How
was everyone's week? Hopefully good! Mine was pretty crazy! Something
that I've learned this week is the importance of being obedient no
matter what! I'm not someone who likes to intentionally break the rules,
nor do I like seeing people do it either. It's so vitally important to
Keep the Commandments, follow this Spirit, and do good things! Heavenly
Father gives us these commandments and the influence of the Holy Ghost
to bless us, not prohibit us... Sorry I'm done with my rant about
obedience, but just be ready for the story about all this when I get
home!
Anyways, so a little about my week is
Monday after emailing and preparing for the week my district and a
member named Yoani went to the church, played basketball, and ate pizza.
While eating pizza Sister Finau kicked the ball up in the air and it
smacked Elder Southwick in the face, knocked the pizza out of his hand
and the sauce flew across his face and shirt... It was hilarious. We all
laughed for a good twenty minutes! After we just played the guitar, and
had a drawing contest. It was actually pretty nice to just relax for an
hour, but after that we all wanted to get back to work. That night we
found this awesome new guy named Francisco! He's 29 and has so much
potential! He goes "it's weird you came to my house tonight, I'm
having a really hard time, and I prayed for God to help me and then you
two show up!" Whaaaaat! Super cool right! He's awesome, and has a lot of
questions. We are super excited to see where he goes!
Tuesday
we had Zone meeting, if you've liked the page for my mission on
Facebook you'll find a picture of me with an egg in my mouth! We did a
neat object lesson with eggs "investigators" and how we need to protect
them, help them, and get them to the final goal of baptism. It was
EGGciting! It was EGGSactly what our zone needed. Later that night we
took a member named Cynthia out with us, she's getting ready to go on a
mission. She shared her testimony with so many people that night and it
was awesome! She's going to be a great missionary. My companion and I
noticed her deep love the gospel, and it helped us realize ours as well
and to want to share it with more people.
Wednesday
was service day! In the morning we went and knocked a couple doors but
weren't really getting anyone answering, but we both had a prompting to
pass by Hermana Zayas house. When we passed by her mom Victoria or as I
call her "abuelita" which means little grandma, was home by herself.
She's in her 90s doesn't speak a lick of English, and she's the cutest
old lady ever. She was so happy to see us. Everyone had left to Mexico
and she was taking care of the house and needed some help, but the
phones were disconnected and she was stuck by herself. So we passed by
and helped her water the plants, get food and water for the dogs and
just give her some company! Ok funny story, we walked outside and she
asked us to put water in the bucket for the dogs, well the problem was
the hose was behind this wall and couldn't be reached. Sister Finau goes
"well my arms are long enough I can get it!" She tries and can't reach
it, so I go ok... "Let me try" she starts laughing because I'm a lot
shorter than her and there's no way I will be able to reach it. But I
walk over go half way over the wall, and I'm hanging there in a hand
stand position trying to grab this hose. My feet are slipping and I yell
for sister Finau! She comes over grabs my feet and just hangs me there
until I grabbed it! It reminded me of when I was little and my dad would
hang us by our feet to tease us, didn't think I could experience that
again especially as a 20 year old! But it happened! Later for lunch we
went and had lunch with Yoani and the elders. We were eating and Yoani
tried to rap about his former girlfriends... It was so funny because he
really can't rap. After we went and helped a lady move, and later that
day we passed by Abuelita again. When we got there Eduardo was there! He
was just cleaning the yard for them. We asked him what he was doing and
he said "oh I just had a prompting to come clean their yard!" Ahhh he's
so neat! So we helped him, and then found a scorpion!
Thursday
I woke up that morning and was super frustrated because our house was a
disaster. I started picking things up as the other sisters watched me. I
let this frustration sink in, and started my personal studies. When it
was over I talked with my companion about it and she didn't really know
what we should do, so I just let Sister Toone know. Later we left to the
food bank to do service and the other sisters were being super rude. I
just kept to myself and went along doing my own thing. Thankfully Sister
Mello and Sister Johnson said we were going on exchanges! I got to go
on exchanges with Sister Johnson, we were companions exactly a year ago!
It was so nice to catch up, and serve side by side again. We had some
awesome lessons, and felt the Spirit! Later that night we made chocolate
chip cookies, and talked about life.
Friday
we headed to weekly planning and when it came time for companionship
inventory Sister Finau and I left and started talking about all the
things going on at our house. We both cried because the disobedience of
others was getting to us. Sister Mello and Johnson came in and started
talking with us about everything, and then surprise Sister Toone showed
up. She had the prompting to come talk with us, it was really nice to
let her know what was going on. When all was finished we left, and felt
so much better. Later that night we went to a members house for dinner,
and she fed us so much. We had a eating contest with the elders.. I lost
but it's ok, I didn't want to die...
Saturday morning Sister
Finau and I were studying and all the sudden I saw Sister Toone walking
up to our apartment. I waved her to come on in and she gave the signal
to be quiet. She walked in to the other sisters room and told them they
had 30 minutes to pack, they were being emergency transferred. It was
quite the morning... Sister Finau and I had to go get their car, and we
parked in front of our apartment turned the hazard lights on and walked
back inside. We were inside for about 8 minutes and I had a feeling we
needed to walk outside... Good thing too because a man was towing the
car!! We asked and pleaded for him to stop because we were moving stuff
into the car. He said nope sorry you can't park here. We then said we
had our hazards on, and he just made some other excuse and said if we
gave him $40 he wouldn't take our car. I ran inside grabbed all that I
had in my wallet and said wait here we will run to the gas station just
please don't take our car. We blasted out the parking lot and got some
money and Sister Finau parked and I booked it out of the car and started
running. I handed him the remaining amount and he looked all confused.
"You didn't have to run he said.." I said back "um sir I can't just
trust that you're not going to take the car.." He then unhooked the tow
and phew we got the car back! After this mayhem we loaded everything
into the car, and drove to two other zones to drop off the sisters.
After Sister Finau and I now have the house to ourselves, and have to
clean up and move it around before transfers. Later that night we went
to the Visitors Center in Mesa with Ingrid and her mom!
All
in all if there's one thing I want you to understand from this letter
it would be the importance of being obedient. It doesn't matter how much
you may not like the rules, or don't think they apply to you. Rules or
commandments or whatever you like to call them help you, not hurt you! I
hope everyone has a good week!
Hermana Greenhalgh
Food Bank
Food Bank
I obviously talk about my nieces and nephews a lot! #sorrynotsorry
Elder Southwick got kicked in the face
Zone Activity
With Elder Corbridge and President Toone
Temple with Ingrid
So the question is...Where am I going to spend my last transfer?
