Hello family :)
How are you all? I hope so great.
Well.. This
week started out really rough. Sister Horrocks and I were beyond sick. lets just
say having only one bathroom was rough. I
think we had the flu. Along with that, we have still been super tired.. so It
was a rough first few days of the week. We called our mission mother, sister
anderson, and she advised to stay in until completely better because the
sickness we had wasn't a good one! So we did stay in for awhile. But we do feel
better. Still tired. But better. The doctors called and said that our results
came back fine. Kind of disappointing because it would be nice to have something
to cure us.. but oh well. :) I'm glad my body is doing better.
I was saying a
prayer one morning and I thought.. "I'm actually grateful that I was sick with
sister H." The reason? Because I love her more now. I feel like us being sick
together allowed us to get to understand each other more and be able to serve
one another. Our relationship became better from it. It's nice to look at the
blessings that come in times of trial. :) So that's great.
Thursday we went out finally! I hated being stuck in our apt
for so long. Oh my gosh it was aweful. As a missionary you get so tired and all
you want to do is sleep.. but then when you are sick it's like you feel so bad
for resting. Hahha. It's crazy. But Thursday we went and saw -----and we taught her the
gospel of Jesus Christ. She started to cry as we taught repentance. It was a good lesson. It made
me look at the steps of repentance differently. I think sometimes we are
repenting but if we make any sort of step backwards.. satan wants us to feel we
haven't done any better. Repentance is simply striving to rid ourselves of the
sin and not do it anymore. Too often we feel we have to be perfect in the
process.. but we really dont. Then we saw ------- and also taught her the
gospel of Jesus Christ. It was also a good lesson. I am so excited for her to be
baptized :) She is awesome. She gets baptized on sunday!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!
:)
Friday we had district meeting on the subject of the atonement. It
was really good! We also went to the
Chile Festival with her and her boyfriend friday night! HOW FUN :) They close
off a whole street downtown and set up booths and have green chile's burning and
cooking and everyone is eating them and buying them! I tried jalepeno peanut
brittle and chile frozen yogurt. The frozen yogurt was sick but the peanut
brittle.. oh so good. It's crazy what they mix chile with at the festival. They
have tons of booths and tons of food. Some members gave us some chile's and we
are just loving eating them! So stinkin yummy. Everyone down here is proud that
I love spicy food. Green chile is HUGE down here. So going to the festival was
fun.
Saturday, We got to go to
Springs to hear Elder Holland, Presidnt Gonzales, and Bishop Davies speak to
us!!! HOLY GOOD. It was soooooooooo coool. He was walking around the chapel we were in and just
tearing it up! I love him. It really made me stop and think about my work. He
talked about how this is a way of life. We never go back to normal. Sister
Horrocks gave me a really good compliment. She told me that as Elder Holland
talked about this being a way of life that she thought of me. She told me that
I'm a missionary who is myself and how cool that is. I was grateful for her
saying that! I have a lot of things I need to work on as a missionary and this
week I'm working on being up and studying on time. So far.. the Lord is blessing
me and I'm doing so much better. I love how much the Lord strengthens us when we
ask. Elder Holland made me think about how we as missionaries get into routine.
This isn't a routine. There is always so much to learn. I surely needed to have
him come speak to me. I'm grateful for it.
While in springs we went to lunch
with the sisters and went to this ice cream place with the biggest ice cream
cones covered in cookies. Also.. My hair is dark now. I
hate it. But i'm trying to grow it out. And I thought I would maybe like dark
short hair. But i seriously hate dark hair on me. I want blonde again. So
hopefully I'll be dying it here soon. Haha. I can't wait for long hair again!
Holy crap.
Then when we got home.. I felt prompted to go see a family. We had a really good visit with them and hopefully we can get them
active in the church again!
Yesterday, we had stake conference and
bishop davies came and spoke. ------- came and I think she liked it. We then
gave her a church tour and showed her the baptismal font. SHe said how
excited/nervous she is! I'm so happy for her :) I love her! Then we saw ---------- and he is good. We are planning to go to the temple with him here soon! I love
the man! He reads his BoM all the time. It's so cool. Then I of course saw the
Hamler family and cried when I saw them! It was so good to see someone I know! I
chatted with them awhile. They are the coolest. I love them so!
Well
that was about my week.
I love being a missionary. I love the work. I love
the Lord.
THanks for everything everyone :)
Ps. I'm moving into a
house on the 1st of OCTOBER :) YAY!!!!!!!!!!! CANT WAIT! IT's so
cute.
LOVE YOU ALL!
-SIster Baker :)
