I felt like the entire conference was just for me, and I didn't drift off once :)
This week has been amazing! Thank you for the love and prayers. I want you all to know that I love you!
Laura is doing so well! She really is golden. She has such a desire to change and she loves the gospel and she is growing closer to Heavenly Father and her Savior each day. We met with her on weds and thurs and taught her about the commandments. She took them so well! She is gaining a testimony of the reasons we are obedient, and there were so many talks in General Conference about exactly that! She texted us on Weds night after the lesson and said that she could feed us on saturday - it was so out of the blue, but she likes to ask us questions about mission stuff so we told her that we eat with members a lot but this week and next week are going to be a tad bare considering we weren't able to pass our calendar around because of easter and conference. So she told us she wanted to feed us and we jumped at the opportunity! We met Henry (her adorable pug dog) and ate a great meal - we also talked about following the prophet and she loved conference and Sister Dalton's talk on saturday.
She really boosts my confidence as a teacher, she told us that we are the best teachers this week. It really meant a lot to me. I've been working non-stop on my teaching skills and my knowledge about the gospel.
On Friday we had a great lesson with Kay. I was frustrated with Kay because I know that she is ready for baptism but that she just doesn't have the motivation and that she is feeling pressured. I really did not want that, so I wasn't quite sure what to teach her - she knows so much! But we read a chapter of the Book of Mormon together for our lesson and just explained it, almost verse by verse, as we read aloud and she compared the chinese version with the English version. I probably haven't mentioned this, but she is Chinese and she still has struggles with reading. Especially the scriptures! But when we read with her so much clicked! She was really getting into the words and she had so much to ask and talk about with us. I DEFINITELY understand that chapter so much better than before. Alma 42 means so much more to me than it did before this week - the gospel makes so much sense and Kay really loves that.
This week we went to a couple of places that I wrote down in my BOSTON moleskin book. I love that we are adventurers and we try new things. I write down all the new places that we eat and give them stars and evaluations - it is... a lot of fun :) This week we went to Veggie Planet which sounds like it would be a place where they trick kids into loving vegetables... nope! It is a really awesome indie vegan place that has REALLY great food! I love really experiencing where we live - we are determined to take advantage of the fact that our area is HUGE. We pretty much can go anywhere that is within public transportation distance :) It is THE BEST.
Total Bostonian thing:
There was this woman in a car waiting to turn right that was on the crosswalk. We saw this man approaching from the other side, and he just leans down a little and says to the woman, "YOU'RE IN THE CROSSWALK." very bluntly and loudly, and then passes by without a thought. Now this may not seem so funny to y'all, but we laughed about it for about four blocks, and now whenever someone is so obviously in the way, we say, putting on our best sassy Bostonian face, "You're in the crosswalk." And then just get on with our lives.
Anyway, I'm ready for another fantastic week! I love you all! Thank you for the packages and the emails!
Love,
Sister HRP
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