June 6, 2016
Hello, all! So on Wednesday we found out that Sister Meagher was
getting transferred to Citrus Ridge, near Orlando. Other sisters who
haved served there say you can see the Disney fireworks every night :)
We were sad to see her go, though. We went out for frozen yogurt that
night, but she actually ended up being able to stay until Friday. On
Tuesday and Friday we taught an investigator named N in
McDonald's. She is awesome. Unfortunately she usually works on Sundays
and hasn't been to church yet.
Friday was
pretty crazy. We packed up Sister Meagher and had to go get a bike rack
from the Valrico elders because the Riverview elders apparently do not
have a car anymore and we inherited Sister Alder's broken bike rack when
she transferred and needed one. We taught N with a member, and
then had to rush off to meet Sister Meagher's new companion at the
mission office. Because Sister Anderson and the other Sister Training
Leader had a Mission Leadership Conference, we did an exchange so I was
with Sister Lance who serves in the YSA ward. We walked around the USF
(University of South Florida) all day and talked to people. It was
really fun and it is a really beautiful campus! We also did a Skype
lesson with a recent convert who had moved back to Peru. The meeting
got out pretty late, so we didn't get home until around 10:30 that
night.
This week we met a really nice woman
with 5 daughters ages 11, 8, 4, 2, and 3 months. (We haven't met the
baby yet!) They want to come to church next week! They don't have a
car, but they might be able to borrow one from the grandma or we can try
to find them a ride. That could be hard because they are such a big
family! The husband and son may come as well. Nobody that we invited
to church this week was able to make it, though. At church yesterday, I
met a woman who I thought would really get along with the mom and I
told Sister Anderson. She said she had been thinking the same thing!
So we invited her to come visit her with us tomorrow.
We
actually taught a few lessons in Spanish this week! Sister Anderson
knows it pretty well, so I didn't say much. When I tried, it was really
hard. We are going to get some members who speak Spanish to come with
us next time. People are really nice here. One woman invited us onto
her porch and gave us glasses of cold water.
We
also had a cool experience on Saturday. We started tracting and then
Sister Anderson said, "I feel like there's somewhere else we should be."
So we decided to move on to the next place we had planned to go to.
As we got to our car, we met a young man walking a dog. We stopped and
he said his family was going through a hard time, so we said a prayer
with him. As Sister Anderson was saying the prayer, I thought that I
should teach him about the Book of Mormon, so I did. I knew it could
bring him peace in this hard time. He wanted to read it, and even said
he would come to church! Sister Anderson said she had never seen
someone so receptive in Fishhawk before. Fishhawk is a rich
neighborhood, and I guess most people there aren't interested in
learning about our church.
Last night we went
to a graduation/going away party for a young woman in the ward. It was
fun, there was good food, and we were able to talk to several people.
We also found out there is a tropical storm coming our way, and our
beach party that was supposed to happen today was postponed until next
week. I'm excited, we are going to have a sand castle making
competition! Anyway, it's been a good week and I hope you all are doing
well. :)
Sister Porter
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Pictures:
The first two pictures are us eating frozen yogurt :) Then there is the three of us at the mission office, and us with Sister Meagher's new companion in the last picture.
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