When
we got home we raced off to the Burlett's for dinner. We were going to
teach Terry and Patrick that evening and even though we had a very
detailed plan, we felt very unprepared. Thankfully, Brother Gestewitz
was there. The lesson went alright. Terry is the only one that is truly
open. Patrick's heart is hardened. WE don't know what to do next with
them.
After
the lesson we called the DL from Bev's phone to see if they had found
it. No luck. Not in church OR car. Maybe the disc golf field? We went to
bed exhausted and stressed.
On
Wednesday we went and had a blast at Feeding America, came home, had
some lunch then went to the DL's apt. They took us to the disc golf
field. WE searched for a few hours. No luck. No one had turned it in
either. What was weird, was that I felt perfectly calm about the whole
situation. As we're driving to the church to look again, Elder Dillard
has me call Elder Collins in the mission office to let him know about
our phone. I did and he told me to exhaust all the places one more time,
then call him back the next day if we still couldn't find it. When we
got to the church, the Elders researched their car as we re searched the
church. No luck. At 5:30 we had dinner at Olive Garden with Kat and Dan
& Kat. They are so awesome! 7pm we taught the YW how to make mormon.org
profiles. I practiced the piano a little bit for Nikki's wedding before
we went home and searched everywhere there for our phone.
It
was really hard to do our weekly planning on Thursday without a phone.
You never know how much you need / use something until you lose it :p We
drove ourselves afterwards to the disc golf course. Our GPS died so we
had to use mapquest. I have one GPS that I was sent that leads you
astray and is old and doesn't know how to work haha and then there's the
one I got from the elders that was doing GREAT...and then decided to
die and not recharge....ohz wellz. We searched as much as we could when
we got there - I tried to recognize the Holy Ghost telling me where it
was - no luck. Why? I don't know - but I did feel at peace still. We
weren't able to find it by the time we left. WE ate at Bev's for dinner
with Hunter. We used her phone whenever we needed to contact someone. WE
called Elder Collins and he ordered us a new phone. At 6:15 Bro and Sis
Gestewitz picked us up at our apt to take us to the Kingsport Stk
Center for exchanges. On the way there, Bro. G told us about hte visit
he and bro Salyers had with the Williams Wed evening. Hopefully things
will work out. They talked for two hours straight. They went over the
questions they had and explained how they shouldn't look to google for
answers to their questions. Mormon.org and LDS.org are the places to
look online.
When
we got to Kingsport I went with Sis. Smith and their Greenie, Sis.
O'mera. Sis. Lundberg went to Abingdon with Sis. Blau. 45 min drive both
ways. We went straight to a LA's house and talked with her. When we
went to bed that night, I was VERY grateful neither of them snored!
Friday
the 24th at 9:30 we left to sing at the VA with the ZL's, Watauga
Elders and Johnson City Sisters. It turns out the Elder I met at the
temple is the Watauga Elder, Elder Johns. Was cool! I looked at him
after he said he was from FL, "Did you go to the Orlando Temple?" He
agreed he did for his endownments. I then asked if he met a girl there
that was coming to this mission. He agreed he did. I told him I was that
girl. He was surprised, "Well hello there!" he tuck out his hand and I
shook it. SMALL WORLD! After singing there we went and visited some
people, went home and had some lunch, went out again, met some really
nice people - then went back and had dinner.
So,
I was thinking about why HF wouldn't allow us to find the phone. There
was a lesson in there I believe. BOTH Sis. Blau and I were prompted
during the Disc Golf game to check the phone - but did either one of us
listen? Nope! Maybe next time we'll be smart enough to pay attention,
listen and act! We exchanged back in the evening and went and saw
Catherine Miller.
That's pretty much the exciting stuff! Hope everything is going well!!! Keep me updated with pics! LOVE YA!
pics - disc golf and car fun!
Love,
Sista T.
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