January 9, 2011

I am going through my journal and the first thing that I want to talk
about happened on wednesday. It was pretty scary experience but not at
the same time. We have an investigator named Anita. We have been
trying several times to get an appointment with her when she would not
be busy. So wednesday, we go to her house. As we are walking up to her
door, we don' t even knock on the door, a big huge tall guy opens the
door and he is standing defensively. I was thinking, "okay big guy,
you really want to play this game?" haha. I ask him, "is anita home?"
he says, "yes, and we're not listening." I get kind of scared and
instantly I say okay and then I leave. If I could replay that moment I
would have asked him why he wasn't going to listen. I also, for some
reason, wanted to laugh at him. He was being silly. But we left
because I didn't really feel like getting punched or something else
bad like that. haha.

I recieved happy news from Sister moyes on wednesday. It is about
Chris and Katie Bowman. Katie called sister moyes the other day and
wanted them to go over. Katie wanted to ask sister and elder foote
alot of questions. Chris said that he wanted to feel the spirit again
and that he missed it. They also want to go back to church! I was so
very very very excited for this news. That just made my day. :) They
are making the correct choices. I hope that Chris will be baptized
soon. Prayers are being answered and it is great.

We taught steve again this week on friday. And my goodness, ELECT! We
met at Dairy Queen again and we started the lesson about the plan of
salvation. The TV was pretty loud and I didn't think of turning it
down. I actually didn't know we could do that. But he got up and
turned it down. Pretty cool. We did the lesson and the spirit was felt
so much. He loves the plan. He loves that he could be with his family
eternally and he loves that his mom, who is passed away, can get
baptized as well. He read a little from the book of mormon and he is
enjoying it. He would enjoy it more if he could get some glasses. He
is a prepared child of god and it is great.

I almost got in an accident on friday. I was at a red light and I
intended to go straight. We last min, we decided to go visit with ruby
and we had to turn left for that. The light turns green and since the
decision was made last min, I was only thinking about ruby and I start
turning left. Well, I did not process that I had to wait for other on
coming cars. But, I was told by the Holy Ghost to turn straight. Phew.
I almost hit someone and i turned so that i did not hit the person. I
am glad that I did not hit the person.

This coming friday we get to go on exchanges with another set of
sister missionaries. I am excited for this. It will be fun. :) I get
to go to London. :) who knew I would be visiting so many remote
places. haha.

Last night was...interesting. Sister goodman was not feeling good. At
4:00 on sunday she noticed that she had a pain right by her belly
button and thought that it was her appendix. I told her to keep an eye
on it. I read the symptoms of appenicitis and told her that if it
continues for longer than four hours we would call sister glende.
Well, 8:00pm came and it was still there. 9:00pm and we called sister
glende only she didn't answer. we got a hold of her around 9:50
finally. sister goodman told her what was going on. Then she had to
call Dr. Liljenquist, the mission doctor. So she did and he told her
some things. It is kind of strange. I don't think it is apendicitis
because we would probably be in the emergency room right now. She is
not throwing up and does not have a fever. She is still having
discomfort though. I wonder what is going on. But last night we woke
up at 1:00am to see how she was doing and 4:00am again to see how she
was doing. It was a crazy night. Hopefully it is nothing too bad.

I don't think anything else has really happened this week. I just know
that it is going to get really cold this coming week and I am not
excited for it. Wish me luck. :) I love you all. Have a great week.
Amanda