Out of the Mouth's of Babes

HIIIIIII! Hi. hello. hey. hi. THIS WEEK HAS BEEN CRAZY!!! So crazy! Emotional roller coaster! Wow! I'ma start. So I talked briefly about the black family we're teaching. Shonika's the mom, Shawn's 21 year old daughter with her baby Jaden, Then there's Bri Bri who doesn't really talk to us, then K K's who's 15, Lashawnta who's 13 Jaylin the oldest boy who's 10, Jasmariah at 8, Brianna at 3, Chrissy who's 1 and 1/2 and Byran who's 6 months. WOW. Big family. We taught Jas and Jaylin last week about faith baptism, cool stuff and they are so excited to be baptized. Well this Tuesday we had an appointment at 4:30 so we bike over there and Jaylin says he's on his way to pick up Jas from school on his bike. So we were like we'll go with you! We have bikes! and when we get to the school Jasmariah comes out of building, sees us, and her eyes get so big and she just ran into our arms! haha! SO CUTE! She was so happy to see us and couldn't believe that we were there to pick her up from school! So awesome! but we ran out of time to teach a lesson so we scheduled to come back the next day. Next day we come by and Shawn tells us that the kids were over at the neighbor's house, Delany. So we go over knock on the door and hear the kids say, who is it? The sisters! and then excited screams and the two girls open the door and tackle us with hugs! haha! Jas had been telling Delany all about us and how she was getting baptized! Delany wanted to go to church with us so badly! Jaylin was there too and we had a mini lesson about how God loves us! SO PRESH! We go over to Shonika's and teach the plan of salvation. The kids were distracted and didn't stay the whole lesson but Shonika and shawn listened and soaked it in! Shonika kept asking golden questions and was so involved in the lesson! The spirit was so strong! We invited Shawn to be baptized and she said yes! Then after we go back to Delany's house to meet her mom and all the kids were there and Delany was begging her mom to let us teach her! SOLID! We then sang primary hymns and all took turns praying! They're prayers were so sweet and so sincere! I almost cried. OH! and Lashawnta went to mutual! She's kind of crazy and I guess said some inappropriate things but she just doesn't really know better. We're working with her. We invited the girls to Women's Conference and only Lashawnta and Jasmariah made it. But we gave a church tour with a member and It was awesome! Lashawta has zero patience and wasn't really listening a whole lot and Jas was kind of shy but we showed them the Baptism font and really liked that :) Lashawnta said she wanted to get baptized! Then the conference started and I was getting all teary eyed and Lashawta made us go to the bathroom with her like 3 times. She kept asking what time it was and when it would be over and wow I wish I had some crayons or something to distract her! Jas was an angel :) hahaha! So I missed most of the conference but it was good for the kids! THEN! Almost done ;) CHRUCH. So everyone was committed to go to church that was on date. We went over two hours early to see if they needed a ride, but shonika said she could drive so we are at church waiting when Jasmariah and Jaylin call asking for a ride. So it was only them and Lashawnta. Sad. But great :) Except I had to take Lashawta out to the foyer a few times because she was so restless! That girl has major ADHD. But the kids seemed to enjoy church. In the middle of all of this our phone dies and I take it to the mission office to charge it and I see this text from Shonika saying that she wanted to look at other churches and that we were nice but she came from a Baptist family or something. WHHHAT? So we don't know if that goes for her kids too? But we were so hear broken that we didn't go to relief society and just cried on the couch like apostates. After everything!!! man!! So we're going to drop by this week and see if we can still teach the kids. We love them!!!!! Wow so that was our crazy fun filled week. We did so well on our key indicators and got a fat 20 member presents! WHAT? It was awesome! The Lord is stretching and testing us but blessings come all the same :) Ok other awesome things! Sister Gunderson and I sang for the senior missionaries at the mission home and there was this really cute couple that reminded me of Grandma and Grandpa Schroader. We sang in sacrament for the ward before us and sang a verse of called to serve in Spanish. We biked in the wind and rain again and it was a blast! Steffanie came to the woman's conference as well and she made a new best friend from a different ward Griz got his neighbor to drive us home last night because he hates it when we're on bikes AND we had pancakes for dinner :) Ok well That's all I got for this week! I'll let you know what happens next week! YAY! ok bye for now! Love, Sister Herrin