The Errand of Angels: Mega Death...Take It How You Like It!

Hello Friends and Family!

This week was really something special! On Monday we started out with a Heat contest at our dinner appointment on Monday. We both love spicy food, Sister Simmons and I. And we found a family who likes Spicy as much as we do! So we had Texas Style Chili and they brought out their hot sauces. :) We both went for the HOTTEST hot sauce they had: Mega Death. It was hotter than hot. Or so they thought. I got four drops in mine and it was hot but it had a burn to it. Not super spicy and painful. But a really good burn. Some of you probably think I'm absolutely insane but I honestly could have gone for more. :)

We had quite the interesting weekend. We were both SO sick. It's no excuse to not work but we were so so ill we called Sister Head and she told us to rest for the day. We felt the same on Sunday and did not want to risk getting any small kids or young families this virus either. It had been going around in the branch too which may have been how we got it as well.

But I'm happy to say we have new energy and are going to work hard this week. :) We're excited because we found a new investigator named Keelyn on Thursday! She's so cute! She's 18 years old and is a CNA. We went tracting during the nicest part of the day where it was sunny and warm and we felt on top of the world. We prayed and started knocking doors in this one neighborhood near a Less Active Sister we had an appointment with later that day. We knocked the first two and no one answered. Then we knocked hers and had a wonderful lesson about the Restoration of the Gospel and emphasized how God wants us to know who we are and He uses a prophet to do so! She commented on how we seem to know who we are and we both felt like it was a way to help her discover her identity as a Daughter of God. Too cool.

To make it better, we had previously felt inspired to go visit a family in the branch who we met a couple of times and literally fell in love with how awesome they are. So we went and visited them last Sunday and had a wonderful time getting to know them. But for whatever reason we didn't share a message with them . It didn't feel right. Well, because of Keelyn, we found out. One of the daughters has some questions about the church and we didn't know about it. We immediately thought of her to bring to our return appointment and asked her and she told us about her concern about not being in total agreement with the Church. And now we are made aware of a sweet spirit we can help both a member and not. It was an awesome experience. No one else opened their door on that street. Well, except a grouchy man that said he was busy.

We've also been using a new form of tracting, offering service first instead of using a message right off the bat. It's been working REALLY WELL! I love how open people are to receiving the opportunity for us to serve and then we can share a message of Christ with them. It has been working so well! :)

We've had a wonderful week and we're hoping to improve this week by a TON. We feel great and now we're going to get off to a great start having just recovered from an illness. :) It's going to be a blast!

Love and Miss you all! Five weeks... I can't decide if I'm ready or not? Haha either way it's coming.

Love you!

Love,

Sister Halverson