Have I Mentioned I Hate Satan?

 



 

For Pday we went to the beach again (surprise!) in Seaside Heights, this time with our whole zone. It's so pretty! I just wish I could get in the water!

 

The weather this week has been weird. Super hot and humid with random thunderstorms. A couple times this week it just started POURING out of nowhere. One night we actually had to pull over and wait out the rain because we couldn't see anything. There was a river of water about a foot deep running down the side of the road. It was crazy. Hermana Bloxham and I took turns running out and doing raindances for a few seconds and we got soaked! Haha it was so fun!

 

This week we officially got the Area Book Planner app on our iPads. President Taggart asked us to transfer all of our area book records from the past four months into our iPads this week. Needless to say, it was extremely tedious. Basically whenever we didn't already have a set appointment, we were at the church putting our many many records into our iPads. So we didn't get a whole lot of teaching time in this week. But now that we have a lot of our records in the iPads and we are starting to figure out how the app works, we can see how nice it is. It is much faster and easier than writing out paper teaching records. And it's always so hard to remember to update the area book at the end of the day, but with the app it has you input a quick report of the lesson right after it happens. It's awesome!

 

Thursday we had another specialized training in East Brunswick in President Taggart. He's so great. Our favorite part of this meeting was when he was talking to us about how hard the members here work, and then he randomly asked "Where do all the Spanish people here get their food?" We all weren't sure what to say. "Umm... the store?" Then he said "No! They go out into the woods and they hunt and fish for their food! They go hunting and fishing!" We all were just a little confused about where he got that idea because from what I've seen with all the Hispanics here, they get their food at the store just like everyone else. Hahaha President Taggart is a funny guy!

 

We had a pretty big disappointment yesterday. The past couple weeks we've been working so hard to get Yolanda and Manuel married and baptized. They're wedding is this Saturday and they were going to get baptized on Sunday. Yolanda has a little plastic pouch sticking out of her because of kidney problems. We were planning on using waterproof tape and a plastic bag to keep it dry while she was being baptized. The Roses (the senior couple) even had already practiced it on themselves to make sure it would work in keeping part of her body dry. Everything seemed to be going well, but then yesterday at church we found out that she talked to her doctor and he said she can't risk it at all. So now her baptism is off. Manuel could still technically be baptized next week, but they've been wanting to get baptized together for so long and we don't think he would want to get baptized without her. The kidney pouch doesn't come off for several months, so now they probably won't be getting baptized until I leave the area :(

 

Also we've decided that William is the modern version of the Old Testament Job. He has gone through sooo many health problems it is ridiculous. Last week it was looking pretty good about him finally healing up, getting out of rehab, and getting baptized. But when we visited him on Saturday he was sooooo sick. He couldn't even talk to us because he was coughing so badly. Satan is working really hard to stop him from being baptized. 

 

So yeah, Hermana Bloxham and I are pretty upset with Satan right now. We've been working soooo hard to get these people baptized, but he keeps throwing all these dumb health issues at our investigators and it's halting their progress when they are so ready and willing to be baptized in every other way. There is nothing more frustrating than that. And I will probably be leaving this area in about two weeks, so I may not be here to see any of them actually get baptized :( But at least Yolanda and Manuel are still getting married on Saturday, so that's still a good step forward towards them getting baptized. We're going to keep working with them so that they'll be ready to be baptized as soon as Yolanda's pouch comes back, whenever that may be.

 

<3 Hermana Harris

 

 

Our District on Beach Day:

 

 

Me and Sister Stone