April 11, 2011

What is Benny the Bear's last name? Random question but I want to know. Well, I know but I want to know if you know. Respond on that for me. :)

Last monday was a very fun day for us. We went to the Red River Gorge that day and we say a whole bunch of different things. We hiked a little. We went with the Lloyds and with brother Roberts. In fast and testimony meeting brother roberts said, if you want to see the Sister's with their hair down, go to the Gorge with them. haha. He said he had a whole bunch of fun with us because we were able to let loose and laugh and have fun. I almost fell off a cliff. Shh. don't tell anyone. If was very very windy and I loss my footing and i had to take a step back and I stopped thankfully. Me and those cliffs. brother Roberts thought it was great because we took a picture of us jumping up to a tree in path and hanging on it. It was a side that not many people see. It was fun.

Becky wylie. She is an amazing person that we are teaching. She watched a session of conference and we called her afterwards and she said, "I can't believe that i did not watch the rest of the conferences. I will have to go back and watch them." I love Becky. She is so close to the spirit. One of these days we will be having her baptized.

Happy late birthday Grandma Ralph. And happy birthday to Grandma Ryan and Emily. :)

So Thursday was very interesting day. I don't know if I should even tell of this experience or not. Just don't freak out okay? So, Thursday was very interesting day. We went to go see Irene and we sang to her Praise to the Man. When we did, we were in the second verse and her roommate starts screaming for us to stop. But we did not really stop. Her roommate then got out of her bed and was jibbering something and she goes over the faucet and says, "I am going to fill this water up with hot scalding water and throw it on you eyes." I have to tell you that i was pretty scared. We motioned for the nurse to come and help. They got the water bottle away from the roommate. A phycologist came by and talked to her roommate and we took irene out of the room for a while. We stayed there for 2 hours. Then we had to go and we went to go to a dinner appointment. When we got there we both consulted with eachother. One of the appointment fell through because she was sick and we had an appoinment with David and Sue after that. But we both REALLY felt that we should not go to that appointment. We were scared to cancel though because we already did in the past. But I called and canceled with them. I don't think we will go back to David and Sue. But after we called, we both still felt different. Different like somehting bad was going to happen. But we went to go eat and after the dinner appointment we felt very nervous. We ended up getting home and the feeling was so bad that we decided to stay home the rest of the night. I can' t even describe the feeling we both had. I know that my heart was tight and I felt like something was on my back. When we got home those feelings went away and any time we thought about going outside, we were urged to stay inside. I do not know what would have happened if we were to go out that night. I don't think that good things would have happened. Nothing natural happened that night. We believe that Satan was on the watch of us. Then the next day (friday) we were completely fine. But at 2:00 we went to a certain area and BOOM. All of a sudden those feeling came back. There was something ever present on my back and it was not a good feeling. I remembered the time when there were a couple other sister in the this area before that felt Satan's prescence and I believe we were feeling his prescence again. We went to the Lloyd's because I thought that it would be a good idea to get a blessing. So we go and we got a blessing. In my blessing Eldery Lloyd rebuked the evil presence away from me. At that time I just started crying. The bad feeling was gone. He then said that i was a good missionary and that the lord was very pleased with me and that I would be able to discern where the elect people are. :) It was good. I felt so much better after that and Satan has left both of us alone. Satan really does not want to find the elect people that are out there because he knows what will happen. I did not know that i was going to be in the face of Satan so much. It is crazy. But I am safe. :) We made some smores that night because we felt like it. They were huge jumbo smores and you could roast them three times. It was amazing.

Steve bore his testimony yesterday. i was so proud of him. :) I feel like a mother proud of her child. :) haha. The coupel days ago I woke up at 5:00am and I could not fall back to sleep. So I stayed awake for an hour and a half waiting for the alarm. it is annoying when that happens. Maybe i won't be able to sleep in when I get home. :)

We got transfer news and I am staying in Beattyville for another transfer and am staying with Sister Mikami. I am excited to be with sister m. I am not all that excited for the same area but I will still work hard. The Lord needs me here for some reason and I guess I will figure it out. :)

I love you all. Nothing else real interesting has happened this week. I really am just trying to battle my emotions. I seem to have a lot of them lately. It will all work out though in the end. I am still being happy. :)

I love you. Amanda