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| Sister Fife at Zone Conference |
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| With Sister Merchant |
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| Sister Martinez shopping |
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| A tiny frog |
This was a different week... I feel like I got some good
opportunities to work on Charity though! I've been studying the topic this
month, and I have found that we see charity in the big acts of service, but
also in the little daily actions like patience, encouragement, and positivity.
Of course the greatest exemplar of charity is Jesus Christ himself. Truly
"Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of
discipleship”
(“The Great Commandment,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2007, 28–29).
Monday was our Zone Conference with Elder Golden.
Tuesday was our P-Day. We played warrior ball with our
district. It is pretty much dodge ball, but there are no teams so every man for
himself!
Wednesday we had interviews with President Craig. Half of
our district came for a lesson from Sister Craig about safety and rules. One by
one President tapped us out to talk to him. It is always so good to visit with
President! He asked my opinion about the work in the area and the apartment
situation. He always asks how things are at home, and I even got some school
advice from him. I just love the Craigs so much!
Thursday was moving day. It took about three hours to get
our furniture and other items moved down the street to the Asbury apartments.
(5333 SW 75th at Apt 177) These apartments are so nice! Our whole district
helped and we had two members bring their trucks. The moving went pretty
quick and the Elders set up our bed frames. Elder Young even put all of our
food away in the kitchen for us. If we ever couldn't find something we would
ask, "Now, where would Elder Young put this?" We really appreciated
all of the help!
Elders Collins and Walgomott moved into our apartment after
that. This actually was a huge blessing because about this same time several
sisters were diagnosed with scabies. They have been quarantined to the Elders
old apartment. Elder Collins decided it would be nice to make dinners for them
so he called us and told us we could be in charge of organizing meals for them.
Haha, I guess he has learned the art of delegation.
Friday we were super busy. We rushed through weekly planning
and we used our lunch time to make dinner for the sisters. Then we dropped off
dinner on our way to a district service project for the 2nd Ward sisters’
investigator. It went really well! During the move Sister Martinez's leg
started to really hurt. She had someone collide with her playing soccer the p
day before transfers. It just seemed to be badly bruised, but moving put a lot
of stress on it and hurt her leg more. The medical missionary, Elder Andrew,
said we needed to take her to the doctor. Unfortunately we were on a tight
schedule. We were able to get our wonderful sister training leaders to trade
off earlier though so Sister Lawrence took Sister Martinez to the doctor and
Sister Merchant did service with me. I had an amazing trade off with Sister
Merchant! It was her first one as a sister training leader. She came out the
transfer after me. We were able to go out and work hard which was so nice since
we had been taking it fairly slow with Sister Martinez's leg.
Saturday Sister Merchant and I got three other lessons in
one apartment building! It was great! We traded companions back and I learned
that Sister Martinez's leg was fractured. She has a cane. We went to our dinner
appointment and we got permission from President to use their computer so
Sister Martinez could email her x Rays to the area missionary doctor. He called
later and said he thinks it might be worse than we first thought. So we were a
bit stressed for the Women's Broadcast that night, but it was good. I
definitely felt the spirit and loved all of the talks about the temple and
covenants. Our ward met at 7:39 for a chocolate appreciation.
Everyone brought food to dip in chocolate. The sisters with scabies got to come
too (as long as they didn't hug anyone :) ).
After the meeting we stopped by our old complexes and Elders
Collins and Walgamott brought a chair to the parking lot to give Sister
Martinez a blessing. Then we went to Walgreens to find a brace for her knee. We
just found out she needed one right before the broadcast. The only problem is that
the closest
Walgreens closed at 10:00 and we got there
just at 10:00. Elder Andrew found a 24 hour store for us, but they didn't
have the kind she needed. We called a member who used to specialize in
orthopedics and he said we wouldn't find one on a Saturday night. So we
went home and got to bed about 11:30.
We were both pretty tired Sunday and we ended up staying at
the church from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm since we couldn't go out to work.
It was the Sunday of the primary program which was so fun! We found out this
Ward has 31 infants and 59 children and the average sacrament meeting
attendance is about 150. Young Ward! I love it!
We are looking forward to another week! We have made a list
of things we can do in our apartment to stay productive. Elders Baldwin and
Tauoa are coming to dedicate our apartment today too!
Also! The new movie, Meet the Mormons, is coming out in
October. It is a video about 6 Mormons. It will be shown in select theaters
according to requests so we are working to get our members to request it near
us. You can see the trailer and request to see it near you at meetthemormons.com
AND! Don't forget to join the event on a Facebook The Prophet
Speaks. This Friday post your picture and share your testimony about the
prophet or a favorite conference quote. Include #theprophetspeaks. If you are
up for a real challenge (and huge blessings) invite a non member to watch
conference next weekend. I can hardly wait to hear our prophet speak! I know
that President Monson is a prophet of God. He holds the priesthood authority to
lead Christ's church.
Happy Conference weekend!
Love,
Sister Murray
