"Pretty sure they're on the same team..."
This week was good- stressful, but good. We probably spent 6-10 hours coordinating rides and lessons. But everything worked out so well!
Probably the best thing this week was Matty's baptism yesterday. We saw him every day this week, which took a lot of organizing, but it really helped him finish getting ready. He was SO prepared! He asked us for the baptismal interview questions so he could go through them to be prepared. (Elder Curtis was so nervous to give his first baptismal interview! Even more nervous than Matty was! He couldn't even write his name correctly on the baptism report!) The bishop said it was one of the largest turnouts they've had. Matty's brother Ben came down to baptize him and made it so easy on us! He figured out jumpsuits before we even had a chance to talk with them! It was nice to finally meet Ben in person. I can see where Matty gets his personality from (he wants to be just like his brother!)
I am very proud of myself. I am on track to finish the Old Testament this week. That's been one of my goals my whole mission. So that's been my "light reading". I've learned a lot, like don't forget the Lord, trust the Lord and an angel will destroy your enemies, and that whoever organized the Old Testament must have been on something because a lot of those books are not in chronological order. But in all seriousness, I got to know a people who didn't truly know the Savior and watched as their lives fell apart. They lived the law, but they didn't know Christ in a personal way. I still have a ways to go,l but I'm grateful that I have grown a personal relationship with the Savior. He has my back and helps me through everything and anything. He has become more real to me and has become my personal Redeemer and Friend when I had no one else. I kind of had my own Liberty Jail experience and I'm grateful to look back and see Him there and know that He will work all experiences for my good and will never leave me.
Love you, bye!
Sister Cate
Monday, July 29, 2019
Week 74 (7/22/19): "I will sing to you in the key of off, in which I do all my singing."
The quote this week is from Scout camp from Dad. I liked it so much, I figured I'd use it.
This will be a shorter email, since there is still lots to do today.
We saw some awesome miracles this week!
On Wednesday, we got written permission for Mattie to be baptized! And we figured out why his mom isn't active. So his baptism is next Sunday! His brother is coming down from Manteca to baptize him! Saturday night is the ward barbecue, the biggest event of the year for this ward, which brings all the less actives and a lot of nonmember friends. So it is going to be a great weekend!
Another miracle- one of the many days we didn't have a car, we took a couple hours to call all the potential people to teach with phone numbers and one person who did't pick up when we called called us back! And he was so excited when we said we were the missionaries and he invited us over at a set time!! It was awesome!
But we have a lot of good things set up for this week, lots of lessons with Mattie with members and some rides out to Waterford. It should be a crazy, but amazing week!
Sister Cate
This will be a shorter email, since there is still lots to do today.
We saw some awesome miracles this week!
On Wednesday, we got written permission for Mattie to be baptized! And we figured out why his mom isn't active. So his baptism is next Sunday! His brother is coming down from Manteca to baptize him! Saturday night is the ward barbecue, the biggest event of the year for this ward, which brings all the less actives and a lot of nonmember friends. So it is going to be a great weekend!
Another miracle- one of the many days we didn't have a car, we took a couple hours to call all the potential people to teach with phone numbers and one person who did't pick up when we called called us back! And he was so excited when we said we were the missionaries and he invited us over at a set time!! It was awesome!
But we have a lot of good things set up for this week, lots of lessons with Mattie with members and some rides out to Waterford. It should be a crazy, but amazing week!
Sister Cate
Monday, July 15, 2019
Week 73 (7/8/19): "I'm going to go repent his diaper." (sent July 8)
The full quote is "So we just learned about how repentance means change, so I'm going to go repent his diaper." We died laughing!
The 4th of July was fun. We went to a barbecue with a family in the ward, and they live kind of on top of a hill by the river. The nice thing was that because they were on a hill, they overlooked a neighboring town with a lot of illegal fireworks, so we got to watch more fireworks than we otherwise would have been able to.
This will be really short because I have some college stuff to figure out, but I wanted to share one cool experience from this week. So one of the people we were teaching is super excited to be baptized, but his parents are less active, so they have kind of been avoiding us, and we kind of lost contact with him. But because his mom is recovering, he will be staying the next couple weeks with one of his brothers in Manteca, which is out of our mission, but it's his only active family member, so we're going to do a video chat lesson tonight! While he's with his brother, he's going to get the support he needs, so we are super excited for him to be able to make more progress!
Now to go do grown-up stuff...
Love you, bye!
Sister Cate
The 4th of July was fun. We went to a barbecue with a family in the ward, and they live kind of on top of a hill by the river. The nice thing was that because they were on a hill, they overlooked a neighboring town with a lot of illegal fireworks, so we got to watch more fireworks than we otherwise would have been able to.
This will be really short because I have some college stuff to figure out, but I wanted to share one cool experience from this week. So one of the people we were teaching is super excited to be baptized, but his parents are less active, so they have kind of been avoiding us, and we kind of lost contact with him. But because his mom is recovering, he will be staying the next couple weeks with one of his brothers in Manteca, which is out of our mission, but it's his only active family member, so we're going to do a video chat lesson tonight! While he's with his brother, he's going to get the support he needs, so we are super excited for him to be able to make more progress!
Now to go do grown-up stuff...
Love you, bye!
Sister Cate
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