Girly Girls and Biker Dudes

Hola peoples of the world... and by "World" I mean.... the few people that read this...

This week was great!

Once again we taught 22 lessons this week, despite being cancelled on more times than we can count! We had interviews with the Mission President on Thursday. After that we had 2 hours of service at a thrift store. It was pretty fun actually! Then we had a day full of cancelled appointments... it was great! Seriously though!! We got to talk to some other people that needed us that day a little more than the people we had planned to see! It was a great day!  We've been teaching so much again this week! I love being kept busy.  We also had to clear out the furniture from the old apartment... that was so sad I could have cried! Seriously! So sad! We've had a lot of fun this week too!

  The best thing about having a car is that you can joke around and laugh like an idiot without looking crazy ... most of the time! Haha I feel like this blog is going to be super short because I actually cannot remember a single thing from this week!  Shame on me!  My brain is fried!

Friday we had this amazing lesson on the Restoration with this big biker dude! He's such a nice guy and he's read the Book of Mormon, Pearl Of Great Price and Doctrine and Covenants!

LDS scriptures

My eyes almost popped out when he said that!  He is part of an organization called B.A.C.A which is Bikers Against Child Abuse.. so cool!!

Saturday we had a lesson in the same area, and as we were leaving we saw these people loading stuff off of their truck! We walked over and offered to help. Usually people take one look at us and think we're too girly to help

Too girly??

... but they said yes.. so we carried sofas and all sorts of stuff for them to their new apartment! They were really grateful! It was nice!

I've learned a lot this past week! It's really been a good one!

The Gospel is so flipping great! Seriously!!!!!

I keep learning new stuff every day! I still struggle with READING the Book of Mormon and not just skimming it... So I've started reading it in Afrikaans to make sure I'm paying attention to what I read!! It's great!! There is so much in there to learn!! And every time it's different!! The other day during our companionship study I came across a scripture and was like... ahh... I never thought about this... and then realized I must have because I'd highlighted that same scripture when I was in seminary and yet I had forgotten about it! That's why it's so important to carry on reading! Once is not enough!!!

Spiritual and temporal feast

 I love you all so much! And I love this Gospel! It's the greatest and truest thing on the freakin' planet ok!!! 

Well... this has been my week. Slightly shorter and possibly less interesting but still enjoyable!!

Elder Cook's birthday poster

Have a great week!

Make Good Choices!!

<3

Sister Botts

By His Grace - In the Right Place at the Right Time

Jakob 4:7 Desnieteenstaande, die Here God toon aan ons ons swakheid, dat ons mag weet dat dit deur sy genade is, en sy groot neerdalendhede aan die kinders van mense, dat ons mag het om hierdie dinge te doen. ( Book of Mormon Jacob 4:7)


This week has been amazing!  We have had so so so much work to do that I won't, or rather have no time, to give details about all of the lessons that we taught! We taught 22 lessons this week as well as putting in a couple hours here and there of service... and going to the Chiropractor... Flip! Weirdest feeling ever! But yeah! Busy week!

My companion, Sister Grow and I have fun together. We work too... I promise!

Sis. Botts and Sis. Grow

We taught Seminary this week again! It's so much fun! I love teaching Seminary!

We also had Exchanges this week! I stayed in our area and Sis Glew came here! We had a good day! None of our plans went as they should have but it was a good day!

Sis. Botts and Sis Glew

As we were stopping by a less active member... she turned us down and we were heading back to the car when from down the road we hear "Sister missionaries!! I need you! I'm so glad to see you! I prayed for help and here you are!" Haha it was a less active sister that we had been planning on visiting later in the day. She needed help with a very high ladder and a very heavy mirror... I was so happy! Haha I love that kinda stuff! So we went in and helped around there and then shared a short message with her!

High on a ladder top!

The rest of the exchange went well too!

Another night we went to visit a sister and she had a bunch of light bulbs that needed changing! Happy days! I will take anything that I can get! Haha even changing light bulbs! :)

This week we also got to do some gardening and help a sister from another ward move some stuff.
I love hard physical work!! I miss it sometimes!
This week has just been full of situations where we find ourselves in the right place at the right time!

We were visiting with one man on his doorstep and we had passed the home of someone I thought I knew... I couldn't remember if it was the right house or not, when Sis Grow said... 'Let's stop at that guy', it was someone they'd spoken to before. As we were finishing  talking with him, the lady that I thought lived at the house across the road came home! So we got to visit with her for a little bit too! If we hadn't stopped at the dude's house we would have missed her! Schweet!


So it was a very busy and productive and fun day!

Saturday night we mixed almost an entire gallon of milk with the chocolate milk powder I got from Mom!   We were only using the milk for that anyway so it seemed smart!  It was the night before Sis Grow's birthday so we sat drinking chocolate milk out of very tiny cups!! It was great .... 21 and 25 years old, and there we are giggling on the floor drinking tiny cups of chocolate milk!!

Chocolate Nesquik in tiny cups

Sunday we had Ward Council at 7am... and then church from 9 til 12 and from 1 til 4... We were so tired by 3:30 that we had to go home and take a quick nap before our dinner and lessons in the evening! But it's a good kind of tired because we know we worked hard this week!

Oh.......

We have a Baptismal date set! May 16th! We had a lesson with our new investigator at 10 am on Saturday morning and she wants to be baptised! Awesome! She's so lovely, and excited about the gospel! We are excited for her!

So all in all it's been an amazing week!!


We also found out that the apostle coming to our mission conference is


dun dun dunnnnn

Elder Holland!

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland - Member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles

Schweet!

Although they all hold the same priesthood... so it doesn't really matter who comes. They would all have told us the same thing!

But I'm excited!



Have a great week!!

Die Kerk van Jesus Christus van die Heiliges van die Laaste Dae is die enigste kerk op die aarde wat 100% waar is! Ek weet dit! Ek weet dat die  Priesterskap waardeur Jesus gedoop was is dieselfde Priesterskap wat ons nou in hierdie Kerk het!! Wonderlik!!!

Today we baptize with the same Priesthood authority that Jesus was baptized with

 

Love you all! The Church is true!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Byeeeeeeeeeeee

Tackling double duty - head on!!

Monday after e-mails... we totally just spent the afternoon playing Volleyball. We didn't want to do shopping knowing that we'd be moving and have to carry all our crap with us! (Can I still say crap?) (twice?)
After volleyball we had two appointments, and my companion got to say goodbye to some people, and then home to pack like our lives depended on it... I hate packing! It was sad spending the last night in the apartment!... And in our companionship!

And so their companionship comes to an end :(

Tuesday we decided to go have lunch with the Sisters from 15th ward for the last time that it'd be us four! We met one of our investigators there too since she wanted to say goodbye to Sis Aukuso.

Sisters from the 15th Ward

After and before that we had just been packing !!!! Then we got a ride with Sis Grow and Sis Hall to the transfers meeting. Both Sis Aukuso and  Sis Hall were going to be Sister Training Leaders and then Sis Grow and I became companions, covering two areas because we're boss like that! #skillz!

New companion - Sis. Grow

Transfers are so much better when it's not you in front of everyone being all new and stuff! Haha!!

After transfers we went and had dinner together... Sis Grow, Sis Aukuso, Sis Bates (Sis Aukuso's new comp) and I! It was nice! It's funny because Sis Bates trained Sis Grow, and  Sis Aukuso trained me... so our trainers are companions and we're companions. Lol... that was a useless little fact!

Later we went to Mutual in the 6th ward, and Volleyball with a less active member and others from Ridgeview ward! Busy busy!

Wednesday we spent most of the time packing because the 6th ward Sisters had been staying with one sister but were due to move to another member's house on the Wednesday. So we packed up Sis Grow's stuff and moved it, then we went for lunch with a member, then we went and loaded the car with all my stuff and moved it in.  We had appointments afterward... then we had dinner and then some more teaching appointments! It's good to be so busy!

Busy bees!!

Thursday we started the day at the library doing extra study. We're allowed a certain amount of time every week to study online which is awesome so we can print out talks and stuff like that!
After the Library we went to lunch and then straight to lessons!! After our lessons we went to a Relief Society activity and had food... happy days! After that we went and taught more lessons, as well as visiting a member where a missionary sister was who was travelling with her parents before going home was visiting, so we got to say goodbye to her.

Friday we started with district meeting which was kinda weird since the whole district was so different! After the meeting we all went as a district and did some service. We helped a sister do her garden and her garage... While the sister was taking a whole load of stuff to Goodwill some of us stayed in the back yard and ... may or may not have played on the cars that are totally kid sized.. Then we played baseball until one of the Elders hit the ball away... Then we played touch rugby... although one of the Elders forgot the no tackling part of that and I went flippin' flying! It was hilarious!!

She got her rugby skills from her Dad

After service we were straight back in to lessons. We stopped by a less active member from Ridgeview and then had dinner with a family from 6th ward and then a lesson with a recent convert from Ridgeview! BUSY! I love being so busy!
Then home to schleeep!!

Saturday started off with a baptism... it was pretty cool because someone that we had planned to visit from Ridgeview, but haven't been able to set up an appointment with... (so I've never met her)... was at the baptism at 6th ward! So we got to talk to her and set up an appointment! It was awesome!  One of our investigators was having a hard day so we went and bought her a smoothie and dropped it off for her on our way to visit a family who were in town for a few days clearing out their parent's house.. sad.

After that we went to the chapel to get some planning in so we can fit in both wards in our week! When we had finished our planning we went and got pizza and candy so we could be ready for the Superbowl with the kids! It went really well! Lots of youth showed up and 2 sets of Elders came as well, which was great cuz one of the kids said he wanted missionaries to come play! There was a trophy and everything!! It was great! We had an awesome lesson and then played football and soccer together!! Following the Superbowl we had a lesson in 6th ward, then a dinner with the Winklers and another lesson in 6th ward! And we still made it home in time for a nice jog!!  Flipping sweet!!!

Sunday.... Double duty Sunday!

Church started in 6th ward at 9am! One of our investigators joined us! She loved it!  After church finished at 12 we hopped in the car and went to Ridgeview for church at 1pm! Luckily we were on our best behaviour because the Mission President and his wife were there! Haha.
After church we had another lesson with the kids! After the lesson we had dinner with a family and a really awesome lesson with them! Then we headed over to another member's house where we taught a non- member friend of theirs!After that we headed over to another sister and shared a message with her and made it home in time for a meeting.... I shall say nothing of that meeting! lol

This companionship is sure to be a 'hit'

And looky looky! Here we are... back to Monday, a whole week later!

This week has been great! I love how busy we are and how much we are able to get done with a car! I'm going to miss biking and will probably get huge but the work is good and I love it!!

The church is true!!!!


Love you all! byeee

Change!!!!

Neal A Maxwell once said "If everything is going perfectly for you, just wait a while"

On Monday I got a package from home! Happy days!! Thank you Trav!! Mmmm Chocolate and all sorts of stuff! It was a good evening.

Tuesday began with lessons and then some service! We went to the Winkler's and did some garden work! It was great!  We then had dinner with a non-member and her friend, who is a member, followed by volleyball at the chapel with another non-member and some YSA and members of the ward. It was fun!  We had to leave early and get home in time!

Wednesday we had a referral to contact so we went to the place where she told the Elders that she lived. We didn't have an apartment number for her though, so we parked our bikes and gave her a call... she wasn't home and was driving so she said she'd call us back.  We waited and waited, and walked around talking to those around us while we waited. We decided on a time when we would leave and go to the next person that we were to teach ... that time came and so we headed back to get our bikes. As we began to unchain our bikes, someone walked out of the apartment next to where our bikes were. "Are you the sisters?" she asked! IT WAS HER!
She had just headed back to the car to get her phone. She invited us in and told us that she had attended church in California before moving back to Colorado. She told us that she wanted to be baptized and agreed to have us teach her the lessons again. WOO!  How exciting! 1 new investigator!
Next we headed to go and visit someone we had met while trying to contact someone else. We talked a little about the restoration of the Gospel and asked if he would like to learn more. YES! He said yes! So that's 2 new investigators in one day! It was a wonderful day!

Happy Days!!

How exciting!!  We had dinner with a sister in the ward. Sis Flitton. WE LOVE HER!!
That was our Wednesday.

Thursday we started with a visit to the hospital... no biggy. Someone just needed some blood tests! After that we went and taught an older member of the ward. We re-taught him about the restoration. He has a great testimony of the restoration!
We taught the KIDS!!! I love those kids so much! Seriously! So much love for them! Little Chuck was so cute!
We were talking about obeying the law... we asked her "Why do we obey the law, Chuck?" She's barely 18 months so we knew she wouldn't answer, it was just funny. She just looked up at us, shrugged her shoulders and mumbled what sounded very much like "I don't know" Haha! It was the cutest thing!  It was a great lesson. Have I mentioned yet how much I love those kids?!

Friday started with District meeting!  After that we were all going to have a BBQ together with some others from the other district. It was too windy, so after I cried all my mascara off in the smoke. and smelt like a walking fire pit, we decided to cook it all in the oven. Everyone else had appointments to take care of or someone to help.. so the food wasn't ready in time... Sister Aukuso and I stayed and cooked the food and chips and salad and then everyone just ate in bits as they came back from appointments. It was fun.  A good afternoon. Lovely and sunny. After that we went to visit a sister from 11th ward, and then the Elders came with us to visit a brother from our ward. Then we headed home... the Elders saw that there was a package for me in the closet for packages in the apartment office!! FINALLY!!!! The other one came!

 Have no idea how long it's been there, since we checked in the office a month ago in case they didn't give us the note... and they hadn't given us a note again... but it was there... oh well! HAPPY DAYS!!

I guess we can turn those frowns upside down now!!!!

 We had dinner at a members home with other members! It was nice. They had butternut squash! Mmmmm!! Tasty!

Saturday! CONFERENCE!

We started Saturday off with morning sports. We played soccer! It was flippin' great!

Ok. I know it'a not soccer, but...it's sport!!

Then we had a breakfast with the Winklers before Conference. We totally forgot that we also had a training conference call so we had to leave iHop and start the call in the car.When we got to the Winkler's home and we did the rest of the call outside... As we were sitting on the phone I saw something out of the corner of my eye.. well looky looky! Birmingham Rollers (pigeons), just rolling around in the sky... I was totally distracted by them, trying to figure out who they belonged to! I prayed that they'd land while we were still outside so I could go talk to the owners some day. Boom!! They landed just as we were ending the call! Happy days!

Birmingham Rollers in flight

Rolling!!

One of Dad's birds

After that Conference started and we watched the first session. It was great! Then we had lunch and helped them pack some things away. Then  we watched the second session which was also good... I never sustained the prophet so much in my life as I did when others didn't! I was like NO!!!! He is the prophet!! He was called of God!!! You people are fools!

First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
(L) Pres. Henry B. Eyring , Pres. Thomas S. Monson, Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf (R)

 Anyway! I loved conference!  After it we went to teach and have dinner with another sister in the ward. After dinner the Winklers came and got us, bought us ice cream and took us home... Home to await our doom... transfer calls. They came. Sad days.

I, believing I was staying did not pack anything, and my companion who is leaving, did....

Sunday was Conference and Easter! Both Great!!  We got so many lovely goodies from members! After dinner we went to an Easter Cantata composed and directed by Sally DeFord! That was awesome! The music was amazing... then we went home and got ready to find out who our new companions were.

Monday.... Found out who my new companion is... and that I have only tonight to pack up my goods because they're combining our areas and I'm not staying where I was... bleep.... that has been my Monday. So far!
 So yes... if things are going perfectly, just wait. It'll change.

Transfers this week. Change!!!

Hopefully it'll all go ok. I just don't want my area neglected. I would die!!!

Anyway...


The church is still true!

Sorry it wasn't very interesting this week... maybe next week.

Byeeeee


Love you all!

Celestialy Clean Plonker

Monday we played volleyball for P-day which was great! Played it all day until 6pm when we had a dinner appointment and a lesson. It was one of the Elders in our districts birthday  so we brought him a pie with candles in and a card and a bunch of us sang to him! It was cool!

Pie for Elder Migi's birthday

Tuesday we had zone conference!... Guess what ma!!! GUESS WHAT!!!!!  I... yes me, Christi Leigh Botts got a certificate and chocolate, (the more important part) for celestial cleanliness! That's right... I'm a tidy person now apparently!

Zone conference was great! I learned a lot from it but I kinda wished that we had been out teaching instead... it was like 2 days in a row with minimal appointments. Sad. Nevertheless, it was a great day and I loved it!

Sisters at Zone Conference

Wednesday we had weekly planning for the first few hours of the day and then we filled the day with lessons and service! We had no dinner appointment and so when we went to teach the Winklers, they fed us too. They're such wonderful people!! Seriously!

We taught the kids again! It was good, I love teaching them and seeing them grow. We taught the Law of Chastity though... which is super not fun to teach to kids... but luckily we managed a kid friendly version which went well!  I love those kids!

Thursday started out with the potential to be an amazing day... but then again all days do! We had a day full of appointments and things to day... but then some of those were cancelled, still, it was a good day and we were able to teach many lessons, we again had no dinner so we ended up being cheeky and getting Chinese... mmm. So good!

After dinner it was one of our sister's from the ward's birthday and so we went to have cake with her and see how she was doing. It was a good day! I'm slowly learning that the success of the day is not always measured in how many lessons you taught... but how many people you've helped come closer to Christ regardless of whether you were able to sit down and teach, or not.

Friday we had District meeting to start the day off and then a bunch of us had lunch together. After that we went and stopped by a sister who is not active in the Church. We had a good visit with her out in the sun on her lawn chairs. It was great! She is a lovely woman! Later we headed back to the Winklers to do some service before dinner! With them we watched the new #becausehelives video! I feel like I should feel guilty for not liking this year’s one as much as I liked last year’s one!

Then we biked over and met with another sister and visited with her before heading home... We made it home in 25 minutes... the first time I did that trip it took over an hour!! I'm getting there!

Saturday we started the day by visiting a sister who has been less active for quite a while. She lives in a retirement home, the same one we visited for Paddy's day! It was a great visit and she was so eager to learn and be reminded of the things of the Gospel! We helped her move some things around and organise her paperwork. We ended up going and having lunch with her! It was a great afternoon. She's a lovely lady and very funny. After only 2 visits we really love her!

After we left her we headed over to visit another sister and her husband... as we finally got to the top of the hill that they live on and found the house, we were just in time to say goodbye to them as they headed out for the day! But we were able to bike around and contact the neighbours of another one of the members. He'd asked us to talk to some of them.  After we had done that we went to change so we could go and help a lady move. We had met her while looking for someone else. She was carrying a couch down some stairs and we stopped her and helped, then we found out she was pregnant. She told us she was planning on moving and we gave her our card and told her to call us if she needed help... so Friday we received a call from her and arranged to go help her with 4 other elders.  When we met her boyfriend he recognized Sister Aukuso and I from helping at the Marion House soup kitchen. He is the chef there! Small world eh!! So yeah! That was great!

Before that though... I managed to slice my hand open in a... shall we call it a biking accident? When one hears biking accident once would assume I must have fallen off my bike right?

The offending article

WRONG!!!

Being the plonker that I am... I managed to fall ON!!! Yes... ON my bike while I wasn't even riding it!!  The handle bar swung around and the wheel knocked my feet out of under me and I fell on my bike and sliced my hand open with some unknown bike part!

In other news I had to fix my bike’s back brakes this week because with all the mud and crap something happened and they stopped working 100%... luckily I'm a genius and stuff and could fix it!

After service we went and watched the Women's Broadcast... it was... honestly, I didn't love it. But there were some really good things in there... somewhere hahaha!!!

One of the sister missionaries that lives in our complex goes home in 2 transfers and found out that she would be training for those two last transfers... so Sister Aukuso and I decided that since neither of the companionships had a dinner appointment on Saturday night, we were going to have a "baby shower" for her!  We had balloons and silly string and pizza... it was good. Sometimes as missionaries you also gotta take care of other missionaries ya know! So we had a good evening eating pizza and planning for our new comer! :)  Exciting stuff!

The 'Baby Shower' to celebrate the new Sister that will be joining them

Sunday started off with Ward Council and the choir!

After that we made our way to the chapel and talked with members before church started.

After church we had an appointment with the Kids again! :) Their home teachers came with too, and they brought their two sons along. It was great! We had a recap of all the things they've been learning, and they remembered them so well. Then we planned our Superbowl game that we're going to have as our final lesson! It went really well... I just love those kids so much!! They're adorable!

We had no dinner appointment...again.... and so we decided to try and see as many people as possible before breaking our fast... We stopped by a less active sister who lives in the same area as the kids. Then we walked about a mile or so and stopped by a man who is also less active but has an 8 year old daughter he wants to have taught and baptized. We got to know them and made plans to go back and teach. We then stopped and talked to a lady who was outside building a cabinet. She was really nice and we had a good talk with her. After that we saw another less active family, we spoke to them a bit before they headed out for dinner, and then on our way home we stopped by one last person and had a good talk with them and made plans to visit again! It was a good day! Although we didn't teach a trillion lessons, we were productive and felt like we really had a good evening before heading home to break our fast with left over pizza!!! Then we attempted to bake cupcakes... the first ones were crap because we didn't have the little paper cups... they came out better this morning though... I have missed baking!

The first batch was a FLOP!!!

Banana cupcakes with cream cheese frosting! Mmm.... guess what we had for breakfast! hahahaha

Well, this has been my week....  it's been a good one!

The church is true!

If you get nothing else from reading this than to know that the church is true... then so be it!!! 

My prayers are answered on a daily basis! I see Heavenly Father blessing me and those around me constantly!!

If I know nothing else, I know that this church is TRUE!!

Love you all!

Sister Botts.

A Real Live Wire!!!

So last Monday was so so hot!!
Then we spent Tuesday with our heads in the clouds... Literally! There was just this massive cloud all over town for the whole day! We had to ride our bikes in the middle of the day with our lights on! Crazy! We went and visited a sister in a retirement home... didn't even realise it was Paddy's Day until we sat down for lunch there and they started playing Irish music and a man came out dressed as a leprechaun dancing around the gaff! So of course we ate all kinds of green lookin' stuff haha! We also had corned beef and cabbage... which was great!  I love food too much!  As we were sitting eating I heard a lady talking in what sounded like the thickest Dublin accent ever... so I walked over and asked her where she was from.. I was right, Dublin!! When I told her I had been in Cork for 14 years she gave me the biggest hug ever!! She was so happy! We ended up just talking about Irish stuff, and the two other people at the table with her were asking us to say all sorts of things... I'll admit that when I said those things I put on an accent... becasue let's be honest, that's what they wanted to hear! Hahaha but it was fun! I loved it!

Paddy's Day basket from Sis. Knebel

Wednesday... we had exchanges..... my favourite.. NOT.  It wasn't bad. I went with Sister Wheatley but I was kind of freaking out because this time I was staying in my area and I was worried that I wouldn't know what I was doing or where to go... it was fine though! The day went well and I enjoyed it.  It even rained!! It felt so good!

Selfies on the bike

Thursday
On Thursday our lunch appointment turned into a breakfast one, so we had to leave the house to be at breakfast for 9am. We had waffles... mmmm so good.  They have Chocolate flavoured whipped cream in a can! Cray Cray! So good! After that we had our weekly planning since we couldn't do it on Wednesday because we had exchanges... after that we had dinner with a member before going to the Relief Society activity.

Friday
I LOVED FRIDAY!!

Sunrise over Colorado Springs

We got up an hour early because we had to leave our house by 6:30 to make it to Seminary in time! Yup! We taught Seminary! It was great!  We taught 2 classes back to back in the morning, and then one in the afternoon! I really enjoyed it! Although we taught the same lesson to each class, every one went so differently because of the different types of people in the class! In our first class one girl DREW US! And it's so good! I was like awww.. this is awesome!

But yeah.. LOVED teaching seminary!   Between the Seminary classes we also had District meeting and a picnic with a non member in the 11th ward. She lives just across the road from the chapel. She made fried chicken! Mmm so good!
Then we did some tracting on our way to our dinner appointment! Since it's the start of Spring break they had pizza as something fun for the kids!  After dinner we taught a lesson on the Plan of Salvation using finger puppets... the fingers being our spirits and the puppets being our bodies! That was cool!  And then we went for a walk with the family on their  way to drop us off at home!

Saturday
We started Saturday off going to help a sister move some stuff before we taught her a lesson... The moving ended up being a bit more work than we thought, and we ended up being there for a while. She needed some cables moved and rewired.... this made me super dooper happy!! I was so happy just chillin' there on the floor with a screwdriver! Who needs a drill for a cement wall when you have ridiculous biceps like mine?.... I kid, I kid... although I didn't need a drill... and I stole a pull up bar from the Elders so maybe some day... hahaha yeah right!!  But after we finished all that we had a lesson with her and her friend.
After that we visited with our recent convert and his wife. We had no dinner appointment so they fed us! They're so great! We really love them... not just because they feed us though! We had a lesson with them and then we had another lesson with a recent convert at the chapel. It was good! And then home!! Zzzzz

Sunday... Quiet day. but a good day.
We went to choir as usual, and then stopped by some less active members on our list before heading off to church. After church we went straight to a member's house, the Knebels... they're pretty awesome!  They have a son serving a mission and so, as a way to invite non members to meet the missionaries in their home, they had a "Pies and Ties" night where there were lots of pies to eat and everyone brought a tie to send to their son. We got to talk to 4 of their neighbours which was nice. Also... pie is nice.  Always!
So that was our Sunday!

Then... so far today....

We woke up at 5 am and went for a hike in one of the mountains... it was so beautiful! I could have stayed there all day if it wasn't for needing to be back in time for morning studies!! It was so beautiful! It reminded me of being in South Africa!!!  LOVE IT!!

High on the Mountain Top - Literally

Because 7200ft on top of a mountain isn't quite high enough!!

And that, thus far, has been my week.

Something I learned this week... if you're gonna ask Heavenly Father for help with something.... you better be prepared for that help.

Something I haven't told people is how terrified I am of praying in public. TERRIFIED!!!!! So I finally asked Him to help me with this.... Then I get asked to pray in District meeting, then on our way somewhere else I get a text from the Zone leaders asking me to pray in Zone conference... AAAH! Then at church one of the Bishopric comes up to me and asks me to say the closing prayer in sacrament meeting...   I just had to laugh... I was horrified haha... so Zone conference tomorrow...

So yes... if you ask for help... be ready!! Hahahaha

Well.... that's it for now I guess!

Bubye

Make good choices and all that jazz!

Love Sister Botts