Week 23 (9/9/13)

This week has been awesome!

Sorry for the downer letter last week! I guess it just shows that things here are still real... but there are so many more good times than bad!

We had a fun time on Thursday. It was Elder Claudes birthday... (19th... I know. It's crazy) we ate cake and BBQ at the church. Then this HUGE rain storm came! So, the most of the Elders and Sister Whipple and I ran out in it and... really we just ran around like maniacs. Hahaha it was pretty fun. You wouldn't think that would still be fun since it rains every day... but it was a blast haha. But what we didn't know was that this storm was HUGE. Like.... everything flooded. There was about a foot of water on the roads and in our complex. The Senior couple drove us home and they couldn't even get their van in our complex. So, since we had to get to our house we got to run in it (we aren't aloud to play in the flood water because it's really dangerous... so we were happy we got to at least a little bit). OH! The lightning... it was INSANE. There were over 3,000 strikes that night. It was a record or something. Basically it looked like strobe lights.

We also had an AMAZING lesson with Danae this week. One of the best lessons I've had out here. We brought Sister Oakey with us. They connected in a second! Danae knows it's true. She's only had the first lesson and she commited to being baptized that day. So we taught her the second lesson and she just said that everything makes sense and she has always wanted to believe it all! It's so amazing to see how the spirt works. She keeps telling us how much we have done for her but we just tell her that we have done nothing and it's all the spirit. It's the most amazing feeling ever :) I love her so much! It's been amazing to see her want to do better and learn all of this for herself :)

Last thing- we are singing this awesome song in Stake Conference. Like, all the missionaries in our stake. It's the Army of Helaman and As Sister in Zion... but DIFFERENT! I don't like the arrangment as much, but the lyrics to the girls part changed... it's the same tune but the words give me chills every time!

"The sister of zion are called to God's labor. We willing serve him with spirit and might. We go to the nations with truth ever lasting. We teach of the savior our lord jesus christ."

Then this part we sing with the Elders...

" We go forth enlisted with Helaman's army in numbers much greater than ever before....."

Ha. I totally forgot the rest! But isn't that AWESOME! Some how I will get a video... let's be honest.... we go forth enlisted with helamens army in numbers much greater than ever before. It's the best.

That's all:)

I love being a missionary more than anything. :)

This is the most important work in the WORLD. :)

 

Love you all!

Love, Sister Calder :)