Week one/two…

This week was my first week with Sister Julien after the emergency transfer and it went pretty well. She is done with her mission in 4 weeks, so this will be my shortest companionship ever. Hopefully. She is awesome though, we are already the greatest of friends. God has been very good to me so far. She got peed on by a dog the same day I got bit by another one. Instant best friends after that.

We did a lot of service this week and knocked a lot of doors. I have been studying a lot about Christ Like Attributes this week and have learned a lot of things about myself that can be improved. But I have also learned a lot about me that is good. “There is light and dark in each one of us, it’s the side we choose that makes us who we are.” – Gandalf and Dumbledore. (probably spelt those both wrong) I am choosing to really focus on improving myself so I can help others improve but still seeing the good in me. Mosiah 3:19 has been my theme the past couple of weeks. Along with Ether 12:4.

Stay happy everyone, it is what God wants for all of us. That is why it is called the Plan of Happiness. (If you don’t know what I am talking about, ask.) I had an awesome 4th of July! We painted our nails with our neighbor friend and watched a parade. We had a super fun Zone party. But we had to be in the apartment early. So we just basically laid around because that’s what missionaries do when they actually get a break. I love being a missionary!:)

God Bless America, land that I love. 🙂
Sister Carr

Week from HECK, and a couple of miracles.

This week has been very interesting. We helped move a family completely out of there house in 3 hours because it turned out they were evicted. But we managed to fit everything into a U-Haul truck and I only broke on shelf with my shins. They have some pretty awesome bruises.

On Wednesday we had Zions Camp. Which was this awesome trust camp that really helped me learn how to depend on others. We did this awesome trust fall, but the girls dropped someone one right before I was suppose to go…I fell no problem I just thought I was going to die. I didn’t though. It was a lot of fun. And my entire zone wore matching shirts and looked epic.

Thursday was Park Day, that just means we aren’t allowed to use our car. So we picked weeds for a member and then that night we did the dumbest thing you could ever think of. So Sis. Rasmussen and I are always eating random plants and bragging about it. So the Elders told us to eat this random leaf…and we did because we are prideful and have to prove ourselves. It turned out to be poisonous. It blistered our mouths and made us sick out of our minds (we were literally loopy.) But God was watching over us. We had to spend most of the day inside dying but he helped us teach our two lessons that night.

We have our first progressing investigator we found while knocking. He is amazing and wants to learn everything!!! We also helped a less active want to come to church again. So the moral of that is eat poisonous plants and miracles will happen. Just kidding, don’t do that. We are all better now but we are super dumb. I promise no more poisonous plants.

Also I got bit by another small dog, dogs hate me. My finger is fine but my spirit was hurt a little because it was so cute. All dogs love Sis R and bite me. I don’t get it. Haha. But I will live.

We went to two baptisms for other missionaries on Saturday and I just cannot wait to have my first one. And I had my first transfer call on Saturday!! We are both staying! But we still get to go to transfer meeting because a lot of awesome missionaries are going home.

Also Sis R made me sing in the choir and is trying to get me to sing in front of more people. This transfer is going to be interesting. We also moved our beds again for more room and just because we wanted to.
I love you all. Read the Book of Mormon and pray. C’est la vie.

Miracles!

This week was full of miracles! The beginning on the week was really hard because Sister Rasmussen and I were working very hard and were still extremely unsuccessful (so we thought.) We then had to realize how successful we were actually being. We were inviting every person we met to come unto Christ. We were knocking on doors and chasing people down on the streets, we were showing how far we were will to go for Heavenly Father. He then answered both of my major goals that I had been praying about for two weeks.

I got to mow TWO lawns and teach my first restoration lesson to a person we found while knocking. A lesson actually went through! I didn’t mow in a dress but they were both non-members and both very touch. I love this work!

I also only got bit by one dog this week, but this time it left a pretty nice bruise on the back of my leg. And I got stung three times. It just means there is an elect about to be found and baptized!

Even Alma had a melt down when he didn’t feel like he was doing enough and then he had to realize that he was doing his best (Alma 29). The Lord asks me to do my very best and work till I can barely say my prayers at night.

“O that I were an angel, and could have the wish of mine heart, that I might go forth and speak with the trump of God, with a voice to shake the earth, and cry repentance unto every people! …

“Now, seeing that I know these things, why should I desire more than to perform the work to which I have been called?

“Why should I desire that I were an angel, that I could speak unto all the ends of the earth? …

“I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory in it. I do not glory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.”

Book of Mormon, Alma 29: 1,  6-7, 9

Also one super funny story. Olympia is full of wonderful crazy people and my neighbors are some of them. One night we were coming home and our neighbor lady called us over and told us some of her boys needed Jesus. so of course we went over. We ended up teaching 7 drunk people and did a giant prayer circle. And now they are all our best friends and we love seeing them around our apartment.

This work is done in all sorts of different ways. I am so proud to be a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I love you all. Carpe Diem and read the Book of Mormon.

What A Week!

This week was crazy! We knocked on lots of doors and got 3 new investigators. I got bit by two dogs, not hard but it was hilarious. My lungs broke but are all better now. I ate ant butts because Sister Rasmussen said they tasted like strawberries, THEY DO!

My new goal, besides baptizing everyone, is to mow a lawn in a dress. We have been working so hard and I am beyond happy. Everyone needs to read Alma 5! And Enos. My testimony of the Book of Mormon has skyrocketed. I love this gospel and am growing so much.

We had interviews with President Blatter this week after District Meeting.

Not much more to update but I have a feeling there will be soon, I will just have to keep working hard. I love you all, but more importantly, God loves you. C’est la vie (an old woman taught me that.) My new motto.

I also hit my one month this week and planted a tree to celebrate, and Sister Rasmussen made me a flower headband…my life is very random.