Erin's Mission Blog for family: On Easter We Play Games

Hey everyone!

This week's been swell! It started off with zone conference on Tuesday! I always love zone conference. It's so spiritually uplifting, and it's so fun to see all of the missionaries in the zone.
President Griffin gave such a good training. It was about our weaknesses. He started off by asking us who gives us temptations, which would be Satan. Then he asked who gives us weaknesses. That one's God. Just like it says in Ether 12:27. You have to figure out how to make your weaknesses strong by being humble.

Then on Wednesday we went over to the wonderful Son Light Baptist church, and we helped them with their Easter egg hunt. It was fun. They had us hide all of the eggs for them, which was about 200 eggs for each age group, so... Yeah, about 600 eggs in all. But it was fun! We like them, they like us. It's awesome!

On Thursday we went over to an assisted living place, and we got to have an Easter lunch with them and sing a bunch of songs about Christ to them. It's always so good to see all of the old folks. When it was done, we helped the awesome lady who works there, Carol, clean up. Right as we were about to leave, this lady who lived there came into the room we were in and talked for a little bit and then asked if we wanted to see her cat, Sassy, so of course, we did. She told us all of these wonderful things. She said how she received prophecies, so she told us one that she got right then and there. She said that she got a prophecy that the three of us (us and Carol) all wanted to come closer to Christ. And hey, she was right! Go prophesying!

After that we went over to see Harley. When we got there, his two friends, Michael and Cameron, were there, too. We were planning on teaching Harley the third lesson, but we wanted to catch his friends up so they weren't confused. So, we went over the first two lessons as quickly as possible, which still took a good hour to get through because they were so interested and asked so many questions. And we finally were able to get to the third lesson for Harley. At the end of the lesson, my fabulous companion, Sister Murri, soft committed Michael and Cameron to baptism! So, we are going to try and see both of them soon, too!

Friday was really good, too! Our day turned out nothing like how we planned it but just how God needed it. We started by going around with dear Sister Beal to see some of the people she visit teaches. Then, after seeing Sister Rogers with her (which was also a visit led very much by the spirit), we realized we didn't have many miles left for the month, so we needed to find someone close by who we could see, so we went over to the Maret's. Oh, that poor family; their lives have been in such shambles ever since Patrick left on his mission! Haha! ;) We went over and put all of the pieces back together.... Or we tried. It was really good seeing them.

On Saturday we started our day by going over to the Beal's house for the ward Easter egg hunt/ breakfast. It was so fun! We made our day really fun, too, with dear Sister Turvaville. We went over to her house for dinner and to watch the General Women's Conference, which I hope all of you ladies got to watch! It was amazing and certainly made a difference in my life.

Sunday was the best, though. In case you missed the memo, it was Easter yesterday! We had such a good Sacrament meeting! We had a fast and testimony meeting, but it wasn't like every other fast and testimony meeting. The bishop specifically asked that when we go up to share our testimony, we have no travel logs. Just sweet simple testimonies of what we know. The spirit was so strong because it was all gospel truth!

After church we went over to Bishop Kemp's house with Sister Turvaville and the elders for lunch! It was so fun. Going over to the bishop's house after church is always one of my favorite things to do.
We got to play a fun game of Sequence.

After that we went over to see Beverly who has been in the hospital for the past few days, but no worries, she's doing well. We just knew that of all the days, Easter, she needed a visit, and she needed a little comical relief, so we played some games with her, too. Charades and Hang Man. It was pretty hilarious! It was definitely what we all needed. And I love the last phrase Sister Murri did for hang man. "It's just me!" which is Beverly's catch phrase. She says it every time we tell her how amazing she is.

After that we went over to the Maret's house for dinner. It was a party, like always. They had a lot of their family over, and we felt just like a part of their bunch! After dinner we played Wacky Six,
which is the funnest game ever. (Mom, I expect to play that game the night I get home from my mission, so go find it). Every place we went on Easter we just wanted to stay all day. I wish that of all the days in the year, Easter would be longer. I just hope that ya'll were able to remember and focus on the true meaning of Easter. I sure tried, too!

Sincerely,
Sister Shelton