OKC Animal Rescue

This week was super fun, and exciting. We had lots of fun this week. I don’t remember too much of the beginning of the week, but I remember a lot of the end. On Wednesday, we got to talk to bladdimir about baptism and asked him if he still wanted to be baptized, he has been having some doubts. I was really stressing about what we could say to help him and what would make him want to be baptized but we can’t make people do anything they have to do it on their own. He told us that he wants to still be baptized but wants to wait till he is 16 in November. We have been able to talk to some of the other friends of bladdimir and are going to try and start teaching some of them, there are some pretty nice ones and then others who aren’t the nicest kids yet. 

Thursday we had zone conference, it was super helpful and awesome, super long too. President talked about how to work better with members, and how to work with different personalities. He also put some new things in that we are supposed to do, one of them is called lightening visits. All we are supposed to do is go to a member’s house and tell them about a miracle and we can’t go in and can’t be longer than 5 minutes. So after zone conference, elder Q figured we would go try it, we went to a members house and they tried to invite us in a good 10 times but we kept turning down and finally we had the whole family outside and we told them about a guy we find, they didn’t have much to say hahah. It was really awkward and I felt weird knocking on someone’s door and kinda bragging about something we did hahaha. 

Friday we had a super strange day, it was district meeting and half the district was sick so there were only a couple of us. We then just visited people until we had to go to the church to help set up for the Mexican Independence day fiesta. The party was sooo fun, we had 2 Spanish branches come so there was a ton of people. Everyone brought food from where they are from, we got to eat some super good food, I felt super fat after and my shirt felt really tight. The members all did these dances and sang songs it was really funny. It was super cool to see and be a part of the culture. 

Saturday we did service all morning, service is really fun always, we helped clean out sheds for the mission. We then went on exchanges because all the leaders of the mission had a meeting with Elder Pearson of the 70, I got to be with elder Rost, who is a Cali boy. As soon as we started the exchange it started to rain extremely hard, we were lucky to be in the car, but couldn’t see anything so we had to pull over and watch the storm. In 10 minutes all the streets were flooded, it started hailing super big hail haha. We sat in the car for about an hour, watching the storm. We then drove to bladdimirs and on the way there we almost got the car stuck in water, all the streets had flooded and had huge puddles of water, it was super fun. We went to dinner with a member and we had the dinner message, and I’m still kinda new so in my terrible Spanish I said "when you eat us, you’re helping god" the guy just looked at me and all the other missionaries just laughed. We then came back to the church to pick up some elders and we found a stray dog so we started playing with it and put it in the car, and then put some killer shades on it. 

Sunday was awesome, but none of our investigators came to church which was super lame. We had a really good dinner and had an amazing dinner message with a member. We went to visit one of my favorite families. La familia Vargas, they are a less active family, they are super kind and funny. We went over and visited and talked about getting them to the temple, they are working soo hard and Hermana is doing all she can to get there. She was telling us how hard she tries to get to church. It made me soo happy to see how strong her desire to attend church and read was. She knows and wants the blessing that come from going to church and wants those blessing for her and her family. 

Today we woke up and went and tried to do laundry at another missionary apartment but couldn’t so we called a member and she said we could come over so we were driving over to her house and we say this little puppy running in the street almost getting hit, so we stopped the car and the traffic and elder Q ran around in the street trying to catch this dog, Hahah he finally caught it and we brought it in the car and took it to the members house and played with it as we did laundry.