This week was pretty awesome. I love being able to look back at each day and see what happened. Some times we meet really awesome people and other times we have appointments fall through, or people with baptismal dates drop us, or people tell us that the Book of Mormon is false and what we are teaching them is a load of poo..but I am learning from each experience and I'm grateful for the opportunity to at least share my testimony with them whether or not they actually listen.
I think I told you last week about these two investigators who were golden that we were able to talk to and commit them to baptism. I thought they were great but I think they got into some anti-literature so that was a bummer. I still want to go back though and see what the real reason is if I can convince my companion to let us.
One of the days we were able to go tracting for some of the potentials in our book. There was a lady that said she was a head-quarter referral but didn't have a date next to it. When we went there to talk to her we found out that it was 20 years ago that she actually met with the missionaries and she is still interested. Wow 20 years. That is crazy. And even more crazy that her name has been kept for that long.
We had a similar experience like this one when we went to stop by an investigator who wasn't home so we tracted a few streets down and then when we were headed back to our car I told my companion that we should go back and see if the investigator was home. And she said lets pray about it. So we did and as we were walking back the big mean dogs were out front so we didn't want to go through the gate. In my head I was thinking well that was weird cuz I felt like we should go back. So we then decided to tract a few houses on that same street instead and we ended up finding another lady who had met with the elders a few years ago but just wasn't sure if she had felt the spirit. We then ended up setting up an appointment and are going to go meet with her today in a couple of hours. I am so excited! Even though we were supposed to go back it wasn't for the other investigator but it was to find Paula! Yeah babay.
I participated in my first exchange this week. It was super different. I think from doing it I was just able to appreciate my trainer even more and see some differences that we do to make us more effective. But hey there is always room for improvement and always room to increase in the ability to feel the spirit.
Hope everyone had a good valentines day! We got to talk to a super sweet Jesus lady who ended up giving us a really creepy picture of what she thought was the closest likeness to the Savior ever drawn. I threw it away don't worry.
She also gave us a Saint Michael prayer card and some coins to ward off evil. So don't worry mom- I will be protected from anything bad that you thought might happen to me!
Well I love you guys. Love your letters too. Miss you and hope that all is going well. Keep things exciting.
Love Sister Beames
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