NOVEMBER 07, 2017

BOYNTON BEACH CAN’T GET RID OF ME, AND I'M NOT COMPLAINING!!

GOOD NEWS: 

We got transfer calls last night and Sister Dimond legit tackled me to the floor because WE ARE STAYING TOGETHER. I was seriously bouncing off the walls. I just love this place so much and seriously never want to leave. These members are just like family and I am so excited to spend some of the holidays with them and all my recent converts in this area! AHH!!! So much is going on and I am just so happy! 

Other than that, this week was awesome but nothing too crazy happened just the usual "hood-rat" stuff? <- not sure if that appropriate to say???? but that’s really the only way I can explain this area and the people we talk to all day. 

We met a less active a few weeks ago while we were knocking, and his neighbor yelled at us so he invited us over for dinner on Monday. It was quite the experience. The first thing he does when we got there was make us sit there while him and his girlfriend smoked a cigarette and finished off a beer. We are pretty sure he was trying to send us a strong message. After we hear that message loud and clear we had an awesome dinner with him and his girlfriend and he is just so funny. He made it clear that he probably wasn't going to be coming back to church anytime soon, but we are always welcome back to his house... so that was interesting! 

On Halloween we had to come in early so Sister Dimond and I reorganized our entire room and the other sister roasted some pumpkins seeds so all and all it was an extremely productive night. We also took Sister Isham and Davis out to Texas Roadhouse.

We also had some amazing member meals. A recent convert in our ward is from India and she cooked us authentic Indian food that her mom makes, and it was incredible. The next day we went to another one of our members house who is from Ghana and she cooked us food from her country and it was off the hook. SO YUM. (either I’m just really hungry right now or everything cool that happened this week revolved around food..)

We had a hilarious lesson this week. We were just out contacting, and we ran into this big African American man who was out for a walk to get his daily exercise. Sister Dimond and I just started walking with him and talking to him about the church and we ended up walking a straight up mile or two and teaching him the restoration of the gospel the entire time. He was super interested and said he’s coming to church so that’s always good! 

​We had an amazing lesson with one of my favorite families ever. The Alvarado's . I’m sure I’ve probably written about them before just because I love them SO much. The husband is a super less active and a self proclaimed "jack mormon". He later explained that that means that he believes in everything about the church but just doesn't live it. But he really is just the coolest guy and has such potential but there are just certain things he has to overcome. His wife is not a member of the church but just the most amazing woman. She will be the most incredible primary president. We have been working with them off and on since I got to this area but on Sunday we took Bro. Lopez out with us to come and talk to them with us and IT WAS AMAZING. The husband and him just got along perfectly and he just loves us as missionaries and so we were able to kinda "throw down" (I can’t think of another word for it) so lovingly that it really just hit him deep. We are now working with them more consistently and they are just so awesome!!! 

That was kinda a common theme this week. Sister Dimond also felt inspired to go and visit this less active woman in our area. We got there, and she just started giving us all these reason why she won’t come to church (coffee/rules/etc). We legit threw down. AND SHE LOVED IT AND INVITED US BACK..... We got back to the car and just looked at each other like what in the world..... 

But anyways, I have completely run out of time! I just love you all so much! Please don’t worry about me here, LIFE IS AWESOME. I will continue praying for you and just don’t forget I love you!!!! HAVE A GREAT WEEK!