Good Hard Week

Hope you are all having an amazing time with whatever you are doing! Just remember God loves ❤️ you! Monday: Super fun P-day!! In the morning we were kinda lazy and just kinda hung around and I talked a lot with my family and learned a lot about phone storage because I take a lot of pictures and videos ahah oops 😬. Anyways once we got going with the day we met with our district at the 🧸Albanese gummy factory and that was super fun. Unfortunately they don't do tours there anymore but they do let you have unlimited sampling and man did the elders take advantage of that lol. We all got a little something and then we spent an hour at a guitar🎸 store and that was we were all just trying to attempt to play the guitars but out of all of us maybe 1 or 2 knew how to play well. Once p-day ended we had lots of calls and visited some members. But funny story, this morning I saw that there was a text about a leadership meeting tomorrow that Sister Surio and I TOTALLY forgot about😨 lol and so we were supposed to have exchanges but that didn't happen lol. Tuesday: MLC! (Mission Leadership Council) Today was a lonnnnnnng day. We got out of the house and man was traffic TERRIBLE😞. It took us a lot longer than we expected and we thought we were going to be late but everyone got stuck in traffic also so technically we were late but we were there before lots of others so it all worked out haha. MLC was amazing and I was able to take a lot out of it. They surprised us with two things, first one being instead of a Zone conference just on one day they are having it everyday🎉this upcoming week which is WILD! The second thing was that us leaders are planning the zone conference and it's like OOP😮. That threw us all off so so much but it's super cool we have that opportunity to do that. The rest of the day was driving🚗🥱 which im getting so sick off which sucks because I used to love it but now im like noooooo thanks! Big Miracle though today, our friend Daniel told us that he has officially got all Sundays off which is such a big blessing because his work was giving him such a hard time about it. Wednesday: Today I hit exactly one year away from coming home which is super crazy! We had district council like usual. We thought it would be fun for everyone to bring their own lunches so that we could still eat all together but not have to buy food. But classic elders didn't bring anything and so us sisters just awkwardly stood there and ate and then we all left. The rest of the day was lots of stop bys which meant MORE driving, yayyyyy! Honestly, if I don't have to do this again I would be a very happy person! Story time now… as we were driving around I totally missed our turn and so I had to flip around somewhere and up a head I saw this nice looking place that looked like a wedding venue and so I was like aww how cute and so we flipped around in that driveway and as we are leaving this truck pulls in and im like oop people are showing up for the wedding how fun! But this truck wont move from the exit and Im like uhhh hello and he drives up to us with the window down and so I was like maybe he thinks we are also here for the wedding and he goes “WHAT ARE YOU DOING.” Im like oh sorry I just had missed my turn and needed to flp around. Hes like “WHY” im like because I missed my turn and anyways he kept asking why and I was so lost and then he yells at me and is like “THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY blahblahblah and this is my house yadayadayada” and im like so sorry didnt see any signs and in my head im like not my fault your place looks like a wedding venue haha. Thursday: SISTER BARNES DAY!! + Detective work lol. So we got Dairy Queen🍦 which is always good and then we went with her to pick up her new teeth and she wanted us to come with her because she's scared of the people that work at the dentist because they always give her a hard time and so we were there for moral support haaha. When we got back to her house we started doing detective work🕵‍♀️ because she ordered mirrors through Home Depot but every time they get delivered they are sent to someone else's house under a whole different name which so happens to be the workers name SUS, so we dug into that and helped her think of what she should do lol. The rest of the day was lots of active calling president and him active calling us and update on Daniel, unfortunately we have to postpone his baptism until we hear back from the 1st presidency which is soo cool that our friends name is being talked about throughout them. Anyways now we just have to play the waiting game. Friday: 6 Months in the Field!!!! We had a couple meetings in the morning but after those we did more stop bys and met some really nice people but unfortunately none of them were interested 😕. We did oym(open your mouth) at the mall and man was that hard because the whole mall has a tone of sales going on and so we accidentally bought some things but how we see it, it was retail therapy🛍 so it was needed ahah. We finally got to do our exchanges with our sisters and sister Law and I chatted in the parking lot for like an hour oops until we realized the time and we had to then switch and zoom back to our areas because we had a leadership call. I'm with Sister Anama for the next little bit and she is so fun and cute and our conversations are just the realist haha but anyways Sister Anama and Sister Surio are quite literally twins and it's funny. But anyways we had a call and it was planning the zone training for the next day which us sisters were doing and the Zone leaders came up with an invitation which was something I don't think the zone needed and so I voiced it but they didn't care and so I was like well I can tell for sure this training is not going to be the best because I felt the Spirit like Zippo while talking about what we should do but hey I'll do my best. Saturday: We had the zone training and again there was no spirit in it and It just didn't seem right and sister Anama thought the same but hey it's over with and what can you do about it now. Anyways fast forward through the day we had lots of lessons fall through but we got these silly bags from the dollar tree that say “ Sweet but mostly Sarcastic😁.” We thought they were funny and so we got matching bags. And then President called us and I got super excited because I'm like okay this is going to be good news about Daniel! WELP in fact,it was NOT good news. President tells us “ I just got done talking to the 1st presidency and the new rule with transgender people transitioning back to their birth sex has to wait a WHOLE YEAR until they can be baptized.” When he said that it quite literally felt like a knife stabbed into our hearts💔 and it was so hard to hear. We then had to tell Daniel that and he was DEVASTATED of course like one would be, we helped him see the bright side of it all but of course it is still super hard. He is going to continue to work towards his baptism and come to church and everything which is AMAZING and as we are talking to Sister Anama is just crying because she has never met Daniel before but from all that was going on and the faith that he still has it just touched both of us and so after that is was hard day ngl but we finished the exchange strong and ended the night with a member meal! Sunday: Yayyy for Sunday! We went to church in Rensselaer which was so good especially because it was a fast sunday and so it's always nice to hear all the testimonies! After we all broke our fast and had a pot luck and man was the food delicious like WOW! After chatting for a bit we went back to Hebron area and went to walmart to do oym and it was funny because one of the workers was stalking the clearance shelves and he was like shoot this is a good find and then he started talking to us about it and long story short he hid us one so that we could come and get it another time, it was really funny. The rest of the day was just lots more oym and then we had a member meal with the Barkers and oh man they are hilarious! After dinner they brought out their pet snake and so of course I said yes to holding it. His name was Pablo🐍 and we were both just vibing and it was super fun and I just wanted to take him with me lol. And the rest of the night was jsut same old same old things. Anyways there is the week for yall, love you all so so much and hope you had an amazing week and hope you have a good rest of your week🫶💞!!