Mom! This week I can't even remember the days because they all mesh into one giant day haha i gott look in my planner. we've been visiting a lot of less actives this week trying to get them to at least watch conference because its in the comfort of their own home! i taught brandon and tim a couple of times this week and they are both doing awesome! brandon got baptized last night and he said he feels the cleanest and purest he's ever felt in his life and we were so happy for him! and he is so happy and its awesome!! its so cute everytime we come to teach him a lesson he grabs his little stack of scripture stuff we havae given him! it has his book of mormon, a bible, all the pamphlets we give him, and a gospel principles book. he is just so excited to learn! i only say its cute because they are new to the church and they do all of these things to be good and its like watching a child learn something that they love! haha tim is progressing along. the other day i asked him if how he felt and if he was understanding everything and he was like ya i feel at peace and i believe everything your telling me, it just makes sense. i was like man that is sweet!! haha we put another guy on date to be baptized during a church tour! his name is franz. (i don't know whats up with us tracting into all of these middle aged navy dudes that aren't married... and they are bald) haha but ya he is ready as well and you can just tell this will make his life so happy!
so funny story for this week! we are tracting and the houses are really far apart in some of the areas we tract so naturally the driveways are super long too! so we are walking down this driveway and we get to the door and a lady answers and she is like oh my gosh i just had surgery whatever you are selling i don't want! and so we ask her if there is anything she needs us to do for her and she's like uh no but just a little advice don't just walk down peoples driveways! and were are both thinking what the heck does that mean?? how else are we supposed to get to your door.... hahah it was funny but she didn't think so... but ya i didn't take her advice cause uhh the next house we knocked on is coming on a church tour with her kids tomorrow! we've tracted into a lot of members of the church who have been inactive for decades! it crazy and you know what they all say stopped them from coming? almost everyone was offended by another memeber of the church.. i just wish they would see that they are only hurting themselves by not coming but ya we usually will drop by a couple more times to follow up on how they are doin!
oh so scary story for the week. we were tracting down this road and once again the houses are far apart and peoples driveways are long so we are walking down this driveway and the house we are coming up to is a mobile home and it just looks sketch.. but hey we knock on a ton of sketchy houses but i just kinda had a funny feeling about it but i knocked on the door anyways and like 3 seconds later i just blurt out in the middle of talking to my comp that we need to leave now! so we just turn and leave and we start to go to the next house and i'm like no we gotta get off this street and so we start heading back to our car and i just feel like something wants me and they want me bad. and so i run to the car and my comp gets in and we just peel out and the moment we turned off of the street i felt at ease.. it was so weird. but i've never felt scared like that before... i can't even describe the feeling other than i know that whatever was behind that door i knocked on was evil and when i say evil i mean satanic.. i've never recognized the power of satan so strongly but man he hates missionaries let me tell ya. and if there was a way for him to stop us he would do it. it was just a reminder to me that obedience is key. we have a saying around here that goes obedience brings blessings but exact obedience brings miracles. its so important for us to be worthy of the promptings of the spirit because i hate when i don't have it with me. like if a song pops into my head and its not a good song i can feel the spirit peace out and i hate not having it with me because then i feel sluggish and like my mind is blocked. its weird hah
but ya conference was awesome!! in my email to dad i was telling him how it's different to watch it as a missionary because you are not only listening for yourself but for those you teach! the words said and the testimonies given were awesome. well i'm almost outta time so i love you and thank you for everything!
love tay
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