Wow. What a great week it has been. I really just want to focus on freday and Saturday and sunday because those were the best days ever.
Friday: Friday was zone conference. It was such an amazing experience and I learned so much. In the past two week sister graham and I have been struggling with some investigators who were frustrating. But friday made it seem like it was all okay. :) We got up to go at 5:30 and got ready and did personal study. Then at 7:30 we drove to Evansville which was an hour and 10 min away from Tell City. Elder Foote drove and he is a scary driver sometime because he only has one eye that works. But we made it safely to the stake center. We had missionary olypics at 9:00. Just something fun to do and we will the "title of liberty" which is a beat up jacket. It is pretty fun. We just do activites and a person from each district does the activity to see who wins. Sis. Graham had to direct me to a different place blindfolded and we bumped into a lot of people. (She was a great Holy Ghost though and I followed. It was the others that had the bad Holy Ghost. haha. JK). Then we started the meeting at 10:00. We talked about safety and President Glende is so funny sometimes. He wanted us to know that water and dirt make mud. So now he will sign our papers on being a chemist in the future. He wanted us to know that because some elders drove their car through mud and got stuck and did not get home until 2:00 in the morning. Yikes. There was also an incidence when a car was being attacked by a ferocious dog and do you know what president glende's word of advice to fix the problem was? flatten the dog. (Run over the dog). Haha. Just make sure the bumper of the car is taken care of. :)
Then we had a talk from Brother Doctor Liljanquist. He was such a good person giving talks. I will have to send you the talk. it was amazing. But he talked about three groups of people. the first group of members had a testimony and were converted. the second group of members had a testimony but had no conversion. Which can mean they make poor dicisions, the pay tithing until it is too hard and they don't magnify their calling and much more. THe thrid group of people were one with no testimony and no conversion. Dr. L explained that all of start at group three in our lives and we work our way up. Most missionaries who come out on missions are group two but leave group one. Only a few came out in group one. What group are you? Hopefully group 1. If not, we should work our way up. (I will send the talk to you to make it more sense). But then he talked about the natural man and that was so good! Mosiah 3:19 has more meaning to now. He was relating it to the spiritual man and because he is a doctor he tied in with being healthy and not overweight. What does the natural man like when it comes to food? The natural man like food to taste good. The natural man does not care if it bad for your body just as long as it tastes good. The Natural man does not like the exercise, like to overeat, likes food, doesn't like to work, loves junk food. But what about the spiritual man? The spritual man loves the opposite of the natural man. We just need to exercise our spiritual side and overcome the natural man. So when you are faced with a dicision of, "Do I eat the apple of the candybar," our natural man wants the candy bar but really we should eat the apple.
I just learned alot about what the natural man is and I so want to overcome the natural man. I believe when we do, we will become more stronger and more better in this life than ever before. He also said somethign that interested me. WHen you are only 20 pounds overweight, your heart starts to build up plaque and it takes about 25 years to have that plaque build up to become a heart attack. So, if I were 20 punds overweight right now I would have a heart attack about 44 years old. I just thought is was interesting and I don't want that at all. So, he issued a challenge and I took it. He said to start climbing stairs as the form of exercise. He said to do 100 flights of stairs in thirty min. So, we found stairs saturday and today and their are 15 stairs and we did 100 flights in thirty min. It is not as hard as I thought it would be but man it works. I am so sore and my heartrate is up the whole time. I would challenge you all to do that. :) A flight is up and down.
Then the rest of that day was just learning and learning and learnign on how to become a better missionary.
Saturday was a miracle day. We found someone to start teaching in the morning. Then we found someone to start teaching in the afternoon by showing a movie to a member. It just so happened that this members friend was there and we got her. Her name is Jessica and she is a pretty bashful girl but we like her and can't wait to teach her. Then we saw Jenna who we met last saturday. She was with the girl that yelled that her dad was dead but her mom was here. So funny still. So we went to that house and the mother opened the door and said that she did not know why Jenna even agreed for us to come back. And then the mother said that she did not want us to come in and teach her (the mother). But we found out that Jenna lives in Troy city so we went and found her house and talked to her. This poor girl has gone through so much in her life. She desperatley needs the comfort of the gospel and the comfort of us and the comfort from Heavenly Father. We will show her the way. I believe that we can get her. She has two major problems that we need to fix and through hard work we will be able to do so. :)
Oh, while we were exercising Saturday morning, it was raining!!! It felt like I was sweating so much but it was the mixture of sweat and rain that made it feel like that. But truely that rain was manna from the heavens. haha. It just felt so good outside. It was 75 degrees that morning but unfortunatley it got a lot hotter later. WE also soft committed Trisha Saalman to baptism and she accepted. So Saturday was great.
Sunday was good. We set up a visitor center thing at the church and I have pictures of the displays we did. It took about 50 min to set up and 5 min to take it all down. Crazy how that works out. We didn't get very many people to come though. People just don't like to do things in this city. We will continue to do it though. The more we do it, the more people will come...hopefully. :) There are alot of difference between the branch and the big wards like Bridlegate. I will tell you about some differences next week. I have to get going now. My hands are frozen cold from typing so much. :)
I hope you all are enjoying your day and you better enjoy your week...or else.
:)
Love Amanda
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