Dear lovely people,
Happy late Memorial Day! It isa bit strange to have P-day on a Tuesday haha. I have neglected to write my words of the week for a while, so today it's sleepy. Wisconsin seemed sleepy this week. But we saw a lot of little miracles this week, so it was a wonderful week.
-I got to go an exchanges with sister Giles finally! We didn't get to go last transfer, so it was so nice to go this week. She is so wonderful. I learned how to dance in the rain properly while tracting and met the nice new office missionaries (a cute older couple from Cali).
-I learned again that sister Kowallis has no fear. We were park contacting and saw this big black guy on a bench and I might've been very tempted to pass by him. But sister Kowallis went right up and introduced herself. He was well built, covered in tatoos, smoking a massive cigar, and had a beer can....but looks can be deceiving. He basically vented his frustrations about religion and church and God to us while we patiently listened and tried to understand his concerns. Sister Kowallis then introduced the Book of Mormon and answered some of his questions. As he was spouting off his concerns I felt the strongest urge to give him the Book of Mormon--it really does answer all of the doubts he had. He accepted it! So moral of the story...don't let looks deceive you and never doubt the power of the Book of Mormon.
-We met another black guy--this time a super sweet older gentlemen--named Jerome. He looooves his family and gladly told us all about them. He accepted a Book of Mormon and said he actually would read it. :)
-We finally had a lesson with this lady named Meaghan. She is agnostic, but we had a pretty neat lesson where she really opened up. We talked about faith and how we all need to experiment on the word in order to know if it is true. She is awesome, but super busy.
-For all of you who hate snakes you may want to just skip this part haha. We met a guy who had a 15 ft long python in his apartment. Yeah. It was in this huge display case under his TV. It was crazy! He also breeds snakes...so we got to see little baby pythons! Not gunna lie, they were pretty cute.
So all in all it was a really good week. This week I was trying to focus on recognizing promptings from the Spirit. By the end of the week I recognized that I often argue with myself on whether or not to do things--talk to big black guys or not haha. I realized that I, more often than not, am arguing with the Spirit. Never do that. Always be a "first responder" as talked about in General Conference. Anyways, God is good. I hope you all have a blessed week!
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