Good afternoon family and friends!!
Well, once again, not a whole lot happened this week. It's
surprising how fast this week went. Sister Davidson and I were talking about it
and we don't feel like we got anything accomplished this week. We looked back
and it just went so fast! Which we're sad about because we try to work really
hard but by the time Sunday comes around and we have to send in our numbers, we
realize how little we feel like we did. But I guess as long as we are trying
our hardest, at least that's good!
So, on Wednesday, we were doing our service at City Hall
with Bonnie Michaels (a less-active in the ward) and all of a sudden, this lady
from a different department comes up to us and is so surprised to see us there!
She doesn't usually come over to where we were working but she needed to shred
something. Well, this lady ended up being a member of the church in another
ward. She had no clue that there were missionaries doing service there. So we
talked to her for about 15 minutes and during that time, Bonnie came over and
started talking to us. Come to find out, this lady, Sister Lancaster, didn't
know that Bonnie is a member of the church. So it was funny because Sister Lancaster
said "Missionary moment right here" wanting us to help bring Bonnie
back to church. Well, to be honest, that's one of the reasons we're doing this
service. We have to do four hours of service each week but it's a bonus when we
get to do it with someone who is a less active member of the church! So anyway,
we're going to go out to lunch sometime with Sister Lancaster. She is such an
amazing person, I can already tell! It's fun to meet so many new people!
Then on Thursday we were tracting and we went to this house
that Sister Davidson has wanted to go to for a long time. When we got there,
the guy was not interested at all but we got to talking and I asked him
"If God had a message for you, what do you think it would be?" And
that got him thinking and it got us to be able to stay and talk to him longer.
Sadly he's going through a divorce right now and he's already a church going
guy so he doesn't feel like he needs more. It was just nice to be able to talk
to him.
Also that night, we went over to Cheryl Thompson's house.
She just moved into the ward about a month ago and she's less active. We have
enjoyed going to her house and getting to know her. She's 60-years old and
she's a big work out queen! We go to talking to her about how we wish we could
work out longer each day and she ended up giving us a work out book that she
put together and we're learning moves from those to do each morning. It's
actually a lot of fun! I like working out now! So each week we go over and
switch out equipment to use. It's fun! And we just love Cheryl!
Then on Friday night to Saturday afternoonish, we had
exchanges. I stayed in Chino Hills while Sister Davidson went to Monrovia.
Sister Harker came and spent that time with me. We just went tracting most of
the time but it was fun! There was this one family that we went to go see that
Sister Davidson and I met a few weeks ago but they weren't home. While we were
at their house, there was this old man standing outside and so we went to go
see him. His name is Nash. He's in his 70's or 80's and lives with his wife. We
asked him if we could take them on a church tour but he said he had other
responsibilities. So we just got to talking to him and then we saw his wife in
the window and he told us that she has Alzheimers (did I spell that right?...)
So she came out and asked us who were were and she was just so cute! She shook
Sister Harkers hand and then grabbed my arms and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
It was the sweetest thing. Then she was trying to talk to her husband and we
just sat there and listened. Then we started to leave and she said bye and she
gave us kisses and then she grabbed my face and said, "I love you!" I
almost bawled! It was the sweetest thing ever!!! And from that, I learned so
much! I learned from Nash that no matter what, you never stop loving someone. I
learned from Carmen, that you love everyone, no matter who they are. And I
learned even more! It's weird how those small things can teach you so much! As
a missionary I thought I was going to be teaching people things. But I've come
to realize that I'm going to learn a lot from the people that I meet. And at
the same time, I hope to teach them as well!
So on Saturday night we had another finding activity with
the district. We went to The Shoppes (a shopping center) here in town and just
talked to people. As Sister Davidson and I were walking around trying to find
people, she looked over and saw the Mayor of Chino Hills. We had met him once
before at an Eagle Court of Honor in our ward and we had talked to him for a while
there. So when Sister Davidson saw him, we walked over and talked to him again.
He recongized us and introduced us to his wife, their son and his girlfriend.
Then we talked to them for about 10 minutes and that was cool! Then we went
around and talked to another couple shopping and the guy wasn't interested but
she was, and that was cool. We gave them a pass along card with the SLC
temple on it and she just kept staring at it. Then Sister Davidson felt promted
to give them a Book of Mormon. He didn't want it but she was very excited for
it! Sadly we didn't get any information from them but hopefully somewhere down
the line, she will meet more missionaries and she will want to learn more about
the gospel!
One more thing, there's a lady we have taught a couple
times, her name is Yendia, and we were supposed to teach her on Thursday but
she never showed up :( And we had a member from our ward there to fellowship
her. Well, yesterday at church, Sister Navas came up to us and told her that
she met Yenida! We were so confussed! Turns out, their kids are in the same
class and they had a field trip on Friday and both Yenida and Sister Navas were
chaperones! How random is that?!?! So Sister Navas got talking to Yenida and
all this stuff and Yenida felt really bad that she missed our appointment but
said she would call us this week sometime. But we'll go to her house tomorrow
and see how she is and set up another time to come talk to her. I just find
that so random but God really does put people in our lives for so many reasons
and I know that it wasn't just a coincidence that both Sister Navas and Yenida
went on that field trip with their children!
Well, that's all for now! The pictures that I'm putting in
here are of Sister Davidson and I last night, Sister Butler, Sister Davidson,
Sister Harker and I at our exchange backs, Sister Harker and I, me with
Larry and Lorrie Williams (they are in our ward and we had dinner with them
last night. We just LOVE them!), and also Sister Davidson and I with Sister
Williams!
Hope everyone is having a good week so far! Happy Birthday
to Uncle Scott and Simone this week. And if I missed anyone else for birthdays,
anniversaries, anything. Love you all!
Love, Sister Wheatley
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