Hey yall!!! Im in Florida Now!!!!
My address for mail:
4468 Governors st.
Pace, Florida 32571
So last Monday, my district got to host the senior
missionaries that were coming into the missionary training center. Only, i had
left my coat in my residence hall and my job was to direct traffic. the people
in charge of us made me use a lender coat that they had. when i put it on, it
was 3 times too big. so imagine short little me drowning in this big huge coat
meant for somebody with longer arms than I had.
On Tuesday, i flew out to Florida. we had a layover in
Atlanta Georgia where i met some interesting people. I definitely caught up on
sleep that day being as i had like a 5 hour flight and i slept through all of
it! In the salt lake city airport, there was this sweet lady who stopped me and
my companion to offer us the use of her cell phone. She worked at one of the
food places in the airport. When i told her that i would think about it while i
went to fill up my water bottle, she offered to fill up my water bottle with
ice and water. Then she told us how every Monday and Tuesday she brings her
phone because she has unlimited minutes and lets the missionaries use it so
that they don't have to pay to use a phone. It was really nice of her to do
that. When we got to the mission home, they fed us Chinese food for dinner and
ice cream!!! it was so yummy!!
That night, us new missionaries got to stay in a hotel for
the night. Let's just say that it was an interesting night for us sister
missionaries. hahaha.
Right as we walked to get our luggage at the airport, the
mission president and his assistants had us walk around the airport and give
out pass along cards. there weren't very many people in the airport to do that
because it was a small airport and there were more missionaries than there were
people.
This past week I got to teach my first 2 investigators. One
of them is a sweet old lady who feeds us lunch every Wednesday. She always has
fun stories to tell us about when she was younger and she has 2 dogs. one does
tricks and the other snores really loudly.
The other investigator is a man who used to work on trains.
we got to teach him at the bishop's house where they fed us a green dinner.
literally the bishops wife dyed everything green. Because you are called a
greeny when you first exit the Missionary Training center. It was super good
food. Zucchini muffins, an egg casserole, and a green smoothie.
TRACTING: we didn't have very many appointments this
past week so we went door to door to share our message with people. the
first day we went tracting, we knocked on this 90 year old lady's house. The
lady had dementia and invited us in to her house thinking we were friends of
her Son's girlfriend. Well the girlfriend came into the house carrying
groceries and didn't notice we were there sitting on the couch. The 90 year old
lady, (Thelma) introduced us to the girlfriend saying, " Sophie, your
friends are here. they came to see you". WE kind of caught Sophie off
guard and she was alarmed to see 2 girls sitting in her living room. She was
really nice to us but claimed she wasn't religious and told us that she would
pass on our information to her boyfriend.
TRACTING PART 2: yesterday, we walked to visit a less active
member and Then yesterday on our way home, we stopped and talked to this lady
outside her yard and she invited us into her backyard to show us her turkeys
and chickens. She had like 5 turkeys and 30 chickens. she also had 8 cats and 3
dogs. She lived by herself. Before we left, she gave us a dozen chicken eggs
and 2 turkey eggs. one of the turkey eggs had poop on it and she picked up the
turkey egg and licked one of her thumbs and started trying to get the turkey
poop off the egg. (it did not come off). then after doing that, with the same
hand that touched the poop, she started touching her face with it. It was so
GROSSS!!! haha. we set up an appointment with her to teach her family history.
MY INVITATION TO YOU ALL THIS WEEK: USE FAMILY HISTORY AS A
TOOL TO DO MEMBER MISSIONARY WORK TO INVITE PEOPLE TO COME UNTO CHRIST!!!
Family History is something that has been helping us missionaries here in the
south be able to make appointments to teach people.
"Pray as if everything depends on God, but work as if
everything depends on you."
"Behold i have given unto my gospel, and this is the
gospel, which i have given unto you-that I came into the world to do the will
of my Father, because my father sent me." -3 Nephi 27: 13
Love you all!!! I will send pictures in a second email!!
Love,
P.S. I forgot to mention that this Wednesday i will have been out on my mission for a month!!!
P.P.S My p-days are every Monday while i am serving in Pace. I do not have a tablet anymore, but still send me emails or even snail mail!! I only get 2 hours on P-days to email at the library.
love you all!!
Sister Lewis
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