This week was super super crazy! Tuesday night, we had to be in Bellevue (about an hour drive from Enumclaw) by 6 pm to pick up the new missionaries. Sister Deruvo and I had no trouble getting there, but getting back was another story...
First of all, the new missionaries didn't get to the mission office until 9 pm so we were just waiting around for 3 hours. I didn't mind it at all because I saw my cutie friend Hermana Wilcock (remember when we were in a trio double covering areas?) and we got to catch up on a lot of things. She will also be in a trio this transfer because her companion is training and she's just along for the ride. When the newbies came, we all stood in a line and shook everyone's hand that came in. Then we all sat in the chapel and President assigned the companionships. My trainee is Sister Waldron from Rexburg, Idaho and she's super sweet! I love her so much already! Not gonna lie, being in a trio is rough because we get so sidetracked and forget to get things done. I think each day has included me laughing until the tears start flowing because we are just too funny. Anyway, back to Tuesday night...we put in the church address in Enumclaw into Google Maps and we were making pretty good timing. I think we were about half way home when the maps app stopped working so we tried to refresh it. It started working again so we thought nothing of it. Then, we start seeing Seattle signs everywhere and we are like "why are we still seeing the Seattle exit signs? Shouldn't we be close to home by now?" Google maps had somehow put the mission office address in when we refreshed it so basically we drove halfway home from Bellevue and back without realizing it! We ended up not getting home until 11 pm so we were pretty out of it the next day.
Wednesday night we finally had a lesson with J'nell and Rod! J'nell's mom happened to be there as well and it was incredible to hear her testimony of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. We had an amazing lesson with them and J'nell was in tears at the end. Also...Rod is on date to be baptized December 22nd! Best Christmas present ever. Now if we can just get them to start coming to church...
Thanksgiving is so amazing as a missionary. Everyone just takes such good care of you because you aren't with your families. In the morning we drove with the hermanas to the stake center in Federal Way. Each year for Thanksgiving, all the missionaries get together and we just play sports for half the day. Volleyball, soccer, basketball, ultimate frisbee....we did it all. I think my favorite part of the whole activity was just getting to catch up with all the sister missionaries. Some of them have truly become my best friends. After the mission activity, we went to the Riendeau's for Thanksgiving dinner. It was AMAZING! Brother Riendeau's side of the family is mostly from France so we ate dinner with his French cousins. There was also family from Germany and New Zealand there! Sister Deruvo felt right at home...so many European accents!
Friday we had to drive to the Renton church building for new missionary training and we had to be there at 8 am. Guess what happened? Our car engine died right as we were trying to leave! I am so done with our car. I think the car engine has died 5+ times last week so we are going to take it in this week and have it looked at. Anyway, we were frantically looking for anyone who might have jumper cables. Of course this is at 7 in the morning so either everyone is still asleep or at work. We finally saw a lady walking by and Sister Deruvo ran full speed at her. The lady didn't have anything to help us, but she knew a guy who would have jumper cables. In less than 5 minutes, we saw her coming back with a man who was clearly living in his car. He pulled up and got our engine to start in no time. We were extremely grateful for that little miracle and we weren't even that late to the training.
Saturday we had our first finding festival of the transfer. Sister Waldron was terrified to knock doors, but she did a great job. We didn't have too much success. We met a lot of nice people, but it's hard to teach someone who is so set in their ways. We just did our best in testifying of Christ and sharing verses from the Book of Mormon. There was one kid we met named Ethan who accepted our challenge to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. His father is the pastor of the church they go to, but that didn't keep us from sharing the restored gospel with him. We plan to follow up with him on his experience soon.
Alright well that's about it for this week! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and ate lots of yummy food! The missionary work has been a little slow lately as far as progressing friends go...but I know we just have to be patient. The Lord grants miracles to those who are willing to wait. I know we will have more success soon, but please continue to pray for our friends that their hearts may be softened.
I hope you all have a great week!
love,
sis. smith
We love sister Riendeau
So many pies!! All homemade of course :)
Black rain boots are a necessity for a Washington sister missionary
Always gotta have a nature pic
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