Hello, my people! What a week! Okay... where to start?
Quick follow up on last week, as I told you one of the APs asked me to lead at Zone Conference...yeah. Fun fact, I can't lead, and I received a lot of comments about it! :) Oh well, at least everyone was mildly entertained.
Also we were driving home from Medford in the dark and a deer came out in the middle of the road. I got an aggressive driving from TIWI (the tracker in missionary cars) BUT we stopped in time. High-key - biggest deer I've ever seen, my comp was really shook by the whole thing. I guess the Cache Valley in me was unphased. :) God is good, and deer are the dumbest creatures to live.
We went to mutual this week and it was SO chaotic. A leader's toddler was there wearing her Halloween costume already (she doesn't wear anything else apparently), a child was showing me his breakdance skills, someone was carrying their 14 year old son on their shoulders, Joann showed up to pick her Jamie, and ended up playing basketball and taking out her 3-year old in the process! Good times only.
We went to a member dinner Saturday night and WOW. That was such an immaculately insane event, that I don't even think I can address it in this email.
We went to the Spanish group this Sunday. I don't know if I've mentioned this before...but the Spanish group is an extension of our ward (4th); but for some reason, unknown to everyone, 3rd Ward is over Spanish. Read sarcastically because an entire Branch has gone inactive over the last few years, and they haven't visited a single house. I straight up printed out flyers for them, and they didn't even put them up. Anywho, when Coca asked who to refer a Spanish speaker to in Klamath Falls the APs said us (more on my homie Luís below). Which I guess makes sense, because as sad of a showing as it is, we're probably the best at Spanish in the Zone. Anyway..the Spanish group is legit one family, and it was testimony meeting. We cleared the room, everyone bore there testimony. The younger ones (idk they were probably 5-9) all bore their testimonies in some cute Spanglish. "Mi testimonio es...God loves us and we can go to Heaven again." - direct quote. Precious, top five sacrament meetings of my life.
L E S S O N S :
Lori!! Oh Lori, we taught Lori the plan this week....SHE AGREED WITH EVERY POINT! She didn't even give me some push back on the Fall, she thought that's how her Baptist mother taught it to her. I should be ecstatic...but I need Lori to not agree sometime. I need to see a reason why she won't come to church, or progress further. Figuring out what's holding this lady back is going to turn me into a conspiracist.
Jamie told me she drinks tea this week. Didn't think I'd have a W.O.W. issue with my 11 year old investigator, but here we are. Guess we'll have to teach that soon.
Luís! I love this dude! What a guy. He showed up to English Connect and it was just him, us and Sister Goodfellow (she legit has a master's degree in Spanish). He told us he wanted to learn more about Jesus and we were like speechless, we ended up taking him on a tour of the building. Sister Goodfellow was explaining every picture and told him about the W O.W...and I was like, bruh he's not ready. BUT he still asked us how you become a member after?? We told him we would love to talk with him more, and he told us he was available every night?! Say what? We had such a good lesson with him! We taught him the whole restoration and he teared up at the first vision!! His only problem was with a book other than the Bible, but I think we helped him understand it better and he eventually took the L.D.M. and agreed to read it! He was also asking such amazing plan of salvation questions! Like, "What happens to people that die without repenting?" He's coming to English Connect and a lesson next week! Sadly we have a conflict with church...he picks up his son at that time; but I think we can resolve it, start praying for us.
After he left Sister Goodfellow turned to us and asked, "Where did you find that guy?" So, we told her all about how Coca messaged him on Facebook! Sister Goodfellow got so excited and bore her testimony about changing missionary work & how God's given us tools to further His work! :) If only all members could try and understand like Sister Goodfellow. IDK I guess of lot of them just think that knocking on doors like door to door salesmen is the way of the Lord or something. Felt pretty refreshing for a member to finally have eyes to see, it doesn't happen very often. :)
♡/ Sister Shelton (/part time Hermana Shelton)
P.S. next time I write y'all I'll be 21! :) Wild. AND WATCH General Conference, I can promise that you'll receive guidance and answers to your questions! High-key going to be the BEST birthday present.
F O T O S :
1 - my queen Delores
2 - lil bebe Medford temple!♡ please pray the materials can come (it's being renovated) so all the amazing people here can go to the temple again!
3 - I love Philly!♡
4 - if you ever see my bio looking weird it's because I always forget to log out on the computer and the Elders were on it next
5 - selfie with two of my many comps.
6 - sis Goodfellow herself
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