With Captain Eli's Blueberry Pop - "Thanks for the suggestion Hardy family in Brewer"
Hello and happy Monday
friends and family! Yes, you read that title right. I only have six months left
out here in the NHMM and it's still blowing my mind. The fact I've been out a
year blows my mind. For all you Asdf Movie fans, I really feel like Desmond the
Moon Bear. "How did I get here?" THE END. That's really what the
mission is friends. Too fast.
But enough about my exit able demise. I'm sure
you are all wondering how this week went. I'm gonna be honest, it was just
another missionary week. Unexciting to hear, I know, but I mean, I did missionary
things. I invited people to learn. Watched people play Pokemon Go. Did my best
to stay cool. Typical 2k16 summer missionary things. But there are some cool
highlights so I'll share some of those.
We started off the week dropping both of our
"new" investigators". They weren't really new anymore
considering we hadn't seen either of them in about a month. One actually texted
us to drop us so that was a hard way to start a week. But we went forward in
faith that things would work out. And allowed ourselves to enjoy Zone P-Day at
Portland Headlight again. After P-Day we were called by a member's husband that
his wife needed a visit in the hospital so we were able to visit her right in
time for her to be awake. She was so glad to see us because she appreciated the
comfort. And on the way up we caught another member we work with who volunteers
at the hospital! So no new investigators but we felt like we left people
feeling loved.
Tuesday was crazy. We watered flowers for Heart
of Biddeford again but besides that all our appointments (even our member
dinner!) fell through so we spent a lot of time scratching our heads going
"ok well". As always, it worked out, because we got to stop by a less
active man and cheer him up for the day.
In review now I'm looking at what happened
Wednesday and we yet again caught another less active member to establish
contact with. I'm seeing a pattern here.
Thursday I got the chance to help two less active
sisters with their family history on Familysearch.org which I always enjoy. I'm
honestly super grateful that's an emphasis here in this mission because a lot of
people want to do their family history and they don't know how or they don't
want to pay. Familysearch.org is completely free and easy to use! It has
literally billions of records so use it!
Moving on from my familysearch.org ad, Friday we
do service for this sweet woman in the outskirts of Old Orchard Beach and she
recently has needed help with her house work so we spend time over there
helping her do little things she can't do on her own right now. While we were helping
her clean her closet we found some tops she didn't want anymore but we thought
were way cute and she said "Well go try them on!" So we did and a
five minute fashion show later we each had a new cute top. Sweet!
Saturday our day started with the ward BBQ which
was fun. The pool was open so we rarely saw any kids and got to spend a lot of
time with adults getting to know them. We also had a pastor of a local church
we do service for come to the BBQ and he said he really enjoyed it! He especially
enjoyed meeting the bishop, saying "I like your pastor, he's a good
guy". Haha yeah we tried to explain that he was called by revelation but
we think it went over his head. Oh well.
Sunday was really great, as always. The Saco
Squad Missionary Force did scripture heroes again (you might be thinking we do
this every week but we don't. We are doing it every 3rd Sunday because of the
new teachers council for Teaching the Savior's Way and they need people in primary
so it will most likely be a while until you hear about scripture heroes again).
This week's lineup was Alma (title role by yours truly), Alma the Younger, Job,
and Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednigo. For you NHMM RM's you will giggle to know
that the past three scripture hero performances, Elder J. Williams had played
some form of an evil king. As in last time he was the antagonist each performance.
He kinda has a reputation in primary now. I'll just let you all sit and enjoy
that. But this week while he was playing Nebuchadnezzar he of course was trying
to force us to worship the idol which took the form of a cell phone for junior
primary but in senior primary was one girl's pink sparkly croc. That got a lot
of laughs. And the kids were way too excited to throw us into the fiery
furnace. But we survived, obviously.
Oh I also got a chance to finally see Meet the
Mormons during lunch times this week. Verdict: Disappointed they didn't use
that scene in Cheers when Sam is messing with Kristie Allie's character about Mormons.
But the film itself was pretty great. I will admit I got emotional with the
Candy Bomber and the Missionary Mom. It's pretty decent quality and is probably
8/10 for just being a good movie. Would recommend. If you haven't seen it, it
is on LDS.org and the Gospel Library App so enjoy!
Besides that, like I prefaced, this week wasn't
extraordinary. This upcoming week we have exchanges and zone interviews though
so it should get pretty exciting. I love you all and pray you are all doing well!
Enjoy the summer!
Love,
Sister Wright
"Zone Coolness"
"This was at the members house that we had Fourth of July with"
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