I LOVE MY NEW AREA!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT! Heavenly Father is So good! We live with members, and they are great! The area we serve in is very humble. My new companion is sister Dixon! She is so happy and giggly, and we get along PERFECTLY! I just am so happy! My new area is more ghetto, but its good. there are lots of families and SO MUCH POTENTIAL.
We have 12 Investigators, 2 With baptismal dates, and we are heavily working with at least 13 less active families! I tell you, sisters can get in ANYWHERE! (well mostly.....) Our area is mostly black people and Hispanic people! I got to give a Spanish man a book of Mormon and talk to him in Spanish, and bear my testimony to him! YAYY!!!!!! Each house has a different floor plan, and is unique. (my old area, every house had the same floor plan)... my area has many apartment complexes, a huge trailer park area, it has your regular looking neighborhoods, and no house is bigger then 2?3 the size of mine back home.
My area is like the old school Las Vegas, it is NEVADA! I no longer see the strip, but its okay. I love it so much where I am. Hispanic boys sell cactus's from their rundown fenced in lots (well by saying rundown, a chunk of my area is like that...just dusty, litter, falling apart...poor humble families....). Some woman in my ward , oh, we cover 2 family wards, are stuck in the 70's with poofy hair! Its awesome! The families are GREAT and the church building is right down the road from us.
We are teaching so many people. This area has been dead for a long time as the elders before us just didn't work as hard, so that sucks, but we are really working extremely hard and we work till we drop. One less active woman we went to visit lives in a trailer park area. We walked into her home and she has just been SO sad. Her husband died 4 weeks ago. She is 84 years old. When we where there for just 10 min I put my hands on my lap after throwing them up in the air and I said "Well YOU can be my grandma, because I miss mine!" She laughed and she loves us!! Just everyone is like "ooo we have sisters!!" One of our investigators is 9 years old, so just LOOK at the span of ages we are teaching! They are ALL gods children.!
We are teaching a family from Angola Africa! They are SO awesome, and they will be baptized sometime this September when they get back from a family trip to Africa. They are so nice and their testimonies are so strong! its a mother, and father, and son family . We also had a fellow-shipper come with us, Brother O, and he is so tall, and also from Angola. After the lesson they made us Funji! (fooonggge) Its an African meal and it was SO GOOD! We where also fed by a Filipino family! Look at ALL these neat culture experiences!
One of our investigators is selling all she has just to stay afloat. She has rummage sales each weekend. We went to help her clean up after her rummage sale because she was just so tired. I asked her if she had eaten anything today, and she told us just some lettuce her neighbor gave her! Yikes! So Afterward I asked her if there was a Pizza Hut around and she said YES! And I gave her a $20 gift certificate to Pizza Hut (given to me from my dad). She whipped her hands in the air and said "OHHH I GET TO EAT DINNER TODAY!"
Well more to come. love you all! my comp time is up!!! Today we went hiking at mount Charleston! we hiked up a glacier!!! AHH to tell more next Monday!
Sister Jenna Julianne Sprouse!
