Taking Flight in Everett: Halloween and Stuff

Family and friends!

Hey y'all! I can't believe it's already Monday again. The weeks are starting to pick up and really filling up for us here in our neck of the woods. So anyway here is the week:

Monday: We didn't really do anything for pday sadly, but stay tuned because adventures are sure to come. That night we had a really awesome lesson with the Landerman-Moores. The Millards were there and we talked about the temple because Mary is getting ready to go through the temple and then they are going to get sealed soon after!! I'm so excited for them! Brother Landerman-Moore has been patiently waiting a long time for that. The temple is just the best.

Tuesday: Kind of a crazy day. We went and visited a contact that morning and we were both expecting it to be a quick visit, but an hour later we left. It was a man and his wife and they were super nice and had talked to missionaries before so we talked about the Book of Mormon and they asked both of us to share how the restored gospel of Jesus Christ has changed our lives. It was super awesome and Sis VanDenakker's story just brought the spirit so strongly. After we left there we ran over and helped our friend Renee clean her apartment with some other ladies in the ward and that was awesome! We got everything done within an hour! We had some more lessons with members later that night and they both went really well.

Wednesday: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LIL SIS DORRIE!! I hope you had the best day ever! We had district council in the morning and that was really good. We talked about planning and how to make our daily and weekly planning most effective. I learned a lot and got some ideas on how to do things differently. That night we had our ward's Trunk-or-Treat and it was awesome! I love Halloween to be honest with y'all. All the costumes were great! We got a lot of less actives that came out. Our new friend Gary came out and brought his fiance and she actually came up to us and asked for a Book of Mormon!! Yes you read that right! It was so awesome and hopefully we will be teaching her as well! We're PUMPED!!

Thursday: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! This Halloween I dressed up as the scariest costume of them all...A MISSIONARY! We'll getcha! Haha! Anyway, there wasn't anything too exciting that happened that day. We had a lesson with Renee and it went well, but we can see that Satan is working on her. It's really hard to watch your friends get down and start to doubt when you know they are on the right path. But we aren't giving up and we are going to do all we can to help her come closer to her Savior.

Friday: We had service at the zoo and that was pretty fun! We had lunch at Sister Hughes' house and she made this super good salad that she learned in the Middle East! After lunch we went to see a potential and had a good conversation about how the Book of Mormon and the Bible support each other and asked her to pray to know if the Book of Mormon is true. Then later that night we had weekly planning, no need to elaborate on that.

Saturday: We had a lesson planned with our friend Gary and his fiance and we were going to do a church tour. So we went to the church and tried to figure out how we wanted to do it and teach points of the Restoration at the same time. We did a role play after we planned it and man the spirit was so strong! It was the best thing EVER!! But of course they couldn't make it because they both got super sick so that was sad but we are planning on Tuesday so that will be good. Then that night we had a really good lesson with the Reyburns. We talked about how the Holy Ghost is like a flashlight guiding us through this dark and dreary world. But also for our flashlight to work we need to put batteries in it and we do that by going to church, praying, reading our scriptures, keeping the commandments. Yeah I know pretty creative right?! Yeah we got it from the Friend magazine!

Sunday: Fast and testimony meeting was really good except none of our friends showed up so that was really sad, but we will try again next week. After church we did our studies and that was super good! We then had dinner with the Nash's and we had a really good conversation about ministering. After that we did Come, Follow Me with Catherine.

Well that was pretty much the week. I love being a missionary and being able to focus on just bringing others closer to Christ. It is an amazing experience and I'm learning so much everyday. There is so much to learn in life in general and the best places we can turn to are the scriptures and the spirit. I know each time any of us open up and read the Book of Mormon we can learn something new and learn more about what our Heavenly Father wants us to do. I love the Book of Mormon and I know it brings so much peace, joy, and knowledge to all of us. I love you all and hope you have the best week! And feel free to email or write me!

Kia Kaha
Sister Twede:)