The Upset
Holy guacamole, it has sure been one heck of a week! This week the
weather has finally started to change. It hasn't even started snowing
or getting super cold and I already am unsure about this whole skirt
thing. My legs are going to die. It rained a couple days this past
week, and let me tell you, it was coming down more than I have ever
seen rain come down. When it wasn't raining it was gloomy and
sometimes foggy. I felt like I was in the Rise of the Planet of the
Apes movie and Caesar was going to pop out of the trees with his ape
buddies and start flipping cars. Our apartment heater doesn't work so
it's been 61 degrees at home, but somehow I am surviving.
Conference was great, and for the first time I didn't fall asleep! I
guess it's cause we watched it with adults that don't have that
problem, and I didn't want to look like a slacker missionary. It
always is a nice treat to hear from our prophets!
The Fort Pitt Tunnel is one of the main tunnels you go through to get
into the city. Every time we drive through it we try and hold our
breath. When the traffic is bad it's impossible. Well, last Monday on
our way out of the city there was no traffic and I was finally able to
hold my breath through the entire thing! It took us one minute and
twenty seconds to drive through it. Ok, that story was probably really
lame, but I was excited haha
This past week we had lots of lessons, with some normal people, but
also some normal ones. There was a cat hair ball on the top of a man's
head the entire lesson where he told us we were the antiChrist, one
person let out a fart during our lesson, and a cat jumped up on the
arm rest of the couch I was on and I could sense it staring at me
which caused me to start laughing. I played it off like the whiskers
were tickling me, but no, I was just getting stared at by a cat.
We met with C and her daughter A was with us as well. We were
able to give Ariel a Book of Mormon and Nashe asked if we could give
her a scripture to read about humility. We also asked C if she
would like to be baptized. Boy oh boy was I nervous that she was going
to kick us out right then and here because she is pretty devoted to
her church. Instead she said that she was really going to pray about
it because it's a big step and she has been going to her church for
the past 40 years. I've never prayed so much for someone in my life.
Hopefully this next week we will get some good news.
We also taught B at his office again. It's crazy to see grown men
open up completely and share their worries and desires with three 20
year old girls. It is really cool to see him have that desire to
change his life around and try to get right with God again.
M had her baptismal interview with President Johnson on Thursday
and she passed! She is going to be baptized October 17th!! She was so
nervous for the interview and got all fancy to impress President;
heck, she even put her fake teeth in! When she came out of the
interview she was all grins, and couldn't stop hugging everyone and
smiling. I'm so excited fore her!
So you know how in March Madness there are upsets that happen where
the #1 seed looses to the #16 seed in the first round? It's so
unlikely to happen that no one considers it an option, but there is
still the tiniest chance of it actually happening. Well a similar
thing happened to me this week. Saturday morning I got a call from the
zone leader and I am being transferred. Trainees usually stay with
their trainers for three mons, or two transfers until they complete
the twelve week training course. I'm sort of the odd ball. I guess a
sister had to go home for medical reasons, and one sister is coming in
instead of four which made the supply of sister missionaries low. They
have just enough sisters in the mission to fill all companionships
without any trios, which means that I was the lucky one to have to
move. President called us twice in the past two days to make sure we
understood the situation and make sure we were ok. Funny thing is, I
think I'm the one that is the most ok with it out of my and my two
companions.
One good thing out of being transferred is that I was sad to leave the
people who were have been teaching. That may sound odd, but trust me,
it was a blessing. I have been so stressed because I felt like I did t
really love any of the people that's we met with, and that I was not
being a genuine missionary when I told them that I care about them.
Well it turns out that that was a lie. I really do love those people,
and I'm sad that I won't get to see them progress.
Sister Morrison
The Pittsburgh 6th District
M right after her meeting with President
This is L. We had dinner at her house the other night. Sister Malo had to use the bathroom but when she went in there she discovered growing things on the toilet. She ended up peeing in the bathtub.
P, one of the recent converts, and her granddaughter G who didn't want to be in the picture.
No comments:
Post a Comment