Next miracle happens in the home of a less active family. Sister Crook and I made a cake to bring to someone because we had some extra time on our hands. We decided this week to take it to the family of the girl who was baptized a few weeks ago but they weren't home. Next, we tried another family and they weren't home either. Awesome. So we were stuck with this cake and we couldn't eat it ourselves because we made it during proselyting time..finally I had an idea to bring it to a family that's been struggling with some things and could use a nice gift from the sister missionaries :)
It ended up being SUCH a good idea that we did that because the mom was having a really hard day and she said it made it so much better with us stopping by. Also, their daughter that's my age was there and she considers herself an atheist, but she came and started asking us all these questions about God and about our religion in general. We answered them simply and we bore our testimonies to her and the Spirit was so strong. I invited her to read the Book of Mormon and she gladly accepted it!
Her name is Bre (Breanna) and before we left, we were talking about how nobody knows how to spell that name or something. And they said it would be even stranger if it was spelled with an 'i' instead of an 'e' which is how I spell my name obviously. And since I couldn't tell her what my real name was, I still wanted to stand up for my name so I told her I knew a girl who's name was Brianne and she spells it with an i. She was very confused that someone would ever spell it like that. Sorry
Breanna..
Breanna..
Missionaries not only solve problems for people in the gospel...but apparently we are also love doctors. Two appointments this week happened where they unloaded their love problems on us and we just sat there giving them advice and listening as they vented. SO FUNNY. We gave one advice on how to approach breaking up with her boyfriend (she's in 7th grade) and the next one we had to tell him that she just wasn't interested...sorry Kent. So if you need any relationship advice, you now know where to go!
Yesterday we went and visited someone at a nursing home and it was probably the best decision we've ever made. I LOVE OLD PEOPLE SO MUCH. I've never felt more beautiful in my entire life. Everywhere I went I heard the old people telling me, themselves, or the old people around them how "beautiful that lady walking by" was. They would look at me with the biggest smiles on their faces and I was so happy and I wanted to stay there for the rest of my life.
I wheeled an old man into their dining room so that he could eat dinner and he sat in the very back. As I was walking him back there, I heard so many of the old women talk about me and I stopped at their tables on the way back to introduce myself and to thank them for their never-ending compliments. One even told me that I looked like a Christian even before I told her who I was/what I was representing. She said we had a nice happy glow about us! I can't wait to go back this week :) the lady that we originally visited there told me she would paint my nails if I came back and visited. Deal.
FALL IS COMIN slowly but surely..the leaves are struggling to change at the moment and everyone is saying that it's been too dry for them to change. Excuse me...I will cry.
Here comes the pain.......we got Tiwi. Tiwi is a box that is on the lower left part of our windshield that monitors our speed, aggressiveness of driving, seatbelt usage, etc. Tiwi will yell at you if you do anything that he doesn't agree with, then he will record it and send it in to whoever is over the Automobile part of our mission. If it gets bad enough, he alerts the mission president and we can get our driving privileges taken away. We were given cards that we have to slide into it every time we get in the car so that he knows who's driving. I've never been more thankful to be the junior companion so I don't have to drive and deal with Tiwi...he's a pain. His voice isn't very nice either! If you speed, he yells "CHECK YOUR SPEED" and it's actually quite frightening. Maybe it'll teach me how to drive so I don't get another massive speeding ticket -.-
We went and did service at an older lady's house this week and when she opened the door, she had no pants on. None. Just a shirt. No pants. We thought she was going to go change or something but she just said "ehh, it's nothing you ladies haven't seen before!" So we had to just deal with it and hope for the best.
ZONE CONFERENCE :) I had my first zone conference this week and it was absolutely amazing. It was all focused on the Book of Mormon and how crucial it is in your every day life, and not just as a missionary. I really wish I would have read the scriptures by myself more when I was at home now that I can see all the many blessings it can bring when you do. The Book of Mormon has changed my entire perspective on life and I have the strongest testimony of the truthfulness of it.
I ask all of you to PLEASE take a couple minutes out of your day to open up your scriptures. There are verses in there that were written just for you specifically in any situation you're in. I have found answers, peace, hope, and guidance through the Book of Mormon and I know you guys can too. It will strengthen you personally and as a family. Apply the scriptures to your life. Change some of the names to your own,name. For example, Moroni 1:3. Change moroni's name to your own! Or in,Alma 38:5, do the same thing with Shiblon's name. Once you do things like that, scripture study becomes a lot more personal and you get so much out of it.
We also had stake conference this weekend which was also SO GOOD. We had Elder Perkins from the Seventies come and he also stressed the importance of the Book of Mormon. That's been coming up SO much lately so I suggest y'all get on that ;)
I really don't know what else to write..so I'll just put up some pictures :)
Tiwi...
Here's our neighbor Rick that loves us. He seriously lays out on his chair all day long and tans. He always makes sure he says hi to us and he leaves us treats on our porch sometimes. New Englanders are the nicest people in the world, I'm not even joking.
BROTHER SMITH!!! He is our ward mission leader and he's literally the greatest man ever. He gives us like two cartons of ice cream a week along with chocolate, a birthday cake, and popsicles. He loves his missionaries and he won't let us forget it! Whenever sister crook and I enter a room that he's in, he'll start singing "there is beauty all around...." Awe I'm going to miss him! He promised me he'd take me "kayakin'" if I come back to visit him after my mission. 
oh, and he's so proud of his train thing and he wanted his picture in front of it so that's why you get a picture of brother smith clutching a train
oh, and he's so proud of his train thing and he wanted his picture in front of it so that's why you get a picture of brother smith clutching a train
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