Well hello family!!! January
27, 2014
I'm doing a lot better than last
week! I feel better, and well, I just feel better, so it is great!
:)
This past week was a busy one, we
are juggling 2 wards and choir and then getting ready for a baptism, it was a
pretty crazy week, I honestly don't even really know what happened, but I do know
that it was a good week, so I'll share what I can remember! haha.
So on Tuesday I was super sick,
we emailed and then saw Ronnie, just helping her get ready for baptism.
Wednesday we were supposed to
have district meeting, but I felt pretty horrible in the morning, so we called
our District Leader and rescheduled our district meeting for the next day, and
then that afternoon I had a Sister Training Leader Counsel where we learned how
to give trainings. (The assistants
thought it would be helpful, since they teach the new District Leaders how to
do it, and we have no idea what to do…so that was actually really
great!) And we also talked about our clothes as missionaries and
how in southern Orange County we need to be more professional. And Sister
Lutz (her husband is a counselor to President Orgill), told us that we
should just pray for clothes, and what we need, and that God will deliver.
So, we still need to go through our closets, but I know that I do have some
professional things, but I do need more. So, challenge for you, I'm
not asking you to go out and buy clothes, I don’t want you to do that, but if
anyone happens to be giving away things, send them my way, even if they don't
fit me, they would be great for other sisters, so just be on the lookout! ;)
On Thursday we had district
meeting, and it was really powerful, we are trying to implement the new way of
teaching, it is going to take a lot of practice, but in the end it will be
really, really great! So we are pumped up for that! We had choir practice
and then we saw Ronnie, and then we had a great experience...
So, I was driving, and we
were driving from Ronnie’s house to the Dunning’s (our ward
mission leader) house, and we were just driving on PCH (Pacific Coast Highway)
and then...a fire truck was coming from the opposite direction, so this white Corolla
was in front of me, and pulls over, and of course, I do too. Then, we see
this woman walk into the street right in front of us. She is on the phone, and waving for the
fire truck to come over. So we're like "oh dang, the fire truck is
coming here!" So the fire truck comes over and totally blocks in this
white car. So I start backing up (even though we are supposed to have a
companion get out and back us, the white car was backing up, so I had to). But as I was backing up, this other fire
truck and ambulance comes up and blocks the white car in even more, so I'm
still inching back, when the passenger door of this white Corolla opens up and
we all start laughing...why? Remember
who drives Corollas…oh yes, missionaries. Who are the two cars that
happen to get stuck because of these two fire trucks...just all the missionaries
serving in the Laguna Beach ward. So Sister Hedrick gets out, and we
talked to the Elder who had gotten out of the car, turns out they were also
heading to the Dunning’s. So, we backed up enough that we could go around
the fire trucks, and the Elders must have too cause they weren't far behind us
once we got to the Dunning’s. But it really made our day, because really,
how random is that that we got stuck and so did the Elders? It was quite
an adventure! haha.
Friday was good, we taught
Ronnie again, and then I had a meeting and then we kinda did weekly planning,
we didn’t have much time though and had dinner with our Bishop’s family and then
we went over to the Marina Hills Relief Society president’s house to meet
her. So that was good.
Saturday was a crazy day!
We went to the Stake Center first thing because we were supposed to have a
meeting with this lady that sister Morgan meets with to help her with her
reading, but she ended up canceling.
So we went to Laguna to invite
people to the baptism, and then we saw Ronnie, who was freaking out for some
reason, so we calmed her down and then headed back to the Stake Center to get
things all set up for the baptism. And we did, and that was good. Then at like
4:30 people started coming, and Ronnie got there, and she was so nervous it was
making me nervous! But the baptism
was great. Her dad, who hasn't been very active was able to baptize her, and he
was acting like a little kid on Christmas. It was so great, and it
was really powerful, the spirit was very strong! We had a great turn out, and Ronnie’s mom who isn't a member
came, and she also came to church yesterday to see Ronnie get confirmed and
stayed all three hours. She feels it, she will be baptized someday, I just
don't think that she knows that yet. :) But the baptism was a
success! :) And all is well there!
Yesterday was good, a fairly
normal Sunday. Went to church. Contacted people with the ocean in close view,
but it was super humid, so my hair looked....umm ya, pretty marvelous and way
wavy and WAY frizzy, so it went up into a ponytail, I'm so glad that it is long
enough to do that again! :) I’m growing my hair out again, so it should
be long when I get home! :) yay!
So, this week we will be opening
lots of windows and praying lots to find new investigators, so that we can have
more people to teach! It will be a good week! I'm really looking
forward to it!!! I hope you
have a great week! I love you all!!!! You are the greatest!!!
xoxoxo!
Love,
Sister Taylor Burningham
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