Plainfield
is awesome and I have already had so many adventures here haha. Sister
Hale keeps telling me all the crazy stories about the loco people who
live here... and at first I thought she was joking. Sometimes I still
think she is joking... she just likes to scare me... but then again...
Anyways,
story time! So my first night in the area we were driving to an
appointment and found out that we were going the wrong way, so Sister
Hale pulled a u-turn and driving back, but then all the cars started
honking at us, and we realized that WE WERE GOING THE WRONG WAY ON A ONE
WAY STREET!!!!! WHAT?!?!? We were scared for our lives for a minute...
but then we flipped back around and everything was fine. Then the next
day it was my turn to drive and I was parking and didnt see that there
was a dip in the parking spot and I was really close to the curb, and so
it totally messed up the front bumper... So neither of us are very good
drivers.... -_- Then I almost ran someone over... but Heavenly Father
is merciful, so everything is good.
So we were
door knocking the other night and we met a ton of cool people, but then
we knocked on this house and a guy opened the door. We started sharing
some of the awesome Gospel with him, but then he said he was an atheist
and wasn't really interested. That made me really sad because I can't
even imagine how hard life must be without a belief in God, so we left
him with a pamphlet and our number and said to call us if he ever had a
hard time and wanted to learn about God.... Well about an hour later we
got a text... from someone who said they wished to remain anonymous...
but then we found out that it was him... and he said we had beautiful
eyes... and that he wanted to come to church and speak to our bishop....
and then he asked if he could ask us a personal question... and by this
point we had really stopped responding hahahaha... We didn't ever hear
back from him... and he never showed up at church... but it was still
creepy.
Then we went out the next night and
knocked on this lady's door, and Sister Hale recognized her and she let
us in immediately! She was so nice and sweet, and said that she would be
right back to go get something, and while she was out of the room I
noticed this cute little puppy curled up sleeping on a little puppy bed
in the front room! I was like "oh who is this?!" and went to go pet
it... and Sister Hale was like "uh Sister..." and when I pet it it was
the freakiest thing!!!! It was a TAXIDERMIED PUPPY!!!!!!! It was totally
a fake dog sleeping in their living room!!!! it felt so weird!!! And
then Sis Hale just busted up laughing at me... I just pretended like
nothing happened....
THEN, We went to a ward
Christmas Breakfast and the had such yummy food! There were waffles and
eggs and fruit and sausage! It was great and we had a lot of
investigators there that we were sitting with! It was a ton of fun! So I
went up to get my food, and they had like 5 different kinds of syrup to
put on the waffles, but there was this blueberry smoothie kind that I
wanted to try. So I put it all over my waffle and sat down. Sister Hale
asked me what kind of syrup I got and I told her blueberry smoothie...
and she was like "uhh... Sister..." and as I took a bite.... I realized
that it wasn't blueberry smoothie... It was mashed up black bean
paste... I had slathered bean smoothie all over my waffles.... -_- The
whole table thought that was pretty hilarious... Then my fork busted in
half and they laughed at that too... as long as we get a baptism out of
it...
TTHHEENN!!!! We were rinsing out the
baptismal font for a scheduled baptism we had yesterday, and it was
nasty!!!! There were like gross hairs stuck all over the walls of the
font! And we had to hurry because we had a meeting right after that with
the ward mission leader, So I was using this bucket to splash water all
over the walls to rinse it all off... and then the bucket slipped out
of my hands and water went EVERYWHERE! It splashed up onto the mirror
above and all over me!!!! -_- I did my best to keep my coat over my wet
skirt during the meeting... but it was still pretty bad
Ok. Enough of this silly Sister Baine nonsense... time to talk about some miracles!
So
we were eating dinner really fast before going back out again to work,
and Sister Hale says that she thinks it is time to visit Sandy again.
Sandy is this Jewish lady that the missionaries caroled to last year,
and she wasn't really interested, but lately she has had a couple of
family members die, and last time they went back to see her, she was
very receptive to the message they had to share. Well, after dinner we
went back to see Sandy and try a couple of other people, and her house
was pitch black. Not to mention that we had to go down some super
sketchy steps to get to her. But we knocked a couple of times and rang
the doorbell, and finally she answered. She was in her nightgown, and at
first I thought she was going to yell at us for coming by so late, but
then she just burst out crying and said "I can't believe you girls are
here! Thank you so much for coming!" She told us that her mother and her
son in law had just died in the past two weeks, and we could tell she
was so distraught. We read a scripture with here about spirits and said a
prayer with her, and she asked if we would come back after the holidays
and teach her. Of course!!!! It was such a miracle to be able to talk
to her!
Well Plainfield is unlike any place I
have ever been in my entire life, but I am so thankful to be here. I am
already being blessed with a love for the people here, and Sister Hale
is being such a blessing to me! She just got out of training, so I am
supposed to be greenie busting her and acting as senior companion, but
really, I feel like I am being trained all over again. Heavenly Father
is definitely humbling me! But I am thankful for what I am learning.
We
had our missionary Christmas party this week, and I had no idea I was
so loved! Thank you all for the packages and letters! Sister Hale and I
sang "Where are you Christmas" for the party, and it was going to be
super awesome, but then I forgot like half of my parts... but its all
good...
It doesn't even feel like Christmas
here haha. It is really just barely starting to get cold, and there
hasn't been any snow yet.. it is supposed to be like 70 degrees on
Christmas day... but oh well. It will still be awesome! I love you all
and I pray that you have a merry Christmas!!!! BE GOOD FOR SANTA!!!
Love,
Seester Baine
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