Transfers were this past week..... We are together still! Yes!! I
think Sister a Taggart and I work very well together. Not to mention
we balance each other out(: our roommates moved out because they shut
down their area. It was bitter sweet. Pretty sad that we can't come
home and tell them about all of our crazy experiences, but we now have
2 bathrooms for getting ready in the morning!! Yippee!
Sister Taggart is the new sister training leader, and she will be
wonderful at it! That means we will be going on quite a few exchanges
this transfer.
So Paula has been sick this past week, but we made her feel a little
bit better by getting her sparkly pink nail polish. She was so excited
that she had to try the color out right then and there! But not on her
own nails of course, on her little chihuahua, Lily. We are going with
Paula and Sister Davis to the visitor's center this week to show Paula
around, and also to see "On the Lord's Errand." Speaking of Sister
Davis, we went over there to do some service this week, and it
consisted of putting spices into little glass jars and labeling them.
We liked that job because we got to smell all of them. Sister Taggart
and I are going to be expert chefs when we get back home! (:
So I went on exchanges with Sister Connelly at the DC Visitors Center
all day on Thursday, and we did a youth tour! We had all young women.
It is always one of my favorite things to see a group of people's'
understanding of one subject change into something greater over time.
It was also sooo nice to be back serving in a Visitors Center once
again! Sister Connelly and I then went on exchanges again this past
Thursday, and we stayed in Gaithersburg. Highlights: 4 Spanish
referrals (all contacts using the broken Spanish we know), Peruvian
food at an authentic restaurant, a drunk man stopping us from across a
busy street to come talk with us, and a 6-inch moth!!
My companion. Is too funny. So we were laying in bed when we got a
text from an investigator. He was basically dumping us as his
missionaries. Although it was sad, my companion had a funny outlook!
"Being a missionary is too hard. People break up with you like every
day." Haha so true.
We went a visitors center event with Laura and Bro Britton last night.
We are not sure how that went.... I think Laura was pretty overwhelmed
by it, her being atheist and all. Hopefully she continues to meet with
us!
We taught a Catholic man and his Jewish son a few days ago, and that
had to be one of the most confusing lessons. We did not know which
direction to take it in? Luckily, they both have copies of the Book of
Mormon now!
Dee is this awesome black woman who owns a hair salon. We teach her in
her hair salon when she isn't busy. We are going to go back sometime
this week and help her unpack shipments that she gets in. We taught
her about church services, and she is wanting to come with us one day!
We gave her a restoration pamphlet, and she is excited to read more on
the Restoration.
We taught a lesson to Will from Cameroon this past week, and we put on
little shoe booties to walk in his house (I'll send a picture of
them)! He also made Sister Taggart and I herbal tea in his mom's fancy
tea pot and fancy tea sets. What hospitality!
I was reading in 2 Nephi 9:6 this morning, and it reads:
"For as death hath passed upon all men, to fulfil the merciful plan of
the great Creator, there must needs be a power of resurrection, and
the resurrection must needs come unto man by reason of the fall; and
the fall came by reason of transgression; and because man became
fallen they were cut off from the presence of the Lord."
I think it is so interesting that the scripture connects the fall to
resurrection. It further supports God's order and wisdom. His plan is
flawless, and everything needed to happen the way it did so that we
will one day be able to return to his presence and be exalted. If we
do our part, we will be able to stand before our father in heaven and
tell him, "I have done all I could to do thy will," and Jesus Christ
will happily be our advocate with the Father.
Love,
Sister Steenhoek
think Sister a Taggart and I work very well together. Not to mention
we balance each other out(: our roommates moved out because they shut
down their area. It was bitter sweet. Pretty sad that we can't come
home and tell them about all of our crazy experiences, but we now have
2 bathrooms for getting ready in the morning!! Yippee!
Sister Taggart is the new sister training leader, and she will be
wonderful at it! That means we will be going on quite a few exchanges
this transfer.
So Paula has been sick this past week, but we made her feel a little
bit better by getting her sparkly pink nail polish. She was so excited
that she had to try the color out right then and there! But not on her
own nails of course, on her little chihuahua, Lily. We are going with
Paula and Sister Davis to the visitor's center this week to show Paula
around, and also to see "On the Lord's Errand." Speaking of Sister
Davis, we went over there to do some service this week, and it
consisted of putting spices into little glass jars and labeling them.
We liked that job because we got to smell all of them. Sister Taggart
and I are going to be expert chefs when we get back home! (:
So I went on exchanges with Sister Connelly at the DC Visitors Center
all day on Thursday, and we did a youth tour! We had all young women.
It is always one of my favorite things to see a group of people's'
understanding of one subject change into something greater over time.
It was also sooo nice to be back serving in a Visitors Center once
again! Sister Connelly and I then went on exchanges again this past
Thursday, and we stayed in Gaithersburg. Highlights: 4 Spanish
referrals (all contacts using the broken Spanish we know), Peruvian
food at an authentic restaurant, a drunk man stopping us from across a
busy street to come talk with us, and a 6-inch moth!!
My companion. Is too funny. So we were laying in bed when we got a
text from an investigator. He was basically dumping us as his
missionaries. Although it was sad, my companion had a funny outlook!
"Being a missionary is too hard. People break up with you like every
day." Haha so true.
We went a visitors center event with Laura and Bro Britton last night.
We are not sure how that went.... I think Laura was pretty overwhelmed
by it, her being atheist and all. Hopefully she continues to meet with
us!
We taught a Catholic man and his Jewish son a few days ago, and that
had to be one of the most confusing lessons. We did not know which
direction to take it in? Luckily, they both have copies of the Book of
Mormon now!
Dee is this awesome black woman who owns a hair salon. We teach her in
her hair salon when she isn't busy. We are going to go back sometime
this week and help her unpack shipments that she gets in. We taught
her about church services, and she is wanting to come with us one day!
We gave her a restoration pamphlet, and she is excited to read more on
the Restoration.
We taught a lesson to Will from Cameroon this past week, and we put on
little shoe booties to walk in his house (I'll send a picture of
them)! He also made Sister Taggart and I herbal tea in his mom's fancy
tea pot and fancy tea sets. What hospitality!
I was reading in 2 Nephi 9:6 this morning, and it reads:
"For as death hath passed upon all men, to fulfil the merciful plan of
the great Creator, there must needs be a power of resurrection, and
the resurrection must needs come unto man by reason of the fall; and
the fall came by reason of transgression; and because man became
fallen they were cut off from the presence of the Lord."
I think it is so interesting that the scripture connects the fall to
resurrection. It further supports God's order and wisdom. His plan is
flawless, and everything needed to happen the way it did so that we
will one day be able to return to his presence and be exalted. If we
do our part, we will be able to stand before our father in heaven and
tell him, "I have done all I could to do thy will," and Jesus Christ
will happily be our advocate with the Father.
Love,
Sister Steenhoek
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