So this week has been amazing and has many funny stories.
1. I had someone introduce themself as Elvis Presley and he sang me a love
ballad. I said no thanks.
2. I had someone ask me if I read the Book of Mormon at night by the light
of my smile.
3. I had someone ask if my name was "Sister Beautiful?" No? What about
"Sister Goregous?"
Pretty funny. Also, last night I had a dream that someone scared me, and I
screamed in my sleep. I suceeded in waking myself up and Sister Daniilakis.
In fact, apparently she was having a dream with something to do with
spiders, which she is terrified of and she jumped out of bed with the speed
to beat a firefighter and ran across the room until she tripped and fell
because she didn't take off her blankets. Oh we laughed so hard.
We have had a good week. We have SEVEN new investigators! That is so cool!
We have been working really hard. We taught 29 lessons to nonmembers and 23
lessons to members. We're doing our best!
And good news! and...bad news! Remember Brian? The golden chat? Well
apparently he was so golden that he decided to come to mormon.org and chat
with missionaries, and has been taught by three different sets! ARGH!!! The
good news is is that he is getting baptized on the 17th! (Due to a
miscommunication with the local missionaries he thought it was tomorrow. And
then he asked them to bump it up because he was sad it was taking so long.)
The bad news is that because we were not the first contact for TSQ (by ONE
DAY) we don't get to count him. So that means we have had three baptisms
this transfer that we can't count. Good news, we made our goal of three this
transfer as far as God and the waters of baptism is concerned, which is the
most important thing, that someone has decided to follow Jesus Christ and be
baptized in His name. But it also means that we don't get to count any
baptisms this transfer which kind of stinks. However, witha ll the lessons
we're teaching we're hoping to see a harvest soon.
We also had another amazing chat! I can't remember what I named him in the
chat. He wants to get baptized, he has been investigating the church for +15
years and knows it's all true. The only thing is that his family is
extremely strict Roman Catholic, so they would disown him if he joined. We
are praying and hoping for miracles. Cool thing, he is a professional rock
climber! Cool huh?
Also, the story of Vernice from Belize. I was going through my online area
book and trying to see who I should call and I felt like I should call
Vernice. She is a chat that I talked to a month ago. I called her and I
said, "Hi Vernice! This is Eden!" before I could tell her I was the
missionary she said. "Eden. EDEN!! The missionary!! Hello! How are you?!!?"
Wow. I was stunned she remembered who I was, and she had never heard my
voice. It was hard to hear her because it was breaking up so bad and I
thought she said, "My Dad just got married! I'm at the church!" And since
she sounded happy I said "Congratulations! That's wonderful! Hooray I'm so
happy for you!" To which she paused and then said she was breaking up and
said, "Ok. My. Dad. Just. Got. BURIED. He's DEAD. We are at the church for
the funeral." AGHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
this is a blessing in disguise because her only concern with meeting with
missionaries was what her family would say.
Ialso had some very interesting trollers this week. THe worst was one I had
yesterday. Worst not because of content, but of nature. Someone called in,
and there is I trick I foudn out that is usually a very good tipoff of
whether or not they are trolling. I won't write it here because I don't want
it to be online and the trollers find out. If you want to know, write me. I
had clues that they were trollers and it was annoying because she was
pretending to be a member and a child/handicapped. She tried to get me to
sing "Popcorn popping on the apricot tree." And she said all sorts of things
that were not true. One of my favorite parts was when she said, "It's hard
because not everyone likes us, not everyone likes Mormons." I replied, "You
know, you're absolutely right! They do things like prank call us, be mean to
us in person, etc!!" She asked me deep doctrine questions, basically just
wasted my time. I found a way to end the conversation and cut her off and
she thought I'd hung up and started talking to the person on the other line.
So I listened to the two trollers talk about our conversation and said that
they were going to put it on the internet, THAT is the bad part because that
is no bueno! The Church tries to help us be careful with thibngs that like
that. Then they called back and played a recording for a different church.
The funniest I think was when a troller called in blasting "Move your body"
And I just started laughing. When they realized that they hung up. I
appreciated their thought of making my day though!
Temple square fact: All leadership is female. Only Elders are the senior
couples and the presidency. Yes, that mean swe have femail APS.
I love you all! I wish I could write more, it never feels like I can tell
you everythying! The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is TRUE! I
am so glad for the knowledge that I have of that. Transfers are this
Wednesday so I'm not sure when I'll write you again. But I love you!
Sister Eden Marie
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