So, on Tuesday after emailing, we went on exchanges with our lovely STLs, Hermana Davis and Sister Harmon! And, I told y'all before that Morton is the pumpkin capital of the nation... So I finally got some pictures to prove it! Here is a pumpkin field!
I was with Sister Harmon, and we spent most of our day in East Peoria. We got to see Ricky, who is doing great! He missed church on Sunday, but he loves meeting with us and learning more!
On Wednesday, we had district council! And then we had a fun potluck lunch afterwards and ate french toast, which was fantastic! Then, Sister Blake and I went knocking, and suddenly, IT HIT! It as in a giant rainstorm that ended up continuing to Saturday! We had just knocked on a door when a tiny sprinkle went to full on downpour. So, we talked to the girl in the pouring rain, gave her a Book of Mormon, and ran with all our might back to the car to get an umbrella. But, there was none, and we were already soaked, so we just continued finding. We ran into Angie, who was trying to run inside with her 2 month old baby and 8 year old daughter, so we helped them out and now they are potentials! Super excited to continue working with them.
On Thursday, we got colds XD Obviously. But, we had appointments, so we went out anyway! And we saw Ricky again, which was awesome! And he set his own date for October 27th! He is SOO done smoking, and is getting help from his doctor to quit along with us! We also went and saw a couple more families before going to dinner with a lovely family! They have the cutest family! Then, we decided to go tracting again and found John! He was taught previously by missionaries, and has no true interest in converting, but he has questions, and we have answers! So we will continue meeting with him!
On Friday, we stopped by Angie again, but her baby was sick so we had to reschedule... And it was still raining, but this time we had an umbrella, so we took some funny pics!
AKA I couldn't do a normal face XD And then went tracting again and found Steve! He was so funny. He said he never talks to 'you Mormon people', but he had recently gotten into a fight with his old pastor because he didn't believe that Jesus Christ would only see the Jews, when there were so many other people in the world! And, well, we knew the answer to that!
Then we did some weekly planning!
On Saturday, our colds took over our lives. We legit couldn't move cuz weakness... So we stayed in.
On Sunday, no one came to church :( It happens sometimes. But we had fun talking to people and we taught a last minute lesson on missionary work, which turned out pretty good! And we went to the Face to Face Broadcast from Nauvoo, which was also awesome! Then we went home and sat on top of our car and star gazed!
And kinda fell asleep! But over all, a fantastic week doing the fantastic work of the Lord!
