Monday
Worst. P-day. Ever.
Woke up to our floors covered in maggots. 10/10 would not recommend. We deep cleaned our apartment for 3 hours. How we got them, no clue. It looked like someone took a handful and scattered them all across the floors. We are pretty clean people. They haven't come back. Knocking on wood. RIP my cardigan.
Tuesday
Weekly planning! This week this took so long. But that's how it goes trying to teach someone something new and complicated. We had a 30 minute chunk of finding time and I was absolutely dreading it. Parking lot finding or as Hermana Barton says “Car Park finding”, lowkey makes me want to die. I hate it, I dread it. We were sitting in the car, I was trying to hype myself up. Brink of tears. I asked Sister Young to pray us into our finding time. And as she prayed I begged God for strength. I had to be a good example, I need to teach her how to find. I would have done almost anything else than get out of the car. But it turns out for her I am willing to do a lot. So the prayer ends, I take a deep breath and get out of the car. Immediately I spy a woman walking to her car. We aren't going to make it to her in time. Internally I am rejoicing. Then before she gets in she pulls her phone out and leans against the car. As if she is simply waiting for us to come talk to her. No longer rejoicing, I am now dying inside but I look at Sister Young and I ask if she wants to start or if I'm starting the contact. Blessedly she says she will. This Sister opens her mouth and asks the woman “ have you ever heard of Jesus." I'm thinking okay, interesting way to start, but at least something came out, at least she started talking. But this woman, she looks at us with so much love and joy and says back “ oh he is my everything.” Wendy proceeded to shower us with praise and love and joy. At that moment I knew God had seen us. He had seen me. He knew what I was giving him by getting out of that car. I was giving my everything, and in return he gave us Wendy. Is Wendy interested in coming to church? No. Does she want to learn more, no. But in that moment God knew we needed a loving mother figure to tell us how proud she was of us, how brave we were. The light of Christ shown through this woman. Anyway God is so aware of you. He hears our prayers. By the end of our conversation we had used up all of our finding time. God is good.
Wednesday
We went onto campus before a lesson, absolutely deserted. So we found a bench and proceeded to call people for like 40 minutes. We talked to 1 person, probably the only person on the whole campus, lol. Skylar and Elli took us to Chick-fil-A!
Thursday
Exchanges with Hermana Barton. I love her, she is from Sydney Australia! She has got the sickest accent. The day was a blast, she seriously is my favorite, it's a tragedy we will never be comps. Every lesson we planned that day tied so perfectly into questions our friends asked at the beginning of the lessons. Divinely inspired planning, God is good.
Friday
We met the new mission leaders!!! I absolutely adore them! President Contreras was a paramedic firefighter, he is my literal hero. They are honestly so funny!
Saturday
4th of July! So Hype! The Reeders had a big BBQ party and invited us for lunch! Then when we were leaving Sister Reeder said to come back at 6 and we could take the leftovers for dinner, lol. BBQ part 2! Curfew was moved to 7pm, kinda crazy. But we had a cool zoom meeting and then whatever time left we had in the day we got to call our family! So I spent my evening talking to the family and watching fireworks through my phone, 10/10, thanks mom. 😉
Sunday
So hype! Awal and Nepanshu got the priesthood and Priya is all set with her temple recommend!!! After church we had a break the fast meal, 10/10. They had so many cookies left over they told us to take them and give them to our friends. So we delivered cookies to some of our friends who could use a little bit of extra love. Breakfast for dinner with the Guidos! Good day.
✨️GLIMMERS✨️
✨️ President and Sister Contreras
✨️ 4th of July
✨️ Wendy
✨️ Red trucks
✨️ Damon!!!
✨️ Australian Accents
God is good. He answers prayers for real.
—Sister Robertson☆
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Sister Isabelle Robertson
3301 W Gonzales Road
Oxnard CA 93036
UNITED STATES
