.: Week 63 The week dedicated to the LUBSTER

Week 63

Dear Family and Frenz,

It was the week dedicated to Lubster (Sister Lubas) and her birthday. So nightly ritual that I have done for my whole mission is that every night my companion and I each say 3 things we are grateful for that happened that day and then you get to ask ANY question you want and your companion has to answer it. So...of course I asked Lubas what her favorite birthday experience was. And she said that she really had never felt super special when its been her birthday. She kinda had a tough upbringing so I felt this HUGE pressure to make her birthday a little bit special. :) And sometimes when you see other people happy....it just makes you happy. And I experienced that this week. I hope her birthday week was one for her to remember! :)

Lubes birthday! Stayed up SO late writing 28 things I love about her
and to decorate the apartment :)

Birthday breakfast--her wish for her birthday was to eat a lot.
WELL HERE YA GO. I made birthday breakfast and all that

Group Birthday pic!

Hope everyone else had a good week. We had one of our death exchange weeks this week. We only had two exchanges but man it makes you a little tired. I stayed over at the other's sisters house for 2 nights. And its always fun to hang out with different sisters and see what they are doing in their area. We all had a lot of fun :) I feel like I am way more receptive to the spirit cause a lot of times you don't know exactly whats happening with investigators. So I hope I was able to help the other Sisters out this week. That was 2 nights this week while Lubes stayed in our area.

Exchanges this week! Weird--another white person haha.
She's from Canada--now in our stewardship :)

We had some awesome finds this week with Agnes--her husband is working overseas and we found her outside of her house. Honestly we really never know what we are going to do in a day in our area. Sometimes timing is with us and sometimes we aren't so lucky. But we found Agnes and her daughters this week and had an awesome lesson. So hopefully we can go back to her this week :)

Sara who came to church last week is doing good. We haven't seen her a ton this week but we just keep praying for her and hopefully God will continue to help her have that desire to learn. She said she loved going to church last week.

Joshua is doing good. we are starting to teach some of his friends and he is the best member present...we love the kid. It was after a hard day of having not a ton of appointments so we thought we'd go share with Joshua and he talked about how before he was baptized he didn't really pray or want to read the scriptures. But now he said he can't go to sleep if he doesn't pray. Gave us that little motivation to go out and keep trying to find another Joshua haha :)

Also had an awesome lessons with a Sister Pepito. We told her the Restoration and she said...that totally makes sense that we would need a restoration because the Bible stops after the apostles died. Lucas and I fist bumped each other on the way out of that one. Love the restoration.

Finish off on a spiritual note...we had stake conference this week and there was theme from Luke 22:32 about "when we are converted, strengthen our brethren." I loved that thought. We need to be converted to the gospel and those who are converted are the ones that need to strengthen those around them. Often times we really don't know the influence we can have on others, even if we feel insignificant. We were sharing with Irene our recent convert about Mosiah 27...how Alma changed his life to influence others for good. Sometimes we are waiting for something to change our lives, an angel to appear to us, or pursue something. I think we just need to...do it. Choose to be converted and choose to change :)

Have a good week everyone!

Love,

Sister Zarbie the Bomb (Just picture my little filipina companion saying that 8 times a day)