January 14th 2009

So I was almost done writing the bulk e-mail and I erased it!!! BLAH so I'll try to hurry and re-write it.
We got a call Thursday night and were asked to speak on Sunday. We were pretty worried about it because we had NO time to prepare for it. But we of course accepted it. I wrote my talk that morning and I was suprised at how well it turned out. I was asked to speak on testimony, how I gained mine, and why I am on a mission. So I spent 15 minutes talking about that. The spirit was very strong! Good thing the Lord can guide our words.
Monday we had a great lesson with the family that Sister Abbott and I tracted into. Monica and Jairo. They had some great questions. They had a lot of concerns about the Book of Mormon (of course) because they had a bad experience with some Elders that had taught them in the past. But we resolved their concerns and they are so excited to learn more! They are so amazing and I have high hopes for them!
Funny story... Later on Monday night we went home for dinner before our next appointment with a less active family, The Boyers. Sister H was boiling her some eggs. We left to our appointment and began teaching them. About 20 minutes into the lesson Sister H looks over at me with a look like someone just died and she said "THE EGGS!" I was like "What...?" She said "I left the eggs cooking on the stove, on high!" So these eggs had been cooking all through dinner time and the 25 minute we had been gone. My thoughts were that it'll be ok because there wasn't anything around them to catch them on fire. So we stayed another 15 minute and rushed home. As we walked up to our apartment the fire alarm was going crazy! We opened the door and a hug gush of wind blew out and we could barely see in our apartment. It smelt SO INCREDIBLY BAD! We still can't get our place to smell nice. So that's the story of Sister H almost burning our apartment down.
We had a district meeting yesterday which was great! I was in charge of the game :) We played a little game I like to call "Crush My Concern." Where I ask a question that an investigator might ask and you have to answer with a scripture. It was a lot of fun. There was great training given to us by the district and zone leaders about why it's important to talk to EVERYONE! It was some good modivation.
Well my time is about up. I hope all is well! I love you all and miss you like crazy! Keep up your missionary work and help build God's kingdom!
Until next week
-Sister Orawiec