On Tuesday we went on
exchanges with the Worcester Spanish sisters which is always wicked fun because
I get to learn more Spanish, its funny though because i will say a few phrases
that i know in lessons and then people think i speak Spanish so they just talk
to me and i just nod and smile cause half the time i don’t know what they are
saying.
So
we got a new member of our zone this week her name is sis Lambert, she is from
Massachusetts but was serving a mission in Mexico when she broke her wrist and
so she came home to get surgery and now she is doing a mini mission with the Spanish
sisters until she is all healed! She has some crazy stories from Mexico
its so sketchy she said that each week they had to report on how many people
died in their area!
While
on exchanges we went to visit this family and their kids were crying and
running all over the place and the parents were getting frustrated and then one
of the sisters i was with suggested that we sing a song.. which i thought was
kind of weird but we did it anyway and all of a sudden the kids stopped and
just sat and listened, it was a really cool experience, music really does bring
the spirit and kids are way more spiritual than we realize.
Pretty
cool thing we found out this week is that there is a member in our ward from
China, Brother Chen and he told us about some of his friends from China who are
famous conductors and pianists who found out about the church by hearing the
Mormon tabernacle choir and have been learning a little here and there and they
have decided they want to be baptized, but you cant be baptized in China and
they have decided to come here to Boston! So they come July 22 and we
get to teach them with the Chinese elders and they are scheduled to be baptized
on July 30!!!!! I am so excited! But the only thing is transfers are
coming up on July 20 and i have a very high chance of being
transferred since i have been here for 4 transfers, so i may not get to teach
them which would be really sad.
We
were going out to ice cream to celebrate sis Demuth's 11 month mark and we were
walking down the main street and all of a sudden this guy just stops us and he
was like who are you and what are you selling? (he saw our name tags) so anyway
he talks to us forever we fund out he is a sales man and he gave us all these
pointers on how to contact people it was pretty funny he made me pretend to
contact him he said my sales skills were really good (thanks dad) and then
proceeded to tell me how i could do better if i looked at his "creative eye"
(whatever that means) anyway then he told us about this book called "power
verse force" and told us to read it, cause it was the best book he ever
read. So then we asked if because he shared his favorite book if we could share
ours (the book of Mormon of course) we asked him if we could have his address
to drop it off the next day and to our surprise he actually gave us his real
address! so we dropped it off with brother Dowling, which he loved because he
is a big sports fan and recognized bro Dowling from channel 5, had a lesson and
picked up him and his girlfriend as new investigators! It was really cool he
said he was super interested and was going to read the whole thing!
I
really hope I don’t leave cause this area is popping like popcorn on an apricot
tree!
We
set up and open house in Cambridge with PVC which was fun then we gardened at a
the Ramsays, we were just with the husband because his wife is in Utah with
their daughter who found out she has cancer so she is with her for treatments,
pretty sad! The ward fasted for them on Sunday
Sunday
was crazy! We went to church then we took a sister to Scituate Rhode Island and
picked up another sister there (she is going home) then we drove to canton
Connecticut and dropped off some displays then we drove to the mission home had
dinner and went to the fireworks by the mission home! They were so good!
Monday
July 4th! Woke up at 5 this morning picked up president, took the sister going
home to the airport, drove president home, drove back to Boston, got on the T
and went to the old state house watched the reading of the deceleration of
independence (lots of confetti and lots of people), took the T to the
prudential had lunch on the top of the HUB (lobster rolls yum) , then on
the T again to the north end for the famous Mikes vs. Modern pastry and tried
the two best bakeries in Boston Mikes Pastries and Modern Pastries both known
for their cannolis naturally we got one of each and compared the conclusion
was......drum roll.... any cannoli is a good cannoli but i think I liked modern
pastry just a tiny bit better. All in all it was a really fun and patriotic
day! Everyone is Boston is dressed in red white and blue and what better place
to be on the fourth of July then where it all began!
Key
Principle:
Ether
2:12
The
improbability of America gaining independence was so incredible that there is
no way that God wasn’t helping, he created the perfect climate for the
restoration of His church on the earth today. God blessed America.
"Religious
freedom is woven into the soul of America"
-Elder
Christofferson
