Tuesday morning bright and early Sister Short and I took our journey to the land of the Indianola Zone Leaders for interviews with President Badger. After interviews was over, I was hanging with some of the other missionaries; Hermana Esplin, Elder Lovin, Elder Barrett, and Elder Orme. The question came up of 'what should we do now?' Elder Barrett had the great idea of a circle of love. Someone sits in the middle of the circle, and then everyone in the circle takes a turn complimenting them. So, with a lack of anything better to do, we started the circle of love. Within the next 15 minutes, our entire zone had joined us. It was so much fun, rather than awkward like we all thought it would be. Then, we all went and got lunch and looked at pictures and played ping pong. When we got back to Osceola, we found... snow. But that's okay. Eventually it'll be summer and my hair will make the perfect afro.
On Wednesday we met with Roy and Rita again. Their date got pushed back again, to April 7th. Their very first date was April 8th, but 2017. They have now been investigating the church for a year.
Thursday Sister Short and I dedicated ourselves to our ward activity and planning that stuff.
Friday we took our business to Perry, Iowa to go on exchanges with our STLs, Hermanas Esplin and Tolson, while the bed bug exterminator sprayed our apartment. While with Hermana Tolson, we went to visit one of her investigators - Tina. Tina has two little kids who love to run around and scream and yell and have SOO much energy! Tina, however, was exhausted because these kids had been up all night sick, so she hadn't gotten any sleep. So, Hermana Tolson volunteered us to sing to her kids. So, we sang I am a Child of God, and they both quieted down, but then the older one started crying and ran upstairs, and the younger one, seeing that her brother was crying, started crying herself. We felt bad... Anyway, after that, we ran into a guy who turned out to be a member! He said that he hadn't gone to church since he was about 16 and his family moved to Africa, and went inactive since there was no church nearby. We asked what his name was, and he said Joe. Later, we asked what his last name was so we could get his records into the Perry Branch. He proceeded to pull out his licence and show us - Joe Joe. Yes, that was his actual name. It was really funny!
Saturday we got back to Osceola and hurried to go teach Ulises and Oliver. The member we were going to teach with cancelled, so we had to end up meeting in a Subway. However, we ran into another member who is a friend of Ulises, so he sat in on our lesson, and even bought us cookies! We taught the Word of Wisdom first, and found out that Ulises does drink coffee. So, we asked him if he would be willingly to quit, and he was like, well yeah. It'll be easy. Then, we taught the 10 commandments. We asked them if they knew what the first one was, and little 9 year old Oliver listed them all off! We were so impressed, and we are super excited for the two of them to be baptized. They are awesome.
Lastly, Sunday. Church was fantastic! 5 of our investigators came to church, which was a new record! And, to make it even better, we talked to all of them, and they all loved it! So, overall, a pretty fantastic and very busy week!
-My totally awesome zone at interviews.
In the back, Sisters Harmon, Esplin, Short, and Rath. Elders Clayson, Fuller, Williams, Orme, Stoddard, Barney, Brown (hidden in back), Hansen, and Lovin in the air.
In the front, me, Hermana Tolson, Elders Carver and Rutledge, and Elder Barrett in the very front.
