I hope yall had a great Halloween. I am personally EXTREMELY glad Halloween is over. Oregon people decorate for Halloween SO MUCH. Like more than I have ever seen. Almost every single house is so decorated, which makes it so much more scary when tracting. I am looking forward for when the decorations start coming down, which hasn't happened yet.
Halloween day though was a really great day. We had an appointment with a 9 year old little boy named Alex. His mom is Juana and she is taking lessons from the Spanish Elders but Alex likes English better and she wanted him to take the lessons from us. It was really fun. He is so cute. Then we went tracting and then went to an inactive families house and helped the 9 year old girl, Montana, get ready for her Halloween costume. We did her makeup and helped her put her wig on. haha it was fun. At around 4:30 Sister Kerr and I were starving but dinner wasn't until 6:30. We decided to stop at Wendys and get a "snack" while we did our weekly planning. We were so so so hungry, but we didn't want to be full for dinner, so we were debating on whether to get a burger or not. We had dinner at the RS President's house that night and she is a very proper, sweet lady and we figured that she was probably going to be a super healthy eater and it probably wouldn't be the most filling meal. So we got a spicy chicken sandwich, fries, and a frosty, from the dollar menu. Then we did our weekly planning and ate our "snack" and were so completely stuffed after that. aha But we went to dinner, and for dinner she had made very cheesy lasagna and hot dogs and salad. Then for dessert she served us Albertson donuts (mmm) AND ice cream. hahaha we seriously underestimated her! It was hilarious. We were SO full after I could hardly move. haha it was so funny.
Earlier that day we had been blasting the heat in the car and Sister Kerr said, "Let's turn the heat off, it is SO hot in here." Literally right after she said that, we passed our Elders on their bikes and they were so bundled up. We just found it ironic and really hilarious. It is so freezing outside, I am grateful for our car.
November 1st was a good day. We were tracting at one point and met a boy in his twenties who had just moved from Florida into his new house. He was eager to talk because he hasn't made any friends here yet. We could tell he was lonely. We talked on the porch a while and he said he believed in science, not God. But because he was so lonely, he kept talking to us for a long time and we gave him the Book of Mormon and as we were leaving he said he would look into reading it. So we told the Elders and they are going to go over there and be his friend :) haha Hopefully we can sweep in there with a lot of Mormon friends before he finds other friends. I just thought it was a blessing running into him like that.
So how it works with two sets of missionaries in the ward is we split the ward for tracting purposes only. Just so that we aren't tracting in the same areas. But for teaching and everything else we both cover the whole ward. If the Elders find someone who would be better suited for us, they give them to us, and vice-versa. So like when we met that single guy, we told them about him. And they tracted into a single lady the other day and set an appointment up for us with her on Wednesday. That has happened a lot so it works out well. They are also going to start teaching our investigator Heidi's 11 year old boy. He doesn't have any male figures in his life at all. He lives with his mom and his sister and her two baby girls. So the Elders can be his buddies more than we can. So they are starting to teach him.
Friday night we met with Heidi. Last Monday we had planned on teaching her the Plan of Salvation but she didn't read the chapter we left her to read, so we just read 3 Nephi 11 with her instead. So on Friday we taught her the Plan of Salvation. It was SO good. The whole time Heidi was saying, "This makes sense." Also, the member we brought with us, Sister Fiatoa, clicked with her and her daughter, so well. I asked Heidi if she would be baptized on November 16, and she said YES!!!!! I asked her and everything was silent while I was asking her, the little girls weren't making noise, it was just so perfect. The spirit was so strong and Heidi responded immediately after I asked the question. She just quietly said, "yes." And she kept saying yes and we were all so excited and then she got super excited and it was just so happy!!
Heidi also bore her testimony yesterday at church. haha She asked us during the meeting if she had to be baptized to go up there and we said no and she just went up!!! She is seriously so awesome. She started off by saying, "I don't really know what bearing your testimony means," and then she bore a beautiful testimony about how she has been searching for home for a long time and this is home.
Jay also asked about meals. This past weeks dinners were seriously UNBELIEVABLE. They were all so beyond good. hahaha Last Tuesday we ate at Sister Brennan's house and we had this delicious chili on rice, a recipe she invented. She is one of those awesome people who get paid to have a blog. She invents her own recipes. I asked for her blog address to give to yall. It is www.laurenslatest.com.
That's all I am going to write today. Thank you for your prayers. I love you all so much and miss you more than I could possibly express. Write me please! :)
I love you bye.
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