what fun it is to be a missionary! we do see so many miracles! this week has been great!
as it was the end of the month our car was basically out of miles for the month so we had to ride bikes everyday instead of just during the week. my quads got a workout but i can tell i've gotten so much stronger! that is exciting!
although my muscles are stronger, that doesn't mean i actually have mad skills on my bike... i was putting it down the other day (i don't have a kick stand) and the poky part of the thingy that turns the chain went right into my foot. that felt nice. i've done it before but this time it actually drew blood. everyone enjoyed the princess band-aide on my foot to protect my shoes from being stained. adorable! and classy.
sister thompson is the bomb! seriously. so i noticed that i had been taking the lead too much in everything so this week i get to pretend to be a brand new missionary that has no clue what is going on. it is quite fun during companionship study! it will be a great skill for sis t to have as we may be training in just a couple weeks.
my companion is such a good missionary! seriously. companions truly are inspired!
funny story about what missionaries do to motivate themselves to push themselves... sister thompson and i had not been getting enough church tour invites so we decided to do something to really get us to get those church tours! saturday we were close to out of peanut butter and were looking forward to p-day when we could replenish our supply at walmart with a big jar. what better motivation? "if you don't get 5 church tour invites tomorrow, you can't buy any peanut butter this week." we even signed a contract on a super-sticky sticky note. it worked! we got 7 church tour invites and a jar of peanut butter! score! kinda sad what motivates us...
I will share a miracle with you about a less- active here in Lewiston. Ready? Saturday night we had tried everyone we wrote down and it was only 8:25 so we decided to try someone else close by. We had planned to go see this family before but hadn't gotten in contact with them. We go in, get to know them a bit and then shared the Restoration with Sister L and Andy (8). They haven't been to church since she got divorced from Andy's dad and she has never read the Book of Mormon so as not promising as it sounded we invited them to church. And she said that she would be fine going but that her and Andy would have to discuss it. Then Andy piped up and said, "I already know. I want to go to church." So sacrament meeting came and they were there! Andy was so excited and they stayed for the whole meeting! It was awesome! Then everyone in the ward we talked to told us how shocked they were that they came! Apparently it has seemed like a lost cause for ages. Everyone wanted to know what we did to get them there. And honestly we didn't have much of an answer for them because we really did nothing except invite them to come. How wonderful!
miracles!
so, go out and invite everyone to church! now! i can promise you miracles!
