FAMILY.
Well it sounds like
things are going great back home! Holy smokes. That is so awesome that Megan
has a job after she graduates and that all of that stuff is working out for her
benefit!! Congrats to Mallo on getting excepted into BYU-Idaho! I knew she
would...(: And then little Bryce man is attracting all the ladies with his
incredible basketball skills... What a stud. It is a good thing he has had 3
older sisters to help him out! (; Man. I love getting emails where so many good
things are going on! I am so happy for all of you! You all better have a
party!
This week has been
one of the most crazy/stressful/overwhelming weeks I have had in a really long
time! I had no idea that it would take soooooooooo much work to get rid of bed
bugs. I really hate them. We ended up having to get an exterminator and he came
on Saturday. But we had to wash EVERYTHING in our apartment. And I mean
absolutely everything. It took soooooo long. Luckily the land lord let us do
our laundry for free because we would have been broke if we would have had to
pay for it. I cannot even tell you how many loads of laundry we had to do. Then
after we washed everything we had to put it into garbage bags and double bag
it. We weren't allowed to take our laundry back into our apartment until the
guy had finished exterminating the place. It didn't really click to us that
when you put things into garbage bags right after they come out of the dryer
they get extremely wrinkled... And then we realized that not only were they
really wrinkled, but everything was SO staticy! We were getting shocked up the
wazoo hahaha So that was basically what we did allllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
weekend long. I never want to see a bed bug ever again. hahaha So the next time
by companion asks me, "Sister Woodland, Is this a bed bug?" I am just
going to say no without going over and actually looking at it. If you just
don't face the problem it won't actually exist, right? hahaha (; So yep. I feel
like that was basically what this last week consisted of. Lots of bed bug
killing. But our apartment is FINALLY back in order and it feels sooooooooooooo
good! I laughed and laughed and laughed at your email Mom. I figured after I
sent that email last week about the bed bugs that you weren't going to let me
go inside our house without changing out of my clothes. haha Shoot. Too funny!
Sometimes you just have to laugh at a situation because if you don't laugh
you'll probably cry. So Sister Robinson and I did a whole lot of laughing this
week. I am surprised we haven't gone crazy yet! But things are good now so we
are going to be just fine! (:
Even though we had
a lot going on with the bed bug situation we were still able to get out and
work as much as we possibly could! God definitely blessed us sooooo much this
week. I think He knew that we were so stressed out that we was like I'll just
help them out a little bit more than usual this week because we found 7 NEW
INVESTIGATORS. 7. New. Investigators. Can you believe that?! Because I sure
couldn't! haha I still have no idea how that happened, but I am super excited
about it! We started to teach this really awesome family! They are from Egypt
and they came here only 5 months ago. They are soooooooo nice. They are Coptic
Orthodox. Which is something I have never heard of so we had to ask some of our
members here so we knew how to start teaching them. They have never even heard
of our Church before. Which is so crazy! I feel like I haven't met very many
people who have never heard of "Mormon" before. So we are going to
need to start at the very beginning with them! They are seriously some of the
nicest people I have ever met! They are so welcoming and so friendly! We have a
member in our ward here that speaks Arabic so he is going to come out on a team
up with us this coming Saturday! We are super excited. Jackie was able to
receive the Gift of The Holy Ghost yesterday and she is doing so awesome!
Things really are moving right along over here. God will always keep His work
going even when crazy things come up! I am so grateful for that! It is a
testimony builder to me that God really is in the details of this work!
Things are now
going great and I am super excited to now just solely focus on the work and on
our investigators! (: Thanks for your examples to me and for everything you do
for me! I miss you all so much, but I am so grateful for this opportunity to be
out here. Even when things get a little crazy! Remember to keep sharing the
gospel and helping those missionaries out over there! (:
LOVES
YOUS TO THE MOON & BACK!! WE GOT THIS!
Love,
Sister Woodland
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