Sister Mikayla: Happy Happy Happy

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From: Mikayla
Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:24 AM

Hello Hello! It was so great to talk to you guys yesterday! I love you all and am glad to hear that you are doing wonderful! I hope your ranch trip was beautiful, there is nothing like the great outdoors and the mountains and the pine trees and the wilderness surrounded with family. My idea of heaven! (Of course It would be nice if the wilderness looked like New Zealand and I was living in a house I built my self out of materials that allowed me to forego the heating and cooling bills and make its own energy, and it rained jars of pink Nutella {that ones for you Eden} and it had a beauty and the Beast sort  of Library that was built on the edge of a massive waterfall, but that's probably asking for too much)

Anyway, This week in Meeker has been interesting. We haven't talked to Adam again yet (the guys we met last Sunday with the numerous body decorations), but we did meet with Alexis a few times. We actually set her on date and she accepted that invitation happily, but than a strange thing happened. Right after we set her on date we left her house to go out and work again, and our appointments began to fall through, than one of our investigators' husbands told us they didn't want to meet with us anymore, and Sister Betts got some sort of stomach sickness, one of our investigators called us crying telling us she was moving and getting a divorce and when we went back to visit with Alexis she didn't want to read or pray with us anymore...

Needless to say me and sister Betts went home after Alexis said that and sat on the kitchen floor ate Ice-cream, cried, and laughed at each other for crying. It is really sad when you are reaching out to help someone, to give that loaf of bread to the starving person and they through it away, but there is a certain point where they have to make their own decision, so we cry and watch them suffer, and let them make that decision, try to help them, but eventually move on and allow them that painful but precious gift of agency.

Last P-day I didn't write you guys back, sorry about that, we had a crazy P-day! We went to rifle (its about an hour from Meeker) to pick up my sweat shirt and give Sister Tew her earing back (some things we misplaced when we were there for Zone Conference). So we went shopping there because in Meeker things are about twice the price as a regular Wal-Mart which we don't have in Meeker, but they have one in Rifle so we shopped there. It was kind of fun because as we were shopping we ran into Sister Tew and Encarnacion and the Zone Leaders Elder Gibson and Elder Redd we all talked for a little bit and bought some Mangos (and the zone leaders put some doughnuts in our basket that we brought to District Meeting the next day (we have District Meeting every Tuesday in Meeker). Anyway, it was busy but fun!

 On Saturday sister Betts was really sick and feeling like she was going to through up, so we stayed home. I finished the rest of Exodus (about 10 chapters), a chapter of Jesus the Christ, re read some letters and watched the Joseph Smith Movie, Legacy, the Mountain of the Lord, the John Tanner story and Only a Stonecutter =P! ah! it was a long day.

We were able to teach an 8 year old this week though, that was awesome! She really wants to get baptised, so her mom called the bishop and he said she would have to take the discusions first, so she called us and asked if we could come down and teach her at the gas station. She was just soaking up everything we were saying -and inputting some interesting gospel speculations about how "Jesus was going to wait until all of the good people died and then blow up the earth and everyone would die-" we were just like "WoW... well that's interesting, I'm not sure he is going to blow it all up, but sort of close I guess" haha I can see that she was really trying to learn though, and it was a refresher from teaching adults. I can't get my pictures to work today! I will send them next week though! Love you all! write soon!

Kayla