Griz! Dun Dunked!

Well. I wasn't there, but I sure helped! And wow I've got tears in my eyes just thinking about how much I love this guy! Griz is the name Grizzly Racobs :) Sister Phadnis my trainer did get to go, and said it was so great! So yay! things are great! :)

And besides that I don't know if I have much to say! We had a good week. We talked to Patricia and Samuel and gosh I love them. They're doing great and will be baptized in no time at all :)

Also we saw Roxy! She's doing well too! I don't know what else to say :)

So I'll just leave it at that, and I hope you all have a super week!!

Love,

Sister Herrin

Kansas City

Well Howdy! Life is great isn't it? We had a crazy awesome fun packed week! It was an emotional roller coaster! WOW. 

The Highlight was the TEMPLE! It was a dream come true. We took a really big bus to Kansas City and had a very uplifting party the whole time. 

Then inside the temple was incredible! It was just so beautiful! We just cried. Seeing everyone in white was so special. As I walked into the Celestial room President and Sister Bell greeted me and welcomed me in, and I were surrounded by my missionaries. My friends and brothers and sisters. I was just overwhelmed with Christ-like love for everyone in there. 

You know I had been struggling a lot this week and I was really expecting to have an emotional spirit crying experience and to just feel relief. But it was interesting that I just felt satisfaction in where I was, and in what I was doing. I had the best support group in the world and they all loved me too. 

So it was good :) A really great lesson for me! 

We had a lot of meetings and didn't get to seeing a whole lot of people. But Patricia and Samuel came to church! He is opening up so much! 

Ok that's all I got. I'm out of time. But I love you all and hope you have a great week!!! :)

Love,

Sister Herrin

Hairy Bellies!

Well would you look at that! It's already been another week! This last one flew by!!! It was great though! You know it's funny but I feel like I exhausted all my resources this week and was having an out of body experience. Oh there I am being a missionary. But in spite of my wacko dysfunctionings we finally hit standard. Which I haven't been able to do my whole time with Sister Clerico. So the Lord totally works through the weak and imperfect :) 

Also I got sick Saturday and have been coughing and sniffling all weekend. 6 hours of church was almost too much. I just crashed when we finally got home! haha! Poor Sister Clerico! We still went out and worked afterwords. Speaking of! Crazy story! So we got a call from this lady named Sue brown who we'd never met before saying that she had picked up this homeless boy and was wondering if the church could help. Well we went over to assess the situation. It was downtown in this basement apartment. Super trashed. This short wrinkled lady with tattoos and men's clothing takes us downstairs. She is a member of the church. We didn't have her on our records. We walk into the kitchen and there's this young guy sitting at the table. He said I didn't know there were three heavens! There was a giant Book of Mormon on the table and it looked like Sue had been teaching the kid. We gave them some information and a couple of phone numbers and told them to give us a call if they needed anything else. Then out comes sue's boyfriend. He's this HUGE hairy man with no shirt and his warn jeans struggling to stay around his waist. He was really nice :) Well before we leave Sue gave us each bear hugs and asks us to visit her again soon. I think we will :) 

We met with Sabrina a few times as well! We had a movie night and watched The Testaments. Classic! But she wasn't able to come to church again this week so we have to push back her date again. So we're working with it :) Keep praying though!

Ok I've got five minutes!

We haven't been able to get a hold of Jackie yet but we're planning on stopping by soon

I'm too rushed! I can't think of anything else that happened this week. It was great I promise! :) 

Well I love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Sister Herrin

Nine months and still growing!

Missionary Purpose Fulfilled and Nine Months in!!!

We got kicked out of an apartment complex this week. That means we're good missionaries :) 

Actually two college girls from management came up to us with their sun glasses and attitude and told us we could only be there if we had an appointment. Well we did, But it fell through! So we knocked some door on our way down and talked to everyone we saw! :) No big! But she said there was no soliciting. We told her we weren't selling anything, and she gave us a dirty look and said it was the same thing. We rebuked her and told her to repent and that she would meet her maker soon! Just kidding, we just left, but still it was a good day :) 

I got really sunburned on Saturday. It was HOT! We volunteered at this Christian sponsored self help fair thing. It was super cool! There were a lot of people from different churches and there were classes on budgeting, health care stuff, and nutrition. It was pretty neat! There was a bouncy house for the kids, that of course the missionaries were in charge of :) We haaaad to test it out first to make sure it was safe. We had bike shorts on so it was ok :) I totally kicked sister Judy's missionary booty! :) However after it all I somehow ended up with a fat lip and a skidded elbow :)

We had a lot success this week too! We invited people like crazy to be baptized! We now have 4 on date!!! :D well technically two. Sabrina didn't come to church and we haven't reset her date yet, and Patricia's isn't until Novemeber 1st after she gets married so it doesn't count numbers wise just yet. But it's basically the same :) We have Laura, who we've been meeting with for a while who's on date for the 30th. Her family's all members, and she grew up in young women's, but she doesn't understand what she needs Jesus for. We've told her but it hasn't really sunken in yet. But she accepted a date, and we're working on it! :) 

Now Jackie. Jackie's new :) She's a crazy pants but we love her :) The Elders found her Saturday night and invited her to be baptized on the 23rd and she said yes! So we called her up that night talked for a half hour about how we shouldn't judge gays and that God still loves them, and she agreed to come to church with us. Well she's 18, just graduated, got kicked out of her Grandparents house because her parents are meth heads and something about her grandpa being abusive to her grandma and her grandma blaming her. I'm not entirely sure, but she was very open about it all. So she's got a hard life. But she's living with a friend, and we picked her up Sunday to come to church with us. She was wearing bootie shorts and a really low top. We took her with us anyways and gosh just loved her! She' a little loud and vulgar, but I think she'll come around soon :) 

Well Wednesday was my official hump day! WOOO! NINE MONTHS DOWN! :) It's been a crazy ride that's for sure! I have been so so blessed so far and am so grateful for all the support I've had from my family and friends and from my Heavenly Father and Savior. I feel like a completely different person. Maybe not on the outside (besides the extra pounds) But definitely on the inside.

I have a LOOOOONG ways to go and so much to improve on, but I'm grateful for the strength that I've had this far :) I love being a missionary. I love Kansas. And I love my Savior so much. I really feel like I will be my biggest convert. I'm am continually being converted everyday :)

Well I hope and pray that this will be a good week for all of us!!! Peace and blessings!

Love,

Sister Herrin

So missionaries are weird and have to take a pregnant picture at nine months. It's a thing. Yes that's Ice cream.