October 3, 2011

So, this week has been a great week. I got my greeny this week. Her name is Sister Ford. She is an amazing prepared missionary. She is from Layton, Utah. She has 4 siblings. 2 bothers, 2 sisters. She is five foot 9 inches tall. It makes me feel like I am around Tessa again. :) We had a miracle while tracting for her first time. We knocked on a door and this biker dude came out with a cigarrette in his hand with a long beard and long hair. I was not scared. He had a special spirit to him. His name is Johnny. He said that he actually had been thinking about coming back to church but had not really found one he wanted to go to. So he said that he would love to talk to us but at a later time because he needed to take his wife to work. (He's married. :) thankgoodness). So we set up another time and went on our way. Then we were walking back down the street and johnny approaches us and shakes our hand and says that he was not joking with us and that he WOULD been there on saturday. He said that he wanted to learn and thought that we were an answer to his prayers. I was starting to tear up after he said that. It was definatly a good thing to hear. We went to see him on saturday and he was there. But his wife was not so we were not able to go into the house. I so wanted to be an elder at that time. Johnny is sooooo elect and it would have been nice to disregaurd the rules for an hour. But we didn't break any rules. We were going to teach him outside but it was getting cold and he didn't want to stay outside. So we set up another time with him. I have been doing really good about hurting myself this week. I saw a dog and it was stuck on this pile of cement bricks. The leash got stuck. The dog was trying to get himself unstuck and was almost there because two to the bricks were broken and could move. So, I went over to try to free the dog and right as I was going to touch the brick, the dog pulled with all its might and he freed himself and then where did the brick go? Right onto my big toe. I felt it hit my toe and it didn't hurt as much as it should have. Then I moved the brick and that is when it started hurting. The blood was pumping. I didn't say anything though. We were at an investigators house and I don't like people to know that I am hurting. We were leaving anyway. I walked to the car like nothing happened. Making sure that I was not limping. I got in the car and sister ford got in the car and she shut the door and then I said, 'That hurt soooo bad!!!" I was very much hurting. My toe felt ten times bigger even though it did not look bigger. Sister Ford gave me props because even she did not know I was hurting. She thought the brick missed my toe. haha. Serves me right for helping a dog right? Then a couple days ago, I was going to go upstairs and I didn't raise my foot high enough and I stubbed my other toe and somehow I just fell up the stair and hit my chin and my hand was trying to help my not hit the stairs and when my hand was in the attempt to help me, it hit the railing really hard and I just fell flat on my face. I was very worried that I broke my hand. I hit it hard and it hurt soooo bad. I have a bruise on it. It is the bone right below the index finger on my left hand. Good thing it is a sturdy bone right? haha. We set a baptism date with Maryah. It is going to be this Saturday. She is way excited for it. We think that she is ready to be baptized. For some reason though, the ward seems to be dragging their feet. It is pretty frustrating. It feels like we are almost pulling teeth to get them to help us out. I am excited for maryah. She is going to have a great day. I witnessed a robbery this week. How exciting! It was not at a bank. It was at a members house. We were mowing her lawn and we got done and it was way dark. 8:00 and it is dark how crazy is that? So we were on our way out of her house after drinking some root beer and I heard a plastic bag and then I heard footsteps and then i turned around and there was a boy with a big backpack on and he was running away as fast as he could. I got so mad inside. What it the world was he trying to get? I don't know how people don't feel guilty stealing something. I guess some people just do it enough that it is just common for them do to. Conference was way super good. I loved pretty much all of them. It surprised me alot by how much Elder Hales has gone down hill. He has gained so much weight. I feel sad for him. I was greatful that he spoke though. I really liked his talk. I also liked Elder packers talk. He just laid it all out for us. What we need to do. I love you all very much. There is not very much time for me to write. I hope you all enjoyed this weekend as much as i did. Now it is time for us to prepare and practice all the things that were mentioned in the talks. Have a great week, Sister Amanda Ralph