Giving Snoop Dawg A Book Of Mormon W53

This week was definitely a week. It's been a grind. We are still trying to find people to teach, and I don't think I've ever talked to so many people. 

Although a lot fell through, we felt good because we worked hard. We gave a Book of Mormon to this funny man who looked like Snoop Dawg at a red light (look at picture below). Went to MLC on my companion's birthday! We found an unbaptized teenager and set something up with her this week!! Her name is Jade, and we have high hopes. We found new potentials. Went to Texas Roadhouse and met a man who we set up a lesson with! We are being very optimistic because obedience and hard work brings miracles. 

We got to go to a French/Swahili church service! Part of our ward here is a French/Swahili branch. There were 75 people there! There are 5 missionaries in our district that got called French speaking here and now also have to learn Swahili. There are so many refugees here from the Republic of Congo and Tanzania. It was so fun to meet all of them and Isaac got baptized on Sunday. I have now officially been in 6 different language meetings while being here in Kentucky. English, Karen, Marshallese, French, Swahili, and Spanish. I have one more to hit in the mission and that is sign language! Hopefully soon;)

Okay I've been having some bad luck I guess because listen to this. We had a tough day. Nobody was really interested. We finally got somebody to answer their phone and we set up a lesson with a guy named Chris. Well right as we were leaving, I realized I locked the keys in the apartment. We had to call a locksmith, and while we were talking to him that one guy (chris) sent us anti and told us he actually didn't want to meet, because the Book of Mormon was flawed. Well, that was my breaking point. I had to pay the locksmith money out of my own pocket. I just looked at my companion and started crying. She is such a trooper. We laugh about it now, so don't feel bad. I found this quote and it made me feel 1000x better. 

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God … and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven” Spencer W. Kimball 

Pictures- my fav people that I taught in my 1st area @ Diane's baptism, Newmeyer family, Clayton, MLC, snoop dawg with Book of Mormon, Isaac's baptism