Monday night: We had a lesson with our friend Delmer who came to church last Sunday for the first time ever! He's pretty cool and will eventually be referred to the YSA ward but for now we are teaching him. He's reading the Book of Mormon right now and we taught him how to pray (he has no religious background and praying was a new thing to him).
Tuesday: We had our last district/zone council which was kinda sad. They have become like family to me and I love them all! Many of us have been in the area for awhile which means we will probably leave after this transfer. It was a bittersweet moment. Tuesday afternoon we started our exchange with the Normandy Park sisters. They cover the area around the Seattle airport and also some of the coast. I was fortunate enough to go to Normandy Park with Sister Lilagan (she's from the Philippines and she's half my height!) Their area is BEAUTIFUL! We walked down to the beach and there happened to be a park nearby so we street contacted people that evening. I LOVED walking along the coast and talking with people from all over the world. We talked with this Native American man and he taught us about some of his practices. I'm amazed by how diverse Seattle is and the different religions found here. We had a dinner later that night with one of the people the sisters are teaching and the husband is from Hong Kong. He works as a flight attendant and likes to bring back food from each place he flies to. He gave us an assortment of pastries from China on top of dinner. I felt like I was going to explode after!
Wednesday: We had a lesson with our friend from the Philliphines. Her name is Teresa and she is the cutest lady! We weren't planning on visiting her that night, but we passed by her house twice in the same night. We took it as a sign to visit her and she happened to be home! We taught her the Restoration and she fed us Filipino food! She's so funny; she kept saying "You ladies are so lucky you know me because you won't get amazing food like this anywhere else." She gave us pancit (rice noodles with veggies and chicken) and this purple yam stuff that's supposed to be a dessert.
Thursday/Friday: Weekly planning and our last exchange! Sadly, it was raining so we couldn't weekly tan. Sister Campbell came to Tiffany Park and we had a blast! We finally introduced the Book of Mormon to the family we are teaching and invited them to baptism! It was such a good lesson and the father (Efren) had tears in his eyes at the end. We know they felt the spirit and hopefully we can get them to church again!
Saturday: We were lucky enough to visit Carnation (kind of by Redmond which is north of Renton) for a baptism. Someone Sister Adair taught in her old area had her baptism that day and I got to see my companion from the MTC! After we had a lesson with our friend JP and he said he'll come to church eventually. He then proceeded to show us more articles on the success of members from the Church.
Sunday: The sun was out and we had a beautiful blue sky! We spent our day teaching lessons and making a "tree of life" for our zone conference training this week. Oh and some members invited us over for cake because it was their son's birthday. The father is from Africa and the mother is from Cambodia and they have the craziest kids ever!
Today the mission car coordinator took our whole zone bowling and our ward missionary made us lunch....so I'd say today has already been a success!
Have an amazing week and enjoy the sun whenever you can!
love,
sister smith
District Council
Zone Council
Teresa the Filipina gave us some "house shoes" to wear
contacting at the beach on exchanges isn't a bad idea 😏
Sister Lilagan is like my child (she's so tiny!)
went to a baptism for Sister Adair's friend
exchanges with Normandy Park sisters
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