Hi everyone! Long time no see!! Jk you still don't getta see me cause I'm in NY but I promise I'll send some cute pics at the end of this super long email!
December 3rd: Today was a pretty long hard day for me ngl...but we did Yoga for YWs today and that was really fun and relaxing and exactly what I needed!
December 4th: I woke up to exercise and all the Sisters were laying in the living room with their blankets over their heads lol but eyyy it's progress!! Usually Sister Robert's and I work out and the other Sisters fall back asleep haha. I love these Sisters even though it's been hard being in a quad, they help me grow. We had district counsel today and we talked about how we can answer difficult questions. The question we (Elder Gunter and I) had to anwser was "why do we need the Sacrament when we can repent each day?" Which is honestly such a great question! The Sacrament renews our covenants we made with God and helps us remember our baptismal covenants! It also helps us remember Jesus and cleanse ourselves! After District Council the Gardeners made us delicious chicken noodle soup and then we played a bit of basketball in the gym before we had to go back out. Two of our lessons fell through after district council and that wasn't fun buuuut we did some door knocking and street contacting but we didn't make any friends until we went contacting in public at Walmart! Then after finding we went to volleyball for youth night at the whitesboro church and believe it or not but I'm getting better at volleyball! Sorta!..I accidentally smacked Elder Anderson in the back with the volleyball lol. After volleyball we went to Kaylees and found out she has been really sick:( but she still wants to get baptized, we just don't have a date yet!!
December 5th: We went to Drew's house and it took forever to drive to his house cause we got soo much snow! We met Drew's wife Bonita too! They are the sweetest couple of all time! Buuuut...they are not interested in the gospel at all. After there lesson we had lunch and then scurried to Cluster 13 but it was snowing like crazy today! Sister Robert's said it might be from lake effect..whatever that is haha. Anyways snow was falling like cats and dogs too so we didn't get to Cluster until 1:40ish.. Then we had interviews! After interviews me and Sister Pantle had a lesson with a recent convert at her house and it took us an hour to get through 1 Nephi chapter 1 but it was awesome! Then the president bought us all Mexican food! After that we had Book of Mormon class! We learned more about the Sacrament!
December 6th: My mom's birthday!!! Yay!! Today was hectic! It was pretty good tho too, just crazy! Sooo much stuff happened..so we had a micro training this morning and since there are four of us we all had to squish together at the counter to see everyone and then the glare from the sun off the counter made us all look like floating heads apparently..the Gardeners kept laughing about it. The micro training was about how to get outta slumps! And the anwser Is just focus on Jesus christ! Try to be more like Jesus Christ! And share with everyone the happy news that Jesus will come again! That we will see our loved ones again! That they will be resurrected with perfect bodies! After that we went to the Rescue mission!! I organized cans of greens beans, sweet corn and Spanish stuff! White Sister Robert's organized peanut butter and spigethii! ( idk if I spelled that right..but don't ask me why the peanut butter and the spigethii were sitting right next to eachother on the shelf) Then we went to Oneidia, we got there and the snow was crazy!! So we got Rear Ended!! But our car is fine and we are fine! We just got a lil scratch and the dude that hit us felt really bad :) so we filled out a bunch of paper work and stuff and it was all good! Then cause we were freezing and it was snowing like crazy outside we thought it would be a good idea to find referrals and hopefully get in houses with pity points...it did not work but we tried. But we did meet this really cool guy named Ed! For dinner we watched the christ child and it was so spiritual! But I felt the spirit the most when we went to the church and saw the mangers! By the time 8:00 rolled around I had a massive head ache! So Sister Robert's and Brother Boxall had a great lesson with Charlie while I felt like I was dying under Sister Robert's blanket! Then I put a heat pad of corn on my head and talked to my family for my mom's birthday!!
December 7th: Okay today was absolutely incredible!! We woke up at 7:20 cause somehow both of us slept through the alarm but it was serious the best sleep I've ever gotten on the mission! And holy cow did it snow! Then I took a really nice hot shower and I felt like a new women! But anyways..to the important stuff, we went to Katie's and she wasn't home so we got some hot chocolate at stewarts and has an amazing lesson with Carmelo!! We asked him to flip to a random page in the Book of Mormon and he chose page 26! It was the most perfect verse ever! It was 1Nephi 13:37! Then for lunch we bought eggs and eggnog! For comp study we studied the Plan of Happiness, then we went to the Christmas nativity thing and were there for like five hours! But we had two lessons there and we got to see all the nativity so win win! Then after that we made three friends at Michael's! One of them texted us and said she was so thankful for us and it was tender!
December 8th: CHURCH!! Church was great! The Gardeners spoke and the whole entire time at church we were focusing on how this is the church of joy! Then we made a bizzilon cookies for members but we had a super long lesson with Kaaya so we had no time to deliver cookies! Then we had dinner at the Gardeners and watched the devo last night!
Spiritual thought: So this story stood out to me: Brother Winklers parents were struggling because their house burned down and they felt like God wasn't their. As they tried to find their nativity in the fire baby Jesus was the only one that survived! They took it as a sign that God does care about them and Jesus is who our main focus should always be on!
-♡ Sista Hodges :)
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