Teaching with members...

Sister Edwards got sick do I took her to the Thompson's to heal and Jenika was so wonderful to come out and teach with me all day! She was a trooper! It was a hot day and she stayed strong. She is deciding if she wants to go on a mission or not so I took it upon myself to use that day to convince her that missions are the BEST things ever...then ALL of our lessons fell through and she had to door knock with me! Lets just say I don't think I quite convinced her unfortunately! 

Experience Missionary Roasting Weather...

90-100 Degrees+ Humidity= Missionary Roasting Weather! It is as gruesome as it sounds! Imagine this: Someone knocks at your door and when you open it you find 2 girls with Sweat Powers, faces red, gasping for air...I wouldn't want to listen to them either! Plus the longer they talk to more hot air gets into their nice cool, air conditioned houses and we but get a slight breeze of what it feels like as they shut the doors in our faces! Hahaha ok that was really dramatic! BUT the heat has taught me that the Lords work MUST go on no matter what! AND I can do hard things! When we are diligent miracles come! 

Sister Edwards: "It is so humid I could drink the air."

Funny...

I am funny! I still think so anyways. We were door knocking and an Indian opens the door. Not like a Native American but an Indian from India. There was a language barrier and so we were struggling to communicate. I was under the impression that we wanted to talk about God being very ignorant about the Muslim Religion. Sister Edwards was very aware that he was okay with his idea of believing in one God being all Gods. A theory I do not quite understand. So with my little understanding I ask this man if we can come in and share a message with him. I was curious about their way of life. He being very polite lets us in and as we are walking in Sister Edwards gives me this look of WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! Haha it was really funny! So we go sit down and I find out that the man really didn't understand anything we were saying! haha so we hand him a pamphlet and he says do you have one in Indi? We were fresh out... haha so we asked if we could talk about it and if it would be ok if we turned the TV off! He told us that the Tv was God. God was on the Tv. When I looked I saw no God on the Tv. Haha So we are struggling to communicate and this very nice lady brings us some juice and so we were like crap now we have to finish it before we leave. I end up asking if anyone can speak English and the teenage girl sitting next to us was like I can! I was like i bet you have been sitting here laughing at us the whole time! We got her information. Seeing that our juice was still full we were still stuck and they continued watching their tv god as if we weren't even there! Well we all know what happens when I get uncomfortable...I laugh. SO to cover my laughter I turn to my juice...I immediately regretted me decision. I choked on my juice and I am STILL laughing! SO I am so rudely interrupting their tv god which makes me even more awkward. It was a vicious cycle until I got all that dang juice down and we could finely excuse ourselves from their presence. haha Once we got outside I lost it! haha Sister Edwards was like WHY did you do that! Haha I REGRET NOTHING! It was so funny! They even had their cool Indian Clothes on except for the teenage girl! They are super nice! I enjoyed myself! I think I will go back! teach them that there is only 1 God! 

Competing with the JW's...

Jehovah's Witnesses. We were walking to a lesson and we look down the sidewalk and see 5 Jehovah's Witnesses out door knocking! Remember in Anchor man when all the Weather Stations meet in the ally? No I am just kidding it was nothing like that! Haha they were really nice! A little awkward. They were like well how do you get people to listen to you? Sister Edwards was like well we tell them that we share a message about Jesus Christ and how he restored his church through a modern day prophet. They were speechless. It is really what we do. We share restored truths with the people we talk to. We talked to one lady for a little while. She seemed slightly interested. She had a lot of questions but I am not quite sure what her intent was.

A Doctor...

I am sure you all know Alexza very well by now. Well he got sick and he texted us and was like Sister Young I am really sick do you have some oils that will help. OF COURSE I DO! So I get all my supplies and take it to the park. Haha well I gave him some Oregano and Olive Leaf! I tried to warn him it was strong...he smelled it and was like that ain't bad. After the first drop fell in his mouth I thought I had killed him! He was making the most disturbing faces. He started spitting and gagging I was like okay okay I take this and it is not that bad! he was being fairly dramatic! I gave it to Sister Roberts once and she didn't even do that! He thought he was going to throw up. I personally thought it was kind of entertaining. I know I am mean. BUT after about 10 minutes he said he felt a lot better! I can heal the sick. Just Kidding but There is an oil for everything! 

Witnessing Miracles...

Alexza was confirmed a member on Sunday and I was talking to Sister Gunlach after Church about it. She asked how Alexza got in contact with Ryan Davis (Recent Convert who baptized Alexza)  I told her that Sister Roberts and I had done all we could as missionaries to help Alexza and we were praying for help. Then Ryan Davis texted Alexza and invited him to a Singles branch activity! Then became best friends! Alexza got that social conversion that he needed. She started crying! Her son gave Ryan his first book of Mormon 10 years before he had joined, He had planted that first seed. Because of that he was able to help Alexza and now Alexza is able to help John who wants to get baptized on August 16th! Alma 26:31 is very fitting for that! We will see the fruit of our labors in God's timing! Everything we do has an impact!