags. Looks at me and goes, "Hello Sister Mary and Sister Densy!" He shakes our hands and then asked us if we are having fun knocking on people's doors in the dark. (We haven't said anything but "hello" at this point) He was talking very fast and he was not letting us get a word in haha. Finally after him going on and on about random things I was able to start answering his questions. We talked for awhile about a bunch of things and then he asked us if we wanted water. I don't know why, but i said "yes". When he walked away, Sister Densley looked at me, I looked at her and at the same time we said, "He is so high! What do we do?" hahahaha! He comes back with one glass of water and before he hands it to me, he takes a drink and said that he was proving to me that he didn't poison it... It was the weirdest conversation of my life! He said stuff like, "You guys are girls like you shouldn't be knocking on random people's doors! Like what if I was a creep and invited you in to hang and have spaghetti?" :'D He took a picture of us and then we decided it was time to go so we said goodbye and left. When he closed the door I could not contain my laughter!! I was dying! It was so hilarious! So yeah...don't do drugs :D 

So that's my week in a nutshell.  

Sister MacKay

 

The Elders came to our apartment to put a carbon monoxide detector in while we were gone and this is the note they left. Then some pictures of the deer that were right next to our car when we parked to meet with our ward mission leader. Fun stuff.

Sister MacKay