Wednesday, August 13, 2014

email 7.7.14

Todo esta muy bien aqui en Woodbridge.  Hemos tenido un semana LOCO.  Como siempre.  Pero me encanta la vida de ser misionera. 

But really good good good week.  The work is rolling right along and we are talking to everyone we see.  We had a training at the beginning of the week at district meeting on how important the people in our immediate surroundings are, how God litearally places them there, and if we don't talk to them, we are doing the work of God a diservice!  So we got fired up on offering the gospel to every single human, and it has really changed the week.  I just feel happy when get to share the gospel.  This morning we saw two hispanics when we were on our walk, so you know we talked to them and we even set up appoitments!  Mostly it was lucky we both remembered our tags!  Life is just happy when you talk about how happy the gospel is, you should all try it :)

This week we were so fired up about talking to everyone that when we were stuck in HORRIBLE traffic (we are super duper close to DC so the traffic gets really bad here) we decided to roll down our window, and would you guess, there was a hispanic right there in the car next to us!  We chatted and invited him to church, and even threw him a pass along card.  The next time we stopped we were next to another hispanic, so you know we just continued the pattern.  Hermana Collins thinks I am nuts sometimes, but she goes with and and we always have a good time! 

We have been blessed to mee some really gem humans here.  The other day we were knocking doors and this guy just stuck his head outside of the window from the 2nd floor and then we proceeded to teach him the restoration from the lawn.  We call him window popping Juan, he is a gem.  We aslo finally got to meet with a family yesterday that the other sister had been teaching and they are GOLD.  We taught them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and we had a member with us, who pretty much taught the whole lesson, invited them to church, and the whole nine yards.  They are so prepared and asked really great questions, and with a fuerte member friend, they are going to be solid.  We are so excited for them! 

The fouth of July was pretty darn good!  The morning started off with a classic Breakfast with the ward.  There is nothing more rich than the Hispanic 4th of July Breakfast complete with tortillas and beans and even pupusas.  Also donuts and orange juice and all that jazz.  They played country music, sang the National Anthem, and even had USA trivia.  We were in heaven, it was just so classic.  Our Bishop is hilarious, we were sitting with his sons, and we were all dying at his trivia questions, which he ended up not even knowing the answers to.  So good.  Of corse we dressed in red white and blue, as I demanded, to get into the spirt and we had a pretty successful day contacting and even had a couple of lessons!  Sadly we didnt get to see fireworks, but we did have some glow sticks the grandma Jane sent me, so we had a good time.

I started studying the Doctrine and Covenants last week and I just can't put it down these days, the history of the church is so cool.  And all the revelations for us today, I mean we are so blessed.  I am so so grateful for the truths that we have here on the earth today! 

Mostly things are good here in the Woodhood, just working hard and loving being a missionary as always, and just trying to find all my cute humans to share the happienss with!  I love love love you all the most!  Have the best week :)


love, Hermana Riley Jane

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