like really it was crazy fast!! i guess the biggest spiritual highlight for the week was we got two over age youth on date to be baptized march 18th which is fun!! they are so sweet (one of their names is kayla gordon... can you believe that?) also we had a mini missionary!! who is rock solid and pretty much amazing (they are 16 year olds and older who are trying to decide if they want to serve a mission so they come with us for a weekend) but its was super fun!!!
so my funny moment of the week is this, so we stopped by this potentials house who is really interested, but his heart is not ready for the gospel yet. then we went to this crazy less active lady who make s me laugh so much, she said as we were leaving .... "my teeth are like the stars... they come out at night " yeah she is crazy, but its great to see the love heavenly father still has for her, she may be a few eggs short of a dozen but heavenly father still loves her and still wants her to come back to his fold. and i think that is how he is with all of us, how many people look at missionaries, in suits or skirts with helmets out biking around and knocking on random doors and think man they are nuts. or how many times do we look at someone and be like oh, they dont want to talk to us, or they do not need a friend, or a helping hand. we make those judgments, yet, heavenly father is like, no! stop it!! they are my child too and i love them! just look at all of the good things about them! heavenly father knows us each individually. not just me individually or you individually, but each and every one of his children! which is hard as a missionary, we want to just be like be baptized! and have them be like sure! tomorrow? with a full conversion, but it doesnt work like that, the Lord is preparing his people, he knows them, and he knows that it may take them 4 years or 2 weeks to want to come to him, and we have to trust in his timing!
i just.... i just love this gospel i love how it makes me feel calm when i should be really really stressed. or just how it makes me happy!
i love people, like really i do, people are great. even when they slam their doors in my face i am just like, i am sure if i was not wearing this tag they would have been really really nice to me! and maybe one day they will listen.
our ward mission leader brother sidenstricker had a heart attack, and now he has 4 heart bypasses, but when we went over to comfort him i started to not feel well, so he and his son gave me a blessing of healing i didnt even really want one, but then i got a prompting that said, why are you denying them the opportunity to serve and to use their priesthood. you know how much brother sidenstricker loves to serve people, yet you deny him this opportunity that is really all he can do now. anyway it was cool!
so that is all i have got for now, also both of my companions are being transferred away so.... thats going to be fun!
anyway, i love you all and i hope yall have a marvelous week. i know that seasonal depression is going on, but one thing i have learned is that the best way to get rid of the blues is to lose your self serving some one else, it may sound crazy, but trust me it works!
also, i have a challenge for yall, because a happy missionary is a testifying missionary, the seasonal depression is setting in, and while i am not there, ask a missionary you come into contact with this week to bear his/her testimony to you. because i am not there, but that missionary is there, and that missionary and i share a purpose, we teach the same things and represent the same Christ and the same Church. so you will be vicariously through that missionary making my day a little brighter!! see how that works? (somehow it does)
anywho sorry for the tangent!!
i love you all!
love sister (hermana, sestra, mckayla, whatever floats your boat ) cordon
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