Baby Shower, Creepy Dolls and Dog Walking
Okay it's been a couple weeks! We've been super busy! I will soon hit 5 months, so that's crazy! We went to the LA temple and we stayed at the STLs apartment in Bakersfield the night before to be able to ride up with them. So so grateful for the opportunity to visit the temple. 4 months without a visit to the temple had felt like an eternity! I couldn't help but think of the wonderful people of Nicaragua who will soon be blessed to have a temple. We are so blessed to live so close to temples & have the opportunity to visit the house of the Lord.
All the missionaries and several members went to help a less active member move from one house to another that was just a couple streets over. When we arrived ready to load the Uhaul we quickly realized that almost nothing was packed into boxes yet. This particular member had quite the collection of.. well just about everything. In the backyard there was a big old shed. She told us (specifically the sisters) that she hadn't had the time to pack any of her dolls and wanted us to do it. Hesitantly we approached the shed door. Inside we found the walls were lined with shelves and shelves and shelves of over 200 dolls. & not the cute dolls you'd hope, no they were the creepy ones and we discovered quite a few clowns. Plus lots of spiders, yeah it was a good time
also while packing things I ran into a wasps nest and got stung by 3 of em. It was painful but also cool because that's never happened to me and my hand got so big. We ended up filling 3 huge Uhauls and only a little over half the house was packed! Then we went and unpacked everything into the new house. It was super awesome to do service for this single lady and see all the members, missionaries and leaders show up to help out. She was so grateful & said we could go to her house to swim anytime (awe if only). I hope she felt loved. As a missionary I have truly seen the power of service & even just small acts of kindness work miracles.
We visited an older woman less active and she asked us to walk her dogs. The day before the dog had pulled her into a tree and she hit her head so she wasn't feeling too great. We were more than happy to take sparky and baby sox out for a walk (even in 100 degree weather) (:
Our investigator who had a baptismal date for the 7th left to Tijuana a couple weeks ago due to heart problems. So her date fell through. But she just got back and told us she wasnt feeling well enough to go to church. BUT TO OUR SURPRISE that Sunday morning she hobbled through the chapel doors. She knows that if we will have enough faith and do the things the Lord has asked of us we will be blessed.
Roxanne: craziest investigator with the craziest life but also the coolest investigator! So Roxanne is 18 and 5 months pregnant with a baby boy. She still lives with her family and she is basically the only thing holding that family together. Her mother is very sick & has a newborn. Roxanne takes care of her 3 siblings & her mom. Her uncle also lives there and has been recently shot 6 times so he can hardly walk and needs a lot of attention. PLUS Roxanne's boyfriend lives in there as well. He is 30 & is constantly in and out of jail!! There's always something new with that family! If anyone needs the light of the gospel it's Roxanne & her family!!
On Saturday we helped her out with her baby shower. We blew up like 50 balloons but they all popped because it was so hot out!! We made cupcakes & helped with the mole & chicken & rice. She told us we were her only friends there because everyone else were her mom's friends. So we were so happy we could be there!
I hope that this long email will make up for the many missed weeks of emails!!! I am so grateful to be apart of this work. It is incredible & nothing else has ever brought me so much joy.
I love you all so much!!!
Love,
Hermana Frank
All the missionaries and several members went to help a less active member move from one house to another that was just a couple streets over. When we arrived ready to load the Uhaul we quickly realized that almost nothing was packed into boxes yet. This particular member had quite the collection of.. well just about everything. In the backyard there was a big old shed. She told us (specifically the sisters) that she hadn't had the time to pack any of her dolls and wanted us to do it. Hesitantly we approached the shed door. Inside we found the walls were lined with shelves and shelves and shelves of over 200 dolls. & not the cute dolls you'd hope, no they were the creepy ones and we discovered quite a few clowns. Plus lots of spiders, yeah it was a good time
also while packing things I ran into a wasps nest and got stung by 3 of em. It was painful but also cool because that's never happened to me and my hand got so big. We ended up filling 3 huge Uhauls and only a little over half the house was packed! Then we went and unpacked everything into the new house. It was super awesome to do service for this single lady and see all the members, missionaries and leaders show up to help out. She was so grateful & said we could go to her house to swim anytime (awe if only). I hope she felt loved. As a missionary I have truly seen the power of service & even just small acts of kindness work miracles.
We visited an older woman less active and she asked us to walk her dogs. The day before the dog had pulled her into a tree and she hit her head so she wasn't feeling too great. We were more than happy to take sparky and baby sox out for a walk (even in 100 degree weather) (:
Our investigator who had a baptismal date for the 7th left to Tijuana a couple weeks ago due to heart problems. So her date fell through. But she just got back and told us she wasnt feeling well enough to go to church. BUT TO OUR SURPRISE that Sunday morning she hobbled through the chapel doors. She knows that if we will have enough faith and do the things the Lord has asked of us we will be blessed.
Roxanne: craziest investigator with the craziest life but also the coolest investigator! So Roxanne is 18 and 5 months pregnant with a baby boy. She still lives with her family and she is basically the only thing holding that family together. Her mother is very sick & has a newborn. Roxanne takes care of her 3 siblings & her mom. Her uncle also lives there and has been recently shot 6 times so he can hardly walk and needs a lot of attention. PLUS Roxanne's boyfriend lives in there as well. He is 30 & is constantly in and out of jail!! There's always something new with that family! If anyone needs the light of the gospel it's Roxanne & her family!!
On Saturday we helped her out with her baby shower. We blew up like 50 balloons but they all popped because it was so hot out!! We made cupcakes & helped with the mole & chicken & rice. She told us we were her only friends there because everyone else were her mom's friends. So we were so happy we could be there!
I hope that this long email will make up for the many missed weeks of emails!!! I am so grateful to be apart of this work. It is incredible & nothing else has ever brought me so much joy.
I love you all so much!!!
Love,
Hermana Frank
Pictures:
Family home evening ward activity
Nicole who literally feeds us dinner whenever we don't have dinner so basically 3 times a week. She's a life saver
Roxanne & her sister Lupita at the baby shower!!
our cute apartment on the 4th
Typical meal in Chile fed to us by a cute family that just moved here from Chile
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