Four Months...FLIES

Hey Yall!

Monday was a great pday! Well all pdays are great but especially when you get to play basketball (with someone other than yourself)! The Elders are so nice and invite us to play, because hey when your the only sisters with 6 elders there isnt a whole lot we all do together. We also went to a families house who's son just got his mission call to LONDON ENGLAND! Like whaaaat! So we went over and just gave him advice and good idea's for the mission. It was actually fun to look back on things I wish I knew before the mission to when I'm on a mission.

Tuesday was our day of meetings. We had our first interviews with our new mission president. It was actually kind of weird as he was just praising me for training...I still cant believe I'm training someone! Like woah! But it's been a good learning experience...4 weeks down, 8 weeks to go:) Our new mission president and his wife are very nice sweet people, I am grateful for the opportunity I have to serve around them for the rest of my mission:)

Wednesday was a great day!  We went to two lessons before noon and had set them both with baptismal dates! Like thats the best way to start your day off as a missionary (of course prayer comes first and study and all of that but this is great as well)! 

Thursday is harvesting day...we try to use very little miles on our cars and talk to everyone we see. So we melted but we met so many cool people (as we always do)! We even ran into a "high"group of kids and started talking about Chicago Bulls (thank you growing up in a little town and watch sports) and then somehow tie that into the gospel. They then stopped smoking when we brought up Jesus. It was just so great to see the effect one name had on their actions. They actually were pretty interested so we'll find out next week when we go see them:)

Friday was great! While doing three hours of tracting we only had 1 lesson. That is rough BUT the lesson all started because he was wearing a JOHN DEER watch! No one in Long Beach Mississippi knows what john deer is! But this guy did. Somehow as a missionary you can relate anything and everything to the gospel. So I put John Deer and the gospel together. He wasnt very interested but it totally made my day! 

Saturday was full of active member lessons so Sister Rodriguez can continue teaching/learning how to do things. She is growing up way to fast! 

Sunday was a day of miracles. There is a spanish speaking family investigating the church and the bishop called someone to do a spanish gospel principals class. So since we are in a zebra companionship (Sister Rodriguez speaks spanish, I speak english) We went on splits and she went to that class to help them and I took our investigators to english. It was actually pretty fun to hear her stories of them actually understanding what was going on. We then had lots of tracting to do. BUT we had so many nice people come into our way! It just made us so happy to be following the spirit and seeing the people the Lord wanted us to see. 

This week has been great! I'm so grateful for the opportunity I have to be a missionary. I cant believe how fast time flies but that is what makes it that much more precious! Please remember how fast things go in life and always remember the Lord never made you too busy for Him! 

Love yall!
Sister Durtschi

Random field of flowers:)