Geterdun, Daggum and Wee Doggies!!! (Not to be confused with Y'all, Right Quick and Fixin' To)

This week has been good.  I've chosen one thing I want to work on every week to become more of who I want to be, as a missionary and as a person.  Three weeks I worked on optimism, then diligence, faith, cleanliness, etc.  I worked on six things thus far!  So this week I rewarded myself by allowing myself to develop a talent.  I chose to work on drawing which I totally forgot that:  1. I liked to do; and, 2. I am pretty decent at it!  I'm sending pictures.

It sounds like you've had a pretty crazy week.  We actually get to go to the temple on September 6th so I'll get to see it then (the new movie)! I'M SO EXCITED.

The work is going well. We have about 13 investigators, and two with baptismal dates. So that's pretty good. We've been super close to hitting standards every week! We haven't gotten in trouble for illegal knocking, but we did get yelled at by this lady...

We went to the house of a former investigator who we already knew moved out. We wanted to see who moved in.  So Sister Bishop is getting stuff out of the back of the car and I see the lady coming to the door. She opens it and yells out "What do you want?!"  We said, "Hi! How are you doing today!"  She said, "That depends on who YOU are."  We said, "The missionaries for the Church of Jesu-" She interrupted us, "I TOLD THE GUYS THAT CAME BY YESTERDAY TO LEAVE ME ALONE! STOP COMING BY! I'M NOT INTERESTED! I SAID PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE! NEXT TIME I WONT SAY PLEASE." So we said, "Okay! Have a great day!" YIIIIIIIIIKES.  Okay, so apparently the Elders in our ward had already stopped by that house the night before.  She was NOT happy to see us. 

Sister Bishop and I got a P90X DVD from a member in the ward. So we started doing that. It makes me feel better that I get dessert every single night...

We've been sharing a message about faith with the members.  We each have a favorite scripture in Alma 32, and we read that and then share stories about how our faith has been strengthened. But with one family (part-member) we felt prompted to read the whole chapter so we did.  The dad (who isn't Mormon) almost cried.  We sat around and shared stories and it was just a really really great lesson.  At the end of it, he told us that he would be okay if we wanted to start teaching him the lessons.

With another family, we shared a message about the atonement. I shared one of my favorite scriptures (Ether 12:27) and then we watched President Holland's Easter message that is just really really powerful.  I have NEVER felt the spirit that strongly before.  It seriously felt like you could cut through it with a knife.

I love and miss y'all so much!

 

Sister Chatterton

p.s. I get made fun of for saying y'all and right quick and fixing to and things of that nature. So I've decided to also say geterdun and daggum and wee doggies.  Sister Bishop is having a field day.

p.s. (again)  Also, the Law of Attraction,  part 2: (I'm not sure what happened to part 1)

Tuesday this family in our ward gave us 50$ for dinner!  We super wanted to go to Texas Roadhouse and talked about it for probably 45 minutes before deciding to call the APs and asking them to bring us some (it's out of our zone so we can't go to it) and we would pay them.  They couldn't that night.  But three days later, I went on exchanges and our lunch appointment.. took us.. to... Texas.. Roadhouse.  I DIED OF HAPPINESS I SERIOUSLY MISS STEAK. We eat a LOT of enchiladas, which is totally fine and wonderful and I appreciate them . But I love steak.  THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IS REAL.  I guess I need to think about baptisms all the time.