Let me begin with Last Monday. We decided to travel to
the far away land of Caldwell, Idaho for P-day activities because we
were planning on exchanges with some sisters in the Caldwell zone. So
why not mix it up? Ohhhhh I will tell you why. So what started out as a
few lovely games of volleyball soon shifted into some really
disorganized half court basket ball. Which seemed all good and fine
albeit a bit chaotic. After a game or two I noticed one of the sisters
had decided to sit out and was sitting on the stage writing letters. I
jumped out of the game to make sure she was not hurt and before I could
even ask another sister had come out of the game, screamed in this
sister's face stormed off mad and the stage sitter ran off in tears.
Whoa. At which point the Caldwell zone leader prompts me "I am pretty
sure that is your job, not mine". Crap. So I start to go after the sweet
little abused sister but another sister had already gone to console
her, so in a split second decision I beckoned the yeller to come with me
into the hall way to talk about what had happened. Very calmly I
explained that there are better ways to resolve differences and that
shouting at people out of the blue is not conducive to missionary work.
She calmly agrees and then out of nowhere begins to verbally attack me.
Luckily her companion showed up and was able to jump in front of her
right as she was about to deck me. Lovely. By some miracle I stayed calm
throughout this entire experience. I was able to talk her down and
finally have a conversation and do some problem solving. Man, I was
scared pantsless though! She eventually apologized to me and to the
sister she was being unkind to on the basketball court and I am pretty
sure President is helping them resolve differences. When I was
called as the sister training leader, I had no idea what I was in for I
guess, but President Cannon assured me that is exactly why I am in this
calling. I have a testimony that the Lord qualifies those whom he calls.
Sometimes even if we don't realize it until after a situation. Anyways,
that was Monday.
The rest of the week was pretty smooth sailing. We taught a lot and had
a baptism on Saturday for a man who was taught in the Boise mission. It
was a little weird, but nice to see someone receiving the ordinance of
baptism. We also taught Virginia the plan of salvation, which she loved.
Her friend/fellowshipper, Sister Olsen gave her a David Ridges "Book of
Mormon Made Easier" which she is devouring. She is really progressing
and we are hoping to extend a baptism date for her in our next lesson.
We also found a new investigator in the 1st ward. She took the lessons
about 20 years ago from some "cute" elders so naturally she remembers
nothing. She is genuinely interested in learning though, which is
exciting!
So, to end our week after the baptism on Saturday night we
stopped by one of our ward missionary's home to coordinate for the
upcoming ward christmas party (I don't really know why we are the party
planning committee, but we just are.) After about an hour of him showing us a bunch of old home movies form their wedding and
stuff we decided to leave. Well, that didn't happen because as soon as
we got in the car we noticed that our purses had been stolen. Lovely.
So, we called the Cops and President Cannon and all that jazz. The cops
found our purses dumped out on the lawn two doors down. The only thing
gone was sister Ketring's camera. Some punk-A kid did a really poor job
so they are pretty sure they will be able to recover the camera or at
least catch him and collect restitution for it. Pretty lame. Guess I
didn't have to go to a third-world country for the true missionary
mugging experience. Wahoo.
Anyways, that was less exciting that it
seemed. Things really are good around here. Today is transfers. We are
splitting the Weiser area and are both training new sisters. Wahoo. So
yeah. Have a great week. The Gospel is true!
Love,
Sister Baker
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