Just Another Manic Sunday

Hey Everybody!

Another week has gone by and now we are at just one week left in the transfer! I can't believe it. Next week I could be on a plane to Taiwan! Or I could be shopping for warm clothes to survive the cold in Utah. Whatever happens, though, I will be doing the Lord's work! No matter where in the world it is, it is important that I am helping to bring people to Christ.

And what a work this is! I may have mentioned before that we work with 6 wards out here in Stansbury Park. Count them. Six. In pretty much everywhere but Utah, missionaries usually work in one, maybe two wards, or maybe there are like 6 missionaries assigned to just one ward. But no, we are the missionaries for six whole wards. That means we work with six bishops, six ward mission leaders, six Relief Society presidents, six ward councils, and on. I am so grateful that I have been blessed with a good memory because boy, it is hard to keep all these names straight! But I love it so much. We always have something to do. Let me tell you about our schedule for Sunday yesterday:

8:30am Ward Council #1

9:30am Meet with Relief Society presidency of Ward #5

10:30am Ward Council #2

11:30am Ward Council #3

11:50am Make sure our investigators actually go to church, go to Gospel Principles with them

1:00pm Ward Council #4

2:00pm mingle around the end of sacrament meeting for ward #6, set up lesson with investigators for later

2:30pm sit in the car and eat goldfish.

2:50pm go to Sacrament meeting in Ward #2

4:15pm Stake Correlation meeting with all the Ward Mission Leaders and the other sister missionaries in the Stake

5:00pm Dinner at a member's house

6:15pm Go to the trailer park to see how Ray liked church

7:15pm Go to a LA house to set up appt for tomorrow

7:40pm Go home to make pumpkin seeds and organize the 70+ names we have gotten from WCs and Relief Society Presidents.

9:15pm finally get too exhausted after looking at all these names

9:30pm collapse into bed.

No joke, that is what every Sunday is like! It was crazy. But so good that we have so much work to do! During the week we met with every Relief Society president and asked her who we could help, and now we have so many names that we didn't know about before. I am so doing this at the beginning of every transfer from now on, it's just ridiculous that we waited until the last week of the transfer to get the work going like this! But it's great. I love it so much. I'm just glad I have P-day today haha!

Oh of course I need to mention that Ray finally came to church! And he brought his best friend from the Trailer Park, Ed. They didn't stay for Sacrament meeting but they are both totally planning on coming next week. It made yesterday pretty much the best day ever. We love it when things actually go how they were supposed to! I think our hard work over this week was really paying off and the Lord definitely helped us get through that crazy Sunday. I love this work!

Side note Thursday was like the coolest day every because there was a solar eclipse. And I made sure I knew what time it was going to be and I came prepared with my sunglasses and a paper with a hole cut out of it and in conclusion I might be an astronomer when I grow up.

Another side note I feel like I have knocked on more doors this week than my whole life combined. We did this awesome thing on Saturday where we went on splits, we got two nice ladies from the ward to go with us to start working on the names we had gotten. Sister Payne and a girl about to go on her mission took the car and went around a few neighborhoods while I and an awesome lady who just moved in to the area walked ALL the way down this street of houses. There weren't too many straight-up rejections (except for this guy. Me: What ward do you go to? Him: Umm... this one. We don't really go that often. Me: Oh, why not? Him: Because we don't want to. Sister Payne: Why not, it's the best! Him: If you start talking like that I'm going to shut the door on you.) (in retrospect we probably could have handled that one better. But he was kind of just grumpy.) though a lot of people weren't home. Still, good times! I feel like a real missionary.

That's about it for this week! I love you all!

Sister Cardon