Conference and Cats

Hello All,

So this email is going to be much more rushed than normal; I've got
less than 40 minutes to send it off, and I haven't written in my
journal much this week. D:

Tuesday we had Zone Conference! Heard lots of great thoughts and
advice. President Clark told us a story about his childhood. His
mother wanted him to take a nap, but he decided he'd be helpful and
bring in the milk bottles instead. He grabbed one to take it in... and
dropped and broke it. And then he tried twice more. And broke the
other two bottles of milk. He said his mother just didn't quite
understand his willingness to help! :P And then he told us that
sometimes we think we're doing missionary work when we're really not.
We need to evaluate what we're doing and if it's truly helping,
repent, and continue. Maybe our fourth floor, last door doesn't open.
We keep working anyway.

I saw Sister Sorensen and her new trainee. She's training right out of
training. Crazy. She's awesome though, looks like she's doing great. I
think they had a baptism last week. :) Also saw Sister Parish! We were
all super happy to see her bright happy self.

Later in the day we were doing some finding in the one apartment
complex in Poinciana, and we weren't sure what to do. It was too early
to go home but too late to go anywhere else. So we prayed and both
felt that we needed to go to the top floor. That was it. The first
door we knocked opened and the woman invited us in to pray! :)
Also we got horchata. It was a good day.

Wednesday we did Castle at GKTW again! Yayyyy. It was just such a good
day and I was super happy and energized. A very very slow day at GKTW,
but I still got to help find a couple of stars, which is always my
favorite. :)

When we got home, one of the feral cats in the neighborhood approached
us and let us pet her. She was absolutely skin and bones, and probably
had an upper respiratory infection or something. :( Sister Petty
adores cats. And so we both tried to get her to eat and figure out
what to do. A member gave us some food and the number for animal
control. So we kept her in the garage for a bit. :P She was picked up
the next day and was apparently doing much better. So that's good!
The STLs (Sister Training Leader) came over and we had to explain the
cat situation. :P "It's not a pet. Bagheera doesn't even have a name.
We promise." Luckily they like animals too and were understanding.
The STLs had told us to pray about who was going where for exchanges.
Sister Petty and I both assumed that I would stay here, simply because
I know the area. But we both felt, after praying, that she needed to
stay here and lead out. So I went up to Lake Nona with Sister Yance,
and Sister Reid stayed down in PHS with Sister Petty!

Exchanges are always super fun. I adore Sister Yance. She's such a
happy, enthusiastic person, and is always incredibly encouraging.
We had lunch with their investigators and a member, and the plan was
to teach the Plan of Salvation, or read from the Book of Mormon as a
backup. We didn't do either, we simply addressed concerns that they
had and testified a lot. The member was awesome and just took over and
gave great insight and testimony.

There's a new little community up there called Storey Park, and all
the streets are named after different literature genres. It's awesome.
They have a tiny little "library" box where you can take or leave a
book. We left a Book of Mormon. :)

We had another self defense class, which was super fun. This time the
missionaries were kind of just invited to tag along with the mutual
kids.

Friday was a day.
Planning.
Got juice.

Saturday we again had a cool prayer experience. We had only a few more
minutes before we had to drive to our dinner appointment, so we looked
at the names of a few potential investigators and both felt like
trying the same one. She's in high school and had apparently been
given a Bible before? She thought the premise of the Book of Mormon
was so cool, and we're going to see her next Saturday!

Had dinner with the Boodram/Scherers and the North Sisters. Which
means that we laughed quite a lot. :)

Fast and testimony meeting on Sunday was great. Sister Jones bore her
testimony; she hadn't been able to come to church the past couple of
weeks, and she said she was glad to be home. :)

Broke our fast early, because our dinner appointment was going to be
gone during dinner time, so we just had lunch with them. Which meant
that we could join the North Sisters at the Lasala's home for dinner.
They always have tons of people and tons of food. Sister Lasala says
it's the least she can do to try and feed us once or twice a month. :)

Not sure what else there is. P-day ends in 7 minutes. D: Today's been
kind of up and down, and I certainly don't like rushing letters. But
overall this week has been pretty great! There's some awesome stuff to
look forward to next week. :)

Hope you're all doing well. Have a fantastic week.

Love,

Christine