Wildbreeze in O-Town

Hello, dearest family!

I finally caught up on my journal today, so I'll have at least some idea of what happened this week! Wooooo

Tuesday evening we visited a less active teenager who is awesome. She wants to go on a mission and be a doctor. She's going up to Utah this week for Comic-Con, and we're jealous. We told her about how awesome being a missionary is; that we get to show people all the cool blessings they can have. :)

At GKTW we cut and wrapped brownies again. So many brownies. We got through two boxes on our own. All the workers came by and thanked us.

At night we biked for the first time in forever. Night biking is the bessst. We saw Sister Jones and helped her set up her LDS.org account. She's so excited to start doing family history work! I played with her son, the three year old. I love that kid. :)

Thursday we had Zone Training Meeting and had a show and tell. :D Some people were really clever and it was absolutely hilarious.

The STLs did a cool training and had us close our eyes and imagine different events from our missions. Things that had happened and things that would happen. "One day, all of this will be a memory. What are you going to do today to make it the best memory it can be?" They talked about recommitting to our purpose here; that if missionary work is easy, we're probably not doing it right.

We went and helped out Sister Palomino in the evening. She needed help preparing for her daughter's birthday party. She just turned 2! Sister Petty and I painted their old rickety bench. It's been around since Bishop Palomino was 12. Sister Palomino wanted it white for pictures. We had a ton of fun doing that. I think I still have some paint on me. :P

Friday we went to Clarissa's party! :D Sister Palomino made a magnificent castle cake.

We went home and cleaned and planned, because the STLs told us they wanted to blitz our area for exchanges this transfer. So we would all four stay here and all do work. We had to plan out two different days for Saturday.

Saturday we all fasted together and blitzed! It was awesome! Started out with Sister Yance in the morning and found some cool people. She's absolutely fearless in talking to people, and super bold. We met with Yeshie and taught her the Plan of Salvation. She remembered a lot from the pamphlet and had some great questions. We put her on date to be baptized on April 15th! She was a little concerned about being prepared by then, so we told her that's just a goal to work towards, so that she continues to prepare and progress. We're excited! :D

We all met up and had companion study, then switched companions. So I was with Sister Reid for the rest of the day, and got to know her! This is her last transfer in the mission. D:

We saw Brian and Angie, and they've been thinking more about Alex getting baptized! They've been regularly praying as a family! Alex has been reading from the Book of Mormon! Ahh! She did so well with the lesson we taught. Sister Petty let me borrow her cool Plan of Salvation cards, and it really helped Alex to explain it back to us.

Saw Susan, and she's also been reading the pamphlets and some of the Book of Mormon. More than that, SHE'S BEEN PRAYING. That is HUGE for her!!! She says she feels like she has more faith now than ever in her life! She's still struggling somewhat, because she knows God protected her in her car accident, but she doesn't understand why horrible things have happened to her in the past. I started talking, and the Spirit totally took over, and we both cried as I talked to her. She thanked me and said that God sent me to her. <3

Sunday. I was going to remember daylight savings time. I knew it was coming. And I totally forgot. Thankfully, the North Sisters called us and woke us up, haha. I was falling asleep in church. xP We helped with sharing time in Primary! The Junior Primary is so tiny. But they were mostly paying attention and answering questions pretty well. :)

So it's been a pretty awesome week! Hope you're all doing well! Love you all. :)

Love,

Sister Stevenson