Wildbreeze in O-Town: In Which We Whitewash for the Second Time in One Transfer

Hello my darlings. Hope your week has been wonderful. Mine has been exceptionally confusing. :)

Ooookay. This week. Has been interesting. So our area changed because of the ward boundary changes. And so we were essentially whitewashing. So most of the reports from these days will be "and then we knocked a million doors".

Tuesday. We knocked a million doors. Tried to find some members and less actives. We came across a lady gardening and offered to help her. She declined, saying that she loves it and calls it her prayer time. "I'm already on my knees." She wasn't really interested, but as we testified and prepared to leave, she started to cry and was so happy to say a prayer with us. Am I a terrible person if I say I like making people cry when teaching?

Wandered into a magical land near the beach with tons of land and horses and very few people.

Just walked around for a bit in Magic-Land-By-The-Sea. It was a beautiful day and we talked to some people.

Wednesday we had District meeting, and talked about the traveling salesman problem, where it's literally impossible to compute the best route to take (or to plan out the best thing to say when contacting). But when you just go for it to the best of your ability, you end up coming very close to the best. So instead of waiting and trying to figure out how... just go for it. Just talk to that person. Just say something.

Tons of apartment complexes to tract. We walked around a strange neighborhood that weirded me out. I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone. Or on Camazotz (from A Wrinkle in Time).

Met Brother Kiel and he explained why he was less active. And talked. And talked. And talked. People like him help me to be bold and just say what I feel needs to be said. Just straight to the point.

Thursday we served at the Jewish Federation and did some wonderfully monotonous tasks.

Then... GUESS WHAT

Tracting.

Met Angela; she was less active but has been trying to come back. Man, she's had a rough time. It's like she's forgotten how to be happy and it broke my heart. :( But she's trying to read/listen to the scriptures again.

We saw Joan, a less active we met earlier in the week. She's essentially an investigator; she doesn't remember a ton. She believes a lot of things from a lot of different religions. While there we got to hold her TWO WEEK OLD PUPPIES. Also she was happy to get a new Book of Mormon. That's important too.

Friday we did some more service at the Federation. Finished the jobs we'd started Thursday.

Then.

We got a call.

From the Zone Leaders.

Asking how much work there was in our new area, how safe certain areas in our old area were, where we would be most productive but also safe.... Then we decided that we'd move to their apartment and they to ours, and we'd now be back to the area that we were in at the beginning of the transfer. SO.

We went and saw K....., because she'll be ours again! :D I love their family so so much. Her mom came out and talked to us for a while. She's been trying to stop drinking coffee this week. Send some prayers her way for her to overcome that!!

Last ice cream with the Corders. <3

Saturday we cleaned and packed and cleaned some more.

Moved.

Cleaned more in the new apartment. Threw out a TON of expired food. (What the heck, Elders?)

"Cleaning is more exhausting than tracting." -Sister Sorensen

Sunday we went back to our previous ward and confused eeeeveryone. Haha. Relief Society was just spent with short introductions from everyone. Because this ward got a piece of the neighboring ward, and because they used to have two Relief Societies.

After we went trying to find some of our new people, with the help of Elder Jensen's iPad.

Then we had two dinners and almost died.

So I have a new address for the next two weeks at least. We'll see. :P This transfer has certainly been a new and interesting adventure.

I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week. This week, pray about someone you can reach out to. Whether just to say hi, or to share the gospel with them. Someone out there needs YOU! :)

Love,

Sister Stevenson