hope youre enjoying the snow and everything else thats going on in alberta haha it's been gorgeous here!!! and now fall is right around the corner and I am sooo excited!! nothing beats fall in the maritimes! so it has been a roller coaster of emotions with mary and vienna haha. Last week on wednesday our first lesson with them was amazing!! we brought one of the yw with ys and she did so good, her name in teah! we taught the first part of the plan of salvation and mary the mom was just soaking it all in, she loved learning about the premortal life! "I've just never even thought about that but it just makes so much sense!" to quote her words haha (basically the best sentence you could ever hear as a missionary!) sometimes I just can't handle how cool being a missionary is, like we are literally asking these people to change their whole lives and they do all becasue they feel gods love and the spirit telling them it is true! After the lesson we were just so pumped but we were a little worried about vienna, she's 14 and I know if I was 14 and didn't really grow up learning much about god I would be thinking, "who are these weirdos in my house" haha but while we were drivng we got a text from mary saying the vienna wanted us to come back the next day!! so we started freaking out even more haha! then on thursday though we got a text from mary saying that they would have to reschedule for monday night becasue her husband was getting back from alberta, where he works, a day early and so thrusday night they would have to go pick him up from the airport. friday came and we sent them a text to see how they were doing. After teaching laura in dartmouth and how her husband had reacted to her being taught I was just so so anxious. We didn't hear back from them all friday and saturday and we were just doing our best to keep our hopes high! and then a miracles happened late on saturday night! they sent us a text saying that they were planning on coming to church on sunday!! I wish that you could be with sister edwards and I in these moments haha we just have to express our excitement. so sunday morning came and we were just the happiest people, sister whiting had also asked us to give the yw lesson and so we were so excited to teach a lesson about being genuine and being yourself and to have vienna there! at the church we waited by the doors for awhile and then it got close to staring and so we went in and kept looking back to see when they would be walking in... they never walked in:( we sent them a text a little after and asked if everything was ok and if we could still come to see them monday night and we didn't hear anything back from them until.... today!!! like 2 hours ago!! haha so now we are ecstatic again!! haha. it turns out that they got really sick and had just been in their beds the past to days. they said that they were so sorry and asked if we would come over tomorrow!:D so that is where we are at with mary and vienna right now haha. we are also teaching this other older lady peggy, she is super cute. she lives 40mins away in liverpool, we were knocking and she let me use her bathroom and from there we bonded haha. we are teaching her again this thursday.
lately I haven't been getting a lot out of my studies and so I am going to try and start them with listing at least 5 things I am grateful for (a tip given to us by sister beck who we helped with painting yesterday:)).
I love it here in bridgewater!! there is just so much I want to accomplish here!!
love sister wood
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