This week was pretty good! I just love being a missionary!
On Tuesday was transfer day and 2 of the elders in our district went home.
Turns out that the Fayetteville 3rd elders are being taken out and the Ft. Bragg
elders are covering all 3 units just like us. So they combined the area for the
elders as well. That being said, the Fayetteville 3 elders had to drive a car up
to transfer meeting. They knew our car smelled like dead cats (a sister spilled
milk in it like 8 months ago and never cleaned it up) and so they 're like hey,
we were thinking and we are going to switch you cars. That way we can take the
smelly car away and you can have the nice car. (They had a 2015 Toyota Corolla..
ours was a 2012) And we were like alright sounds good! So we spent last Monday
vacuuming out the car. And then on Tuesday we made the switch! So they took the
gross car and we got their car! And oh my goodness. It's the nicest thing ever.
I have come to the realization that I probably won't drive a car this nice ever
again hahaha. I find it kinda hilarious that the nicest car I've driven and
probably will ever drive is on the mission. Haha! But I love it! I love driving
it!! It's a nice ride. :D
Also! On Tuesday we scheduled in a "Walk of Salvation: Saving Souls One
Step at a Time". (Sister Peterson laughed when I called it that when I scheduled
it in...ha). So what we did was, we parked the car in a parking lot and then we
filled our bags with copies of the Book of Mormon, a couple copies of the Bible,
some pamphlets, pass along cards, you know, just the works. And then we just
started walking. And before we started we committed ourselves to talk to as many
people and the Lord put in our path. And that's exactly what we did! So we went
street contacting for a couple hours! We were walking for quite a while and no
one seemed to be out that day. Mind you it was super hot and humid that day...
not exactly a perfect walking day. Haha but we talked to a couple people and
shared with them the Book of Mormon and invited them to church. And then we
turned into a neighborhood and started tracting. The only one who answered their
door that day was this old lady who hid behind her door. We knocked and then the
door opened, but no one was there...so we're like hello? And then the top of her
head pops out from behind the door and we can only see her eyes. And we tell her
who we are and what we do and she's like no. no. no. I'm not interested. Least
we think that's what she said. And then she proceeded to shut the door. So we're
like alright....and then we put a Book of Mormon in her mailbox just in case she
changed her mind ;) hahaha. Other than that, no one answered their door so we
just put a lot of copies of the Book of Mormon in their mailboxes! We put our
card in them, so they have our number if they want to learn more. After about an
hour and a half of this walking deal, I'm like well we have dinner soon, we
should probably start heading back. Well....it turns out we walked A LOT further
than I thought we did and we were like a 45 minute walk away from the car. HA!
Whoops. And it was on the walk back that I realized that I was getting some
pretty intense blisters. So I look down and it like covers my entire back of my
foot...So I'm like. Well this is convenient...NOT. Haha. So I'm walking like a
gimp because it literally burns every time I take a step and it feels like there
are knives attached to the back of my shoes just cutting across the back of my
foot. Ahh not one of my proudest moments. They were my black flats and I thought
I broke them in forever ago...but I guess not! So we finally made it back to the
car and I turned it on and blasted the A/C took my shoes off, I was like tap
out! I'm driving bare foot! Haha. And so I threw everything in the back of the
car and then I look behind me and there's this man. He's like hey, do you have a
quarter? (Haha he was probably like who are these crazy people in skirts and why
is that one not wearing shoes?) Anywho, we said we did so Sister Peterson
scavenged for one in the car. And while she was doing that I was making small
talk with him. He asked if we knew where the church was in this parking lot and
we were like hmm, we haven't seen a church here. Do you know what it's called?
And he's like no, a lady just told me I would find it in this parking lot. And
then I was like I'm not sure where that church is, but! The church we go to is
just down the road! And he's like really? I might have to come with you all one
day. And I was like yes! Please do! And I was holding a Book of Mormon in my
hand (I don't even remember why...) so I kinda look down at it and I'm like Hey!
Have you heard of the Book of Mormon before? And he's like no I haven't! So
Sister Peterson comes over and we explain what it is and we give it to him and
he's like wow. This is such a blessing. My wife has been telling me for the past
week to change and that I should go to a church to become better and then I meet
you all in this parking lot and you give me another Bible. Wow. I can't thank
you enough. And then he asked about our church services and what time they're at
and all that. IT WAS SUPER AWESOME!
Goes to show that even when you are having a hard time, even when no one
will answer their door, even when you feel like you aren't accomplishing
anything, the Lord will bless you. We spent the last 2 hours trying to talk to
people but no one was interested and then the second we were ready to leave,
this man comes up to talk to us.
He may not have found the church in the parking lot, but he found us and I
don't think that was a coincidence. When we were leaving, I said, well I hope
you find the church you're looking for! And then I was just overwhelmed with the
spirit and I was like, whoa. That's our church. Our church is the church that
people are searching and searching for. And it's up to us as members to help
them find it. So after that I made sure that he had our number and he told us he
would call us so we could find him a ride to get to church. I wish we would have
gotten his contact information, but it all happened so fast. I just really hope
that he gets in contact with us. We're praying for him and that we'll get to see
him again!
Neat experience.
Oh yeah, sidenote when we got in the car the temp said it was 100 degrees
out. And it's ONLY MAY. Ahh hahaha this summer is gonna be greeeeat. Ha ha ha
*nervous laughter..* I'm gonna die....hahah. I'm excited though. I've loved the
weather and I LOVE the humidity so far, so hopefully it stays that way!
The rest of the week was pretty good. We had to go to Sanford (which is
like 45 minutes away) on Thursday because we had interviews with President. That
was good. I love the Bernhisel's and me and President had a really good chat
about testimony and conversion. We agreed that testimony is what you know and
what you believe and conversion is a change of heart and what you do because of
what you know. It's that constant progression and desire to be better. It was
good :) Oh also, we have to go to Sanford every week now because we're apart of
the Sanford district now that the Fay 3 elders got taken out. So yay. We have to
travel 45 minutes to Sanford and back every Wednesday! hoorah...haha. I miss our
old district. But change is good :)
On Saturday, our investigator Clara got baptized! I haven't really talked
about her a whole lot. She turned 10 on Saturday as well. Her dad is a member
and they've been on the less active side for a while (now they're completely
active) but Clara said she wanted to be baptized so her dad got in contact with
the elders and the elders got in contact with us about teaching her. So we
started teaching her a couple months ago. She knows all about the gospel and we
pretty much just had to teach her because she's older than 8. Ha but the lessons
went well and she knows more about the gospel than we do...seriously haha she's
a genius and she remembers everything. I love her so much :) she's a cutie. But
yeah! She got baptized on Saturday and it was such a happy day!! Loved it! :D I
just love baptisms. <3
Anywho, that's all I got for ya this week!! I hope you all had a great week
and saw the hand of the Lord in your life :) I love you all!! The church is true
and God is good!!
Have an ah-mazing week. Take care!
MUCH LOVE,
Sister Blumel
xoxoxo <3
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| Clara and her Dad |
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| Sister Blumel and Clara |
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| Sister Peterson, Clara and Sister Blumel |
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