Week 24 - Last 10 Days in Centralia Paradise!

April 27, 2015

 Dude.... this transfer just FLEW! I can't believe that we are in the 6th and last week of the transfer! I WILL HIT MY 6 MONTH MARK ON THE 5TH!!!!!!!!!! SO CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

 

I do have to say I am sad/happy/excited/dreading this new change... But it will be good :) No idea where I am going to go but it will be AWESOME!!!!!!!!! :)

 

Cracker Barrell dinner with the Hayes and the district

​Well this ​week has been busy! I think I talked about the devotional we put on last Sunday night. Well, the mission president and his wife were so touched by the music that they asked us to sing again... but more on that later :)

 

I have something called "mission brain" and can't remember much about my days :/ which can be super frustrating! but I have some highlights for the week :)

 

So.... Today we are short miles. We get 1250 miles every month and we had to drive EVERYWHERE this transfer so we have less than 100 miles to last about 5 days... we spend 15-40 in a single day... so we ran to the library this morning and we have a goal to NOT drive our car and just walk everywhere. :)

 

Since there were Elders in our apartment before us and they left all their food, we have been checking ALL expiration dates and smelling the canned food before we actually eat it. We have some canned mixed fruit that we opened last night from 2012 and the fruit had separated... to say the least we didn't eat it... it was really funny though! :)

 

​This week I woke up Saturday and just felt HORRIBLE. So I went back to bed for 20 minutes... which turned into 3 hours... then we got a phone call from A.M. wondering if we wanted to go do service with them. Sister Petrie asked me if I wanted to and I still felt horrible but the nausea was mild enough that I figured that it was better to feel sick doing something and serving instead of sitting in bed feeling sick... So I went out and picked up trash with a fever and super stuffed sinuses. Heavenly Father blessed me for the sacrifice. I was better the next day :) I hadn't been sick my whole mission but this transfer I have been sick 3 TIMES! SO not cool!

 

So I think the best day this week was Tuesday... we went to see M-----. She is a less active and wants us to teach her boyfriend, who wasn't home, so we decided to teach her and read the Book of Mormon with her. We started with the 1st chapter. She had SO many questions and got her excited about reading!

 

After that lesson we got a message from Elder Fa (district leader) saying we had to call him back asap because it was an emergency, so while Sister Petrie was backing out I called him back. He answered and asked if he was on speaker, I told him no and he said to do so because we were going to freak out! I got in the car and put the phone on speaker. Elder Fa started by saying he had just got off the phone with President and Sister Morgan and the they were planning a last minute mission conference because Elder Cook IS COMING! (attending the conference will be Elder Ulisses Soares, of the Presidency of the Seventy; Bishop Gary E.Stevenson, Presiding Bishop of the Church; and Elder Quentin L Cook, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) And that they just happen to need a musical number and they want OUR DISTRICT TO SING the song we did at the fireside!!!!!!!!!! There was some screaming and unbelief :D

 

BUT FOR REALS! MY DISTRICT IS GOING TO SING IN FRONT OF 3 STAKES, THE WHOLE MISSION AND AN APOSTLE! HOW CRAZY IS THAT!!!

 

Then we had dinner with a less active member at Pizza Hut and then RAN off to have a lesson with A-----. We brought Sister G and this was the best lesson we have had with A-----! The spirit was SO strong! We went over the Book of Mormon and helped her understand what she had read because she felt lost. Then we watched "Finding Faith in Christ" to help her and her kids know Christ a little better. Then Sister G shared her conversion story and brought A----- to tears because everything she said was what SHE was going through. At the end of the lesson she told us that she decided to give it a try! She said that she can not know if it is true if she doesn't do anything! So she decided to give it a try! :) She and L------ came to church :) So did a few other investigators, M&J :) Most we have ever had at church in my whole time here!

 

 

​Thursday and Friday were exchanges!!!!!! I got to be with Sister SPERRY again :) It was so nice to be with her again :) She's the best Sister Sperry I KNOW!

 

Outhouse!!

After Bishop's meeting

 

AND... I got to drive... first time is 5 MONTHS!!!!!!!! It was so SO nice... that's what I miss most.... driving... :) and I guess I miss you too ;P

 

Behind the wheel again!!

Funny story of the week:

 

Friday after exchanges we decided to go and see a less active member that Sister Sperry and Sister Kofford contacted last transfer. We follow the GPS and it put us out in the middle of a corn field... so we have to turn around and have to backtrack on a tractor road and scraped the bottom of the car on the dried mud and grass... not good. When we make it to the main road we go the next road over and find the house. We go to the front door that doesn't look used at all and knock. We hear dogs and kids and a lady inside and wait. No answer... So I knock again... We hear the side door open and close so we start walking around the house. I see 2 dogs.... a doberman pincer and a pit bull.... I stop and Sister Petrie keeps going. I tell her to stop. The dogs finally notice us. They bark and growl and start coming at us but we make it to the car... Dude, so not cool... next time we are going to the side door first :) heehee :)

 

Teaching the restoration in Restoration! :)

Love,

Sister Brimley

 

"God is anxiously waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as He always has. But He can't if you don't pray, and He can't if you don't dream. In short, He can't if you don't BELIEVE!" -Jeffrey R. Holland​

 

"I made a Plan of Salvation!"