Week 68

This is going to be a very short weekly email. Just putting that out there. This week has been very mentally exhausting. At the beginning of the week, one of the sisters we live with got hurt. She is normally on bike so we had to share our car with them this week. The only problem is it is a 20-minute walk to get to the very closest part of our area and probably an hour and a half walk if we were going to try to get to our other ward boundaries. It made me very impressed by all the missionaries that walk their whole missions. I'm so ready to be fully in a car again! Scheduling the car exchanges is the worst part though because we already had set lessons that we have to figure out how to get to. It’s not like small town Taylor has public transportation.

This week we had no meetings because of transfers, which was really nice, but turns out I actually work better when my schedule is tighter. But it was good to be able to be busy with a lot of lessons and contacting this week. We found two new investigators and one of them is on date to be baptized. It makes me so excited.

Surprise visit from Sister Martinez

We were at a missionary fireside last night where a few recent converts shared their experiences and people preformed musical numbers. It was a great fireside and president Robinson was there. Him and Sister Robinson gave great talks. After the fireside it was 8:00 and we go inside by 8:30. Our district leader, with great intentions, said he was just going to have our weekly call ins right then. My companion and I decided to go out and [as my companion would excitedly say] "find a miracle." So we left and went to a little trailer park in our area for the last half hour. We normally don't go there at night just because it is hard to see - there are NO lights in Taylor. But we went to our recent convert’s house and they were going to sleep so we just set up an appointment. We were about to leave and their dog peed on my poor companion’s shoes. I was dying laughing telling her that that was our miracle for the night. She didn’t think that was as funny as I did.

But she is a trooper so she stuck it out for one more house. We ended up going to this part-member family’s house that we have been trying to contact for six weeks. THEY WERE HOME. And not just that, the mom had just gotten back from watching General Conference in Utah and said that she wanted to be baptized. We set a date with her right then. It was so cool that we had decided to work until the very end of the night and were blessed because of it. As a missionary actually getting to teach people is the best experience, so when you find someone new to teach it’s a happy day.

That’s basically it from this week that I can think of off the top of my head. Thank you for all of your support!

I love you all,

Sister Doxey