Monday night we had dinner with the cutest part member family ever, I love them so much.
Wednesday we went to do service at the mission office because normally there are two office couples but one just went home a couple weeks ago so the one couple has a lot of things to do. It was so much fun! Then we went to the mall to get lunch and it's so festive in there - I love it!
Thursday was insane. So it was zone conference and we were giving a 40 minute training 3 times (we taught 3 districts). It went pretty good. Our second training was definitely the best one. And I can't believe it but it was my last zone conference as a missionary! I gave my departing testimony and I guess people liked it because a few people mentioned something about it to me. President even quoted the quote I used in his training :) "You've had eternity to prepare for your mission and you'll have eternity to reflect on it but you only have 2 years (18 months) to live it." This time truly is precious!
Then right after zone conference we went on exchanges with the Delhi sisters! It was fun! That night we had an appt with a part member family and they didn't answer so we tried a potential next door and then went into the car to make a route to try some other people. While we were sitting in the car a car pulled up to their house and it was them! We waited a minute for them to get inside then knocked on their door again and they let us in and we taught the recent convert son (age 10) and his sister. She said she wanted to be baptized so she could have the Holy Ghost! We put her on date for the 9th but that would mean she had to go to church every week from yesterday to her baptism and yesterday they weren't there so we are going to need to push it back, but that's okay! As long as she gets baptized that's all that matters. :)
Friday we did service at the library and taught a couple really awesome less actives then the sisters left to go back to their area. They are such incredible missionaries.
Yesterday was a very interesting day haha At church during the sacrament (when it's normally pretty quiet) the member next to us was coughing and said "I'm dying" and then the member in the row ahead of us said "are you dying? I'll come to your funeral" Shulz and I were trying not to laugh but we couldn't help it hahah
In the afternoon we went to visit a few less active ladies who live in a nursing home. The nursing home has a dementia unit so there's a secure door that we have a code to get into. When we were about to put the code in there was a resident trying to get out and kept pulling the locked door! Luckily a nurse was close and redirected him another way so we could get in without letting anyone out. We taught the less active and it went really well, she's super sweet. Then when we were going back to the door to put the code in to leave a resident starts running at us with her arms open wide and making a weird noise, she catches up to us and puts her arms on our shoulders and then says some things that I don't remember and walks away hahah
Life is never boring as a missionary haha
Even though we were super stressed about our training and our first exchange at the beginning of the week it all worked out good and we made it through! :) We are going to go make a snowman and go shopping today to celebrate.
We are looking forward to a great week ahead! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!! I love this time of year and being able to focus on what I am grateful for!
Love,
Sister Horne
11.20.17
Sister Shulz had her first pumpkin spice steamer! She liked it :)
The Elders asked us to decorate their planners for them, we were pretty proud of them :)
The APs gave us this that had notes from their training since we missed it because
we were in another room doing our own training.
We had one of the most fun dinners! We went to this cute little place called Bite in downtown Utica.
It's a little cafe. There was a girl who was performing that night for open mic and she did a
practice song before her show started and it was soooo good!
We wrote her name down so we can listen to her music when we go home.
This super cute/old theatre
The first real snowfall!
It's Christmastime in Utica!
MLC at the beginning of November.
MLC last week with Elder Clark
Everyone we were in the van with on our road trip to Glenville!
Exchanges with the Delhi sisters this week!
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