Week #42: Impossible People

Hopefully this week has been great for all of you- it's been pretty
fun here. We received two referrals for people we didn't know this
week, and neither of them had valid addresses...that was fun. One of
them was right over a creek and the other one just didn't exist on the
street it was supposed to be on. It was pretty crazy! So that's what
we did Monday night- we searched for someone named Jake.

Worn out in service!

Tuesday was pretty normal- district meeting and such. Wednesday was
wapis- always fun! We got t shirts too! We also got to see Stephanie-
she's doing pretty great. She's trying to get back in touch with God
and everything! She promised she'd come to church on Sunday but we
didn't see her there. But on our way home, we called a ride, and went
and sat at some outside tables, and we were talking about scripture
stories, and this guy at another table asks if we're talking about the
bible! So we had a really good conversation with him. He's really
trying to put his life back in order.

He asked if we had a copy of the Bible and we said we could get him one, but we had a Book of Mormon with us. He seemed excited to read it, and really interested! We're working on finding a time to deliver the Bible to him.

Amazing sunset

On Thursday, we actually got to see Sister Carter! She didn't cancel (for the first time in about a month). We had a really good
conversation with her. The weird thing was she was telling us how much she loves church and the sacrament and how much peace it brings her, and then when we asked her if she'd come, she said no. So we're thinking there's something we don't know- maybe she was offended by someone or something similar. We also had our interviews with President Taylor on Thursday morning! It was awesome, but sad, because it's our last interviews with him- they only have six weeks left! So it's sad, but also exciting- it's a new age for the Washington Vancouver Mission.

Yummy!

On Friday, we saw the Morrises and Megan and they are both doing great! Neither made it to church though...that's the hardest thing for people to do, as far as I've seen on my mission, probably for a variety of reasons- not knowing anyone, knowing too many people, out of the habit, being offended, whatever it may be. I'm always trying to figure out how to express to them the importance of coming to church, and how much it can help them.

At the Mission Office

Saturday was exchanges! So Sister Morton and I walked all over the place. It rained really hard too! We ended up taking a hot chocolate break at McDonald's just as the rain really started pouring. I've actually come to love being out in the rain! It's definitely preferable to the heat. Someone told us that Washington is one of the highest places for melanoma....Anyway, the rain was really a lot of
fun. And Sister Morton is awesome! She ended up coming to correlation with me too.

Hot Chocolate Run with Sister Morton

Sunday was a good day- slower paced, kinda sleepy. We had church of
course, and it was really good. And ward choir was awesome as well. We
made some phone calls to some potential investigators, got dropped,
but only once! We talked to a lot of great people. So it was a good
day.

Snails Pace

After the rain...

It's been a good week! One of the things that keeps coming up in my
studies is stories about Peter. He is talked about as one of the
greatest apostles, this powerful teacher, but in reality, he was just
a man led by God. He struggled in his faith a lot, especially in the
early days, but held on tight. He walked on water- something no mortal
had done before. He went to the Mount of Transfiguration with Jesus.
He bore testimony. And he struggled too- he doubted his ability to
walk on the water. He denied Christ three times. After Christ left, he
went back to his old life, fishing. But still he was a great leader of
the early Christian church. I think we can all take a lesson from
that! It's okay to be imperfect.

I love you all- have a great week! We should have transfer news by next Monday!
Sister Jacobs