The Tale of Easter baskets

Hey Family!! How are y'all doing? How is it now that 2 of us are gone
on missions? Crazy right! I loved Makalls letter! and she is one step
above me because I cried that first night ;) But she was always going
to be 10 times the missionary that I am so that is no surprise. How
was every body's 


 

Easter? What did the Easter 

Bunny give you? I hope
that you 

like all you candy ! Well this 

is yet another week of not
much. 

We are still trying to find 

people to teach, and we walk a 

lot.
I have come to the conclusion that this is more of a hunting Mission,
while others are more like fishing. Fishing missionaries will be able
have lots of people find them. While hunting missionaries have to dig
through the brush, hike millions of miles, and crawl through the dirt
to find maybe one person. But such is life and I love my mission and
would not trade it for the world :) Because I have found some amazing
people, and they are so much more worth it when you find them. Well
there were a few things that happened this week so lets get on to the
stories of the week.

Story 1 The Tale of the 12 things of Easter....In the Rain

So in case you did not know this past Sunday was Easter! And there is
an awesome family in our ward who is so missionary minded. They have
this tradition that they do every Easter. I remember         doing it in
Primary, it the 12 symbols of Easter. The had the red cloth for the
rob, rock for the tomb, and so forth. Also there are scriptures from
the Bible and Book of Mormon that go along with each egg. I think it
is very cute and will probably do it with my kids. But they wanted to
share this with there friends who were non members. So they put
together about 6 with the eggs, a bible and book of Mormon with the
scriptures marked, and a cute little note in each basket. They asked
if we would like to help them deliver them, so that if the people had
any questions we could answer them. So we all got in our cars and it
started to sprinkle. When we got to the first house it was like
someone in heaven left the bath tub running and it had over flowed! It
was pouring so hard! It did not even matter if we had umbrellas or not
because the rain was falling so hard that it would jump off the ground
and hit us! So needless to say we got soaked. But I thought that it
was such a good idea to invite people to learn about what we believe,
in a very cute way. We should do it next year when I am home!!

Story 2 The Tale of the Horned Melon

So last Tuesday after I had already Emailed y'all we went to Zone
sports. Its were every one in the zone gets together on p-day and hang
out. So we went and there was a sister there who just got told that
she was being ET'ed ( Emergency Transferred) because a sister was sick
and going home. So that was a really big bummer, mainly because she
and sister Rirre were best friends. So sister Rirre was really nit
happy, and wanted to do something special for 

sister going home). They have lots of inside 
jokes and one of them sister Wilcox (the

involved a fruit called a horned 


 

Melon. Look it up and it is a 

very odd looking fruit. So we 

went to the story to get 

one and stopped by their

house. And they  wanted to

see what it tasted like, so they cut
it open. It looked like snot with seeds in it :P And they obviously
had to try it so they did.. They almost through up it it was so
nasty!!! 

Story 3 The Tale of Easter baskets and Rebecca:

So I have told you about our amazing investigator named Rebecca. She
is so awesome and loves the book of Mormon. Well last week she asked
if she could take us out for lunch! We went to this really good pizza
places called Dions. And when we got there she was sitting in the both
with 2 Easter baskets! She said that she wanted us to have a happy
Easter and was not sure if we could have them or not. She was so
sweet! And she was so excited when we said that we actually could have
them! After lunch we sat and chatted for a while. She told us that she
wants to be baptized!!! She is almost done with Mosiah and just loves
everything that she learns. Her husband is not really that excited but
we are praying that he will soften his heart and let her. But it is
just so nice to teach people who want to be taught, and not just use
us.

Well that is about the extent of the week. Yeah again we are still
just trying top find people. And the people here are nicer than they
were in Santa Fe but not as nice as El Paso. Where they will just sit
and talk with you for a good 20 or so minutes even if they have no
interest in the church. Well who knows maybe I will go back down there
before I die. Die as a missionary not a person that is. 

Well I love
y'all so much and hope that you are having a great week!!! Love ya!!

Love Sister Chatwin