i WAS going to title this email
"SUPERNATURAL WEEK OF CRAZY" but then i changed my mind.
but seriously. this week was crazy. crazy things first, then spiritual.
Friday -- prayed with a vampire. Saturday -- got chased down by a warlock.
Sunday -- got proposed to by a young
gentleman who was high/drunk off his miiiiiiiiindddd hahahahaha
so the vampire. we met him outside
the library and he was like "hey mormons!" and we were like "hey
buddy!" so we're talking, and it's normal, and the suddenly it's
not.......... he tells us he can only get certain nutrients from blood and so
people think he shoots up all the time but really it's just blood transfusions,
he hasn't shot up since middle school, and he has to eat meat that is mostly
raw (bill from hp anyone?) and he doesn't like to brag but he has the
intelligence of a super computer. and his great-grandfather was ("maybe
you've heard of him?") DRACULA. yes. and so naturally we engaged him in a
gospel conversation about family history, testified, and prayed. boom. the end.
please check "pray with a vampire" off of my bucket list,
family.
the warlock technically was just a
wiccan but warlock sounds cooler and more supernatural. details later cause
that gets into the more spiritual stuff :)
and thennnnnnn yesterday. HAHAHAHAHA
sister butler and i were laughing soooooooooooooo harddddddddddddddddd like
what even is our life????????????????? i can't even write the story down so i
will just send you quotes. they were very nice and not even very profane, just
soooooooooo wasted hahahahaha.
*we walk up to some young hacky-sack
playing gentlemen*
"hey, how's it goin?"
"heyyyyyyyyy!!!"
"hey, weird, the church bells
are ringing! it's almost like we should get married or something!" .......
or something!
"stop looking at her!"
"why?" "just stop looking at her!"
"what's your name?"
"sister butler" "will you be my butler?" "no."
"c'mon, you've gotta have a
first name!" "my name is sister butler." "oh, well my name
is reverend sawyer!"
"can you marry people?"
"this is a funny brat. i'm
serious. this is a funny. brat."
"no, i'm serious, i actually
want to learn about God. these guys are jokers, but i am seriousssssss."
"Dave, I'm giving these girls
your # so we can sit down and have a lesson." "Call me ANYTIME. let's
hang out!!"
"We're on candid camera!!!!!!
see, those are our cameras! that's our fake musician.... he's actually a real
musician..... okay i'm sorry, that was stupid, i'm so sorry, that was so
stupid, i'm so sorry, that was dumb, i'm sorry."
*praying* "Lord, I feel that
Sister Butler has some words to encourage us."
"ENCOURAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
(the world's oldest guy who looks
like the prospector from toy story 2) "I'm 56, and you're just a little
girl. your friend is right here. you are safe. you just need to relax.
reeelaaxxxxxxxxxxx." *waves his hand trying to hypnotize us*'
we also talked a lot about black
walnut and how long they take to ripen.
prrrretttttyyy sure they were
rolling marijuana right in front of us.
the guitar player says one thing,
right before we leave: "none of us are going to remember this in the
morning." amen, brother.
amen.
so anyways. that was the crazy stuff
of the week. well there was other stuff but that was the most crazy &
hilarious hahaha. (mom & dad.... don't worry........ i am safe always) :)
SO i love the appleton 2nd ward,
they are so cute & great :) :) we have the CUTEST recent convert family in
the ward and i love them so so much :)
also i have a sunburn on half of my
face. thank you bangs.
back to the warlock -- so what
happened was we went to this trailer park to go hunt down a sister who hasn't
been coming for a while, knock on the door, her boyfriend answers, he is NOT
thrilled to see us but he is tolerably polite, we ask if we can pray for him he
says "not me! i don't believe; i'm wiccan!" but then he goes and gets
her son so we can pray with him..........? so we chat with the son, pray with
him, the boyfriend comes back out and he's like "I've seen you people
before..... we got into an altercation with some...." blahblahblah
basically he's talked to missionaries before and they apparently asked him to
name 3 things God can't do? So he poses the same question to us and i'm like
uhhh... nothing?? but he names 3 things (that, ps, God totally CAN do) and then
looks at us like "TUH! MIND BLOWN HUH!" and we're like uhhhhh.... but
before we can testify he runs back inside the house. so we're like ooooookay
well you just have your mom call us! thanks bye! and then we get in our car
& drive away. and AS WE ARE DRIVING AROUND THE CORNER (it was like a circle
set-up, so we're coming back around by the house) we see the warlock man
striding with a PURPOSE towards our car, and i know he is not bookin' it like
that to find a porta-potty... he wants to talk with us. so i slow down and roll
down the window and he's like "AND ANOTHER THING! you don't actually believe
in that Book do you??" me: "the Book of Mormon? Yes I do."
"No, the Bible!" and then he gives 3 reasons that the Bible isn't
true and none of them make sense. they were like, it's violent, and it's
written by man, and something else......... weird. so, again, we're like
uhh.... but he's already backing away and giving us a look like "yeah, i
know. i just blew your minds again. think about THAT!" but it was
seriously ridiculous. soooooo sad!!! it really made me think about how much
PEACE the gospel had brought into my life. this warlock/man was so worked up
about things that have very simple, true, peaceful answers! things like why do
bad things happen to good people and why is there evil in the world if God is
perfect and why did my girlfriends husband die of cancer if he was a good
person. Not that there are "easy" answers to those kinds of things
per se, but there are answers! There is peace to be found in the Gospel of
Jesus Christ!!! it made me really, really grateful for the peace that I have in
knowing that God lives, that He loves me, that there is a purpose to my life,
etc. Such a blessing. Such a blessing to be able to share that peace with
others.
On a more personal note..........
missions are hard!! haha. training stresses me out a TON because i am
soooooooooooooooooooo not perfect and i don't do things right 930499% of the
time (that isn't even a percentage...) and i'm not the perfect example and i
don't know what to do and being the boss stresses me out and i'm bad a
communication and on & on & on. basically, it's stressful haha. I wish
i was better!!!!!
this was my mindset going into
church on sunday.
1) I am so grateful for church.
2) I am grateful for the Gospel of
Jesus Christ.
3) I am grateful for His Atonement,
that makes it possible for me to repent & become better with His help
4) I am grateful that He loves me.
& "confused by the grace that so fully He proffers me."
5) I am grateful for the restoration
of His priesthood authority to bless & sanctify the sacrament, so that when
I take it I can renew my promise to Him to become better, & renews His
promise to me to help me.
6) I am so grateful for this gospel.
I love church. Church is the place to be. There is solace & healing for the
soul. There is the Spirit in abundance. I love it there :) :)
Family, I love you so so much. I am
grateful for the peace that this gospel brings. It is so, so sweet. <3 <3
<3
You are the greatest blessing in my
life!! I don't know where I'd be without you :) :)
families are forever
the Book of Mormon is true
temples are the place
Jesus is the Christ
I love you :) amen, amen, & amen xoxoxoxox
sister cece proffit :) :) :) appleton 2 babyyyyyyyyyyy!
Love you all!!!!!!!!:)JJJJJ
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