Serving in St. Louis: "WE'RE GONNA SEE PREZ!"

Oh my goodness.

This week was one of those weeks where I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY.

*crying* it was so good.

Weekly highlights:

1. Feels just like a purse: so one of our less actives, Christan, has lots of snakes. So he brought one out the other day and was like "hold it, it feels just like a purse!!!!" lol what. I didn't hold it but I touched it hehe Sis Knight held it though. Proud momma moment.

2. President interviews: eeeeeeeeeeeeep! we had interviews this week! The night before we were like running around our apartment trying to pick out outfits. We were having clothing malfunctions and Sis Knight was like "it has to be perfect WE'RE GONNA SEE PREZ!!!!!!!!!" hahahahah basically he's like a celebrity. No but for real.... President Morgan is so awesome. I hope everyone gets to have a mission president like him! He was just like joking around in our interview. Whata guy. Also my favorite quote from district meeting: "if it wasn't for the sacrament, I probably wouldn't even go to church..." HAHAHA no.

3. Buried alive: we were helping Sister Steinmeyer rake some leaves and we noticed this little area of sand in her backyard and asked her about it and she said "oh that's covering something that I buried that will not be mentioned..." wut. Who knows what's under there lol

Teaching highlights:

1. Andrew: we taught him the restoration. He doesn't believe in God so we spent a long time talking about that. He has some pretty funny theories and challenged like everything we said haha for example he says that prayer is "telepathy to a cosmic zombie" k, but by the end of the lesson, the spirit was SO STRONG. It's the coolest thing to feel it prompting you to say certain things. Teaching the gospel is the coolest.

2. Dennis: we finished the recent convert lessons :) we talked about eternal marriage and he was like "well that's our main goal isnt it?" and I was like yessssss Dennis, and then after the lesson Dennis was like "thank you guys for all you've done for me, you've done a great job" and I was like k bye crying. Seriously I love them.

3. William: we had such a GOOD lesson with him! We went over the Word of Wisdom because he has a problem with coffee. He is so awesome though... he took it upon himself to stop drinking coffee so he cut back to 3 cups a day instead of 4! We set a new date with him for Feb 28 :) he said how he just wants to get baptized so he can finally do what God wants him to. He's so awesome!!!!

4. Tina and Cheyanne: we picked up 2 new investigators this week! It was so awesome!!! Tina is the mom and Cheyanne is her 18 year old daughter. Sisters had tracted into them before and Tina is actually the sister of another one of our investigators. We finally caught them at home and we able to teach them the restoration. IT WAS SUCH A GOOD LESSON. Tina told us how when we were teaching, she just felt like this was the right path for her. They both understood it so well and were even teaching themselves at points. The spirit is the coolest thing. It's so powerful. We are super pumped about them and I know they have been prepared for the gospel!

I was reading in Alma 36 this morning and found this scripture:

"...the Lord doth give me exceedingly great JOY in the fruit of my labors."

It's so true. If you want to experience pure joy, serve a mission. I'm serious :) I LOVE being a missionary and am grateful to Heavenly Father for allowing me to experience this joy.

I hope you all have the best week :)

xoxo,

sister hill