Hello family!
This week went by so slowly and it made me so happy because
so many marvelous things happened this week!
Hermana Ridgeway came with me on exchanges on Tuesday.
Monday night as we exchanged, we had an hour and a half before we had to go in.
The day before, Sister Hoki and I passed a street that really stuck out to me.
So I decided to take H. Ridgeway with me to track the area. She had a specific
thing she hoped to work on during the exchange, so we said a prayer, set some
goals, and decided to start on one side of the town homes and move across. For
the first time in my entire mission EVERY SINGLE door was answered. We have a
mix of pretty much every experience, getting yelled at, fake numbers, and
teaching a new friend, D..., about the Plan of Salvation on the doorstep.
Hermana Ridgeway that night was just so excited because she completely received
an answer to her prayers in that hour and half. We decided that even if that
was the only amount of time we had to exchange, we could switch back right then
and count that exchange as successful...
Good thing we said that! Haha because Tuesday morning,
during studies, we received a call from the Assistants informing us that there
was a sister coming home to Halifax from her mission in Chaclacayo (spelling?)
Peru. But due to the bad weather conditions her flight from Toronto to Halifax
was cancelled and she was going to be stuck in the airport by herself for quite
some time. We were asked to go save her! Here was the catch they gave us...
There is no way of contacting her, we don't know where she will be in the
airport, and she has no idea that we are coming to pick her up. All we have is
her name and a picture of her holding a pumpkin to know what she looks like...
so good luck! Haha Hermana Ridgeway and I drove to the airport, said a prayer,
and began the real-life game of Where's Waldo to find poor Sister Chelsea Frasier.
We paged her over the airport intercom, walked everywhere, asked all the
workers. The answer we received from them was that we were searching for a
needle in a haystack. But our answer to them was "no way! We prayed so we
will find her!" haha. An hour and a half later we found her! The poor girl
was probably freaking out when she heard her name on the intercom and had no
idea what was happening. So we took her and gave her to the Spanish sisters to
spend the day with them! And what's cool? She served with Tori Hawks and Maria
Fuller! Small world :)
That night, we picked her up again to take her
back to the airport for her flight at 10:55. By permission we ended up getting
back to our apartment at 11:30 that night.... I'm never staying up that late
again haha. Our bodies automatically started shutting down at 10:30. Overall it
was a fun experience!
Quotes from our wonderful friend Donna who was recently
baptized:
-"After tomorrow, when I get the Holy Ghost, you better
watch out Satan because I will have a black belt with the Holy Spirit!"
-"Satan has been working hard to shut be down, but I
say to him GET BACK SATAN! I'm baptized."
Donna is the perfect example of enduring to the end. She was
confirmed last Sunday, received her temple recommend and went to the temple for
the first time on Wednesday!!!! And then she bore a beautiful testimony at
sacrament meeting yesterday! but there's more, she ended her testimony by
singing the first verse of "Amazing Grace"! She is coming teaching
with us tonight, and she is telling EVERYONE about the gospel. She's so great
:)
Sister Hoki and I were blessed to go to the temple with
Donna on Wednesday! They let us dress up and help pass out towels while
everyone was being baptized. The spirit in the temple is indescribable. Going
to the temple will definitely be a weekly thing for me for the rest of my life.
I had the first and most delicious turkey pie I have ever
tasted. It was marvelous.
We sang a Quartet of Homeward Bound at MLC. Some past
missionaries rewrote lyrics about coming home to Heavenly Father's presence. It
is so beautiful.
So do you remember D... that I talked about previously. The
man that Hermana Ridgeway and I taught the Plan of Salvation on his doorstep?
While on exchanges, we visited with him on Saturday. His wife is sick with
cancer and she is going to pass away any time now. We spent that whole meeting
just listening to him and his story. He looked at me one time, with tears in
eyes, and asked "What can I do for my wife? What can I say to her?"
My answer for him was, "I am obviously not married, but I will use my
daddy as an example because he means the world to me. If I were sick with
cancer, soon to die, that last thing I would want from my daddy would be to
hear him pray." That was the invitation we left for him that day. This
morning he called us and told us how his visit with his wife went. He told us
that would be the last time he would see her. He continued to thank us over and
over for stopping at his door the exact time he was going through all this.
Over the phone he said "Sister Bodine I want you to know that the last
thing I did, before I left, was I prayed for my wife. I prayed for her."
That was the first time he prayed for her in a very very long time. What a tender
experience. That is why I am serving a mission.
At MLC this week, we had a huge discussion on gaining a
greater witness of the Savior. I want to share my testimony with all of you
that I KNOW that Jesus is the Christ. He lives. I have faith in everything
about Him. I love Him. I will spend the rest of my life bearing witness of my
Savior in everything I say and do. That is why I love my mission so much.
I love you all :) I hope you have a wonderful week! Keep
your standards!
Sister Bodine
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