Monday
evening we cleaned our Crazy Cat Lady's house. Now take the worst thing
you have ever cleaned and then multiply it by 3000 and then that's
Crazy Cat Lady's house. Her house probably hasn't been cleaned in 15
years, give or take a few millenia. But we felt really prompted to help
her clean and so we buckled down and did it. A couple of times, we
almost died, but we made it through. After cleaning 14 inches of cat
hair, poop, dirt, mould, and grime off of her floor, it finally looked a
little bit and smelled a little bit better than when we got there. We
didn't get it all clean, to do that we'd need 200 professional cleaning
squads, but we made an improvement. It was pretty rewarding. (: Oh, the
joys of mission life.
Thursday
morning we had Zone Meeting and it was I think the best Zone Meeting
that I have ever been to. It was so good. We talked about Miracles and
how miracles can happen every day, every day, every day. Elder Romney
said something that really made sense to me, "You can't believe in God
if you don't believe in miracles." So, I found that really inspiring.
And we learned how to seek learning by faith in preparation for our
Elder Bednar conference tomorrow. It is going to be so amazing!
Well,
the Zone Leaders committed us to 1) every night during daily planning
to plan for a specific miracle for the next day 2) in every prayer to
pray specifically for that miracle to occur and 3) to work as hard as we
could to achieve the miracle. So Sister Perry and I did it! Friday night, we planned to talk with 50 people to next day.
Saturday
rolls around and it is raining cats and dogs. We finish study and it is
still raining. But we went truckin' into the rain anyway. No one was on
the street and nobody was answering doors and we were starting to get a
little fearful, I guess. We went home for lunch, got dry and warm. And
then 5 minutes before we went back out after lunch, the skies parted and
the sun shone through. WHAT A MIRACLE!! We were so excited. So, we
drove out to bell block to do some tracting out there and it was still
sunny. Hot, in fact. It was awesome. We had to put on sun cream and
everything. After 3 hours of tracting out there we had no success, but
we had talked with and taught quite a few people, but still had about 25
people we needed to talk to. So, we said a prayer and decided to go
walk up and down the costal walkway. 2 hours later we had talked with 51
people and taught 20 other lessons. It was such a miracle. We walked so
much and were beat, but it was worth it. I learned that after the trial
of your faith and after you thrust in your sickle, the miracles that
you plan for can happen! I know that to be true. (:
Life
is good. (: Today we are driving up to Hamilton, which is about 4 1/2
hours north east of here. We'll stay the night in Hamilton and then Tuesday
morning, we'll drive another 2 hours to Auckland for a combined
Hamilton and Auckland mission conference with Elder David A Bednar! IT
WILL BE AMAZING. I will definitely come away from there with a jug of
spiritual knowledge. (:
We, again, didn't take many photos this week...slacker! But don't worry, I promise that I will get better.
I
love you all so much. I love this Gospel with all of my soul. There are
so many things that I have learned that will bless me forever. "A
testimony means that you know the Gospel is true, but to be converted
means to consistently be true to the Gospel."
Sister Pearce
7087 Sister Perry and I. Aren't we cute?
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