Hello friends and family! It has been a beautiful week down here in South Carolina! We've had some good times and met some great people. Tuesday was pretty slow because Sister Laney had to get her brake pads replaced and they kept the bike in the shop most of the day. Luckily the bike shop is literally right across the street from us so we didn't have to stick around. We also had Book of Mormon class with an investigator, M. She is pretty much our favorite person and is looking forward to getting baptized soon! (She is in a different ward, but she comes to our Book of Mormon class anyway.) Plus she brought her two-year-old son and he is just the cutest.
The highlight of Wednesday was unloading pallets of frozen blueberries at the food pantry. We filled three frezers with them. I think we were all craving smoothies by the end. We had exchanges on Thursday and Friday, and boy was that fun! I stayed in Rock Hill with Sister Erickson. She is actually from Peoria too but she lived in a different stake so I never knew it. She is super fun! We ended up leaving our plans that day because the shelter/food pantry we volunteer for got a giant shipment of toilet paper and paper towels that was four times the size they were expecting. We helped organize things and make room. It's always nice to see where donations get put to use.
We exchanged back on Friday and kept working hard. On Saturday we had ward coordination in a hospital room because our assistant ward mission leader had an infection. That was a first for me. We also went to the stake Relief Society talent night with M and the York sisters. It was very entertaining and we had a good time with all the sisters.
We were out Saturday evening and we were in the area of a Bible referral that we hadn't been able to contact yet. We wanted to stop by, but we hadn't restocked the Bibles in the car yet so we didn't have one to give her except one with a slightly bent cover. We decided to drive back home, grab a nicer Bible, and come back out, even though it would take up miles. We got to her house and were knocking on the door when a car pulled up in the driveway. As it turned out, she was only stopping at home for a few minutes and we would have missed her completely if we hadn't gone back to get the new Bible. But because we were there at that time, we were able to talk to her and introduce the Book of Mormon! What miracles.
One thing we studied this week in our personal studies was humility. I always sort of though of humility as just not being full of yourself, but boy did I learn a lot! One of the things I learned is that when we are humble, we have confidence in the Lord and confidence that he can and will help you. I know a lot of times I'm guilty of trying to do things all by myself without asking for help, thinking that I don't want to ask the Lord for help. But that's part of humility. Jesus Christ always did the will of the Father and gave Him the glory in all things. It's something I can work on.
That's just about the summary of my week. Hope February is treating everyone well!
Love,
Sister Reay
Zone activity last week! Good times
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