Mom- Thank you so much for the shirts. I love them!! You're so awesome! The cultural celebration and dedication sounds amazing. I'm excited to go to the Idaho Falls temple when I get home. Thank you for everything, Mom. I love you so much. Dad- Wow, I would have thought for sure you would have been able to figure out the internet. You're so tech savvy. ;) Good job for finishing the race, Dad. I'm impressed. I know for a fact you would have beat me. I sure love you. Emily- Good luck being the janitor at Dad's office for the summer. I would give ya some tips on rolling bags, but I'm pretty sure Miranda rolled enough bags to last the office a good 13 years. I love you!
Quotes of the week:
1.) "Do you want to see a magic trick?" -Caidence This week we had the opportunity to go over to a less actives home, Brother Evankovich, and TRY and teach him the Restoration. His little girl, Caidence, who is 9 years old, didn't stop talking the whole time. She showed us at least 1000 magic tricks that weren't even magic tricks. I wanted to be like "Hey, Caidence, you're not a magician. No one is impressed. Go somewhere else so we can help your dad come to church.", but we had a ward missionary with us, so obviously I was on my best behavior. After 30 minutes of being polite, we finally just started teaching the Restoration with Caidence talking in the background. She literally didn't stop. I know what all of you are thinking; she's 9, of course she's going to be annoying. Here's what really got me: she had us do this "pick your favorite fake teeth" game, where she put in 3 different pairs of fake teeth and we had to tell her our favorite. I, personally, didn't think there could be a winner or a loser in this game, but there could... and I was the loser. Sister Bullock and the ward missionary both got these awesome plastic recorders and all I got was a Pixie Stick with a hole in it. A HOLE. Half the sugar was out of it. She thought it was hilarious until I pushed her over. Haha, just kidding, I didn't hurt her. BUT I didn't appreciate the crap prize. You can bet your bottom dollar I will not be playing that game ever again.
2.) "Sister Reddish, could you play the piano for us today in primary?" -Sister Carl Remember those days when Mom would be like "practice the piano" and I would be like "no". Well, shocker, Mom was right. When they asked me, I was like "I can play the right hand pretty good...." and I guess they were desperate because I ended up in the primary room the third hour of church. They all thanked me at the end and told me how awesome I was... mom compliment after mom compliment. I slaughtered every song and every one knew it. Oh well. The assuring thing is that they probably will never ask me to do it again. Up top!
3.) "I'm sorry for being mean to you the other day. I'm just going through a hard time." -Chris They other day Sister Bullock and I were out contacting people on State Street in Sharon, PA. We started talking to this woman, and all of a sudden her son comes up and starts yelling bad words to us and telling us to stop talking about Jesus. He was a real meanie weenie. We told him to have a good day and we walked away. I might have told him he was going...somewhere...under my breath when we were walking away. ANYWAYS, we ran into him AGAIN when we were walking to an appointment the other day. I got really scared and said a quick prayer in my mind asking Heavenly Father that he won't be mean to us. Then he said this quote. He was so kind to us. We offered him a Book of Mormon and told him it would help him. We, however, didn't offer him our number and set up an appointment because he still scares us pretty bad. Sorry, bud. I try and live my life in a way that my mother would approve, and that means staying away from crazies.
4.) "Hi, sweetheart. You gave me cookies one time." -Michael Uh, no I didn't, sir. If I HAD cookies, I would not be giving them to anyone. I would be eating them. We were walking through a park yesterday trying to talk to everyone, and Michael came up and told me this. In a way I was grateful because I didn't have to start the conversation, but I really didn't know how to respond after he told me this. I looked at Sister Bullock wondering if she and her last companion gave this man cookies before I got here, but she looked just as confused as I was. I said "I don't think I did that..." then, like every good Ohio-an, he started talking about something totally random after that. We actually were able to make a return appointment with him and we're seeing him on Thursday evening. The Lord works in mysterious ways, I suppose.
5.) "Get the hence, Satan." -Matthew 4:10 We had Zone Conference this past week (it was marvelous not having to give a single discussion at it), and President Brown focused a lot on this scripture. We talked a lot about how sometimes Satan tempts us and instead of saying "get thee hence", we listen. We don't always ACT on what he says, but we listen. I know I listen sometimes. I don't know why. He always just makes me feel like poo. The super awesome thing is that because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can beat Satan. He's a loser. He's the ultimate loser. He wouldn't even get a Pixie Stick with a hole in it. I'm so grateful for a knowledge of the gospel. The gospel never makes me feel like poo. So, folks, every time Satan is bringing you down, just yell "GET THEE HENCE, SATAN!" because he's not worth your time, and you got better things to do then listen to the dirty devil.
Have a great week. I sure love all you a lot.
Love,
Sister Reddish
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