The Hedge

This week was wacky!! I'll start off by talking about my day of bad luck. All of you know that I have the weirdest luck ever, and this one day proved it! I thought I was cursed. 😂 It started out the day before when we drew chalk on the sidewalk at a park with some plan of salvation questions and our number. One of them said, "what happens after we die?" Apparently someone took it the wrong way because in the morning we got a text saying that it needed to be removed immediately or they would call someone to make us remove it... awkward!! So we took water bottles and got rid of it. Then we went and did our studies at the park and guess who we saw AGAIN?! Creepy dude! We thought he was gone! A cop pulled up and talked to him while we were there and then left and he walked over to us and said his usual and then walked to the tennis courts. I didn't think much of it until I looked over and he was watching us through the bushes! Sooooooooo creepy! So we left, and soon enough we saw another cop pulling in. RIP creepy dude. Then as we were biking, a bug flew directly into my eye! It stung sooooo bad 😂 My eye turned red and it was watering so bad I couldn't see for a really long time. 30 minutes later as I was still dying from my eye, I backed up because my companion turned around and I fell into a ditch. 😂  All in one day 🙏 It was interesting for sure.

So back to the good stuff. At district council our district leader brought us Krsipy Kreme! It was so nice! They even gave us a little hat! We had problems with "interrupting" and someone got annoyed, so we used the hat as a "talking hat." Whenever one of us was wearing the hat, we could talk. It was so funny!!

Update on Willie (my blind friend) he is the best!!! He finally gets to listen to the Book of Mormon because he ordered it on audio! HUGE step for him!! He loved Joseph Smith's story and how the Book of Mormon came about, and he said he felt a special feeling every time we said his name. He called us just to tell us that he finally made the jump and ordered it!!! He told us that money was somehow left over in his bank account and he knew that that was what it was for. God is soooo aware of all of us! It was also cool because during that lesson these guys pulled up and they looked kind of scary. They were saying some weird stuff and they were obviously drunk. They started coming towards us, but something literally stopped them. They didn't walk any further and Willie said "these are church ladies" the guys apologized and left!!! Willie ALWAYS tells us that there is a "hedge" around his house and that God keeps bad things out with the hedge. I totally believe him now! Only good things are allowed in the hedge! Also, he made his own tea and gave us some. We didn't drink it of course, but I'm very curious of how he made it while not being able to see... Props to him for doing it anyways! He also called to tell us that he made a good choice and God rewarded him by winning the lottery! 😂 So funny! God answers all of our prayers differently, and I guess for Willie, He answered them by letting him win the lottery.

Another funny story: so my mission president and his wife spoke in my sacrament meeting this week! They gave me a shout out, but they called me Sister Anderson. 😂 Then they corrected it, but it was so funny! They apologized after so many times!

We also talked to some high people on the phone that asked if we were vampires 🧛‍♀️. 

The devil was working hard this week. One of our friends told us that he couldn't come to church because someone hit him in the face with a pipe... That's almost as bad as last week when someone else told us that their son was robbed at gunpoint... man.

We had a lesson with someone from Nigeria this week too! I guess Facebook does come in handy sometimes lol. Also! The Stls went on exchanges and the Sister that came to my house was a girl that I went to efy with a few years ago! So weird!!! 😂 

We had a lesson with a guy that wouldn't take off his reflective sunglasses. The entire time I couldn't tell who he was looking at! So awkward! We also went biking, but apparently there was a fire nearby and there was ash all over the air! The sky turned purple when the sun set and it was stormy! I felt like I was in a movie.

Also, I killed a spider!!!!! He was so scary! We named him Diablo Diabala. (Devil devil) I crushed him with a water bottle while he was trying to attack my companion. He used to live in our steering wheel... not anymore! 

Lastly a miracle! (And karma)

We were at service and the elders asked me to sing my school song for them. I told them no, and that I didn't like to sing in front of people. 😂 But... we are teaching this lady that has had some very traumatic experiences and she cries a lot over the phone. My companion got a really strong prompting to call her, so we did and she was not doing well. We prayed with her and she was just bawling. I got a prompting that we needed to sing to her. (The sisters that referred her to us used to do that) and I was like, absolutely not. I'm terrified to sing in front of people, and especially over the phone! But I muted the phone and told my companion and she said absolutely not. Then we unmuted and sang to her 😂. Immediately she calmed down and her whole demeanor changed. She was completely at peace and she told us that we motivated her to get out of bed. Always follow promptings! Lesson learned. The spirit works in so many different ways!! I totally got karma for earlier though...

One thing that I have learned so far is that you are NEVER too far from God. He always wants you. There is nothing that you could ever do to drive Him away. He loves you. He always has his hands stretched towards you, sometimes you just have to make the jump to grab it! ❤️

I love you all and I hope you all have a great week! Don't forget your worth!