This week Sister Snyder and I made a goal to be healthier and work out.
We are lucky enough to have picked the hottest week of my entire life to
do it. Here we have have a track, so we have been running on that a
couple mornings a week. That has been great! I actually have not minded
it, I enjoyed it.
Saturday, that was a day
though! It was SO hot and we went for a run in the morning, then, after
studies, we had sports day. We played ultimate frizbee for about an
hour, after an hour of kicking around a soccer ball. I was so sore as
well! It was death! Let us just say, walking up the stairs and laughing
hurt. A lot. I also got what Sister Wallace calls "cute sun." I don't
know what that means, but I do have red cheeks and my freckles are
coming out now.
One morning this week we got a
call and were lucky enough to have an investigator call US for a
meeting, that doesn't happen very often. She met with the missionaries
back in the Donetsk mission, before she moved here. They passed her
number to us and we had been trying to reach her for a couple of days.
Then, out of the blue she just calls us up and said that she would like
to meet, in 10 minutes. Well, luckily we were able to do that. It was
just amazing!
She was the sweetest lady!
Older, and I think that she just needs some love. She loved the
missionaries and the support that they gave her during all the stress in
the East and was happy to find us again. The meeting was short, but it
was great! She said that she would be on church in Sunday.
Sadly, she didn't come.
Church was quite the miracle this week though. A couple of weeks ago the
other sisters had an investigator who was supposed to be baptised. She
then disappeared. It was quite sad, she was such a wonderful person.
With time, hopefully things will happen with her. Well, at church
yesterday we were sitting at church waiting for the meeting to start and
her sister came walking into the church with her 2 children! It was
incredible!
She stayed for the first hour
and it was so wonderful! The kids were young, 2 and 4. I played with
them so that the mom could enjoy the meeting. We sang primary songs in
the corner really quietly, and they also colored on a chalk board and
also looked through ALL the pictures in EVERY Liahona that we have. They
were the cutest! She said that she enjoyed the meeting and afterward
our branch is just the best at friendshipping. It is incredible! Maybe
this is the beginning of getting both of them into the church! This
branch is so ready to have families!
This week I have been having the most incredible studies; thank you
Sister Petersen and your obsession with light! I have been studying
light and it is just incredible. I am so grateful for the love that I
have found of the scriptures on my mission! They truely hold the answers
for all things and can bring us comfort at all times! I have truely
gained that testimony over the course of my mission and especially this
week! I cannot seem to get enough time to study them, it is just so sad
when studies come to an end!
I hope that all of you have a great week, read your scriptures and smile! :)
Oh, and if you are in America....enjoy your A/C!
LOVE YOU ALL!
Sister Shaughnessy
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