SO Wednesday we had the best zone training of my life! Well it was pretty close. In the top 5 ;) We talked about FEARLESS FINDING! Which was great because I'm pretty fearful when it comes to finding. So we talked about it and came to the conclusion that the worst thing that could happen while finding is you could die. But that's ok because you'd go to heaven. But the best thing that could happen while finding is that some one accepts, get's baptized and goes to heaven. So we concluded that it doesn't really matter because either way someone gets to go to heaven! WOO! :) We applied that later in the week when Sister Hafen was afraid to knock a door she thought she had already knocked, and I said, what's the worst thing that could happen? Well it turns out that the girl was really nice and helped us find the Less active we were looking for! Woah! Anyways. back to the training. We then had a training at our training where the they had some missionaries set up in rooms who were supposed to be mean and reject the other missionaries. Then there were some missionaries designated to be the "Holy Ghost" to uplift the other missionaries in between rejections. I was the spirit between a Marine missionary and Elder Bird (First of all let me introduce you to Elder Bird. He serves in the same wards as Sister Hafen and I and is socially a little slow. But he's hilarious. He's really smart and likes to make up numbers and spouts a lot of facts. He has a bit of a speech impediment but I love the guy) Ok so First set of missionaries knock on Elder Jone's door and he yells at them and tells them to get off his freakin property. I tell them it's ok keep going you're great God loves you. He just wasn't prepared. Go knock on the next door. Well it's this pretty overweight kid knocking and Elder Bird was told to be as mean as he could so he Opens the door and says, "Hello Fatty, what do you want." President Bell was standing next to me and I about died laughing. Elder Bird kept saying the most inappropriate things! He was hitting on the sisters, called someone the N word and calling people ugly and all sorts of mean things! He was taking his job very seriously! We had to tell him to calm it down! haha! He's hilarious! Anyways. The training was cool because the last door knocked was someone who accepted and it was really powerful overall. But after the meeting Sister Hafen and I were so pumped to find!
Ok I'm running out of time! I always do this to myself! ;) haha! So HIGHLIGHTS:
Met a less active named Roxy who is AWESOME!!!! But she lives with her girlfriend. She told us she knows what she's doing is wrong and she wants to change but she doesn't want to give up what she has because she's been with the girl for 5 years. :( it's super hard but She totally has such a strong testimony.
Michelle. She's some one that I know I'm here in Manhattan for. She has a learning disability and is bi polar. She was handed off to us from the Elders and is super sweet! She's really slow at reading but we're patient :) A lot of the other missionaries have dropped her because they've said she has no true interest or isn't progressing but they're not giving her enough time and they weren't working with her very well. So we're trying out different things to help her the best we can and we are quitting :) She's so sweet :)
Oh my gosh this weekend was graduation and flip I have never seen so many drunk kids in my life! It was so sad! and pretty scary. By 6pm Sister hafen and I had to leave because people were out partying. Driving was a little sketchy too. College town.
Speaking of fearless finding we found the COOLEST guy ever! I didn't want to knock his door cuz I'm a baby but Sister Hafen was like, LET'S DO IT! We did and He had the best questions. mostly about agency. We can't teach him because he's a guy but hopefully the Elders will help him out :)
Also church was kind of a bummer. We had SO many people committed to go but only one showed up. It was only made better by Elder Bird's comment in Sunday School. We were listing off distracting worldly pursuits. He added to the list, Women. :) Someone was like, Did an Elder just say that? Yes. And it was Birdman :)
Well that's all I got! Have a great week!!! :)
Love,
Sister Herrin
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