The week of flowers, miles, interviews, and shrimp
Last
Monday's weather was great so we went with our Relief Society
President, landlord, stellar member missionary: Sister N, to go
plant some flowers outside a less active member's trailer. It was a
nice change of pace, and fun to see M's face lit up when she saw
them.
Tuesday we had interviews with President Johnson. It's so nice to have
some one-on-one time with him. He is such an amazing and loving man
that inspires you to try even harder than you already are. It was a
nice little rejuvenation for me. I know every missionaries probably
feels this way about their president, but he is seriously the best!
After interviews we hopped on the road again and headed out for two
exchanges where we stayed in their areas. The first exchange we did
with Berwick, and the second was with Sunbury. I sure am lucky to have
the opportunity to visit other areas and see how they are. What I am
learning most from it is how blessed each area is with work, and how
cool some of the sisters are. It was fun and nice to be with other
sisters in their area, but boy was I happy to sleep in my bed come
Thursday night. The floor was no longer cutting it for me.
This week when we taught the twins about missionary work we decided to
tell the story of Ammon. We thought it would be perfect for two rowdy
boys. As we started the story, explaining how Ammon became a servant
to King Lamoni, they were wiggly and doing their normal thing. At the
climax of the story when the Lamanites come to scare the sheep I asked
them what they thought happened next. They responded with goofy
answers, and when I said "no, he cut off their arms!" They got dead
silent and so still as though the froze in unbelief. Sister Durfee and
I started cracking up because we have never seen them that quiet or
that still before. Who would've bought that the best way to get nine
year old boys quiet was to tell a story about people getting their
arms cut of?!?
After our exchanges we only had two days left in the month, and when
we checked our odometer we realized that we still had 200 miles left
in our monthly allotment. I have no idea how that happened, we
probably just miscalculated at the beginning when we were figuring out
our daily allotment with exchanges, but let me tell you... It was
fantastic! Miles are a constant struggle and limitation, and we had
two days where we didn't even have to think twice about going over. To
put the 200 miles in perspective, we get 1,600 a month, and can only
use 30 miles a day because of how far away exchanges are. The word
that best explains the last two days is sublime. We got a list of all
the less actives in our branch and was told to go visit all of them.
We had slowly been working on it, catching them when we were already
in their area, but we scratched our plans at the end of the week and
went and contacted each one because we finally had the means to. We
found out that a lot of people had moved, and reported a ton back to
our branch presidency which they were happy about. Honestly, it was
the biggest blessing and miracle ever. Instead of walking everywhere
for the last two days we were cruising around with big grins on our
faces.
I figured out another reason why companions are so awesome: they can
eat food off your plate for you when you don't like the meal! Or you
can eat yummy food off their plate when they don't like it, which is
exactly what I did this past week. Sister Durfee is not a huge shrimp
fan, but I loved it so it was a win win for us. I ate the entire meal
off her plate under the family's nose, which is quite the
accomplishment!
Sister Morrison
President, landlord, stellar member missionary: Sister N, to go
plant some flowers outside a less active member's trailer. It was a
nice change of pace, and fun to see M's face lit up when she saw
them.
Tuesday we had interviews with President Johnson. It's so nice to have
some one-on-one time with him. He is such an amazing and loving man
that inspires you to try even harder than you already are. It was a
nice little rejuvenation for me. I know every missionaries probably
feels this way about their president, but he is seriously the best!
After interviews we hopped on the road again and headed out for two
exchanges where we stayed in their areas. The first exchange we did
with Berwick, and the second was with Sunbury. I sure am lucky to have
the opportunity to visit other areas and see how they are. What I am
learning most from it is how blessed each area is with work, and how
cool some of the sisters are. It was fun and nice to be with other
sisters in their area, but boy was I happy to sleep in my bed come
Thursday night. The floor was no longer cutting it for me.
This week when we taught the twins about missionary work we decided to
tell the story of Ammon. We thought it would be perfect for two rowdy
boys. As we started the story, explaining how Ammon became a servant
to King Lamoni, they were wiggly and doing their normal thing. At the
climax of the story when the Lamanites come to scare the sheep I asked
them what they thought happened next. They responded with goofy
answers, and when I said "no, he cut off their arms!" They got dead
silent and so still as though the froze in unbelief. Sister Durfee and
I started cracking up because we have never seen them that quiet or
that still before. Who would've bought that the best way to get nine
year old boys quiet was to tell a story about people getting their
arms cut of?!?
After our exchanges we only had two days left in the month, and when
we checked our odometer we realized that we still had 200 miles left
in our monthly allotment. I have no idea how that happened, we
probably just miscalculated at the beginning when we were figuring out
our daily allotment with exchanges, but let me tell you... It was
fantastic! Miles are a constant struggle and limitation, and we had
two days where we didn't even have to think twice about going over. To
put the 200 miles in perspective, we get 1,600 a month, and can only
use 30 miles a day because of how far away exchanges are. The word
that best explains the last two days is sublime. We got a list of all
the less actives in our branch and was told to go visit all of them.
We had slowly been working on it, catching them when we were already
in their area, but we scratched our plans at the end of the week and
went and contacted each one because we finally had the means to. We
found out that a lot of people had moved, and reported a ton back to
our branch presidency which they were happy about. Honestly, it was
the biggest blessing and miracle ever. Instead of walking everywhere
for the last two days we were cruising around with big grins on our
faces.
I figured out another reason why companions are so awesome: they can
eat food off your plate for you when you don't like the meal! Or you
can eat yummy food off their plate when they don't like it, which is
exactly what I did this past week. Sister Durfee is not a huge shrimp
fan, but I loved it so it was a win win for us. I ate the entire meal
off her plate under the family's nose, which is quite the
accomplishment!
Sister Morrison
Williamsport
District with the Johnson's
We talked about being missionaries with H
and N and made them paper name tags
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