Hello Everyone!!
It's been a while since our last Pday! We were definitely excited for today - but we had a really amazing week.
1. Zone Conference! Zone Conference lasts 8 hours and we have a couple different training's by our Senior Couples, the Mission President, and the AP's. A couple of the Sisters did a musical number and they had me accompany them, it was fun! Zone Conference was a lot about the Restoration, and finding "the one" in the midst of all the people that we'll soon find at Christmas with the lights. It was fun, President during one of our role plays turned to me and said Sister Black - will you teach me the Restoration? Only a little intimidating. President Risenmay is seriously the kindest human being ever though.
2. Changes - we now have Christmas schedule, and flexible schedule. Where our schedule used to be pretty strict and rigid with regard to our teaching center times and assignment times, we have now as a mission switched to flexible schedules where we will create our own times to be on square, have teaching center, make appointments, fulfill assignments - it will be really nice. We're excited! It makes it a lot better for teaching our investigators living in hard time zones. Christmas schedule is crazy - there are a ton of new assignments and it's nuts. It's seriously more packed here than Disney World. It's great! We can talk to so many people!!
3. From Muslim to Mormon. One of our investigators is so amazing, we seriously love him so much. He grew up Muslim, and this last week messaged us and told us that he prayed to Heavenly Father and acknowledged Jesus Christ as more than just a prophet, but as His Savior. He said it felt so good! We're so excited - we really love him so much. He's worried about how he will tell his family how he feels, he loves the Book of Mormon and has a strong testimony of its truthfulness and of Jesus Christ as the Savior. He's worried his family will disown him - we're worried about that too. We love him so much though, he's super sweet. Since we met him through mormon.org, he knows our first names rather than our last names, so he would just call us Courtney and Dominik. He recently did some research on Mormon missions, and has now started calling us Sister Courtney and Sister Dominik. It's super cute, we love him so much.
4. We met Elder Oaks this week! He was just chillin with his wife walking through Temple Square in his normal clothes talking to the Sisters! We walked up to him, and I was like "Hi Elder Oaks!" and he turned around and looked at me and smiled and said "Sister Black! Do I have a picture with you yet? No? Come here." and he put his arm around me and we took a picture!!! He shook my hand and asked me where I was from and all that. It was so legit. Highlight of Thanksgiving right there. He's so nice!! He seems so serious in general conference, but he's so sweet!! And when he laughs his shoulders kind of bounce up and down. He's adorable, it was so cool to meet him!!!! I figured that since he probably helped write the White Handbook it was fine that he had his arm around me. I wasn't about to tell the Apostle not to do that ahaha. It was legit. Sister Aguilar and I realized yesterday that once the Prophet passes, we'll have met both the new Prophet and President of the Quorum of the 12! So that's kind of cool in a non morbid way.
5. Thanksgiving! We got to go to a members home for Thanksgiving! It was super fun, the members were so sweet and they were so kind to invite us over to eat with them - they were having a family reunion of 60 people and they were so kind to invite 6 more Sisters to join them. We got so lucky, they were so nice. It was such a fun Thanksgiving.
I hope you all have an amazing week!! My Pday will be going back to Thursday now. With Chrsitmas schedule, rather than having pday start at 12 and go for the rest of the day, we have pday from the morning until 6:45 so that we can be on square helping with the lights. Yay Christmas!!
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