Some church members brought over red velvet cupcakes!
Hello and happy
Monday friends and family! I trust you all had a good week enjoying the warmer
weather. This week we had Zone Interviews and while Sister DeWidt had her exit
interview I got to chat with Sister Stoker who lived in Mesa for 20 years and
she showed me the weather for Mesa this week. All I can tell the Phoenix valley
is we are finally catching up with the spring weather! The temperatures are
above 50 so I don't even have to wear leggings! (Let's just say a year ago,
that would NOT have been my reaction to 50 degree weather. The mission is truly
a growing experience people). Also the bugs are starting to come out, or it is
"getting buggy" in New England terms. Yes, I think we are officially
out of "swing" and into spring. Good times good times. Well, I guess
I'll tell you how Sister DeWidt and I are faring in Somersworth as we enjoy
this warmer weather!!
We have been
getting creative with our proselyting strategies now that people can go outside
for extended periods of time. We have a couple of cemeteries nearby so we
decided to take an hour to go "cemetery contacting" with a handful of familysearch.org cards and invite people to use familysearch.org. The results: None yet but it was refreshing
to walk around and see some really cool old graves, most were around the
1800's. Around that same cemetery we took some chalk and drew the Plan of
Salvation! No contacts from that yet either but at least people can learn a
little bit about God's purpose for them!
Like I mentioned
earlier we had Zone Interviews which were really fun. Sister DeWidt and I were
the first in the day to be interviewed because Sister DeWidt needed to have her
exit interview but my interview with President Stoker went really well. It's
funny. I don't know why but before my mission I somehow expected to see the
mission president like weekly but out here you're lucky if you seem him twice a
month. It was good to spend time with him, let him know about some of my
personal concerns, as well as my concerns for the area. Overall I feel like I
got the guidance I need to make it through the next half of the transfer.
Besides that, this
week we had no member meal appointments scheduled because we haven't had normal
church services for two weeks so Sister DeWidt and I burned through gift cards
and coupons exploring some of the local cuisine of the area. We had gift
certificates for a Chinese Buffet that we ventured to on Friday. Sister DeWidt
and I probably enjoyed ourselves too much, honestly. We both love Chinese food.
We also got some Panera Saturday for lunch which really threw me back to home.
Overall we had a fairly mediocre week
broken up with some pretty creative contacting methods. Not to quote a creepy
YouTube video but when things get difficult, get creative! It's amazing what
mixing it up a bit can do to your soul! I hope you all have a good upcoming
week and maybe next week I'll have some more awesome experiences to share with
you.
Love,
Sister Wright
Cemetery
Rocking out to BYU Vocal Point FHE Medley
District PDay
"Killing" Sister DeWidt/Avenging the death of Sister Banda (in Missionary Speak, this means that Sister DeWidt will be going home and Sister Wright was her last companion. Sister Banda was Sister Wright's trainer. And Sister DeWidt "killed" Sister Banda)
Sisters DeWidt, Wright, Mulford and Kauvaka
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