My exchange this week took me to a small little town with a girl from Taiwan who has energy to match her voice! I told her she should go into Disney to become a voice for a Pixar character, she has such character and a strong voice for never having taken voice lessons! In spite of the bitter cold that night and a few bashes we tried to avoid but were caused by those at the door, I loved my exchange with her!
New Years Eve we went to some members' houses for dinners and had to be home by 8pm. Sis Smith & I adored the extra time we had to catch up in our journals or just get things done around the house that had to be done! She set a timer for midnight so just before 2015 we donned our "Property of Lacey" hoodies given us for Christmas, popped some poppers, tried to open a bottle of sparkling cider, but couldn't do it without the can open which we were too groggy to even think about, and went back to bed to boom of fireworks outside.
The holidays are really hard to work around with members being out of town or having guests over, and non-members busy or hung-over, so we did a lot of street contacting and finding activities for New Year's Day, but that night I found a Cambodian family! They're Muslim and speak Cham which is a dialect close to Cambodian, but because they're Muslim they're just not interested. I had a blast though as they still understood some of the Cambodian I said and they were so surprised to hear if from such a white girl!
Friday was another day of contacting, but I've learned even the tedious days when all appointments fall through are still good days! With the end drawing near I just love every minute I have to soak it all in. It stinks when we don't know what to do, but as Sis Smith says, sometimes it seems God lets that happen just to see what we'll do with our time. It definitely makes you rely on him to help direct us in what we need to get done.
Saturday on the other hand was packed! Not only was it the day of our transfer calls, but we had some really neat miracles. Our morning appointment fell through, so we went to go see a family we knocked into a month ago and said to come back in the mornings around eleven. We wrote it down, but they didn't seem very solid, so we never went to see them until now. It was spur of the moment, but they let us in and we taught them the whole Restoration! They've been looking for another church and haven't heard much about Mormons. SO golden, but I've had a lot of golden potentials slip through, so we're hoping and praying they don't fall into anti and stay receptive to the Spirit.
That night was transfer calls. In the beginning I anticipated staying with Sis Smith my two English transfers, but as it was, we weren't sure, and she was feeling rather split. So we were talking about it and she asked how I'd feel if I were companions with Sis Rasmussen. I liked the idea, but didn't know how valid it could be until two minutes later when the assistants to the president called and said Sis Smith would go to Silverdale and I was getting Sister Rasmussen!! There's so much going on it's hard to see Sis Smith leave just as the work is continually progressing, but she'll do well in Silverdale, and I'm excited to have Sis Rasmussen here to help the people that have been coming out of the woodwork like crazy! Our ward has a goal to have 50 baptisms this year which is insanely high, but we pretty much made our goal of 30, and with the help of members it can really explode if we work together. So even though I won't be here to witness it to the end, I'm excited to be a part of the work that is progressing so quickly and surely, as God's behind it all! And even if the work is slow, that's just the time we can be assured God's working on us. :)
Love you!
Sister Dunster
2. This week's exchange with Sisters Liao, me, Bigley and Smith!
4. Rainbow cake we were fed at a Samoan's house! Humongous!
After the Samoan dinner last night, Bro Patane said he learned how to hypnotize. So of course Elder Carder wanted to try it and prove him wrong. It was hilarious, but this is what happened!! It didn't really work the way he expected, but after Bro. Patane had the elder follow a few motions with his plate, Elder Carder had no idea what he was doing to his face!
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