Hi Everyone!
P-Day adventures - nail painting and cookies!
Our twinklie lights!
Biking in the rain.
We made overnight oats.
Florida is just beautiful!
I hope this email finds you all well and excited for a great Thanksgiving week!
On Tuesday of this past week we had a District Training, and our whole district counseled together to get some ideas of things we can to do help Freddy and Darlyne quit smoking because they are having a hard time with it. We got some great ideas, and we decided to do a fast as a district on Sunday. We also talked to our Bishop who headed up a joined fast with our ward council as well. So our district and our ward council fasted with us and Freddy and Darlyne yesterday. We are going to see miracles come from it! We also had interviews with President Garns on Tuesday, and it was awesome. He is so inspired, and I can tell that he has given his whole heart and soul to this mission.
On Wednesday we were biking and got stuck in the pouring rain on our way home. By the time we arrived at our house we looked like we'd jumped out of a swimming pool. It was lots of fun. We also found a sweet couple that day, the husband was very interested, but we made the mistake of only taking down the wife's phone number. Turns out she was not as interested, so we have not been able to meet with them again.
On Friday we had a full day exchange, and Sister Gates came to be in Royal Palm Beach with me. She has been on her mission for 3 months, and is such a sweetheart. We were on bikes that day as well, and it was her first bike day! Their area is not normally good for biking, so we had fun with that. At one point we went to visit a former investigator that wasn't home, we talked to the next door neighbor who was outside on the driveway. He would not hear anything we had to say, and told us that we were wasting our time because no one would be home at that time of day. We walked back to our bikes, but felt that we should knock on a door a few houses down. A lady named Tarrell answered the door, and loved our message. She said she feels a lot like Joseph Smith in her search for truth, and it didn't even matter that her neighbor (the man we'd talked to) was shouting at her not to listen to us, the spirit drowned him right out. We are going to be teaching her again this week.
Saturday was a little crazy, after we exchanged back Sister Carling and I attended a baptismal service for some sisters in our Sisterhood, then we made the long hour drive back to our area. We had a meal appointment with a sweet couple in our ward who took us out after dinner so we could help them round up the chickens and put them in the coop for the night.
That night we called Freddy and Darlyne to start our special fast with a prayer. They were so excited, and determined to do better this week. At the end of our phone call Freddy told Darlyne to go inside because he needed to talk to us for a minute, which made us slightly nervous. However, he told us that he wanted to propose to Darlyne to make things official. He wanted it to be a secret, but he also wanted to do it at church the next day so that it would be on holy ground and so we could be there. He coordinated with our ward mission leader who teaches Gospel Principles. The next day during Sunday School the lesson was on Eternal Families. At one point during the lesson our ward mission leader turned to Freddy and asked "Freddy, what are you doing to strengthen your family?" He responded by getting on one knee, turning to Darlyne, and saying "I'm going to start by asking my woman to marry me." Darlyne was pretty emotional, but she said yes. It was pretty cute. There was only one other couple in the class with us, and they were very surprised and excited for them. The ring was beautiful, we forgot to ask Freddy where he got it, but they were just so happy. I am so excited for them. It made for the most interesting Sunday School class of my life.
That is all for this week! Happy Thanksgiving!!
Sister Monson
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