Hello Family !!! How are y'all doing? I hope that all is well and that you are enjoying the first few days of Fall. So how is life back in Utah and up in Michigan? I miss y'all loads and am so excited to talk to y'all again in months !!!! Wow that is crazy that I am almost half way done, and that Makall will be leaving for her mission soon....Just crazy. Thanks for the package and letters this past week, the m and m's were super cute!! And I am very sorry for sending y'all the wrong zip code.....Yeah that is awkward....I hope the people in Colorado liked what ever y'all sent them :) So yeah glad that we got that all straitened out. So on to the stories of the week!!!
Story 1 The Tale of the Lost GPS
Being a STL we have the opportunity to go on exchange's with all the sister that we cover. WE do about 2 a week now and they are loads of fun. On Tuesday I got the opportunity to go on an exchange with Sister Geldmacher in my area. We started the day off well with studies and seeing a few people in the apartment. Then we were going to see an investigator and we didn't know where he lived. So I pulled out TomTom, put in his address, and started on our way. On the way there we chatted and talked about our areas. But then I noticed that we were not in the right place. And that TomTom had gotten us very much lost.... So I checked the address and as it turns out TomTom had taken us in the complete wrong direction and out of our area. Oops! So I try again and after another 20 minutes we finally got to where we were going. So the moral of the story is this. Do not buy a TomTom, buy a Garmin. (Makall this is for you!!!)
Story 2 The Tale of Our investigators ( Yeah that is not a very good tittle so I am open for suggestions)
The work in this area is amazing!! The members are so willing to help and to let us meet there friends. We are still teaching Christina and her family, which is going good. She has been very busy lately so we have not seen her to much. But we have an appointment tonight and cross your fingers that it goes well. Another family we are teaching is Max, Sandra, and Adriana. They are doing very well and have been coming to church for the past 3 weeks! The are set to get married in the next few weeks and then baptized a little after that. And last but not least we are teaching Amber, Phil, and family. They are so amazing and I love them all so much!!! Some times when we are waiting for the lesson to start, or when we finish and people are talking. I will tell the kids stories or just play with them. They are all very cute, but not the cutest kids that I know ;) They are progressing really well and are still on course to be baptized in November! Other than those families we are teaching a few individuals that are also doing quite well, and things are all looking up :)
Story 2 The Tale of the Conference of the Zone (Zone Conference)
This past Friday we had a Zone conference that was amazing!! It started off with car inspections, and lucky for me and Sister Brown there were some very nice Elders who helped us fill things out. I mean really what Sister really knows where the brake fluid or the oil filter is!! Well at least I don't anyway. Then we had a slide show from Sister Miller (I love her so much <3) about how to stay healthy as a missionary. And I really liked that her attitude was if you don't have a fever, or in sever pain throwing up, or gushing blood then you can go out and work. She is an amazing lady and I just love her!! Then we got a lesson on why we should be safe drivers, and watched a movie about a crazy grandma who takes some Elders keys away. But the best part was when President Miller talked to us about the Christ like attributes. He used the story in Mathew chapter 8 about the Roman centurions servant being healed. And saying, Lord, my aservant lieth at home sick of the bpalsy, grievously tormented. 7And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not aworthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be bhealed.
9 For I am a man under aauthority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
10 aWhen Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so greatbfaith, no, not in Israel.
How this man needed humility and faith to come to Christ, and then how kind Christ was to drop everything and help this Gentile. But the best was verse 8-10. This man knew that Christ was someone of great importance and knew that he was not worthy to have him in his home. But also that he had the faith to know that if Christ just said the words it would be done. It was just amazing to hear this story from this perspective! After President Miller spoke Sister Brown and I sang a musical number. It was a mash up of Called to Server and As Sister in Zion. It went very well and the rest of Zone Conference was amazing!! President did surprise us by asking sister Brown and I to tell our story of the first vision with Christina to everybody. My heart may have stopped beating for a moment or so. But I loved Zone Conference!!!
Story 4 The Tale of the Wal-Mart Fire!!
Last P-day we went to Wal-Mart as usual and got our groceries. When we came back to the parking lot there was a very large crowd around this truck. Well the truck was on FIRE!!! And so we started to go to our car... which was parked kiddy corner from this truck!!! We hurried and got all of our stuff in the car and left. The fire truck past us on the way out, and we did not see or hear an explosion so that's good.
Well there were the highlights of my week :). I hope that you all have a great week and that you have fun at the Relief Society broadcast!! Love Y'all so Much!!!
Love Sister Chatwin
Here are some pictures Jenna sent this week
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