Boring Week.

Yokwe Baamle:

 

This week was pretty insane. And by insane, I mean, the LONGEST and most boring week ever.

Why you might ask? Well...

 

Monday, Sister Shumway called me and told me that I needed to get crutches and use them.  So we called some people in the Branch and found some.  So that is the beginning of our week.  Crutches as a missionary are probably the worst thing in the world.  So that was that.

 

Tuesday we had a pretty busy day.  We visited a lot of people and got some work done, but no good stories happened.  Except that it was pouring rain and I was the slowest person ever...So poor Sister Booms had to walk slow and carry my bag in the rain.  She is a gem.  I don't know what I would do without her.

 

Wednesday-Saturday I sat in the apartment and watched every single DVD that has ever been produced for missionaries to teach lessons with.  

 

Poor Sister Booms woke up feeling terrible. So we went to the doctor which was an experience in itself and they told her she had strep throat and she would be contagious 24 after she got her medicine.  So we go home and wait to pick up her medicine, but then we got tornado warnings and couldn't leave our house.  So we waited and waited for the tornado warnings to end.  Finally at like 8 o clock that night we finally got her medicine.  That means another whole day at home.  Then when we could go out and work, Sister Shumway called and asked about Sister Boom's temperature. Poor thing. It fluctuated between 94 and 103.  So we couldn't leave until it was normal, which took another 2 days. It was absolutely brutually boring. 

 

Saturday night we did go and teach the James' family though.  They are the most wonderful people ever. (Along with everyone else I have met on my mission).  We talked to them about the Doctrine of Christ (Faith, Repentance, Baptism, The Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End).  At the end of the lesson the son said, 'I want to get baptized."  then the rest of the family kind of joined in.  We set their baptism for May 2.  I can't believe how well these people have accepted the gospel and progressed toward baptism so easily.  They are a miracle that I am so grateful to be blessed with.  I love them dearly.

 

Although we were trapped at home all week, and we have both been a medical mess. I learned/realized something really cool.  There is a song that me and Sister Booms listen to all the time.  There is a line in it that says, "We have been foreordained to take part in His great work."  I think that is the coolest thing ever.  We were chosen before this earth life to come and preach the gospel in the OTM.  Every event we have ever gone through was so we could be here at this exact second to be a missionary.  Everything happened to get us where we are today.  It was such a cool realization I had.  We were talking about it and Sister Booms says, "yeah. And God has to get everyone in the exact place to where they need to be to bless others lives...plus you have the exciting factor of personal agency."  OH BOY.  We talked forever about how incredible the plan of God is.  How he knows us and knows what we need to be and do in order to fill our purpose here on earth.  God is real. And I am so glad that I have used my agency to get me here today.

 

That's all for this week(:

 

Love you all.

 

Love,

Sister Ritter

 

The only picture I took this week is this one.  We were so bored. We found a ham in our freezer. We made it. Probably at least 10 years old...but hey. It took a lot of our time to figure out how to cook it!(: