Week 58 (5/12/14)

So talking to my family and Christina and Hailee was pretty much thee

greatest part of this week! I miss them so much! It was really weird

to think that was my last time talking to them! In less than 5 months

I'll get to see all of them :D

Here's a good story-

So our investigator David (you know, the miracle one who is getting

baptized after 3 weeks of us teaching him) calls us every single day

without fail. Usually 3-4 times a day. On Friday he called us and told

us that he and his roommates had gotten robbed (which isn't that

surprising because one of them is in a gang...). Then the next day was

his interview. We had told him the day before when it was and

everything. But he wasn't answering his phone! We were FREAKING OUT!

The whole entire day he wasn't answering and it was going to

voicemail.

So of course, all of the crazy things go through our heads. Both

Sister Bennett and I both thought he was dead for sure! We had a

member go over there to pick him up for his interview and he couldn't

get a hold of him either! He's always home!

Ah.

It's was so freaky.

You should have heard some of the sinarios we were thinking up.

Anyways. So all day Saturday, nothing. So we cancelled the interview

annnnnnd it had been a really long day so we went and got some pizza

and ice cream for dinner.

When one of our roommates comes home she looked in the freezer and

said- "sisters, how was your day." We looked and her and told her it

wasn't so great and told her all about it. Then she said- "well that

explains the ice cream in the fridge."

We are such women.

It's awesome haha

So went went to bed pretty early that day (we had woken up at 5:30 for

our race so we we're beat).

The next morning we see 4 missed calls and 2 voicemails, we thought

they were from David, but one was from our ward mission leader and the

rest from our zone leaders (who are serving in our ward). Sister

Goodman (one if our roommates) tells us that last night the elders had

knocked on our door, in their pajamas, at like 9:45ish. She was the

only one awake so it kind of freaked her out! Haha but they were

freaking out about us! They had tried to call and we didn't answer (we

were all dead asleep) and they just had all these crazy thoughts going

through their heads that we had been kidnapped or something (that

sounds crazy, but we were thinking WAY crazier things about David

haha). So they were laying in bed and then they were so worried that

they ran to their car to come over here and check on us! We have such

awesome elders!! They're so sweet! We feel SO bad that we made them

feel that way especially because we knew what that felt like because

of all the events of the day...

So Sunday morning comes and he's supposed to get baptized right after

church! We still are calling him and he's not answering! Our Elders

said they would do the interview right before church if we still

wanted to do it. But we couldn't get a hold of him... The elders told

us not to go into our sketchy area anymore, which is where we are all

the time (but from what they had heard about the guns and the gang,

and how we were worried something crazy happened to David... It makes

sense.... Plus they had basically just had a heart attack over us the

day before) but we needed to know what happened to David. So- the

elders drove their car and met us at David's to knock on the door and

see what was going on. His roommate answered and said he was in the

shower! What!? It was so weird (his roommate was pretty intimidated by

the elders though it was pretty funny haha...)

Long story short, David shows up for church and we all about died. We

chastised him for turning his phone off and he just laughed. He liked

that we were worried about him. He even called us later that day and

said- "sisters, this is David. I'm okay! Don't worry." Haha he's

awesome.

But he's getting baptized tomorrow right before Sister Orfila leaves

to go back to temple square!

It was cool because we talked about the whole situation with the

elders. How we thought that we should go over to David's and how we

all felt like there was something really wrong. We realized that The

Lord was testing us. We've been wanting things to build and strengthen

our faith and help us follow the spirit more. So this was it! Heavenly

Father was testing us to see if we would follow the promptings he'd

given us. And we passed! :D even though nothing came of it, we all

still followed those, and now Heavenly Father can trust us with things

a lot bigger. :)

We ran in a race on Saturday and I got to run for my Dad :) I had it on my shirt, I'll send a pic so you can see  :) there were 7,500 people at the race and they raised over 500,000$! Crazy right!? It was really cool to be a part of it all!

I love you all!

Espeically my amazing mom :) thanks for always showing me that I can be myself and be a representative of Jesus Christ ;)

Love, Sister Calder

Also- our mission office has moved, so don't send letters there

anymore or they will never get to me (mom could you change this on the

blog).