So this week started off fantastic. Monday we went shopping and hung out with Sister Riley. She is super awesome. That night we had a very interesting appointment with a inactive member.
And then we decided that we would go visit this inactive family. They are super awesome and totally love us. They keep asking when we are going to come back. Their problem is they just don't understand why church is important. We are going to "practice" our lessons on them. The mom keeps making us cookies and they are pretty much the best cookies we have ever had.
Tuesday was good. We had district meeting. It was fun to see everyone there. The assistants came too so it is always cool to see them. That afternoon we were supposed to do some service for a couple but they called and cancelled. So we decided we still wanted to do our service for the week so we went out and raked some peoples yards. It was actually really funny. We went out all ready and then the guy we were going to rake leaves for was getting ready to leave so we hid behind a car and then once he left we ran over there and raked his leaves. His wife (who is a member) came home a few minutes later and totally caught us. But she was happy that we were doing it. That night we met with this family who are absolutely adorable. The daughter wants to get baptized so we are giving her the lessons and she loves it.
Wednesday was GREAT!!!!!!!! We got to go to the temple that morning. I just have to say i love going to the temple as a missionary. It is completely different and i don't know why. The lady we went with told us that people are just happier when they see us in the temple. I guess it is way obvious that we are sister missionaries even without our name tags. It was funny because i totally freaked out in the middle of the session because i thought i "lost" my name tag. We ate in the cafeteria to and that food was AMAZING!!!!!!!!! They know how to do it right here in Idaho well sorta. Most people do.
Thursday was good. We met with a lot of people and we didn't get to teach a lot. We still don't have a lot of opportunities to teach lessons. We are just kind of meeting people and trying to get referrals. We are getting closer though and our wards are getting super excited about missionary work so hopefully things will speed up soon.
Friday morning was AWESOME! We finally got to go do the service for this older couple. We picked apples off their trees for 3 hours. WE got so many apples and plums it was insane. They gave us some of their homemade apple juice and they should sell it it is so good. They gave us some to bring home too. On our way home sister Halbison got a super sharp pain in her side. We had to stop. I felt really bad but the way we looked it was so funny. We finally stopped at the church and rested for a bit. We also happened to meet the relief society president there so we got some names that way. It took us about 30 minutes to get home because sister Halbison was in so much pain but we finally arrived home. Bishop R called somebody and gave her a blessing really fast. It started to feel better after that. We still called the doctor and he just told us to rest for a bit. So we did.
Saturday was not so amazing. I woke up at 4 am throwing up all morning. I'm pretty sure i had food poisoning. We stayed in most of that morning and then i was feeling better so we went to the trunk or treat. This one ward has this super amazing tradition. they buy tons of potatoes and make french fries at the trunk or treat. We were in charge of salting and cupping them. They are pretty much the best fries i have had and will probably ever have. It is a genius idea! I probably shouldn't have eaten so many because i was once again super sick. And im pretty sure i ate some bad chicken. That night we had the best dinner we have had all week and i felt so bad i couldn't even eat it. that night we went home cause i couldn't do anything and Bishop R called our neighbor over and they gave me a blessing. It helped. Sister Halbison started to get that pain again. So we were both down. We then got a phone call and we were asked to speak the next day in church. So we accepted since we had all night to prepare a talk. I called the doctor to inform him of the pain in Sister Halbison's side again and he wanted to see us immediately. Sister R drove us over and she was checked out. He said she didn't have appendicitis so that was the main worry. He told me to just stay on a clear liquid diet for the next 2 meals. We went home and just went to bed.
Sunday Sunday Sunday!!!!!!!!!!! We woke up a little early and started to prepare our talks because we had to speak at 9. I was starving because there was nothing in my system. So i was a rebel and ate some food. Not a good idea. I also ate at lunch because i was feeling light headed. Again not a good idea. We spoke and it went pretty well. Our newly baptized Janine got confirmed in the next ward so that was exciting. And then in our last ward of the day we got to see a primary program. We were in it to. We along with a few other people sang Holding hands around the world. It was pretty cool. Last night i started to finally feel better. Today though i am doing the clear liquid diet just to make sure.
So something else that i wanted to share. Sister Halbison an i were talking about the law of Moses. So brilliant me i looked up Moses in the Bible Dictionary. Under Moses it says "... It was necessary that he be translated in order to have that body of flesh and bone at the time of the transfiguration since the resurrection had not yet taken place." So something that i thought was kind of cool was every person(before Christs resurrection) that has come back to the earth to perform ordinances has had to be translated because they needed that literal body of flesh and bone. So example: If Moses was not translated he could not have come back to give the literal priesthood keys to the mortal Peter, James, and John. Christ had not yet created that opportunity to gain a body after death. Make sense? Its kind of cool to think about.
Alright love you all hope all is going well. Don't have to much fun at formal.
Sister Dearden
Poor Sister H!
They also grow big carrots in Idaho!
