Yoooohalooooo!
Gahhh I have a hundred stories but I'm sure I can't do them justice in writing. This week was so good. We had so many lessons with visitors on the square.
I'll start with Friday. Our friday's are very scheduled so we don't have a ton of teaching time but we got to call Sheila on the phone and teach her for the first time. IT WAS SO BAD! Sister Mitchell and I have had a pretty good rhythm down with finding people's needs and teaching them by the Spirit. We probably got too cocky or something because our lesson with Sheila was down right gross. I think it started weird because she was fixing her fridge while she was talking to us but we tried to teach her about prophets and the restoration but Sister Mitchell and I didn't even seem to be on a similar page. In conclusion, we ruined her salvation. Half-kidding. Obviously she's not doomed but we felt so terrible after. She doesn't want us to call her back but we'll probably call in a week just to apologize for our stinky missionary work.
Saturday we had a nice group of what I like to call soft Anti's. It was a group of teenagers lead by their curly mustache pastor and a burly bald man. They were super nice but had obviously learned a bit about our religion before coming though they claimed to know nothing. Bald burly man knew that the Church started in upstate New York but later he claimed that he had never heard of Jospeh Smith before. Riiiiiiight. Anywho, they were still really nice as a whole. Pastor got a little heated when we talked about life after death. He just went on and on about what a terrible person he is and how people are naturally evil. Pshhh c'mon, you can't actually tell me you're a bad person. K maybe if you're comparing yourself to Christ... He would not shush-up (mom aprroved word) so we read Mosiah 3:19 and kept moving our group along. I feel like we did our job well. They could tell that we are normal happy humans who are trying to do good in the world and teach people about Jesus Christ. I throw in a few stories about my family here and there to spice things up a bit so just beware, nobody's secrets are safe.
The rest of our week was filled with awesome people. One of my favourites was a couple from Austin, TX who had been married for 15 years. The man's first wife died of cancer and then when he married his next wife he made her promise that she wouldn't get cancer. Sadly, he didn't keep her promise but she's in remission so they are just the happiest, most faithful couple. This tour was amazing because we didn't try to force any teachings of the Church on them. We just naturally talked about Faith in Jesus Christ and receiving answers to prayers and at the end, the man told us that we wanted to learn about Joseph Smith. Yeah, he does! We'll teach them over the phone this week.
We toured 4 awesome ladies from New Jersey around on Monday. I can't even explain how awesome that tour was. It felt so good. They were so responsive and impressed with the Church. When we started one lady told us that her 45 year old, alcoholic brother started meeting with missionaries a few months ago and this is the first time in his life that he's been able to sober up. Way to go NJ missionaries! That set our tour up perfectly. When we ended, we didn't get any of their contact information so all we can do is hope and pray that they find themselves studying about the gospel and the Church more. We had more time on the square so we roamed around and ran into one man that we rememberd was listening in on our ladies' tour. When we talked to him, his motor mouth just came to life. Turns out, he's on economics professor at the University of Minnesota. He talked FOREVER about how this world is slowly going downhill and he loves everything about our Church. I was just waiting for my moment to speak when we got poked by a big woman on an electric scooter who ruined everything. She wanted us to play the movie Legacy for her. So we played the movie for her, her grandkids and our econ prof. That was the last we saw of him, dangit!
After that tour, we did our thing at West Gate. While we were there, we noticed our new Anti Mormon friend just outside the gate, passing out Satan-y DVDs. C'MON, IT'S A MONDAY! Whyyyyy? They were handing out DVDs outside all four entrances of Temple Square. Satan is real. One of the crazy russian sisters here took one of the DVD's and broke it in front of the Anti guy's face, hahaha! I just pictured what our 4 awesome NJ ladies would have said to him if they ran into him. He'd have no chance because I know they felt so good here. Plus they're from NJ.
We had another perfect older couple tour yesterday. These precious 75 year old high school sweethearts were so much fun. We straight up taught them the restoratoin and they loved everything. They loved the Church emphasis on the family and temples. We invited them to learn through missionaries in Arkansas and they hesitated because it was a lot of information for them to take in. They were excited to research more on mormon.org and continue learning so that's swell.
Alright kids, stay out of trouble.
LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
-SISTER KAAAAAATIE K.
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