So California is AMAZING!!!!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! The second I drove out of the airport I got the most peaceful feeling that this is where I am suppose to be. I know that Heavenly Father sent me here because there are people here for me! And my companion.... OH MY GOSH..... she is the most amazing, wonderdful, spiritual, kind, loving..... person. I have been truly truly blessed. Sister Snow is a perfect fit to what I need right now. She teaches me so much everyday. As we study she shows me ways that she studies that help her and little highlighting tips that she has. Her testimony is so strong and I feel the spirit so strong every time she bears it!
She is an awful speller to and hates English. Twinners!!! We sit up and talk (way to late sometimes) and have become like sisters! She is so in tune with the spirit and because of that she has REALLY been able to help me! The spirit speaks.... alllllllllll the time...... we just don't listen a lot. But I have learned that as I study and pray for others the spirit teaches me faster then when I do it for me.
The people here are amazing! On the first day with my trainer we knocked some doors before our dinner appointment. The FIRST DOOR we knocked on a really grumpy man answered. He told us that he would have us crying by the time he was done with us and that he would rip our scriptures and throw them at us. Then slammed the door. WOW right? Sister Snow gave me a hug as we walked away and said, "Well it can only get better from here right?" Amazing right!?! The funny thing is yes I was sad and upset but not for the reasons that I thought I would be. Sis Snow asked me how I felt about that and what we can learn. I told her that he made me sad but that I was sad for him. I was sad because he didn't have the Savior in his life so he couldn't be truly happy. I loved this mean old man without even knowing him. MIND BLOWN!!!!!! But that is honestly how it is. I love the people here. We talk to EVERYONE around us and people, for the most part, are really kind and will actually listen. So the ones that make you grin from ear to ear and the ones that ask questions and talk back to you!!! The most amazing feeling out there!
Arg... i am running short on time and there is so much more I want to tell you! Like about Jessie who is a lady that we teach. She lives in a care center/ hospitle because she had her leg amputated recently. But she is great!!!! We read the BoM with here and talk about Christ. She is keeping the word of wisdom and everything else she needs to do to be baptized, but she hasn't come to church yet. And she has to come 3 times before she can be baptized. Getting here there is the hard part. She wants to go but either her granddaughter has to come and take her (and she won't), she had to take the transportation with wheelchair stuff that is needed (which no one has in the ward and the one they offer is way expensive), or we have to find a STRONG CNA that can lift her to and from the car. We have been calling around like crazy trying to figure it out so she can be baptized but it looked like it was going to be close to impossible. But the Lord blesses us. Today as we were at Michales we started talking to a lady by us (like normal) and through our conversation that there is a place that will transprot elderly for like $3 each way!!!!! Sounds way to good to be true! But its a new lead!
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