Hello my familia! So let's see what happened
this week... The “B” kids are getting baptized! Conner and Mckayla passed their
baptismal interviews and they're getting baptized this Saturday! Hooray! Things
are moving right along with them and I'm looking forward to it. We also started
teaching the B’s neighbor, Katrina! She's been friends with Sister B for a
while and when Sister B started coming back to church she invited her friend
along. She's pretty interested and hopefully things will work out great for her
too! We also were supposed to meet with this potential investigator, Penelope,
this week, but when we showed up for our appointment she had left a note on her
door asking us to come back later. She texted us and told us 630, but when we
showed up, there was no answer :( we were walking away when her husband came
out and apologized and was like "You have to understand how hard I work
and that I don't want company right now and blah blah blah" and I REALLY
didn't like the way he was talking. He seemed very controlling and that makes
me grumpy. Hahaha. Why do we keep finding willing women with controlling
husbands? (remember "We're Catholic, LEAVE!" guy? Yeah. Anyways.) But
they said we could come back another time so we definitely will.
On Friday we had the ward social! it
was pretty fun. GJ 1st ward has a chili cook-off every year at their fall social,
and Brother Wynne wins every year... this year was no different. I don't know
if I ate his chili or not though, they were all anonymously labeled. Someone
made some delicious clam chowder though, and I liked that! It was a ton of fun
to see the ward all dressed up, especially the little kids. We got to say hi to
a lot of the ward in one place and meet a couple of new people. It was fun and
a nice "break". They also do the traditional costume parade and our
dear elders naturally pranced across the stage. They're such children but I
think it's great. I don't call them "eldren" for nothing (a
combination of elders and children... we came up with this in the MTC.
Hahaha.). On Saturday we helped with the ward service project, which was yard
work for 6 homes for people in hospice who can't take care of their lawns
themselves. Not a lot of people showed up because a soon-to-be-missionary in
the ward was going to the temple for the first time and there were quite a few
people who went to that instead. So we split up into small groups we thought
would be sufficient... NOPE! Myself, Sister Masima, and Sister Green and her
daughter were NOT enough people to tackle the lawn that we had been assigned
to. It worked out okay though, we called in for help and got the job done.
On Sunday, Brother Becker gave us a
surprise... about 20 minutes before sacrament meeting started, he asked Sister
Masima and I to teach gospel principles! We don't even own the manuals! So we
rushed to the library and spent sacrament meeting studying and whispering plans
to each other. Hahaha. Good thing the lesson was on missionary work! It went
pretty well, I think!
And now for the funnest part of our
week.. on Sunday night, Brother Gylling called us. He's a ward missionary and
we're always pestering him to let us serve him. Well, last Monday he brought
down a bull elk on the mesa. His wife told us they'd need help cutting it up
and grinding hamburger meat out of it. Well, Brother Gylling called to tell us
he was cutting up the elk! Sister Masima helped him skin it (she's hunted pig
and skinned it before, back in Samoa, so she knew what she was doing and I
didn't really want to participate in that aspect hahaha). I was mostly just
moving meat from the table to the cooler when Brother Gylling had me come over
and cut some myself! So I've helped cut up elk steaks and yes, there's a
picture.
So that was our week! Things are
hopefully going to keep picking up as we meet with more members and they get
the message more and more that they NEED to help us!
I love you guys!!! :)
Love, Sister Noakes
First is myself and Sister Keller
and her daughter at the ward social. Sister Keller comes and does service with
us and she LOVES us sisters. She invited us over to her house for Halloween and
I'm a little nervous about what's in store for us. Hahaha.
The next is Sister Masima, myself,
Sister Hilton and Sister Collins at the food distribution center doing service
and throwing up the shaka. hahaha.
Last is me at the Gyllings' house,
helping them make cupcakes. Yum!
Why is my hair up in all of these? I
rarely do that! Apparently we just like to capture it hahahaha.
Elk pictures!
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| Sister Noakes, looking a little terrified. |
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