Hello everyone!!
The week started off kinda sad because Hadadi dropped us :( He was so much fun to teach so we will miss him a lot. He just said he's too busy right now.
BUT it seems like whenever someone leaves the teaching pool, someone else comes along to take their place. The same day we lost Hadadi, we had a video call with someone named Simon that we found on Facebook and we were able to start teaching him! I had friend requested him a few days before and he accepted. I messaged him asking if he would be interested in hearing about how he can be with his family forever and he said yes so we set up the call! He told us a little about himself and that he has been searching for God in his life. He told us he said his first prayer one night asking for guidance and the next day I sent him that message! He wanted to do another video call lesson the next day and in our second lesson, we taught him about the Plan of Salvation and put him on date for baptism! He is super elect and such a miracle! The only downside is that he has 2 kids and is planning to get married to his girlfriend soon so he's not YSA. We're going to be passing him off to some other missionaries in our mission.
The same night we put Simon on date, we helped with a mission prep class at Institute and the lesson they were working on was the Plan of Salvation! It was awesome to tell everyone about the experience we had just had teaching that lesson to Simon!
Sister Syme hit her 9 month mark this week so we celebrated with Cafe Rio! We also got preached to by a dude from a different church at a stoplight through our car window which was fun.
A theme that kept coming up this week was looking for little miracles every day. President Rees brought it up in one of our meetings and one of our members also talked about it in a lesson. It has been so cool as my companions and I have been noticing all the tiny miracles that happen and all the ways we've seen God's hand in our lives! He really is involved in the details!
As a mission we aren't doing member meals anymore so we are becoming excellent chefs. However, we've been at it for a few months now and we are starting to run out of ideas and recipes. If anyone has any quick, easy, and healthy recipes, I would love to try them out!
Love, Sister Megan Young
Pictures:
1. Sister Syme's 9 months
2. Us on our balcony
3. The view from someone in the bishopric's backyard
4. Me trying to get a pen out from underneath my bed
