The Tale of the Toock

Why Hello Family !!! How are y'all doing? I hope that the new year is treating y'all well and that you are all having a great time. Well this has been another interesting week. We spent all day on Saturday tracting. Oh it was so much fun... Yeah really fun. We did meet a few nice people but most were not very interested. At least we got to walk a lot. Well so there were a few things that happened this week so we will proceed to the stories of the week!

Story 1 The Tale of the Toock 

First of we are still teaching Victoria and her girls. The have been being taught since July and are making slow progress. Well they have been taught every thing, several times, but they remember very little. so we started taking about the restoration. And I have this fun object lesson that involves a lock and 2 keys. One key is the priesthood and can unlock the lock. The other is a key that I tampered with so it wont work. This helps us explain how the priesthood was lost, but there was still something similar on the earth. It is really fun because you switch the keys with out them noticing and they try to open the lock. I had one guy try for 15 minutes once because he was positive that it was the same key ;). It is one of my favorite things to do with kids. Well we were showing them this lesson and they were trying to remember the word Priesthood after I had given them pack the original key. They could get the remember the Priest part but they could not remember the hood part. So the member was with us and pointed to the hood on her hoody. So they start shouting things like priesthoody, priestsweater. Then on of the girls get so excited and says, "I know I know!!!!" So I ask her what it is and she said, "Well obviously it is the PriestToock" And I just had to giggle a little because first off how does she even know what a toock is and how do you get toock from Hood? I think that kids are just to funny and I miss my kids at home! 

Story 2 The Tale of the High CNA

We have an investigator named Papa. Yes his name is actually papa, well papa is from Ghana, and living with a woman. He is living with her so that he can take care of her because she is really sick. We have been meeting with him for a while now, and know him and the lady he takes care of pretty well. So we had an appointment with him and we go to his apartment and knock on the door. Well no one answers, so we knock a little louder. Then the neighbor comes out and ask who we are and what we were doing. So we talk to her and start up a really good conversation. I even gave her one of the gift cards mom gave me. Then in walks the other neighbor. And she starts to yell at us and asking what we are doing there. We tell her that we are here to see papa, and we had an appointment. I am just amazed at how she was freaking out!!! And I look at her and she is totally high. She still just yells at us telling that this lady needs peace and quite. This is kind of and oxymoron as she is yelling at us in the hallway. Well we finally leave after she just keeps telling us "YOU CAN GO NOW". This is just another reason why I will never do drugs. 

Well that is it.... yeah sorry... again. We spend most of our time tracting and nothing really interesting happens. But things are going to pick up and we are going to baptize the whole city of Santa Fe!!!!! Well I love you all so much and I put some more pictures in the drop box. So I hope y'all having a great week!! I love you so much and cant wait form you soon!! 

Love Sister Chatwin