I then decided to read my favorite scripture, the one I put
on my missionary plaque:
Mosiah 2: "I say unto you that if ye should serve him
who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day,
by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own
will, and even supporting you from one moment to another--I say, if ye should
serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable
servants."
Then, I decided to read the whole chapter because I love it
so much. I was again touched by verse 17: "And behold, I tell
you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are
in the service of your fellowbeings ye are only in the service of your
God." This mission hasnt been a service of my fellowbeings, its has
been my service to the Lord. After the temple, they gave us 2 hours of
FREE TIME. uhhh.....I dont know what to do with free time. bad
idea. But I ended up just chatting to sister Sellers. She's been
with me since the MTC. We've been through a lot together. Soon
after free time ended, we had a dinner and a testimony meeting. It was a
wonderful day.
Especially since everyone else had to end their missions,
but mine kept going. I think its the only reason I made it through was
because I could say "yeah...but I'm not done. I'm not done yet.
I still have 4 weeks!"
It was a really great week!! Remember our Ukranian
Deaf investigator?? Well, we gave her a Russian Book of Mormon and went
to visit again. SHE'S IN JACOB!!!! She can read it just fine!!
I was soooo happy. Deaf people rarely get to the point where they
can actually READ the book of mormon here, and she loves it. Now, we have
the name of a guy who speaks Russian and we're going to take him to our lessons
with her to communicate better.
DOMINICK IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!! (after she gets
married to her boyfriend who she lives with) But I get to go to both the
marriage and the baptism on Valentines day! This will be the best
Valentines Day I've ever had!! I'm soo excited for her. I taught
her for 3 transfers in Stockton. Baptisms are my favorite.
We had another Deaf branch fast and testimony meeting. I guarentee there are no other testimony meetings like the ones in the Sacramento Deaf branch. We have everyone come up and give travel logs and whatever else they want to say. (We're working on it!) My favorite testimony came from Stuart, a severely mentally handicapped Deaf man who sneaks into the nursery and steals the snacks when nobody knows where he went. He stood up in front and said "Jesus. Jesus Christ. You friend, church church church, church, church, I love you. Amen." He's going straight to the Celestial Kingdom.
We added a new investigator this week, her name is Laura.
She's Deaf and shes also schizophrenic. She called us one
night on our VP and she was very concerned that her Dad was going to hell
because he killed a cat. We explained forgiveness and that her Father, in
his anger, could be forgiven of Heavenly Father. Oh, how the gospel
brings peace to people who dont understand such simple concepts like Heavenly Father's
love. The church is true!!
Time is passing by quickly! AAAAHHH!
Love,
Sister Wilson
Randomness:
*I got asked if I was a nun again. pah.
*I'm reading the Old Testament cover to cover and I
officially reached the halfway mark. lets hope I can actually accomplish
this goal of mine. halfway mark took FOREVER to get to...
*So, I forgot to tell you a crazy story from last week!
As were driving in the car, I pulled into the suicide lane ready to turn
left. There weren't any cars coming, but there were 2 men crossing the
street, so I had to wait. They noticed that I couldn't turn until they
crossed the street, so they started jogging to get across a little quicker.
I thought it was a very nice gesture, so I gave them the Utah
"thank-you" wave. Well, apparently, the Utah
"thank-you" wave means "Take me, I'm YOURS!" in California.
I drove down the street and they both turned around and started following
my car, waving and smiling at me!! I was confused for a second, until I
realized that they thought I had flagged them down! They thought I was
hitting on them! I started screaming because I didn't know what to do!
"Sister Acker!! They're following us! They're following
us, Sister!! What do we do?!?" I didn't want them to follow us
into the apartment complex! Then, I realized that they were on foot and I
was in a car. And I could drive away really quickly with no harm done.
So I did. Oh my. No more "thank you" waves will
come from THIS arm for the next month!!