Week 13 This Could be "Para-Para-Paradise"!

February 2, 2015

This week went really REALLY! fast. I feel like I was here just yesterday. Kind of a surreal feeling. But anyway! :)

 

I love and miss you. But... I like it here so.... too bad ;)

 

We officially got the news that the Sisters are going to be moving to Centralia and the Elders are going to Carlyle. This will be an interesting change... but it'll be good. So in 2 weeks I can share it with ya'll (people say ya'll here A LOT!) :)

 

SOOOooo... we were finally able to do the stop smoking workshop with JOE! :) and the timing was perfect because about 14 hrs before our meeting he had smoked his last cigarette and wasn't going to buy any more! YAY! He is still praying about a date to be baptized but it'll come :) He knows this is true and is making the changes... slowly and steadily.

 

We got a hold of K again and she wants to learn from us :) but she will take time because her life is super crazy right now... but it'll be easier in a few weeks... when we are living closer :) 

 

T is doing so well! A member (that is her long time friend) gave her a book "A Marvelous Work and A Wonder" and said it helped things make sense. T is reading it and asking us a whole lot of questions! She is such an amazing lady and I know that she will get baptized... maybe not while I am here but sometime in the future :) and it will be such a great day!

 

Yesterday we picked up a new investigator... :) A member of the ward approached us after sacrament and said he had a friend that he wants us to teach. So we went there after church and got to know him a little bit. There is only one problem... he only speaks Spanish... and so we had to take another member (whose calling in the church is to be an interpreter) and talk to him that way... so I guess learning Spanish would not have been that horrible... and I think it might be a good idea to try to learn a little now... lol I am going to see if I can learn from members :) ((Mom note: I tried many times to get her to take at least one class, knowing she'd be going on a mission and so many people everywhere spoke Spanish.))

 

On Saturday we went to Sister Fs house to clean and do some service. She is almost 90 years old but is still super agile and can DO a whole lot but her eye sight is getting bad.... so we kind made her let us clean for her... and then on Sunday during Relief Society she shared how much that touched and meant to her and we just started crying and crying... she is such a sweet old lady :) We are excited to go back and dust... cause she really needs some young eyes to see it for her :)

 

Miracle of the Week: Yesterday... Sister E and I both woke up just feeling like crap... On the drive to church we both expressed how we just wanted to cry... for no specific reason except that we would feel better afterward... and then by the end of the day we were SUPER happy... and we were just enjoying missionary life... It is so amazing how good God  is to us!

 

Love ya lotz XD

Sister Brimley

Scripture(s):  Mosiah 2:41

                    Mosiah chapter 4 and 5