Familia!
Oh what a week! The best week so far :) Here are the first of many fun missionary stories!! :) Ok so this last week we went on Blitz and that is where our whole zone gets together and all of us missionaries work on one little area in Woodland to help that group of missionaries with referrals or new investigators or anything! We work for about two hours in just that area and when we are done we give the missionaries who are over that area all of the information that we were able to get from those two hours. They also split the companionships so I was put with another Sister that actually lives with Hermana Thompson and I :)
So my and this sister were out tracting, and this was like my first time actually tracting like door to door. So we are making our way across this neighborhood and we get to this one door and Sister Vanderneit looks at me and says, "You got this one" so I am all super excited and nervous at the same time! We knock on the door and a little 10 yr old girl answers and I say hi and we introduce ourselves and I ask if her parents are home and she says her dad is. So she goes and gets her dad. We could hear her telling her dad that "two pretty girls in dresses" want to talk to you :) She was so cute! So here comes her dad. I introduce ourselves and say that we are just in the neighborhood talking to everyone we can about family history and I ask if he has ever heard of family history and if he has ever done family history before. He looks at his daughter then back at us then again back at his daughter and asks, "Family history, family history hum. Have I ever done family history. I don't know what your question means." He is kindof laughing and so Sister Vanderneit and I kindof laugh too thinking that he was just being funny, so Sister Vanderniet explains a little bit about family history and how we would love for him to come check it out. He tells us that he would not come to our church and we say that he can do this on the computer. Then he looks at me and out of nowhere asks, "How brainwashed are you two?" We were both like, wait what!? He continues to tell us that no one really knows that there is a God. We are all just confused and we have no idea what we are doing here on earth. And that there is no point in doing family history because they are deceased and they were just as confused as we are about our purpose here. So I pipe in and I say that we have the best message that he will ever hear if he gives us a chance to talk. He ignored me and continued on how there is no God, and his sweet little 10 yr. old daughter is right there saying that she believes in God and I was agreeing with his little girl. He looked at me and said "Well I am glad you are about as smart as my 10 yr old daughter. You have no idea what you are talking about. Your parents brainwashed you into memorizing your religion and you think you are happy but you aren't." I was literally heartbroken, I felt so bad for this man. I told him that I wanted to help him and he pointed at me and said that I was now being rude and he just goes off on us. Sister Vanderniet stepped in and said that we were just going to go now and she bore a quick testimony and we started walking away. This guys is still literally yelling at us. As we turned the corner we heard him slam his door. It was SO intense.
We later ran into this man who said that he had been watching the History channel and it said that Joseph Smith had seen a flying saucer and that he worked with aliens to establish this church. He was really nice. He said if he wasn't Catholic he would join our church. It made me wonder about him. I love this experience! Seriously. I love talking to people. They are so interesting and this is what I get to do for 18 months! Missionary life is the best!
After we were done tracting we were driving back to our area and we were listening to Motab and they were singing, "This is The Christ". I am seriously honored to be a missionary and to be able to share this gospel with everyone. I literally love everyone here in Woodland. The people here are so sweet and I just want to help everyone! I am so grateful that I was raised in a home where we went to church and had family home evening and read scriptures early in the morning as a family (this must be the best day of dads life). You guys are the best. I am so lucky and BLESSED :) to have each and everyone of you! Rad! I love you bud. I miss you so much!!! Write me!! Love you guys!
Ok so the first picture is of me and my new companion! We have to study for 4 hours everyday in the morning so we thought, why not make it fun?? Don't we look like sisters? Then the second picture is of one of the sisters that we met in the airport and we came into the field together. I can't remember her name but she is so nice and really wanted pictures with me yesterday haha so there you go! Oh! Hello! I want to see pictures of the new room!! :) Love you!
