He referred to me as "mademoiselle". Fancy!

There's a quote you sent me once that sis something like, "I always know when I am under the influence of the spirit when I learn something from what I said"... I love those moments on a mission. We were in a lesson with an investigator, and with Simone, and the investigator asked a question about repentance, and neither sister Bradley or I knew the answer, and Simone had the same question! We both thought for a minute, and without knowing what to do, I did the best I could to answer the question. But within the first sentence, I stumbled over my words. So I stopped. Paused. And then tried again. Ha and I totally learned from what I said! I dunno, it was just so cool, and i felt the spirit and I knew that what I had said was correct. And I learned from it! Yeah. Sweet.  

Sister Bradley and I were walking to walgreens to pick up a prescription of mine. We walked by this lady who stopped us, and was like, "can I ask you a question?!" We said yes, and she then asked if we were nuns. Haha we explained it, and she was so excited to hear about our missions and that we would (hopefully) be getting married when we get home and stuff. Ha it was a great and hilarious conversation. I love those. 

We got a group of missionaries together and went downtown to contact with some posters. Kind of like the "feeling gods love" table thing a week or two ago. It was so fun! Ha you meet so many unique people doing that...

I met this one guy named Peter.

He referred to me as "mademoiselle". Fancy! That's a new one haha yeah, but he wasn't into the whole 'faith' thing. It was an interesting conversation. Good thing were here to invite, not to convince. :)

We also ran into an LDS family where one of the girls goes to school with sister Bradley's cousin. Small world.

There was this homeless guy camped out at the intersection we were contacting at. He called sister Bradley over to ask about what we were doing. She explained a little and he asked for a Book of Mormon. He said, "the bible got me off of heroine and cocaine. I'm willing to give this Mormon book a try." Dang he was awesome. His name was Michael. He will do great things.

Every once in a while, you hear those missionary stories that only really ever happen in the Ensign... Not in real life. WELL, we had one of those.  

Two weeks ago, sister Bradley and I were booking it to the church with a plate of fresh-baked cookies for Haisu and Simone's baptism. A block away from the church, we walked past this guy dribbling a ball on the sidewalk. We said hi as he walked by and he said our cookies smelled good. We kept going. Ha we knew we should talk to him, but we didn't cause 'we had other things to do.' Pfffft. Anyways, we get to the church, and sister Bradley is like, "we need to go back and talk to him." I felt it too, so we made the long awkward walk back to talk to him specifically (this is why you follow the spirit the first time!!). We invited him to the baptism. He was hesitant, but we convinced him to come and promised cookies. 

Well, he showed up with a friend! The guys name was Brent. We were a little busy putting the baptism on, so we sent the elders over to talk to them (plus elder Berhow is a baller too). 

Well, he's been to church ever since. The elders told us yesterday Brent's side of that story.... He had been feeling like he needed to fix up his life. So he prayed and asked for guidance... The next day, he saw us walking and wanted to talk to us, but got nervous. So he didn't. But as we walked away, he promised he would talk to us next time he saw us... So... Five minutes later, we came back! He loves the gospel and what it's done for him. Now he's preparing to be baptized on September 6. Woaaaah! Those stories DO happen In real life! :) 

We went to the temple with Haisu and Simone this week to do baptisms. Best day ever. Wow what a great experience. They are amazing. 

Haisu leaves for china on Thursday. I'm going to cry. So sad. We will miss him so much. But it's a great excuse to go visit china! :) man, I can't even explain how amazing he is. He's going to do incredible things. I'm betting he's going to be the architect for the first temple in china ;) man those people are so ready for the gospel. 

I think that's it for now! I'm excited for what's ahead. Ha we have a lot of work to do, but I love it :) it's going great.

This gospel changes lives and I love seeing it every day.

Love you!!

Sister Walton