Good week! There probably isn't going to be much flow to this. I will try my best.
Miracle: we were about to drop one of our investigators, Trailer Park Ray (62 and missing a tooth. Also a little creepy. The Lord looketh upon the heart.) Sometimes he doesn't seem that interested and says he knows everything. plus, we invited him to conference and he totally bailed at the last minute, so that was kind of annoying. So on Tuesday we were going to have a make-it-or-break-it lesson with him, and we decided to stick it out. He says he's been thinking a lot about religion a lot more recently, and he wants to stop smoking and change his life, and then we invited him to church and he immediately accepted! We thought we would have do a lot of convincing but he was so excited to come. Then Satan broke his water heater so Ray didn't come to church. But we're making steps!
We knocked on a door where someone told us a Chinese man lived. A definitely Caucasian blonde woman answered the door and inside was her very fair-skinned, possibly albino three-year-old. We had an awkward conversation trying to figure out if we even stopped by the right house or not and determined that yes, this was the right house but Mr. Zang was not home. Yes, that child was half-Chinese. No, they don't really want to hear our message. And yet we stood in the front hall and talked to Mrs. Zang for more than an hour in great detail about many of the trials of her life. It was an interesting evening.
On Saturday we had an awesome opportunity to listen to Sister Linda K Burton, the general Relief Society President! She came to our stake and gave a wonderful talk about joy: true joy can be had by relying on Jesus' Atonement, Obedience, and Yielding our hearts and will to God. She was very inspiring and I got to hug her afterward! I'm really lucky to be here in Utah.Our mission president's wife came to the event and sat with us, then afterward we took Sister Hansen out on splits with us. We didn't have any set appointments to teach so we decided to take Sister Hansen to the trailer park to meet someone we are teaching, Sharron.
We have had better ideas.
It was hot. Sharron was not in a good mood. There were cats everywhere. Sister Hansen is allergic to cats. Sharron wouldn't let us inside for some reason. We stood outside on the porch. It was still hot. There were flies. Sharron did not want to listen to a message. Sharron wanted to tell us every detail about her various surgeries and when her husband died and how she is still paying on a truck she doesn't even have. Sister Hansen was wearing the wrong shoes. In conclusion, it was not a very successful appointment and I still feel bad that we made our mission president's wife stand outside in a trailer park. But, you live and you learn! I hope Sister Hansen forgives us.
We got to see Meet the Mormons on Friday! I highly recommend it: it's a church-commissioned movie directed by a family friend of ours, Blair Treu. It was so good. It's like a documentary about six different people and families showing that Mormons are just normal people; it really is a documentary so if you don't like that sort of thing you might not enjoy it, but I loved it. Totally cried. Totally would see it again.
Things missionaries get excited about:
conference talks
Mormon memes on LDS.org
Meet the Mormons
return appointments
how old the general authorities are
HOLY COW we caught the biggest spider ever on our sticky mat in the basement the other day. It was a wolf spider. It was two and a half inches across. I about died.
Last, I had a dream that my visa never came and we all got another reassignment. This time I was reassigned to Portugal. It might happen. But actually, Sister Hansen said that the new rule is that visa waiters will stay for the whole transfer, so that means I will be in Utah until about November 4th. It's great!
Love you all,
Sister Cardon
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