Hello all! So, I forgot my
journal! However, I'll try to remember all that happened this week :)
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| Hanging with Sister Herbine during companionship exchanges in Alameda. |
Monday (5/22), We went on exchanges!! I was left to lead the area that I've only been in for 3 weeks.. Yay!! It was super fun with Sister Herbine! Plus I got to drive a 2017 Chevy Malibu
for a day while our car got fixed! :D But when we switched cars at the
dealership, we forgot to bring our clicker to open the gate to our apartment. So
when we got there that night at 9:30 we realized that we would have
to park on the street. If any of you have ever lived in Alameda you will know
that finding a parking spot on the street is nearly impossible, especially at
night. But Heavenly Father gave us a miracle by allowing us to find a parking
spot on the same street as our apartment that late at night. Plus the Malibu is
a really long car and it fit perfectly! Blessings!!
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| Sister Herbine and I having lunch with Elder and Sister Pimentell. |
Tuesday (5/23): We had lunch with
Elder and Sister Pimentell. Elder Pimentell is a member of the Area 70 for the San Francisco/Oakland Mission and since they live in our
ward boundaries, they invited us over for lunch and gave us some awesome Ideas for
missionary work. They they used to be over the Berlin, Germany mission :) Funny
story about going to lunch at their house though: We parked in front of their
house about 60 minutes early to tract around their house and at 5pm we
knocked on their door and it didn't look like anyone lived there. Then I
remembered Sister Pimentell telling me they had just moved! So we rushed over
to their new house which was about 10 minutes away and thankfully it was ok
because they were waiting for family that hadn't shown up yet and when we got to
their house, they found out they mixed up the dates and their family was coming
next week. BUT! If we wouldn't have made the mistake, we wouldn't have talked
to a lady named Debbie! She wasn't interested in sharing a message but she was
super nice and asked us questions about the temple since she has some LDS
friends :) we also talked to a super cute lady named Kaitlyn who is a Quaker
:)
Other things that happened this week:
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| I got sunburned while out knocking on doors. Guess I'll have to make sure I have sunscreen in my bag. |
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| My locker at the Oakland Temple Visitors Center |
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| My Uncle Steve will laugh at this; he's a big Jack Black fan. |
We had a missionary
fireside on Saturday (5/27). We also had a really great
lesson with our investigator Kam! She hasn't been putting in the time to read
the Book of Mormon and in this lesson we taught her the Plan of Salvation
really simply so she'd understand because English is her 2nd language. By the
end she really understood why this life is important and the things we need to
do. She also mentioned, by herself, that she needs to put God and Christ more
as a priority than other things in her life; so we're hoping that she'll keep
her commitments! We're having another lesson with her tonight as well
:)
On Sunday (5/28) we also had
a couple who are from Russia but who live in the Bay area come in to the
Visitors Center. We gave them a tour and talked a lot about the Book of Mormon
with them and the guy said "You've almost sold me!" a few times. So
we hope they'll come back soon :)
Tuesday (5/30), we had Zone Conference!!
It was really awesome! We also had someone come and talk to us about stress
management and taught us breathing exercises and committed us to do them 5
times a day.
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| Lunch at Zone Conference |
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| The Relief Society decorated our tables so cute! |
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| Sisters trying to eat healthy but look at all that yummy food! |
Today is Hadley's Birthday (my
little sister) and my companion, Sister Mikkelson's as well! We also got to go
to the temple today and had a really fun BBQ at the mission home where we also
got to play sports! My mission president is awesome at basketball!
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| Happy Birthday Sister Mikkelson! |
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Love,
Sister Phillips
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