best month on the year by far. its going to be an amazing month :]
Well yesterday was fast sunday.... not a slow one ;] time sure does zip by. there are really just never enough hours in a day.
a few updates from my neck of the woods:
we found deafies in lodi! actually a whole bunch of them. five! i was walking past a man taking out his garbage and politly said hello, i got a knod and he just kept walking. typical. well he comes back and i ask him a question about the lay out of this apartment complex, we were looking for an apt number and were a little lost. well he points to his ear and signs that hes deaf. I GOT REAL EXCITED. oh hey i know asl too! forget the question about where the apartment was, whats your name, etc. miracles, well we taught a lesson to danny and his roommate toni right there and had a prayer with them too. we met another roommate named d'wan too. well turns out they have 5 college aged deafies all living as roommates. it was a gold mind. i was able to have a pass off lesson with the asl stockton sisters which was way neat to have a full asl lesson again but it was sad knowing i had to pass them off to other missionaries. i know sister jenson will take good care of them though.
sunday in church we joined the young womans class. we participated in a miss in-the-world-but-not-of-the-world pagent. we participated with the interview questions and got to wear cute sashes. so much fun. young womens is such a great program and i miss it much :] they have so much fun! also its fun being a sister missionary cause you can hang out with the young women. this adorable 15 year old mia-maid ran up to me on sunday... "SISTER OLIPHANT! ... oh my goodness i thought you had been transferred! i saw this other blonde missionary here on wednseday and i was so worried!" haha so cute! love them. biggest compliment ever. made my day.
speaking of exchanges. this week i was able to spend a day with cute sister moss, a visa-waiter soon to go to Australia. shes great. Also i finally got to be sister vaughns companion!!! (for a day) i have been hoping to be able to serve with her since the day she arrived. shes so cute and just a transfer younger than me. we had an exchange all set up back in january when i was companions with sister wilson who did exchanges, but i was emergency transfered days before it happened... so this day was in the making for almost a year. haha it was great and i love her so much.
zone conference this week. the food was great. i sign Called to Serve by myself though :(
the lord placed us in a spot to see our former contact as she was washing by hand her car. actually more like scrubing/waxing her car. her son had washed the car using dishwasher soap and it had left a film all over her car that was awful. she finally found something to take it off but it required ALOT of elbow grease. she was trying to do this in the dark at 8pm at night. haha shes so funny. anyways we had the chance to serve her and comfort her a little. i love how the lord perfectly sets up things like that. yeah dishwasher soap on a car, no bieno.
we finished our family mission plan!!! it is beautiful. it took weeks to do but its done is going to foster miracles :]
I
had some GREAT studies recently. I LOVE the scriptures! ive been
pulling them apart. (a little to literally, my binding is coming undone)
Had a chance to find some great insights and apply Jacob 5 The Allegory
of the Olive Tree to myself as the end draws near. Also im pretty sure i
can support Einsteins theory of relativity with scriptures and
doctrine. pretty good stuff.
-little eight year old as he's praying for us "... bless them they will get home safely..." pauses for a moment and looks at mom "do they even have a home?" :]
-"you can't stop loving someone - you can't destroy love" and "god doesn't ask you to like someone, he only asks that you love them" -bonnie pishos
-"our boldness must be equal to our love" -me
We are heading to big trees national park this week! so im off!
LOVE FROM LODI!
sister oliphant
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