Hey family!
Wet, cold, and rainy. That is how I would describe these past couple of days. I don't know how missionaries in Seattle do it. There was a point where the water in the curbs was so deep I had to attempt to leap over to get on the sidewalk, while my poor companion was fighting with the umbrella against the wind, which lead to it flipping itself inside out and my leap just let the wind pick up my skirt and almost flash the world as we are getting soaked in the meantime. We couldn't stop laughing, it was so funny. :D Good thing no one else was crazy enough to be out in it to see us, because we looked pretty ridiculous. I’m not complaining though, we only get a few bad weather days here in sunny California, so really it just made me appreciate how good I have it to be here in California, and how hard it must be to serve in places with bad weather. Well, all missions are challenging in their own rite, no matter where they are and what the circumstances.
Diane came to the Visitors' Center this week which was good. She had a terrible week though- one of those Murpheys' law, everything that can go wrong does go wrong kind of weeks, so we weren't able to meet with her. We had another woman come to church with us this week though. Her name is Melinda and she is so cute! She was going to another ward but lives in our area and so the first time we met her was at church, and she came up and gave me a hug and was so friendly and nice. She is in her late twenties and she found out about the church because a lot of friends from her work are Mormons and so is her husband's sister, and she said that she always felt like there was something about the religion that really interested her. We gave her a Book of Mormon before sacrament meeting started and she treated it like a prized possession and asked us where she should start reading from, and then the sacrament talks were perfect because they were all about the Book of Mormon and how it was another testament of the divinity of Jesus Christ. It was amazing! She loved it and was so open. The only thing is that she is super busy getting ready for big tests and said that she can't come to church again until April 3rd, but that she will read the Book of Mormon in the meantime.
In the Visitors' Center this week I've had the amazing opportunity of sharing the gospel with people from all over the world. An Italian man walked in the other day just out of curiosity. He didn't speak any english, and we could only somewhat communicate through spanish- as I awkwardly tried to speak spanish with an italian accent. i showed him all of the exhibits that we have in Italian. I also gave him a Book of Mormon in Italian and so a few times when I couldn't figure out how to say what a word was I quickly flipped to a scripture that had that word- like "prophet" or "angel" and things like that. It reminded me of the time we were lost in Florence and I only had one page of guidebook italian that I was trying to shout out the window to people to figure out how to get to the train station. I think that Italian is going to be the next language I try to learn. I also was able to give a tour to three people from Taiwan that were here for their cousins wedding. They live in the U.S. and spoke really good english, but it was still really neat to give them a tour. I also gave a tour to a really awesome Born Again Christian guy from England that came into the Visitors' Center with his girlfriend who is a member of the church. He was here in Los Angeles visiting her, so she wanted him to see what the church was all about. He travels the world as an adventure guide and does hiking tours in Scotland and Morrocco and all over. He even did some stuff with Bear Grylls from Man vs. Wild. Anyways, so it was just really neat to see the gospel being spread to the four corners of the earth and being part of that.
I love you all! I know that this church is the same church that Christ established when he walked the earth and that we have it again today. Christ is our true and living Savior, the Son of God, our Redeemer. He loves us and is always there for us, and through him we can repent and be cleansed from our sins. We just have to be humble and let him in and allow him to heal us and to change our hearts, so that we "have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually." Keep thinking about him as often as you can! Reading the scriptures will help. I've been learning about him more and reading Jesus the Christ and it is so amazing!
Have a great week. :D
Sister Dansie
Pictures: We took a few photos in front of the temple with the city in the background, and the last one is at Leavin's baptism.
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