Well hey everybody!
This is the last week before transfers and I am praying and keeping my fingers crossed that they won't take wonderful Sister Robison away from me! I love her too much!
This past week was crazy. Lots of really strange things happened, one of them including our church building flooding. We were having interviews with our Mission President, President Hanks and our District Meeting. While in the middle of this meeting our zone leader stopped in the middle of his sentance and said, looking out in the hallway "There is a lot of water out there!!" One of the rooms had a pipe explode in the ceiling and water was pouring out of it like a water fall and a river was slowly making its way down the hall. Everybody spent the next hour and a half trying to stop the pipe, calling for help, and scooping up at least four inches of water. It was insane!
Aside from the crazies, our zone's come up with a new challenge called the Hour of Power. Every day from 5-6:00 we are supposed to invite as many people as we can to baptism. Sister Robison and I really haven't had any chances to ask our investigators if they'll be baptized, we've had several meetings fall through this week. So, we decided to invite anyway! It was an incredibly cold night in Amory. We were tracting around this neighborhood. Either no one was home or they weren't interested. We got a text from our zone leaders saying "Hour of Power!! Go go power rangers! Invite as many as you can!" So, we decided that the next door we'd knock on we'd invite that person to be baptized. We knocked on the door, a man answered. We smiled our little numb cheeks off and said "Hi! we're sister missionaries in the area and we were wondering if you'd like to be baptized!" He told us that he was already baptized and a member of some other faith. We continue to the next house and did the same thing and got shot down again. The last house we knocked on we actually didn't feel prompted to invite them to baptism, but they let us in! Her name's Mitzy. She says she is a non-denominational Baptist (believes you don't need an organized religion, but attends a baptist church). She is just the sweetest thing and really enjoys our visits! Moral of the story: you may not get people baptized as soon as you'd like, but with love and patience you will get in someones door, it just takes a little guts, spunk and moxie. The people that shot our bapt. invites will come to know the truth!
Our visits with Bernita have gone really well. We continue to get to know the family-they are all so wonderful! She's actually started to read the Book of Mormon and really wants to recieve the gift of the Holy Ghost! Which is AWESOME and can totally happen!
I also got to go on my first exchange with our lovely STL's! It was a blast! We tracted around some appartments, ran into a lot of Asians that couldn't speak english but they wished us "many blessings and good luck all year." We ate at a chinese buffet. When we were done with our meal we waited for 20 minutes to receive our ticket. When our waiter finally came over he told us that "our friend" had already paid for our lunch and we were free to go. WHAT!! So that was a little blessing.
I have nothing else to report. But, I hope ya'll know that you're amazing and I love ya'll to death! And just like our Asian friends say "I wish you many blessings and good luck all year!" God be with you.
Love, Sister Michaela Mason

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