Crazy Week

9.14.15

Hey!

We had a crazy week, but it really was a great one!!

So on Wednesday we went on exchanges and I went to Roanoke with my MTC companion who is my Sister Training Leader now but it was good.... very crazy but good. Earlier that morning of the exchange the sisters training leaders had a few pipes burst in their apartment and their kitchen was a mess and they just had to leave it. But they had a couple guys coming in to the house to fix it as they were leaving. Anyways my companion stayed here in Christiansburg and I went to Roanoke for the day and it was crazy because we had to go to their house often and check on the progress. The last time we went to their house that night the entire kitchen ceiling was ripped out and then we had to go and stay with another set of sisters that were closer then Christiansburg. So we slept on the couch and a recliner... a little bit of a rough night but it was a really fun experience! Right before we went to bed this guy that the sisters in Roanoke had been working with only a few weeks had called and said that he wanted to become a member earlier and the sister I was with almost lost it. He moved his date up for baptism by a month and on top of that we put a man on date for baptism earlier in the day. Really lots of great things came from it. The next morning we had to get up early to let the plumber in to their apartment and they were super loud while we were trying to do studies, very distracting but funny, but lots of great things came from that exchange. It was crazy. So not that you were even in all that but that is some of the crazy things that happened this week for us over here. Later that day when I got to Christiansburg we got to work and picked up a new person to teach and they are really excited to get to reading the Book of Mormon.

Friday we had a district meeting and it was really great, all about how important the Book of Mormon is in the work. Then after the district meeting one of the members from Blacksburg, the ward that Christiansburg shares a building with, made all 12 of the missionaries brunch and it really was some good Southern cooking!:)

Saturday was crazy as well. So we got up and did our normal studies and then went to our church building where a member picked us up to go to the stake center to help out with a sister Training meeting. The stake relief society president who is from our ward had been stressing out because she could not find anyone but one of her daughters to help with this so she called us up a couple days before to see if we could help, we were able to but had to get special permission because it was so far out of our area but we did that and got back an hour before the baptismal service of our investigators started. Like I said last week a little 8 year old girl was getting baptized and lots of his co-workers that are not members were there. We were able to talk to a few of them and hopefully soon will be teaching them about the restored gospel as well. The baptismal service was wonderful and lots of good testimonies given.

Sunday was the confirmation and our bishop gave this sister a wonderful blessing! She has already been assigned visiting teachers and has an assignment herself as well:) She is the best! We also had dinner with a less active member who is a returned missionary and said that she was hoping to go to church next week!:)

Lots of great things happening over here!! I love being a missionary!! The church is true!! Have a great week y'all!

Love Sister Mauck