Well this week has been awesome!

Well this week has been awesome!

1 Nephi 17:47 "I am full of the spirit of god insomuch that my frame has no strength"... Ha story of my life! You just work so hard doing physical, mental and spiritual work that you just get tired!

We had a new missionary meeting on Tuesday- it was awesome, I loved it.

I just love meetings as a missionary. Maybe that's cause I can sit down for half a day and just worry about other people feeding me spiritually instead of running around trying to feed others spiritually.

During the lunch break, president Woodbury made an announcement that Sister Holden (a visa waiter who was there with us) had just gotten her visa. Her first reaction was freaking out and hugging her companion. My first reaction was a sigh of relief- I silently dread being surprised and having to pack everything in a matter of days. Then I starting joking about getting a visa with some other missionaries and it was kind of funny to realize that most of them have forgotten I'm waiting for mine (technically). Ha I'm pretty much a permanent installation here I guess! :)   

There has been a push for us to find service hours here, so we helped Hna Ramirez clean out her daughters closet. Good stuff we love it :) 

Thursday night, we were at the church for a missionary meeting. We had offered earlier to put together a decorative table of relief society stuff for a relief society dinner that night. Ha we ended up doing a TON - the poor president was just running around like crazy, and we ended up helping her put on the whole dinner. It was fun though :) I like stepping in and being helpful like that, and it really helped her out a lot.

We had exchanges (where we switch companions with the hermana training leaders for a day)... Hermana Russon came here with me, and hermana Kohlhase went to the city in their area for a day. It was pretty fun- hermana Russon is great!

We ended up teaching someone that sister graham found on the street a couple weeks ago. Her name is Breatriz and she is so awesome. I wish I had time to just write about her and that lesson. But Lily, one of the Hermanas from the ward came, and it was an incredible lesson- Beatriz is so excited, and can't wait for her health to improve (crazy surgery) so she can come to church :) AND when she prayed at the end of the lesson, she told God that she knew what we said was true. WHAT? Crazy. It was awesome I loved it :) can't wait to work with her more

Saturday- hunting down Gatorade and cooking stuff, eddy, Facebook, Mongolians, new baptism, playing piano, BROADCAST, etc  Saturday was a funny day- here it is in a nutshell... 

We needed to find Gatorade and cooking spray for some baking service were doing. We went across the street to walgreens. We found Gatorade! But the cooking spray was crazy expensive. On our way to Aldi's to find some, we met a guy that identified himself as an Asyrian named Eddy.  He told us how he hated random groups of people for whatever reason, and how it's gods job to forgive, not ours, so he doesn't have to forgive people. He also tried to quote verses from the bible about that. Ha I don't know what the heck bible he was reading, because I had lists of bible scriptures proving otherwise coming to mind. Ha he was sitting there bashing and hating on others about not being Christian, but he wasn't even living or following a Christian life himself. So twisted and so sad.

BUT we found cooking spray at Aldi's :) 

Then we went to the church to do Facebook when a Mongolian couple somehow got into the church from a door that shouldn't have been open. Great. But we talked to them for a bit- they were looking for a baptism at 3. It was 3:05. We called the other elders, and the baptism had been cancelled. As we started walking them to the doors, we heard the font start going. What. We went in and some elders were there filling it for a Spanish baptism at 5. We asked the Mongolian couple to come back then if they would like.

We started asking the elders about the baptisms going on and they said it was a last-minute baptism from an investigator that called and said she wanted to be baptized a couple days earlier. I asked if they needed help. They asked me to come back in a bit to play piano. 

Hermana Kohlhase and I booked it to two peoples houses, then home to grab a snack and my books, and then booked it back to the church.

The baptism was supposed to start at five, but the lady getting baptized got off work late, so it didn't start until 5:55. Ha but the program was short and sweet and was about twenty minutes. It was awesome.

Then we went to a social thing before the WOMENS CONFERENCE!! Gosh the mission makes you such a nerd about that kinda stuff..... :P ha but I loved it :)  

Sunday morning, a random lady let us in her house to teach her- her name is Nora, and she is awesome! We invited her to pray and ask if our message was true, after we taught it. She just gave us a funny look, and said "I don't need to- I know it's true!" Were excited to keep working with her :)

And my Spanish was really good yesterday. I love when I have those little spurts where i actually feel successful in the language :)

"The Sanctity of the Body" by Susan Tanner, awesome.

That's pretty much it for me, I'm just trucking along and DRINKING UP the sun!! My legs are so white they are blinding! It's almost like I haven't been to lake Powell in like 2 years! Oh wait..... :P but it's great up here, our area is picking up and were having a blast doing the work!

Have a great week, I love you all so much :) 

Hermana Walton