Every day's an adventure

Familia,

Every day is definitely an adventure. I'm sorry I don't have time to tell you about all the amazing missionary experiences we have, but I have to tell you the story of driving home on Thursday night. We were coming home from trying to contact a potential family. Sister Christensen turned to me while she was driving and said, "Oh my gosh. My nose is bleeding." What? And I looked over and she was covering her nose. She was wearing my favorite outfit of hers and I couldn't bear seeing it ruined with blood (not to mention we're driving a new car, so I didn't want blood all over the seat). So what did I do? I put my hands under her chin and started to catch the blood. I'm sorry--I should have warned you that this story includes blood and if you get queezy, don't read. Yes, there we were--Sister Christensen driving and covering her nose, but her nose was just not drying up. She started laughing and all I could do was laugh, which made it worse. I ended up catching most of it but a lot still got on her clothes (which I washed out with water and then we threw it in the washer and saved her cute outfit). After we pulled over, I ordered our other companion Sister Mason to hand me some future investigator sheets because we didn't have napkins or kleenex or anything. I told her to open our car doors because we were just covered in red--of course it was locked so I shimmied over to open it with my foot. Sister Christensen said, "My blood is literally on your hands!" We'd just heard someone talking about having someone else's blood on your hands. Maybe Sister Christensen will let me send you a picture of the aftermath. It was ridiculous! Mission memories mmm.

We had a Sister's Training on Saturday morning--learned a lot and need to step it up a notch. Something that stood out to me that Sister Lewis talked about was how we can only develop Christlike attributes through Christ's help. We need to pray for His help in acquiring things like charity and love, patience, diligence, humility, obedience. We don't need to develop them all at once, but developing Christlike attributes comes one decision, one action at a time.

We then had a training from President Martinez (counselor in the mission presidency who is over the Spanish missionaries) after church yesterday. Learned a LOT more and now we need to contact 100 people this week. We contacted about 60 this week and have contacted like 76 on our best week, so we have a lot to work on but he gave a wonderful promise that we'll have our White Christmas (mission goal of 101 baptisms in December) if we contact 100 people this week. We have to do it! I'm grateful for his promise and I know that the Lord has prepared people to receive the gospel--we just need to be better, more prepared servants to find and deliver that message with power and authority from God. We can't fear man and what they can do--no matter how badly they treat us--but we need to do our Father's will. I love thinking about things from an eternal perspective. This life makes so much more sense and I have a lot more confidence and love for my Heavenly Father as I think about the things I'm doing each day from an eternal perspective.

I'm in love with the Book of Mormon. I'm hoping and praying that we can bring souls unto Christ as a gift for Him this Christmas. Maybe we could all give a Book of Mormon to a friend as a gift this year--just a thought. But they'll receive salvation! I'm grateful for this gospel and for the hope and happiness and joy it brings into my life.

I love you all.

Love, kates

Southern Zones - Sacramento Mission - November 2011
Katy is on the bottom row, on the right