Wow whiplash week its been a roller-coaster ://///

Tuesday went by quickkk but it was a good day! We had a lesson with Amirah! We went over the baptismal interview questions and she got interviewed on Thursday!!!! And her baptism is Saturday whoot whoot  

Wednesday – another lesson with Amriah and we’re starting to plan everything!! 

Thursday we had exchanges with the STLs! I was with sister collinwood in woodburn! Its like a little city north of Salem! Sister collinwood is the best! She reminds me of sister evans sobs miss her but ya we had a good time 🙂

Oh glory, guess who we had a lesson with on friday?!?!? Ryna and bina!!! They are backkkkkkk so basically their phones just turned off so we couldnt get ahold of them so we started knocking on their door and they were just always gone when we went but then they called us on monday night lol and were like hey so sorry we ghosted you lol but wow such a fun lesson with them! Dont worry i told them how devastated i was thinking they blocked us and they were dying and were like why would we ever do that lol!!! Sobs love them 

Also we heard the loudest gun shots or fireworks ever and they were super close and lowkey it was scary and so we scurried out of that neighborhood heh…

Ok Saturday wow long day! Also God works in crazy ways (and my mom must be in tune with the spirit) but i was just having a rough rough time friday night on Saturday and Saturday night i got a massive package from my fam and it just made my day!!!

But then the most devastating thing happened and im still upset. So basically the marshallese sisters are trying to steal ryan and bina and her sister….. and they are trying to get them to come to the marshallese ward BUT THEY TOLD US THEY WANTED TO KEEP GOING TO SALEM 1ST and the other sisters are gaslighting them trying to get them to come to their ward. 

So im just not happy and they know it. But ryan and bina said they will stay with us so boom  

Sunday we had a few friends at church anddd we had this cool miracle, we prayed before we went knocking to find someone and hit our goal, and this neighborhood we knocked was NOT SUCCESSFUL… so i was like sister lets go visit vickie right now so we drive over to vickies and we pull up and we get a referral… guess where she lives eight doors behind vickie and we were like oh my goodness…. so we go knock on her door and we found her!!!! So we hit our goal and ya were going back this week!!

You know honestly this week has just had some super not fun moments. And its often really hard to get through. But my favorite quote from Elder Holland says, “How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?” It never was easy for Jesus Christ. He hurt. He wanted to go home i bet but He knew why He was there. And why would it be easy for us, its not supposed to be easy, we’re not always going to want to be here. We just need to rely on Jesus Christ. And maybe i need this reminder more than you but Jesus Christ knows you, He knows how you feel, so take hold of that, take hold of Jesus Christ.

Love you bye 

<3 Sister Martin