Monday-
We played Scatterball. I cannot express to you how much I love
Scatterball. It's basically free-for-all dodgeball and it is one of the
most incredibly fun games you will ever play. We had dinner that night
with the Anderson's. They're so funny. Brother Anderson speaks spanish
and I could understand a lot of what he said, so that was really cool.
:)
Tuesday-
We had STM (specialized training meeting) for our zone, and that was
awesome. It was all about the atonement and it was really really good.
We all needed it. After STM we had interviews with President
Walkenhorst. I love President. He's so jovial and kind and he really
reminds me of a 7 foot tall male version of my mom sometimes. They even
have the same birthday. After that we had lunch, then went and
tracted/looked for less actives. That night we had dinner with the
Zukas' family and I love them. They gave us a second referral for a
woman named Maria. She's so solid and amazing. After dinner we stopped
by and saw the Jingozians, then went home. Goooooooood day.
Wednesday-
Morning schedule, then went and met with Sister Zimmerman to talk about
her step-daughter. We learned a lot about how we can help Julie to feel
love and understand what we're teaching her. After that we went to
check on a woman in our ward who is going through her 4th battle with
cancer, and she also has something called C-diff, where if you touch
her, you contract it too. It was so sad because you could tell she was
sad, but I couldn't hug her. :( After visiting her we went and saw Toby
Keith's house (yep.. we did that) and then we had dinner with the Kunz
family. Brother Kunz taught me how to make popusas! I think that's what
they're called. They're really yummy and it was really fun. The Bets
were there (I LOVE them. They were in our ward before the ward swap) and
it was awesome. After dinner we went and tried more people (our RS
president gave us a list of people to check on) and I made up a song on a
doorstep: "We're standing on your doorstep, please come to the door,
it's really cold out here aaaaaand we can't take it no more." And then
SisFree was my "backup singer." No one was home. Bummer.
Thursday-
Doctor's appointment, followed by studies, lunch, then the world's
loooooooongest weekly planning session, ever. Man. After that we worked
on the huge list the RS president gave us. We had dinner with the
Danielson's. They are hilarious. Their oldest son (who is incredibly
white) is nicknamed "Cherry Blossom" because some "black thugs" (his
words) nicknamed him that. So I don't actually know his real name, we
all just call him Cherry Blossom. After dinner we went and did some
tracting, and we were feeling a little discouraged because no one was
answering the door, and suddenly I was prompted to walk to the other
way.. so we did. We knocked on one door, and the girl said, 'Are you
mormons? Come right in!' So we walked in.. right into a gigantic game of
Dungeons and Dragons. Apparently some of the young single folk that
were playing were members of the OU ward and she knew that. So we talked
with them for a bit, left them with some spirituality, and left. It was
a really cool experience. I don't exactly know why I felt prompted for
us to go there, but that's what the mission is all about, right? It's
great. :)
Friday- Oh man. Friday.
I woke up with a nasty cold. We went to district meeting, then Sister
Barlow came for the weekend. (She's a sister from the office.) And we
went to check on people in the middle of flippin' nowhere. Apparently,
most of those people don't even live there anymore, but there is someone
named Dell Berry Darley who lives on Bain's Lane, and he's in our ward.
Andddddddd he still lives there. He sounds like a Dr. Suess character. I
love it. The second to last house we checked lived across the dirt road
from a donkey farm, so that was pretty neat. After that, we went to
check on one last person who lived over an hour from our apartment (our
area is ginormous) and we ended up turning onto a "road" that was no
longer a road. A tornado had gone through and ruined it and it was
nooootttt in condition to be driven on. So we got out of our car and
hoofed it. After about an hour of hiking (legitimately hiking. Who knew
you could do that in Oklahoma?) We met some people who lived out there
who were piling firewood. Turned out we were going to need to hike
another three miles to get to the house we were looking for, but there
was a back entrance, so the kind lady drove us back to the part of the
road that was closest to our car, and then we noticed there was a man
snooping around our car. My companion got out her taser (yep, she has a
taser) and the lady watched us as we hiked down to our car. We got to
the car and apparently the guy thought that we were going to rob him so
he was afraid of us. We gave him a card, got in our car, and drove
around to the other entrance. As soon as we got to the other entrance, a
couple of dogs came from nowhere and kept running in front of our car.
You know how country dogs are supposed to move and they just run next to
the car? Not these ones. I don't think they understood the concept.
Sister Barlow was really afraid of hitting them so I got out of the car
and ran with the dogs next to the car for probably 20 minutes. I don't
know how far I ran but I was really tired (I have a cold, remember) by
the end of it. After a while we realized we didn't know where the
address was so we asked a family if they knew anything about the dogs or
the house we were looking for, and they told us, "those dogs belong to
the indians." Yep. That's Oklahoma for you. Long story not-so-short.. we
never found the house.
Saturday-
Correlation, looking for less actives, tracting. Dinner that night was
with the Mortensen's. They're awesome. We had quail pot pie. I kid you
not. I felt like I was back at home or something. There isn't a terribly
large amount to report on for Saturday.
Sunday-
We went on a church exchange with one of our investigators! We went to a
Presbyterian church and it was.. weird. Very chant-y. It was fun
though! I liked it. :) The people were really nice and the Reverend gave
us a shout-out, so that was pretty cool. After that our investigator
came to our ward and he loved it. It was an awesome Sunday. President and Sister Walkenhorst spoke and that was way neat. :) I love them.
After church we had dinner at the bishop's. They have a hilarious
little girl who kept running around biting the elders and she licked my
companion's knee. It was weird but funny and confusing. I love them. :)
After dinner we went and checked on a couple potential investigators (no
luck) and we went to check on one of our investigators and it was a
pretty rough situation we walked into.. so we bore testimony and left.
It was a good night though. Very powerful.
Alright, welp, that's how this week went. Friday
in particular was a crazy day. I'm learning more and more about my
divine nature as a child of God and I would invite all of you to do the
same. It will amaze you what Heavenly Father does for us.
Love you all!
Sister Sofia Larson
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City
Email dated January 13, 2014
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