Ha, it is okay though. We had a good day yesterday working. All the stores were closed and a lot of people were out of town, but we were able to visit a few members. There is this awesome family in our ward named the Fischers, and they have an ongoing invitation for us to come over and eat their leftovers. (This was especially helpful yesterday, as we had NO FOOD in our house) So we went over and ate with Sister Fischer, Sr. while everyone else was getting ready to go to the temple for the week.
Right afterwards, we went and visited a new convert, Mercy, who is from Ghana.
We walked in and she had prepared lunch for us... Ummm... Whoops. We ate anyway and it was my first experience with REAL African food! (Actually, that is a lie. In Cottbus there was this international party thing that our investigators invited us to come to, and there I had a little smidgon of African food... But this was the real deal. Like. A whole plate of it) We had fried bananas and some bean-fish casserole thing. It was good, but my white girl stomache is not made of steel... So by the time we got home, I was a little queasy. Naja! All in the experience, right??
Today, we went to go to the grocery store when we passed our mailbox... Mail doesn`t come at 8 in the morning, does it? Well, sometime between the hours of 12 and 8 yesterday, the elders snuck in and bombed our mailbox with all of the tree blossoms they could find, wrote a note that said, "Girls like flowers, right?" and left us to clean up the rotten, stinking, ant infested flower pedals. Nice, right? We`re thinking rice or beans for them... Any suggestions?
This week was pretty good, as far as experiences go!
People keep coming and falling out of our teaching pool, and it`s proving to be quite difficult to find the people who actually want to progress... But our members are helping! At least giving us hope! Haha
Our new ward mission leader and his wife are STELLAR. His wife came up to us at church on Sunday and explained that she had talked to her neighbors about the Proclamation to the Family and asked if they wanted to meet with the missionaries. They said yes, and we will hopefully have an appointment with them later this week!
Our bishop and his wife are also working on their neighbors.
We told them that all they need to do is get us at a social gathering together and we will ask. If they say no, they`ll hate us and not the members! It`s perfect! Haha
We gave Moses to the Elders because he wants to meet regularly at his home and it is hard for us to get the perfect fellowshipper seeing as we can only bring women on joint teaches...
We did have a really good lesson with Martin this week though! Martin is from Cameroon and he wants a stronger relationship with God and Christ. We talked with him about baptism and set a goal for May! He wants to be baptized then, he just needs to come to church.
We also were able to take Zivo to institute! He is part of the Serbian family we met a few weeks ago and he is 19. This was seriously so perfect because we were worried about his attention span in something that is completely foreign to him (I mean seriously. My attention span is still the same as a 4 year old... And I understand everything! Haha) but we talked about Easter and the reason why we have it. We had little papers to write our thoughts about Jesus Christ and Easter, and Zivo wrote about how he feels good and peaceful when he thinks about Christ. He really loved institute and we will be taking him this week!!
Something I have been thinking about this week is Easter. Obviously.
Sister Sykes gave a talk in Sacrament Meeting and spoke about how Christ, because he was resurrected, it not only means that we can be resurrected, too, but also that he knows exactly what we are going through. He knows exactly how we feel. And that we don`t need to do this alone.
What a comforting thought? That because Jesus Christ lived, because he performed the Atonement and because he was resurrected, nothing we do has to be done alone. There is ALWAYS someone beside us. There is always someone there to carry us, calm our fears, rejoice with us!
I am so thankful for our Savior. I know He lives.
Love you!!!
Sister Babbitt
P.S. Shoutout to Aaron!!!! I am so happy for you, Bud!! You will do great :)
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