This week was amazing! I just want to share testimony of hard work and positivity! So this week we had a lot of good things going for us. We came to Saturday and all of our district wanted to find a lot of people. We had a prayer of faith in the morning and went out and worked super hard. So in the first part of Saturday, we were able to have 2 lessons with our progressing people which was a blessing. We got "pumped up" from the spirit we felt and had super positive attitudes the rest of the day. We worked hard and made sure we listened to promptings of the spirit. Usually night isn't the best time to find people because when it gets dark they all go to bed. We decided on a area we wanted to go into and do some finding. We parked around 1 mile away and decided to walk and exercise faith to find along the way. We felt prompted to knock some specific doors and we were able to find 2 new people all after dark! The spirit loves to dwell in happy places so as we made sure to have a positive outlook, we were able to be in tune with the spirit and see many miracles.
The second part of that night and I guess the more entertaining part was the patterns of the day. So while we were finding, every single person we taught was pregnant. If that isn't weird enough, we scared almost everyone we talked to and it all started in the first area we went to. We were waking up some stairs to try a potential person that expressed interest but we never officially taught. Right as we got to the top of the stairs, a person in the apartment we were going to try opened the door and we scared them. It was a teenage girl and her friends who were preparing for homecoming. She slammed the door and screamed. Her friends were all laughing. It was the same door that the person we were trying to find was at so we knocked again. It was awkward. Later when we were doing some more finding, we knocked on another door. The lady inside didn't hear and we knocked on the wrong door which lead into her kitchen. She went into the kitchen not to answer the door but to get something from the fridge and saw 2 guys in white shirts standing on her porch. We scared her knocked again and ended up teaching her. We tried one of her neighbors and there was another teenage girl! She peaked her head around the corner and right as she did, I looked through the glass on the door and she jumped back behind the wall. Then she proceeded to talk on the phone and tell whoever was on the line that we were staring at her. Haha we ended up just leaving because she was to sacred to answer. We kept working hard and went to another house just to scare another person. The lady ended up being really nice but wasn't interested. We probably scared another 2 or 3 people as well. 
I guess we're just scary people!
One of the best days this week was Sunday! So we went to church and had a good testimony meeting. Everyone was sharing their testimony of the temple and eternal families and it was really spirit filled. During our Sunday school meeting, a ton of people were getting pulled out by the Branch President. Then he came to us and pulled us out and asked if we could give a blessing to a sick member in the Emergency Room. We said we could so we went to do that. When we returned at the end of Church, everyone was leaving and we were listening in to a conversation of one of our part member families. Sister Jewett has been coming to church for the last 2-3 years and out of the blue said she wanted to get baptized on the 16th. It was such exciting news!
All in all I had one of the best weeks yet! I love being a missionary and serving the Lord. I know that the effort we place forth in all that we do along with our attitude can make all the difference. I know that we have been blessed with the ability to decern right from wrong and can be amazing examples of truth and righteousness as we serve the Lord in all we do. I love each of you and hope your weeks are magnificent!
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| Elder Bell |
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