Newfoundland is getting so cold! The past few nights have been freezing but hilarious. Saturday night we left our house to go knocking and when we left the house it was pretty nice, it was cloudy but that was it, but then 20 minutes later
it was pouring!! the most it's ever rained since i've been out and of
course me, being dumb, wore the only coat that I own without a hood
hahah we were completely drenched, and we both had our glasses on and
just couldn't see anything haha we must have looked ridiculous. We
knocked on this one lady's house, roselyn ( she offered me one of her
jackets) and she was so awesome, we had a really great conversation with
her, one of her friends years had been a mormon and had given her a
book of mormon but she never got the chance to read it because she left
her husband and forgot the book at his house. sister fernandez and I are
out of book of momons right now, we have to wait for someone to bring
more to us, so I ended up giving her my MTC one so I really really hope
that she reads it. Last night there was another crazy storm. We were at
the university because we have our bible study every monday
night, and we were trying to get more people to come to it. I don't
know why but the elders always seem to find someone who ends up being
really awesome and actually wants to investigate the church but it is
never the same case for us. We always somehow manage to find the
craziest people on campus. haha so last night we met melvin and this
other guy(they were both from china and both couldn't speak very good
english) but we convinced them into coming with us. When we met them we
were protected from the wind and rain by this one building but we had to
run quite a ways to get to the next building where the class was. So it
was me sister fernandez and these two Chinese basically running for our
lives hahah it was so funny, the one guy dropped out half way becasue
he couldn't make it. Ugh I wish I could just be in person to explain to
you all how funny everything was, it is just too hard to type. In the
end after our class was done melvin asked if he was christian now...
hahah I felt so bad for him, he was so confused, it turns out that he
just got to canada a week ago. I'm laughing now but I really did feel
bad.
We are having a talent show with our branch this Saturday!!
It is super last minute but that's how it works around here haha
everyone is very spontaneous! Sister fernendez and I were really worried
that no one would sign up but so many people have! It's awesome! We are
still trying to figure out a talent that we can do, turns out we are
not as talented as the people of newfoundland haha.
I have kinda wrapped up my study on peace. My favourite scripture for it is still john 16:33
and I've kinda just concluded that the gospel of Jesus Christ does not
take away our trials, but it offers us a peace that our trails can't
take away. And I truly do believe that. I don't know if my conversion in
the gospel is strong enough yet for me to always have this peace but it
is my goal to get there.
Last friday we had our zone conference in Gander so we car pooled with the elders for the 4 hour drive on thursday. I had my interview with president Pratt thursday
night and he talked a lot about training so I don't know if that means I
am going to be training next transfer or not but I am super nervous and
excited! But oh my I could not imagine leaving st. Johns!! especially
all my girls here! We are teaching so many little 9 year olds right now
and they just keep inviting more and more of their friends to lessons
and to church! School is starting for them and I really want to start
doing activity days with them after school once a week. I have to hold
myself back from blowing money on craft stuff to do with them. oh also
in gander we had this really cool experience. Sister stoker, sister
cartright and I were knocking, it was almost 9, and we knocked on this
one house and don answered( a mother probably in her 30s) she wasn't
interested but her little boy who's 9 came down the stairs, he has
autism. He had heard the name jesus and said " I want to learn about
jesus" his mom said it was time to head back to bed but he was pretty
persistent. I told him that jesus loves him and he just went quiet. The
spirit was really strong in that tender moment. You could just tell that
he knew. I think those who have disabilities are a lot closer to heaven
than we think, God has a special place prepared for them:)
love sister wood
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