Made of cake.
Anyway, as you may have noticed from this last picture, I also did something crazy, and allowed Sister Auble to color and cut my hair. Yep. It's different alright. I told Sister Auble she had free rein, and she sure took it. It's fun though, I figured it was time I was a little adventurous.... and she really didn't give me an option ;)
Highlight of the week was probably that we found two new investigators this week! Two men, actually, which is a little unusual for me. Usually I teach women. But hey, I'm not going to argue with new investigators!
The branch president and branch mission leader here are excellent. They know exactly whom they want us to focus on, and how we can best use our time. I've never had such an engaged mission leader. It's great.
There were some really cool, random run ins this week with people that hopefully will move forward. One of our new investigators actually was driving past us in a parking lot as we were getting into our car, and rolled down his window and asked us, "Hey, where are you guys from? What are you doing?" And we were able to explain our purpose and why we were in the area. Another time, we were walking with the elders in the branch on our way to contact people, and we ran into a woman on the street who had had elders help her with stuff when she was a young single mother, and we had a great discussion about seeking truth and the Book of Mormon.
But really, I had an amazing spiritual experience this week. I had been dealing with some feelings of discouragement, and they were really weighing me down. Preach My Gospel warns against discouragement: "You should not, however, become discouraged; discouragement will weaken your faith. If you lower your expectations, your effectiveness will decrease, your desire will weaken, and you will have greater difficulty following the Spirit." Well, knowing and doing are different things, as we all know. But I was trying to stay motivated, and be happy. But Sunday, I decided that I wanted to ask one of the elders in the branch for a priesthood blessing. And it was incredible. It was literally like I had given the elder a list of my concerns, and he went down the list and addressed each one. With the actual words I used. Except he had no clue about any of them; Heavenly Father did. The power of the priesthood is so real! And blessings can really bring that counsel and peace that you need. I wish I could adequately describe how comforted I felt afterwards.
Columbia is a great town, there's a lot of potential and work to do here, and it's going to be awesome!
Pray for missionary opportunities.
Lots of love,
Sister Barret
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