July 20 – kalani sitake at red lobster??????

Hello! Its me again!

I hope everyone had a super great week :)))

Wellll to start off the week on Tuesday night our friend on baptismal date Kaylea texted us and used very very strong words and blew up at us… and she doesn’t want to get baptized anymore (hopefully in the future she will tho) 

Wednesday was a weird day overall lol. but we went to a family we’re teaching’s house. Well the mom is a member and her kids aren’t. But their house is absolutely wild. Like one kid is always beating another one up and everyone else is screaming. And we just stand there and were like uhhh heh but it was cool we sat 2 of the semi older boys down and started playing a church video and not even kidding all the screaming stopped and the boys were locked in it was kinda cool lol. 

Thursday we visited our friend Qumie we just found again (he had been taught in the past) and he’s from Ethiopia and he is soooo funny!! We are trying to put him on baptismal date he just needs to pray about it he said 

Friday were exchanges again but the sister who i do exchanges with (sister hulet) her area got a new whip so we were feeling pretty cool in our Rav4 2026 with 150 miles on it dab dab dab. We did service for a less active member and we just broke down boxes for an hour (this lady has a shopping problem lol) 

Saturday was a good day! We had lunch with our less active grandma Betty. She made us suspicious hotdogs lol. Then we had Geris funeral it was good but super sad made me miss grandpa ron 😢  

Ok but then there’s a long story that’s funny but not important but somehow we ended up at red lobster with a member Beth and a bunch of her interesting friends. And i look over to the TV across the way and its playing the BYU vs Texas Tech CFP game 😭😭 literally i was about to cry i miss football and also that game is a bothersome one :/ but it was the end of it and then they played the poptart bowl game and it was so fun i was having a great time i love football so much!!!!! Shout out AK got to see my bruthu 

Wow, Sunday was a day… not going to lie, it’s hard being a missionary lol (but it’s also great dont worry) Like we just went from visit to visit and someone’s family member is dying and then our next member visit he tells us his wife just called 10 minutes ago and is filing for a divorce. And everyday its something different but its just so many heavy things that people tell us and we just kind of have to tell them God’s got them. Its kinda super hard! But it just strengthens my testimony in knowing Christ knows exactly what we are ALL going through. Anyways its hard but I’ve seen so many miracles and blessings in everyone’s life!!  

Gratitudes 👀

– kris! He is one of our new members and he hasn’t been coming to church but he finally came to our book of Mormon study and now he is on a missionary kick! He always texts us in the morning and tells us we can call him to help teach our friends! And he gave a talk in church this week and it was so tender! So yay for kris we love him! 

– prayer! Lots of prayer miracles this week

– good food this week!! 

– Aquaphor 

My favorite talk this week — “He Knows You By Name” by Elder Clement M. Matswagothata!! You all should go listen to it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvGsBOiKB60 It is such a good reminder that Christ knows us each so individually and knows each of our names. Not only that but because of the Atonement he knows how we feel when we go through joyful times and hard times! He knows and loves you! Don’t forget that 🙂 

Anywho that’s it for now! Till next time 

Love you all! 

– sister martin :))