Family
I don't even know how to
describe how my day went yesterday... We went on exchanges with the sister
training leaders and I went with Sister Bergstrom to Apple Valley. It sucked
and was good. We had some terrible experiences and some great experiences.
First of all I'll tell about the most terrible experience, probably the worst
of my mission so far... We were tracting this street, looking for a girl who
lives somewhere there. We knocked on this door, just trying to share the
gospel... And this guy opens up, we say “Hi, how are you”, he says “fine”, we
tell him that we are missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and he says, “are you kidding me!?” And proceeded to just rip us apart
for like 10 minutes straight on his doorstep. Says stuff like “you guys know I
only get a day off every 10 days and every freakin day you guys are on the
street ringing my doorbell, I'm just having some time for myself with myself, I
don't need you guys.” "We don't want to hear from you. Tell your pope in
Utah, whoever it is to write down this house and to never send anyone ever
again! I especially don't want to hear from you because of your buddy Mitt
Romney starting out all his crap that I don't agree with.” Blah blah blah he
goes on and on and on being so inhumanely rude. Sister Bergstrom and I both had
tears in our eyes, but she just calmly said sorry, etc. Tried to leave-- he
continued to be the biggest jerk on the planet, "I'm going to put a
freaking gate up so you all will just get the he** away!" So we left and
just walk down the road in silence for a few minutes and sat down on the curb
side. So yeah. That happened.
But we did have a few good
experiences as well. A girl named star who has lots of emotional / mental
problems and lots of health problems, we went and helped her, strengthen her
and it was so good, her situation makes me cry... So many people have such
terrible lives. She was really happy that we had come over. We also saw lots of
other people. But when I came back home to Sister Thomason they've gotten four
new investigators that day!!! Three of whom I'd met, and one brand new one. So
hopefully the work will start getting so good over here in Victorville! Please
pray that it will! I love and miss you guys so much you don't even know the
struggle I mentally have every day... I want to go home so bad, but I know God
needs me to sacrifice for him right now and have a good attitude about it. Ugh,
I'm trying, it's so hard. Especially when you sometimes have such hard days.
I'm getting used to this though.
I love you!
I miss you!
Love,
Court
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