Week 66 - Here's a weekly email for you!

Sister Smith and I were reporting lessons!

This week was really really good! We've been focusing on visiting a list of focus people that our bishop gave us and we have seen BLESSINGS. We're teaching this guy named Adrian and he's the coolest. He just accepts everything as truth and he just feels it. I wasn't in the area yet, but on his first lesson he just started crying because he felt the spirit and he's just so cool. We brought a member with us to read the book of Mormon and they're pals now so that's cool. We're just working on getting him to church! 

We visited this lady named Joanna this week and she's so cute. Missionaries have been visiting her for 10 years and she said she thought that it was so cool that even after all these years we still come visit her. She's very impressed with the record keeping within the church  we asked her if she wanted us to teach her about the gospel and she said, "sure, I haven't taken the lessons in a while, but I'm not ready to get baptized." So that's a bummer. But she's a nice lady. Maybe we'll take her some cookies for Christmas or something.

We got back in contact with David! David has been meeting with missionaries since probably April I think and we lost contact with him for the last three weeks or so because he had to drive his family members all over the place but he didn't tell us that so we were just kinda hanging out and and we thought about not teaching him anymore and we wrote him a note talking about how we were gonna stop bothering him and then he came to church. Was it manipulative? Probably. Did it work? Yes, he came to church on Sunday and he said he wants to get back on schedule. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

We spoke in sacrament meeting! Sister Smith talked about Jesus Christ as the Good shepherd and she killed it. I talked about following the example of Jesus Christ and forgiving others. Super deep. I wrote it the night before. As per usual. It was not deep. One lady said she liked it because it was in layman's terms so she could understand it. And I said thank you, that's about as deep as I go. So that's cool. #relatable  my favorite quote I've got on forgiveness is

 " being mistreated is the most important condition of mortality, for eternity itself depends on how you respond to those who mistreat you " or something like that. But you get it! Forgive others and if you need help, then it's a good thing that Christ is the Good shepherd and he'll come get you and help you!

That's pretty much it! I figured I'd put some effort into a real email this week! Have a merry Christmas! 

Don't forget to read your scriptures!

Sister Dorrance

Sister Smith and I had a photo shoot in the dark!

Sister Smith took a picture of me doing personal study and trying not to bother her with the talk I was listening to. I PROMISE I WAS NOT SLEEPING. I WOULD NOT SEND THE PICTURE HOME IF I WAS BECAUSE MY PARENTS WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED IN ME.

Week 64-65 - Sort of a weekly, but more like a scrapbook 😁

This week has been a crazy one! We had a meeting in Arcadia and we had a correlation meeting and the Christmas party and some other stuff and so it was crazy, but it was great! We kept running into people that had met with missionaries before so they were super open! We met this one guy named Hector and he had been meeting with missionaries for a while but he got super busy, but he said that we could come by! We stopped by on Sunday and he was so cool! We talked a lot about the book of Mormon and he loved it. He said ,"I'm gonna have to read it and really see if I feel it. You guys are gonna have to answer all my questions." And sister Smith and I are as excited as a little girl who's crush said he liked her back. We're stoked. So it was a good week. We also had the Christmas party! Lots of great things!

Also, it rained for two days straight here and it was so wonderful. Not quite snow, but it was super nice. Lots of pictures and videos  

We took pictures after contacting people in the rain! I guess people are more interested when it's raining!

 neither of us were focusing very well in studies in on particular study sesh this week

We selfied in the car

Sister Smith gave me a piggy back ride to the apartment and a weirdo whistled at us *shudder* we don't do that anymore.... 

We had a white elephant gift exchange at our meeting in Arcadia! 

I was staring at the rain one morning and sister Smith thought it was funny. Sister Chamberlain joined in. 

We got apple cider and we felt pretty basic so we figured we might as well take a selfie with our Starbucks..... 

We helped put Christmas lights up at the Wright's! Our ward mission leader said he didn't want us to do his lights because we're girls so we sent this picture to him  all in good humor of course!

I tried on some super rad heels at a discount store  I don't know how anyone walks in shoes like that!

We froze sister Chamberlain's deodorant and mints 

 

Videos of the Rain (you can probably only watch these if you are on an actual computer)