I hope this week has been so good for all of you. It's been good for us, for sure!
Nothing super incredible happened, necessarily, but we see miracles every day and it's great to be doing this work! Especially when I am surrounded by such wonderful people!
I got to start off the week with exchanges, which was just so much fun. I love the people in Bandon and I'm not even actually serving there!
Something I have learned this week is really to just speak positively about other people! It is so hard to be around when people say even slightly negative things about other people. We learn it best from Thumper on Bambi: "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all." It lifts us and others when we say nice things and love those around us! If you're struggling with this, PRAY. I can give you all the advice in the world, but Heavenly Father gives the best advice, and He knows what you need for your specific situation. Trust Him, love Him, and love His children!
Oregon weather is the craziest thing in the world. You hear about sheets of rain...well, Oregon's got that down. And people always talk about how Utah weather is so unpredictable and weird, but at least it varies by day! Oregon thinks it's better to depend on the minute, sometimes second. One moment, it's just misting, then it's pouring like you've never seen, and then all of a sudden, you realize it's not raining at all anymore. Haha
Also, daylight savings is the worst and I am so grateful that Arizona doesn't believe in that. That's all.
Transfers were this weekend, also. Sister W and I are both staying, luckily, but the zone leaders decided it would be funny to tell us that I was being transferred to Klamath Falls...I'm not. But Elder W, who is here, is being transferred to Coquille. So it's sad for our little group to change, but I'm excited to meet the new elder (Elder T) and work with him! It's exciting to hear about where everyone is changing to, but a little stressful at the same time.
Sister W and I have realized that we pretty much have the same taste buds...we like the same things, and have many of the same favorites. (Speaking of food, she cooked brussel sprouts yesterday, and I didn't actually eat any, but she said they were yummy! However, when we came back in after our day, our apartment smelled NASTY. Oh my, it was so gross. Haha)
It's also very rare that we have a day where we don't match...we are almost always wearing the same colors, and we don't even realize it! I guess we just have really good companionship unity? :P
While we were tracting a couple of days ago, it was SO windy (like, the kind of wind you can lean into and not fall over) and as we walked up to this one house, the pine tree out front kept swinging and almost hitting us. We had to keep dodging the branches! It totally reminded me of the Womping Willow on Harry Potter...Pernicious Pine? Pummeling Pine? Nah, it doesn't really work. Haha
I wish I had more time to tell you about each of our investigators, but maybe next week. We are finding new people like crazy, but we are struggling keeping return appointments and actually teaching them! But we do have a new man we are teaching that will be NINETY years old in a couple of months. He is so funny, and every time we go over, he starts out by saying that he isn't interested in talking about the church and just wants someone to visit with. But, by the end of all of our visits, we are just having a full-on gospel conversation and he totally gets it. It is the best! We love C.
We also had a crazy experience this week...we got a couple new investigators through a service opportunity we do, and they were super interested--asking for a Book of Mormon and everything. So we met with them at Safeway, and the lesson was going fine, they were asking all these questions and seeming interested, and then the woman just goes off about how they spoke to some Mormons in Hawaii who said they couldn't go to the beach. We finally figured out that she was talking about missionaries, and we tried to explain that members can go to the beach, but why we couldn't as missionaries and stuff, and she just starts yelling at us about how God created this earth for us to enjoy and how she doesn't want to listen about a church that doesn't let its members appreciate God's creations and all this stuff. Sister W and I just sat there and tried to testify and share truths with them. Part way through, she and her boyfriend looked at each other and started giggling like the whole thing was planned. Then she just kept yelling at us and put the Book of Mormon back on the table and stormed out. It was the weirdest experience ever. And then, a guy behind us just starts clapping and goes, "Good show!" Haha. So strange. Never a dull moment in missionary life!
Thank you all for everything you do for me! My mom is so good at keeping me updated on your comments and I love to hear them! You are so supportive and wonderful--I am sure blessed!
Please write me and tell me how you are doing! I love to hear from you!
Have a marvelous week :)
Love, Sister Partridge
Elder R, Elder W, Sis W, Sis Partridge
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