Week 33: Woodstock AKA Land of the Cool

Woodstock is so awesome! Sorry if there are a thousand typos in this because I have never typed this fast in my life and I have about 6 minutes left to send this out before the computer kicks me off. NO TIME FOR BACKSPACES!!!!

Okay so this week arriving in Woodstcok was so good! Sister Tripple, my new companion, is from Haiti and was adopted five years ago by a family in Alaska. She joined the church when she was ten and the missionaries knocked on the door of her orphanage. She is SO COOL! She speaks French which is cool and so fun for me! I think we are going to find a French speaking investigator together!

 

So, we have a few people that we are TRYING to teach but not many of them are very interested so we are going to prune back the investigator tree and then it will grow! I have so much faith in this principle of "pruning." It is going to be so fun to get some crazy work started here in Woodstock with Sister Tripple. Starting to teach the members the message of the Restoration, sharing the gospel with their friends, reaching out to the community and so many more things that we are planning to do to find people to teach and help them progress toward the temple! We are PUMPED!

Heavenly Father loves you and I so much! He sends people that we need to help us. I am blessed to feel the influence of those instruments and to BE an instrument. I am not perfect, but I try, and I'm grateful for those who tried on my behalf. When we try, we succeed, in that respect anyway!

Well a funny experience for you all REALLY FAST: so this week we ran into a man who only speaks Spanish, and I know how to introduce myself as a missionary, ask if they would like a message of Christ, ask if they want to talk to Spanish missionaries, and that's about it. So, after I was done with that and couldn't say anything else, the man told me I need to learn Spanish. Haha! What a world we live in!

WELL I HAVE 30 SECONDS! I LOVE YOU ALL! KEEP PRAYING, KEEP LOVING!

SISTER LEWIS

P.S. - I forgot so much. So one night we thought there was carbon monoxide in our apartment because our alarms were acting funny and we both felt lightheaded, so we had to call the fire department, and we stayed up until 11!  Haha, rule breakers we are. Jk, We had permission.

The third picture is beautiful Woodstock.

The fourth picture is DJ and his daughter Josie getting ready to pray. My heart. I love them.