Everything I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned in Primary Sharing Time

Well, Hello everyone!

How's the week been for all of you?
It's been raining this whole week, here!

 

At mom's request, here's a picture of where we live:

2754 Maple Avenue

Buena Vista, VA  34416

It's an apartment complex with four units.

We live in the one closest to the camera.

It is a 2-story with the front door on the ground level:

Upstairs has 2 bedrooms (one study/one bedroom) and a full bathroom.

Downstairs has a living room, kitchen, and a half bath.

It's only a short week, so I'll get to it!

Wed. Sep 23: P-Day.
Knowing we were both staying, we both stocked up on groceries, so we wouldn't have to shop next week.
We went to the church so we could role play a Member-Missionary Sunday School class, our ward mission leader, Brother Turman, will be teaching.
'Twas the night before transfers, and it was crazy!  There were all these changes, and we had to stay up late letting everyone know where they needed to be tomorrow and when.

Thur. Sep. 24:  Today, I decided to fast for Betty and her doctor.  Today was the day she asked her doctor if she could get off her "health home arrest" and go to church.
Brother Hardy came with us to a lesson with Randy; he's doing alright - not keeping his commitments, though.  He's understanding everything and he knows he needs to come to church and read the Book of Mormon - The Spirit just needs to jump-start his DOING.

Fri. Sep. 25:  We drove down to Madison Heights to do some district leader training with Elder Vai, one of the new district leaders in the zone.

{Elder Johnson, Me, Elder Malin, and Elder Vai}

 

As we were driving back, we saw Great Clips had haircuts for $7.99.  Because my hair was looking like this:

(Don't worry, I didn't leave the apartment with my hair styled like this (that was for our private missionary "crazy hair day")  I just wanted to show how much I needed a haircut!)

...We decided to take our lunch hour there!  Every hair place in B.V. is like $18 or higher!

We had a fun lesson with Bri & Jimmy (ages 9 & 11).  They are the grandkids of some older members in the ward.  They don't come to church as much because they are bouncing around homes.  We were sitting there, and then the Spirit brought back a thought to my remembrance.  I remembered my mom had mentioned, in my email, an activity from Sharing Time that my sisters had just had in Primary. (And so I used it!)  I pulled out some 3x5 cards and we wrote the kids letters and had them write back to us, and then we had them leave the room, and we called them on the phone to talk; both showing ways of communication.  Then we discussed prayer and how it is the way to communicate with Heavenly Father.  It turns out they haven't been consistently praying, so that was just the commitment they needed!  The Spirit is wonderful!
We had a good lesson with Betty and Debbie; it turns out Betty is OK, and got permission from her doctor to go to church!  The lesson was more of a follow up lesson, a question and answer session.

Sat. Sep. 26:  Today was a Day of Service in Buena Vista.  It was still drizzling, so there weren't as many people as we hoped out serving.
We had a district leader conference call, and we were able to set some great high zone goals!
We met with Jesus Hernandez and his daughter, Emily.  He's a less-active, who we've been trying to get in touch with all transfer.  He's such a friendly guy - he let us right in and we had a good lesson on the Book of Mormon.

Sun. Sep. 27:  We had two lessons with less-actives, and we invited them to church - but they said maybe next week.
Betty and Debbie bailed out today and it broke our hearts.  We were really hoping they'd come, but they told Sister Butler it was a bad day.
It was a great Fast and Testimony meeting, with what seemed like a continuous line of people going to the podium.
We went to dinner at the Pence's store.  They, and the Shiraki's, and some non-member friends had a prayer meeting for Buena Vista.
We had some great member visits with the Noker's and the Wynn's.
We had an appointment with a potential named, Beth, and she cancelled.


Well, that's the week in a nutshell.
Everyone prepare for General Conference!  It's going to be awesome!  The best weekend of the year! I testify these men and women are called of God!  Plus, we get to see who the three new Apostles are!
There's some great videos in preparing for Conference called, "Seek, Receive, Act!"
#ldsconf
https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2014-10-1040-ruth?category=topics/revelation&lang=eng&cid=HP_WE_9-23-2015_dOCS_fMLIB_xLIDyI-2_

Love You All!