So. As you have probably guessed, I got a new companion. Her name is Sister Jeromchek! Yes, a name that makes mine look simple! Bless-ed. She went to BYU and lived in Helaman Halls in the Taylor building. YEAH. We both looked familiar to each other. Funny how life works out! She is from Spokane, Washington and has a super neato ballet scholarship. She's pretty fun and we get along really well together!
This week was more eventful than last week, that's for sure! This week WE COMMITTED BRANSON TO BE BAPTIZED!!!!! (While everyone celebrates I would just like to take a moment to express how upset I am that commit does not have two "t"s. Such tomfoolery. Such nonsense. This is a severe injustice. I believe that since there are two "m"s there should be two "t"s. It's only fair.) It was great! He really felt the Spirit and understood what we were saying!.. But he didn't come to church on Sunday.. I think his Doctor (of the mental sort) is anti-ing him, which makes me really mad/sad/angry/frustrated/depressed/mad again. We went to go make sure he was coming to church on Sunday and we got another Branson special. It is a note that is written on the back of an envelope held up by a band-aid. It is so great. It makes the fact that he isn't coming to church hurt just a little less. This is the 3rd one we've gotten.
For Thanksgiving we were invited to TWO places. I don't know how I did it. I'm sure I gained at least 40 pounds. We were invited to Lois's for lunch with her family (for more information on Lois please see previous post). It was great and so much fun! She is just a wonderful lady! After that we did some work and then went to the Queens! They are seriously the cutest family ever. They have this little boy named Ezra and his hair is just so awesome. There is no other word. It.. I just want it. But it was like a gourmet meal! Everything was beyond delicious. Plus they had razzleberry pie at the end. I am all about that pie.
Now I must tell you of a terrible mistake I made... well Sister Eddington started it. So we have this less active Sister named Sister Barnett that we see and her granddaughter is about to have (well just had) a baby. Sister Eddington thought she would be here for at least one more transfer so she volunteered to finish this blanket that Sister Barnett started crocheting. It looked to difficult for my companion so she started her own. About 10 minutes later we call the telling us that Sister Eddington would, in fact, NOT be staying. But she kept with the blasted blanked.. She crocheted like a mad woman and go pretty far, but now I'm left finishing it. I don't really know what I'm doing. I hope this kid likes it and drags it around like he's the kid on peanuts. As of right now it's about the size of a dishtowel.. just kidding.. it's bigger. It would be a good blanket for a large potato.
Training is hard. Like, really hard. I didn't realize how much I relied on Sister Eddington. She is amazing! I'm doing much better now than I was earlier this week though! I have come to realize that my new companion is not a Tomagatchi pet. I can't kill her. I think that's what I was afraid of. But I think we are doing pretty well considering the circumstances. I have learned that we can really do anything as long as we rely on the Lord. I have really felt the Spirit guide us this week has we have been doing work. We went to visit this less active Sister who opened the door and said, "who told you I was back?". Apparently her mother had recently died so she had just spend 3 months in Idaho and gotten back yesterday. She really needed us. If you don't think that is being led by the Spirit wait until you hear this one.
This lady was a lady who we have been trying to meet since the second day Sister Eddington and I got here. We have left cards, sticky notes, a family history pamphlet, and even wrote her a letter to try and reach her. Sister Jeromcheck and I were trying to visit a potential investigator, but he wasn't home so we had no idea what to do when I got the idea to go visit Maria. So we got in the car, went to her apartment complex, debated if we had gone in the right entrance for a while, and then decided if we hadn't we would walk. When we got out of the car we saw a pair of crutches sticking out of a gold car. Her neighbor (yes, we talked to her neighbor too) had told us that she has a gold car. I was guessing it was Maria, but even if it wasn't, this lady needed some help. We asked her if we could help her and she stuck her head out and said yes. Apparently the lady had fallen down the rickety stairs from her second floor apartment (which scare me every time I go down them) and she had landed on her shoulder/neck. She had been injured for about 3 months and she has been really struggling. We helped her carry her very heavy purse and some cakes up the stairs. She was so grateful! We gave her our phone number and she promised that she would call us when she needs help. Oh yeah, it was in fact Maria.
Boom. Those are the highlights of my week. I'm just hanging out here in Florida. You know, living the missionary life. Just working for daaays.
Hope everyone has a blessed week! I know I will!
love,
Sister Perkes
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