August 19

Here are a few talks recommended by Sister Harris
Testimony of the Book of Mormon
His Grace is Sufficient (There's a video that goes along with this one, but I couldn't find it so if you can find it watch it, it's really good.)

Well this week went by really fast and I don't remember what I did. I realized I've been telling you a lot of not important things so I'll try and keep it short with important information. Last week for P-day we played softball with with our zone. Our zone is only made up of two districts. It was district against district. But the sisters from the other district decided not to show up.  It was really fun though. Our district made t-shirts and the Elders on the other team went to the thrift store and showed up looking like the kids on sandlot. it was so cute haha well this week we got in contact with another former investigator who wants to start meeting with us again once school starts. which is after labor day. so now we have two investigators like that. I'm super excited. also, the visitors center is opening up tomorrow and my mission call will be starting for real. This week we also met with Jackson and found out he is our investigator now. We've been sitting in on lessons because his member friend who is in our ward wanted us to. His member friend gets way too intense in the lessons and goes way too deep and makes the lessons way too long. It's awful. We start teaching him this week and we talked to his friend and told him if he wants us to start teaching we're keeping it simple and no longer than 45 minutes and if we have to we can take multiple visits for one lesson. so hopefully this next lesson goes a lot smoother. And this week we went on exchanges. I went on exchanges with Hermana Quijada and she is serving in the English ward of Beaverton. She warned me before we got there that Beaverton is like another country. She was right. It was so scary. It made me grateful for my comfortable place in Lake Oswego.  She made us tract all day. I hate tracting and it's the least effective way to find people but apparently not in Beaverton. We found about 5 potentials. First we went street contacting at the Farmers Market. We found one person there. and first off. When we go tracting in Lake Oswego no one answers their door. Probably because they have cameras on their porch and decide not to answer. So this was basically my first time actually talking to people. It was really scary, but I got used to starting the conversations and then Sister Q took over. So one day i will be comfortable finishing it haha and then we tracted out an apartment complex. an entire one! we found five people really interested and want us to come back. but i can't go back. only she can. we also went to go visit a non member in really sketchy trailor park. we walked in and this old lady we a little beard told us we looked really pretty and gave us a hug and held us there forever and gave us a blessing. i was trying my hardest not to laugh. we gave her the move testaments. she wouldn't take anything else. she had her own religion. That night we ate dinner at a members house. they had 6 kids and that ward also feeds the spanish missionaries and they are in a trio and one of the missionaries was Elder Hadlock. It was so nice to catch up with him. and Dinner was crazy. I loved it. the members in lake oswego are old and ive only ate with one family with kids and they were older kids. well last about all that's exciting that's happening here in good ole Oregon. love you all!