Monday
We decided to go exploring today, so we drove out to one of the roads that was super flooded previously. The road was completely unusable to the point that we could not drive down it. We explored around that area for pretty much all of preparation day.
Tuesday
This morning we helped Iris weed a portion of her yard. She is very nice to us and she bought us some burritos at the gas station and a drink. After weeding for a couple of hours we went home and got dressed in our proselyting clothing and visited with a few people including Irene and President Yazzie. Later in the evening, we attended the Book of Mormon study class and ate dinner with the people that came to it.
Wednesday
Today was very busy. We drove out to Ganado in the morning to catch a ride with the senior couple in Ganado to the Window Rock fair. We had a booth at the fair that was indoors talking about family history. It was our responsibility to hand out family history brochures and cards. We walked to the flea market and back many times, and one of those times we were stopped by some people who were ‘not in the right state of mind’ and they offered to feed us some sandwiches. We turned them down, but they talked to us for a while. One of them who was sitting on the fence got arrested while we were talking to the others, and the cops left without arresting anyone else probably because we were talking to them. That was weird. We got given free breakfast and free dinner while we were at the fair, so that was a blessing. For dinner we had steak and a big chili pepper inside of a large piece of fry bread. I think they called it a steak sandwich. It was super spicy!
Thursday
We went to district meeting in the morning and brought some cinnamon rolls that Sister Wetzel cooked for the district as a final goodbye. After. District meeting we ate the cinnamon rolls and visited a bunch of places on our way back to the church. We were able to visit with Laura again and we addressed many of her concerns. She said she would like to come to church but she doesn’t have a ride. I’m willing to bet that’s one of the reasons why a lot of people don’t come to church. We found out that Laura was friends with some members so we decided to go and talk to them and ask if they could give Laura a ride to church on Sunday, but both families we tried by weren’t responding to our texts or answering their doors. We were eventually able to make it home in time to do some studies and turn in for the night.
Friday
We helped President Yazzie this morning by weeding his yard of some nasty weeds that will stick to the wool of sheep and could kill them if eaten. He has valley in his backyard full of them, and he wants us to pull every single one so that he doesn’t have to worry about his sheep. We were able to do maybe a fourth or a third of what needed to be done in a couple hours. We had to go and do our weekly planning so we said we would come back another day and headed back to our trailer. Weekly planning took all day, and because of the appointments we had later in the evening we weren’t able to finish it. We drove out to Window Rock to stay the night there, and we played lots of games with the other missionaries. Many rules were abolished by President Ackerman, which we found out at district meeting yesterday, so now it is okay to use playing cards and play games on days other than Monday! We just have to use our time efficiently.
Saturday
We were at the fair ALL DAY! It was exhausting! We talked to a lot of drunk people, got free food, and walked for miles talking to people. While walking to the flea market a lady selling stuff at the side of the road gave us a super good strawberry lemonade for free and a little further down the road a lady at a big white tent who fed us the steak sandwiches on Wednesday gave us free fry bread. It had to be among the best lemonade and the best fry bread I have ever had! At the flea market we met an African man who was telling us to go to his church and he kept asking us to say ‘amen!’ To the things he was preaching about. We also had a group of women asking us if we had ‘accepted Jesus’ and stuff like that. By the end of the day we all had sunburns, especially Elder Asher who has turned into a ripe tomato.
Sunday
We had very low attendance at church today. I operated the piano to play automated hymns today instead of playing because I was tired. We were asked to give a short talk about what we shared at the fair while sacrament meeting was going on. This is probably the latest notice I have had and will ever have to give a talk! It went well, though. Time went over and I only had time to share a brief testimony after Elder Cahoon and Elder Asher had gone up. After sacrament meeting we got to teach the young adult Sunday school class and we completely fooled them by putting cardboard inside of a Twix bar and putting the Twix bars inside of capsules and allowing them to choose one. Sam chose the Twix, opened it, and he was super surprised to find the cardboard inside of it. He had to ask us how we did that, it looked so good! That was a fun lesson. We were able to visit the Namokies later in the evening and we read 3 Nephi chapter 13 with them. We turned in about an hour later than we were supposed to because thee lesson with the Namokies went overtime.
Thanks for everything!
Random pond that appeared after a rainstorm.
Sister Wetzel.
Possible Toyota Tacoma ad?
At the booth. Elder Barajas is on the left front.
From Facebook:
We are very glad to be able to represent Jesus Christ and serve a mission. I recently found out that when I and my companions were at the Window Rock fair, us missionaries talked to a man who, ever since he spotted us at our stand at the fairgrounds, has been trying to go to church every Sunday in Window Rock! It is becoming obvious to me that miracles really do happen, and even though they are not always apparent, they are happening all the time.
No comments:
Post a Comment