Luckily I will most likely be staying with Sister Makowa to finish
training. :) We are having a great time!
Forgive me if my writing today is scrambled! I am typing on the metro
home from DC! :)
On Tuesday evening, it started POURING rain. I can't believe how much
it rains here. Pretty cool!! You'd think it would cool things down,
but it only causes it to be more humid.
We have been meeting pretty often with this woman named Alexandra
throughout this past week. We met her at church on last Sunday. She is
from Switzerland and is in her 60's. Her accent is cool! She got
baptized when she was about 18 years old, but went inactive within a
few years of becoming a member. She just decided to start coming to
church again. She had a pretty rough childhood and has gone through
some difficult times. Right now she has some sort of health problem
with her spine. Anyway, I'll try to make this short.. We are
re-teaching her the gospel and doing service for her! She is a very
sweet lady, but I'm afraid that she'll be taking advantage of us if we
continue meeting with her often. I have to be careful with how we can
help. At least she is reading the Book of Mormon and liking it! :)
Thank goodness we have support from members as well. What a different
kind of adventure!
....I didn't know what I'd get when I prayed for some less-actives to
work with!
On Thursday we went to the "Return and Report" meeting for trainers
and trainees. Always great! It was fun to see all the Sisters that I
came out with who are also training. :) I can't believe that another
transfer is gone.
Sister Makowa and I had a BLAST tracting on Friday evening! We saw
some great miracles! The first man we talked to said missionaries stop
by about twice a year... Not interested, but kind. The next door was
an older woman who at first said she is perfectly comfortable in her
faith....until the Spirit helped me know how to word the invitation to
read the Book of Mormon. She brought up the fact that we all will
return to live with God no matter what path we take. I told her that
the Book of Mormon is one of the tools that helps us on this journey
to God and we invite all to read! She accepted the invitation and told
us she and her husband would read! So great. We continued on and
handed out 3 more copies! Tracting miracle! :)
On Saturday night after daily planning we got a knock on our door...
The YSA Sisters (our besties) came over and asked to stay the night!
They accidentally locked themselves out of their apartment! We got to
have a little sleepover! :) The Office Elders came in the morning to
rescue them and unlock their door. Pretty fun!
Last night we got to go to a New & Returning Member Fireside! It is a
meeting where some of the recent converts from the mission bear their
testimonies! Such a powerful meeting. We got one of our new
investigators to come! She is neighbors with some members in our ward.
She made sure she came because.... Sister Makowa sang a musical
number!! She did amazing!! :) I'm lucky because I get to hear her sing
all the time in our apartment!
The meeting was also a ton of fun because I got to see previous
companions and some members (Brother and Sister Davis and Sister
Parker) from my last area!!! So great! The Davis's brought their
friend Mary Susan who is not a member. I met her a couple times when I
was staying at their house. She told me that she thinks I am the
perfect example of a representative of Jesus Christ. "You have the
Spirit written all over you!!" She told me how impressed she was of me
and that if she were giving her testimony up there she would mention
my name! Wow! Who knew I had that big of an impact on her. I felt so
much love and appreciation from her. She says too bad I most likely
won't be here when she gets baptized. (She is planning it?!) Pretty
dang cool. :)
Today has been so much fun!! I got to spend the day in DC with Sis.
Hill, Sis. Waldron and Sis. Makowa. I love it there! So many Patriotic
feelings and excitement! I love all the architecture as well.
Beautiful!
I'm so grateful to be a missionary in the Washington DC South Mission.
I'm so grateful to have this opportunity to serve!!! I love it--hard
times and all. :)
Love you all!!!
Sister Winterton
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