Time flies when you are serving the Lord.
Seriously though.
How in the world is it March????
I asked someone that the other day and they said, "Well. March USUALLY comes after February...?" Yes. I know this, thank you, kind sir.
This week was pretty good. It's been a hard couple of weeks, but I will spare the boring details.
I WILL tell you, however, how much I LOVE Prairie Du Chien!
First off. I would like to inform you all that I am a professional animal spotter. #mydaddytrainedmewell.
In ONE DAY I spotted:
2 swans
6 wild turkey
8 deer
3 bald eagles
and
7 red tail hawks
Reason number 9246348 why I love Prairie Du Chien.
Reason number 1 of why I love Prairie Du Chien is that I am madly in love with the people that live here. The branch members here are the best people in the world! The families that I am working with are sooo strong and so powerful that I could just cry telling you about it.
The Lafaves AND the Steibers came to church this Sunday!!!! Little 8 year old Dalton Lafave got up and bore his testimony for the first time! (He's not even baptized yet!) His testimony went something like this, "I know this church is true from the experiences I've had this year. I know this is the kingdom of God. I know Heavenly Father is real even though He lives in Heaven. I know that He loves us. And I love Him. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." Are you crying yet? No? Well. Try this. After Dalton bore his testimony, his dad, John got up. He bore powerful testimony of the truthfullness of the gospel. He said that the Book of Mormon has helped him so much, that it has helped him become closer to his wife and his children. And EVERYONE in the room was in tears. Even his brother-in-law who was at church for the very first time ever. Powerful stuff. Can't wait for them to get baptized!!! Please pray for them by name, friends. They are strong, but Satan does not want to let them join the fold.
On Monday, we went to the Wisconsin Dells as a District. Took forever and half to get there. Our district is ginormous geographically. We went to a place called Wizard Quest. It was fun. Its a super good idea. We failed and didnt free all the wizards, but we had fun. Then we all went and ate chinese food and laughed. Great Pday indeed.
Tuesday we had district meeting and then had dinner and a lesson with Derald and Anita and Elder and Sister Parkinson. I love those humans. We decided to help Derald back to the temple by talking about the priesthood. We peaked his interest and his awesome hometeachers taught him about it on Thursday. We focussed our lesson on Anita though. We went over the baptism interview questions and she is so ready. We just need to increase Derald's faith so that he will marry her before she can get baptized. She wants it so much. I think he's starting to realize that he's holding her back. Elder Parkinson literally told him that he needed to "Man up!". It was awesome. hahaha
We've tracted a lot this week. We went to some of the smaller towns around Prairie to see what the harvest is like over there since previous sisters didnt really venture outside of PDC much. We found a lot of potential. The people in Seneca werent too interested, but it was also -6 degrees and 7pm. The people in Eastman are sooooo nice. They are all very strong in their own faiths, but were very nice to us and no doors were slammed in our faces. The people in Bloomington are probably my favorite because they were all just SO nice to us and we got 2 legit potential investigators who are going to let us go back next weekend. Yay for families that are looking for a church to raise their family in!
Oh! We also moved 2 and a half TON of wood pellets into Brother Braudt's basement. We moved one ton in just over 4 minutes. We are pro. It's crazy to think that 2 1/2 ton of anything was moved by me. But. We did it. In a small little dirt floor cellar with millions of spiderwebs and spiders. All in the name of service. It was so fun.
Just after, we were going to tract in Bloomington, so we changed from our sweats and spiderweb filled clothes to prosyelting clothes in teeny little gas station restroom.I felt like a homeless person, but it was fun. The gas station people thought we were weird, but oh well. Yes, we wear skirts in this weather. Every. Single. Day.
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Mar 3 (7 days ago)
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Oh! We went to Richland Center for a luau with the branch out there! The Elders invited us to go! It was fun! There was a good number of people there and we even got to have some good chats with nonmembers! The Elders were happy that we were there and that we had a good talk with them. Hoping for some potential there! We played trivia about Hawaii and I got 11 right! We played Bingo and ate Hawaiian Haystacks and had tons of fun. Elder Smith challenged me to a hula hoop competition, which was HILARIOUS. I wish I could send you the video. It was a terrible set-up. Elder Smith ROCKS at hula-hooping and I apparently SUCK. So funny.
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