Well I have officially been here in Toms River for 201 days. This week I realized that I have been in New Jersey for just over a year now, and I am still in my second area. But this should be my last full week here because transfers are next week! So I will finally be headed to my third and last area.
Monday our zone got our prize for winning the mission-wide apartment cleaning contest. President and Sister Taggart came down to our church building and fed us all an amazing meal with steak and potatoes! Then we all went bowling! President Taggart creamed everyone. He was amazing! It was a really fun Pday.
We had a pretty sweet week. We worked really hard and we found 8 new investigators! Some of them were former investigators we found in our area book, and some of them were found through pretty cool miracles-
On Wednesday we had an appointment and the lady wasn't home. We knocked the door of the house across the street and the lady flat out said no and wouldn't even give us her name. So we start walking back to our car, which was parked quite a bit down the street. When we are almost to our car, we hear a girl about our age yelling "Hey! Excuse me! Can you come here? I have some questions!" We went and talked to her and she asked us a ton of questions and basically told us her whole life's story. She told us that she wasn't planning on talking to us when we walked by, but that it was almost as if a voice in her head told her to go talk to us! It was so cool! She asked us to come back a couple days later and we were super excited for the appointment. Unfortunately, we showed up for the appointment she had set with us and she was nowhere to be found. But we talked to her grandma and asked her to have her granddaughter call us. We are going to keep trying the house and see if we can find her again because she was so interested!
On Saturday we had a bunch of appointments get cancelled all day long. It was really frustrating. At about 8:30pm we didn't really know what to do because we had run out of people to visit. Hermana Bentley suggested trying the home of a potential investigator we talked to a few weeks ago. We decided to go for it, but by the time we got there it was about 8:50pm. We were a little hesitant to knock their door that late, but we decided to do it anyway. Instead of being annoyed that we knocked on their door so late at night, they let us right in without hesitation! We had a great conversation with them and they really opened up. They are a super cool multicultural family- the mom is from Ecuador and the dad is from Italy. They invited us to come by again, and we have an appointment with them tonight! We are really excited!
In other news, the Saavedra parents (the parents of the kids we baptized during my first couple months here) are finally getting married on September 5th! Sadly I won't be here to see it, but I know they will get baptized soon afterwards and I am happy for them!
I have loved my 30 weeks here in Toms River. When I first got sent here, I had no idea I would stay for so long. I got here in the dead of winter, when there were crazy snowstorms all the time, and now it is the hottest, grossest part of summer. The only season I haven't seen here is autumn, which is kind of sad because I'm sure it would be gorgeous here with all the trees! This area is the polar opposite of my first area, Union City. I went from a small, dirty. city area with a big Spanish ward, to a giant suburban area with 40 miles of forests and beaches and a tiny little Spanish branch. But I have love both of them. I am excited to see where I will be headed next week!
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