Where do I even begin. This week was pretty sweet!! On Tuesday as a district we went tracking in our area and got a few potential investigators :) and while we were standing with some of the elders, waiting for the other elders to meet up there was a woman that walks by and an elder goes to talk to her and then we introduce ourselves to her and she was like "I know you guys! I saw you at my work!" She works at Ardenes and she was working when we were there on Monday! How crazy is that?!?! And she is the only face that I remember from when we were at the mall. The Lord works in mysterious ways, that's for sure. She is super interested as well! :)
On Thursday we had our missionary Christmas party! President and Sister Nicholas read the Christmas story from the bible and we sang songs in between and the spirit was just so strong in there! It is the coolest thing being in a room full of missionaries singing about our Savior. I loved it!!! President also surprised us by having us watch "Meet the Mormons"! That was pretty fun being able to watch that though the part about the missionary mom did leave a few people a bit teary-eyed, especially the greenies ;) hahah
That night we met with the Emery's. Lori is a member but her husband, Martin, isn't a member but he is the coolest! We just love those two. While we were talking to them we shared a scripture with them about Jesus Christ and just bore our testimonies to them about our Savior. The spirit was very strong in that room that's for sure. Lori kept looking over at Martin while we were talking to see if he had any reaction on his face haha. Then the next night we had our ward relief society party and Martin came with Lori! He has NEVER come to a church activity. This was seriously a miracle. Thang and his mom and his son Colton even came to the party as well!!! Thang kept thanking us over and over for inviting him and his family. He loved being there!
We met with Thang on Sunday night and while we were there he was like I have some questions for you guys and pulls out his Book of Mormon!!! He has never read on his own, EVER. We were just shocked. You have no idea how happy this made us! He is truly trying his best to become a better person and it is the coolest thing to see.
This week I also hit my half way mark!!!! It's insane! Time is going by fast. I love being a missionary! There is no doubt about that. :) I hope you all have a great week!! Love ya all!
Love,
Sister O'Dell
1/2 way there!!!
"Elder Gregory who is on the left came out with me! He was in my MTC district. And elder whetten who is in the middle comes home with me!! and he is from Arizona too!!! :)"
"Sister Gonzalez!!!!!!!!! :)"
"Three generation picture! My momma and my baby!!"
"The three Arizonan's!!! :) Elder jones and sister waller :)"
"Sister Murphy!!!!! :)"
"Burned a skirt to celebrate my 9 months!! hahaha"
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