Update on transfers! So transfers are tomorrow and Sister Mueller has been transferred to Idaho Falls. She has finished her mission and is headed home. My new companion is going to be Sister Boyack. All I know about her is that she is from Oregon and has been out for 9 months. I will meet her tomorrow and will tell you all the dirt on her on Monday. :)
Throughout my mission, it's really hard to find and baptize people. Everyone here in the bible belt is super religious and set in their beliefs. The good news is that they're super kind when they do reject us! :) "Have a blessed day," is a very common phrase here. In the last 3 months I have taught one of the main preach my gospel lessons 5 times, one of which was for gospel principles class on Sunday. The central park area hasn't had a baptism in 14 months. Despite all this, we work really hard every day and there is a lot of prayers and fasting that goes into finding someone to teach. Right now our teaching pool consists of one: Jerry.
Jerry is the best! He gives us 2 or 3 tubs of ice cream every week. Last week we had to give away a ton of ice cream because we really needed our freezer back. We read from the Book of Mormon when we see him and he has started to progress much faster since we started doing that. Because I look like I'm 12 years old, Jerry calls me kiddo. It's really endearing.
This weekend we helped the church put on a community event called Nativity and Noel. We helped to host the event. Now you have to understand that the wards in Bentonville are the most extra people I've ever seen. They went all out for this event. I'm talking about hand decorating 300 cupcakes each night with a Christmas theme and making a life size stable and creating a frame to hang lights and blue cloth to make the walls of the gym look like a starry night. They also had a concert performance from different community choirs. I'm not going to say anything against our own Tabernacle choir, but I prefer the Methodist choir. They blew the roof off. It was amazing.
What are you doing for #lighttheworld? Did you do anything for the world wide day of service? It's a great opportunity to share the gospel without going out of your comfort zone.
I love you!
~Sister Slade
Throughout my mission, it's really hard to find and baptize people. Everyone here in the bible belt is super religious and set in their beliefs. The good news is that they're super kind when they do reject us! :) "Have a blessed day," is a very common phrase here. In the last 3 months I have taught one of the main preach my gospel lessons 5 times, one of which was for gospel principles class on Sunday. The central park area hasn't had a baptism in 14 months. Despite all this, we work really hard every day and there is a lot of prayers and fasting that goes into finding someone to teach. Right now our teaching pool consists of one: Jerry.
Jerry is the best! He gives us 2 or 3 tubs of ice cream every week. Last week we had to give away a ton of ice cream because we really needed our freezer back. We read from the Book of Mormon when we see him and he has started to progress much faster since we started doing that. Because I look like I'm 12 years old, Jerry calls me kiddo. It's really endearing.
This weekend we helped the church put on a community event called Nativity and Noel. We helped to host the event. Now you have to understand that the wards in Bentonville are the most extra people I've ever seen. They went all out for this event. I'm talking about hand decorating 300 cupcakes each night with a Christmas theme and making a life size stable and creating a frame to hang lights and blue cloth to make the walls of the gym look like a starry night. They also had a concert performance from different community choirs. I'm not going to say anything against our own Tabernacle choir, but I prefer the Methodist choir. They blew the roof off. It was amazing.
What are you doing for #lighttheworld? Did you do anything for the world wide day of service? It's a great opportunity to share the gospel without going out of your comfort zone.
I love you!
~Sister Slade
1. All of the ice cream that was in our freezer
2. Sister Mueller's last Sunday
3. Sister Mueller's "funeral" picture
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