Missionary work is just the best... It is the most exciting thing I have ever done in my entire life.. This week was just CRAZY...
SO last Monday was Transfer Day... We got up early packed up Sister Malaesilia's things.. headed to Broomall.. It's always exciting crossing the bridge from New Jeresy to Pennsylvania.. We were late and when I walked in they had already announced who my new Sister was going to be... So someone whispered to me.. You are serving with Sister Schroeder!!... I was very excited.. Sister Schroeder is a fairly new missionary.. that acts as if she has been a missionary all her life!! She is a great strength to me already! I love her... it does help that we have a lot in common.. like she loves Peter Pan just as much as I do.. and WE came out on our missions One year and ONE day apart.. I came 24 Feb 2010 and she came 23 Feb 2011...
So unpacking and getting settled in is always tiring.. and a MIRACLE... a wonderful member took us grocery shopping.. I hadn't been in 2 weeks.. since we didn't have the car.. and I wasn't quite brave enough to bike a few miles to the closest grocery store and ride with grocery's on my handlebars.. hmm... it was great...
So the exciting and random things that happened this week......
We got our bus passes.. I was a little worried about it.. but it is working nicely... We are able to talk to MANY people while riding the buses.. which is nice... We met a nice man we visited with him while we were making our way down to Millville.. He would introduce himself to all the people that sat near him.. and then turn around to us and say, "Have you met the Mormon sisters from Utah." It was cool... and while we were having a nice conversation with him he happened to mention that he had quit smoking years ago.. and that he had just bought a pack of cigarettes that day..... an amazing thing happened next because these are the words that came out of my mouth... "Can I have those cigarettes?" and he handed them to me... along with his lighter.. I quickly put them in my back pack.. It was crazy.. I know it was the spirit speaking through me .. I don't think I would ever ask for someones cigs.. anyways we said... you have gone so many years... dont' start now! (I ended up destroying them later.. it was pretty empowering:)
So later that day.. we helped a lady we know clean.. found a roach infestation... did our best to get that under wraps..
We met a guy.. he called the number on the Pass a long card we gave him.. We taught him the next day with a sweet sister from our ward... then the next night.. ..... Got a phone call... He said he couldn't come to church because he had feelings for me.. BLAH... So we went from being excited for our new investigator to being sad.. and a little bit weirded out. or a lot a bit weirded out..
ALSO...... WE SAW LIGHTNING BUG... I was waiting and waiting for them to start coming out... they are magical.. Sister Schroeder and I had a lot of fun spotting them out and catching them. (well I didn't touch them.. Sister S did.. )
So.. transfers, lightning bugs, roaches, cigarettes, and stalkers.. Missionary work is so GREAT!
Life is good...
Missionary life is even better..
I love my Savior Jesus Christ with my whole heart.. I'm trying to be like Him.. I love the Gospel of Jesus Christ it is the way we can change our hearts..
I LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!
Sister Pallas
