So this week has been AWESOME!!
Well there were some sad days in the mix because Hermana Hendrickson went home on Tuesday :( It also takes a little time to learn with a new companion how to teach and how we want to have things go for this new transfer.
I am sooooooo excited to be with Hermana Reed, she is so fun! We are so much alike in so many ways. It is like I am serving with one of my best friends from home. This week we had a Zone meeting and I trained on "vision" and setting goals for our transfers. I got a lot of my ideas from the talk Elder Oaks gave in the April 2011 General Conference called "Desire." It was a pretty good zone meeting.
Funny story of the week.... So we've been teaching a referral from a Brother in our ward , and things have been going really good. She is liking the Book of Mormon and she loved the restoration lesson. This last Saturday we planned to bring our own lunch and eat at a near by park. We planned to teach her the plan of salvation. When we showed up she had brought a friend with her. We were really excited that she invited a friend to come listen and learn too. She introduced us to her "girlfriend". This girl gave us weird looks and shook our hands very firmly. Then we all sat down and had lunch and we taught the lesson. Things went pretty good and we gave the friend a Book of Mormon and she seemed pretty interested at the end. As Hermana Reed and I were walking back to our car she says.... Interesting.... I said, why? She then says why didn't you tell me that they are a couple? Then I gave her a weird look and said they're not a couple and then I pause and replay the whole last hour in my and head and I realized that they are so dating each other... I felt so stupid haha. We just laughed and laughed because I was soooo naive. That was also the first time in my mission that I have taught a couple together:)
After that experience I remembered the weekend before I left on my mission and Dad and Kyle pretended to be a couple while Alex Farley and Brent taught them the first discussion. I laughed thinking about that moment, then I wished that I would have remembered how Brent and Alex taught them, so I can be prepared for our next lesson with them.
This week we started teaching a cute couple from Guatemala and we found out they that are related to one of the active members in the ward, Hermana M. They were very welcoming with us and said that we are welcome to come teach them anytime, even though they are very active Catholics.
I am doing so good and I am just trying to live up every minute I have left on my mission. I have felt so blessed for the opportunity I have had to serve a mission at this time in the south states. I hope that y'all have a good week!
Love
Hermana Ayre
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