High-five in the Celestial Kingdom!
This week started off with us locking ourselves out of the apartment… again. Round 2 was a little different though, because it was Sis Williams that locked the door instead of me and we knew what to do. We were 85-86% sure that we had left the door to our balcony unlocked (remember, we learned from last time) so we called the elders and Elder Kelsey climbed the balcony and, lo and behold, it was unlocked! Thank goodness for the elders and their climbing skills!
Mckenzie, one of our investigators, had a birthday on Monday and because life is crazy on P-day (if anyone tells you P-day is when you get to rest they’re lying) we ended up not being able to do stuff with her. So, we had a picnic dinner with her on Tuesday instead. She is so adorable! We went and bought food from the store beforehand and she was like a little kid. She would say “oh have you tried this?” or “which one looks good?” and then get distracted by something else and run over to it. I just love her so much and I’m glad she had a good time. After we ate our food we went and played on one of the spinny things at the park. She said she loves to come spin and swing at the park so she made us do it with her and it was tons of fun. I haven’t played in a playground since Ridgecrest!
Wednesday was pretty exciting for Sis Williams because she got to go get a root canal! Yay! They numbed her up and when she came out she looked very sad because half her mouth didn’t move when she smiled and she kept touching her face saying, “I don’t feel anything!” She made it through, though! Thankfully she doesn’t need another root canal like the dentist thought– she just has to go back in to get a permanent filling, which they won’t even need to numb her up for (#blessings).
We had an awkward moment on Saturday when we drove to the church to park for a minute and figure out what we were going to do and there were lots of cars there and several missionaries standing in front of the church. It hit us that there was a baptism that day and we had totally forgotten to invite our investigators (we need to have an investigator with us in order to attend a baptism). The missionaries saw us and waved so we knew we couldn’t drive away without lots of awkward questions coming our way later. We decided to lie a little (all’s fair in missionary work) and so we got out and told them that our investigator couldn’t make it and we just stopped to go to the bathroom. We then snuck through the church (and a very dark chapel that Sis Williams was not a fan of) to get to the bathroom so that we didn’t have to answer “where’s your investigator?” to everyone we saw. We try not to lie too much: only when necessary. It was fun, but it would’ve been more fun to have investigators at the baptism. Good thing repentance is real!
Well, that was the gist of this week. We had some really amazing lessons with some of our investigators, which is always awesome. Nigal loves coming to all of the activities and Jeremiah has started to open up to us about what he’s really feeling! I feel like I’ve never gotten as close to my investigators as I have here. I think it’s because I’m finally starting to be myself and connect with people as me. Maybe I’m starting to get the hang of this missionary thing!
Ciao,
Sister Schroeder
Photos:
Happy birthday Mckenzie! (she absolutely LOVES cake):
Our picnic (not sure why Mckenzie isn’t smiling… I promise she had a good time!)
Delicious frosted lemonade:
My sneaky picture of Sis Williams at the dentist:
Feeling great after the dentist:
At district meeting when we got to pretend to be random people who don’t really want to talk to missionaries (gotta help train those other missionaries):
Sushi (happy Friday the 13th and 7 months to me!)
Our chef chosen fishes (yes one of those is octopus and no it is not as delicious as it sounds):
Our fancy sushi eating devices:
Elder Robinson and I looking drunk at ward coordination:
