HELLO!! Is anyone else freaking out that it's already 2016!? It's insane. I hope you all had an amazing celebration!! Sounds like there was a PARTY at the estate! The pictures looked awesome! I'm so glad you all were together! I'm excited for 2016, I think a lot of great things are going to happen!! YAHOO! I feel like this week was full of random experiences so I guess that's what I'll write about today!
ICKY POO: Hey mom, remember how you always say that? So I said it the other day! BAHAHA. Now I'll explain why! So we were at a dinner and the person gave us our food and then left the room for a second. And guess what Sister Arnold found on her plate... Like, in her food, A DEAD SPIDER!! Ya... It was gross and the funny thing is the next day Sister Arnold got served a plate of food with a dead ant in it! It's kinda a bummer because we see it and lose our appetite, but I guess at the same time that could be an answer to prayers.... Cool.
WHITE ELEPHANT GIFT: A couple weeks ago our district leader told us we were doing a white elephant exchange at the end of district meeting. We were so excited and kind of went all out! We had a big 2011 cat calendar and then we had some candy that was in a little toy toilet. We thought they were good and when we got to the meeting and realized everyone else forgot to bring stuff we were TICKED!! Such a bummer. But the next week our district leader and his companion brought in two gifts for us because they felt bad. We opened them and they were actually hilarious!!! I'll attach some pictures!
REJECTION HIGH FIVE: We were tracting on exchanges and this one guy opened the door and did not look happy. But we opened our mouths anyways. Well he put his hand up and I totally thought he was giving us a high five so I gave him one back and smiled but THEN he said he was putting his hand up to stop us! HAHA Woops. Rookie Mistake! Then he slammed the door and I laughed. Classic.
STRANGE DREAM: It wasn't mine, but it's so funny and random so I wanted to write about it. A returning member said that he had a dream that Sister Arnold called him crying because I had gone to the dark side. HAHAHA. Well we had extra Christmas pictures so I colored on it like I usually do for Valentines cards. I'll attach a picture of that too. Now my nickname is darth-dayton....
PEOPLE GET CONFUSED WITH OUR NAMES: We called the library to reserve a room for a lesson and when the lady asked for the name I said, "Dayton" but then she asked for my last name so I said, "Dayton" again.. "So you're name is Dayton Dayton?" HA. I told her Sister Dayton was my name but she didn't accept that either! Whatever.
SORRY! A lot of not uplifting stories! Now I'll tell some spiritual stories! :)
ZOE: During a planning session on exchanges we were talking about an recent convert and we weren't sure what commitment she was needing, so we prayed about it and felt like we should commit her to read a General Conference talk by President Monson. The next day we taught "Follow a Prophet" and the lesson went really well. At the end we gave her the talk and invited her to read it and pray specifically to ask if President Monson is a prophet of God. Well a few hours later she texted us and said that the talk, "Dare to Stand Alone" was life changing for her. While she read it and prayed she felt the spirit so strong and has a lot stronger testimony of President Monson. SO COOL!
SWEET, SINCERE PRAYER: A few days ago we met with a cute active family! They had a little boy who is close to turning 8 so we wanted to focus the lesson toward him and taught the Restoration super simply. At the end we talked about prayer and about how we could ask our Heavenly Father any kind of questions! Well he was totally listening because he said the closing prayer and asked Heavenly Father if his Grandpa or his Uncle should baptize him. Ah, it was so sweet!
BOLD AND LOVING: Sometimes I think I might be a little more bold than I should but I do it out of love so that makes it a little better. We asked a returning member if they will come to church and he was like, "well I don't want to say yes and then not show up." And I was like, "OK. So say yes and show up. Right?" Well he came so that was awesome. Someone made a comment about what a shock it was to see him and he said, "well the missionaries are a little convincing. They don't let me say no or maybe." Woops. I don't mean to take away people agency I just want them to come to church!! So they can be happy!!
WHO KNEW 1 COMPANIONSHIP COULD TEACH R.S. & Y.W. AT THE SAME TIME:
We are always asking members of the ward council what we can do to help! And when they ask us to do something WE WILL DO IT! Even if it's not convenient or whatever. Well the Y.W. president asked us to teach on Sunday! We happily said yes! On Friday afternoon the R.S. President asked if we could teach part of the lesson on Sunday. We didn't want to say no so we did a little brainstorming and came up with SPLITS!! It actually worked out super well! My companion for the hour was the R.S. President and Sister Arnold taught in Y.W. and had a companion in there too! It worked out well! But Sundaymorning was interesting because I was on exchanges in London Friday night toSaturday night so I had no idea what I was teaching until after ward council! Good thing we can have help from on high!!
NOT THAT I'M TRUNKY BUT I was so excited when I saw on LDS.org that the Provo City Temple dedication will be in March!! I'll be able to go to the open house!! AHHHHHH. It's so pretty! I can't wait to go inside! :)
I love you all so much and hope you are all keeping your goals so far! :) Stay strong!
Sister Dayton
My drawing of the dream. Don't worry. I don't really look like that. HAHA.
Sometimes we go out to eat with members and we forget to put make up on...
The white elephant gift the Elders found in their apartment. No idea where it came from but it was super ironic because the day we opened that our district leader said we had 56 days left on our missions. Ha. Weird!
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