Week 28  Carbon Monoxide Problem

This week went by faster than the last, literally I feel like yesterday I was emailing. So the week started out with seeing M. We wanted to be on a lesson with her with sister K. All of it was in Parsi so we both had no idea what was being said. That night we gave her a baptismal date and she was so adorable. She was like "really? I can do that?" M is so awesome. She kept repeating the date after that over and over again smiling. Tuesday and Wednesday was when all the missionaries watched general conference. My brain was dead after watching so many talks back to back. General conference was so uplifting and really inspiring. Wednesday our C.O (Carbon monoxide) alarm went off.  Yeah...so our water heater was letting small amount of it out. It was a fun morning especially because it went off when I was in the shower. I had to get out and get changed as fast as I could to leave the apartment. The alarm stopped going off the moment the water heater wasn't being used...so we just stopped using it for a few days. We also started the summer schedule, so everything is 30 minutes forward. We wake up at 7 and need to be in bed by 11. I feel like I am sleeping in everyday, although I'm actually waking up on time. Thursday we went finding in Vake (ვაკე). We tried to speak as much as we could in Georgian that day and I felt my Georgian sky rocket. I talked to this one lady on the bus and I was able to answer back a lot of the times and understand a lot more of what she was saying than I have in the pass. After that we saw M and Y, and I switch back to English and even a little bit of Japanese. Man that was rough. I kept wanting to saying Georgian phrases, but they don't know Georgian, so I just had to keep trying to think in English. Friday we had to clean the church since we couldn't on Saturday. Saturday was the day we talked to our landlord about how to figure out when she would replace our water heater. The president of the Avlabari Branch is actually an engineer so the landlord talked to him over the phone. We found out the water heater we had (the one that was having CO problem) was actually illegal in Georgia...fun stuff my friends. Saturday was general conference for all the members in Georgia. Saturday's general conference was offered in English, Russian, and Parsi. M came! She loved it. That day Sister Arutynova was in Russian broadcast, I in English, and M in Parsi. Talk about knowing people all around the world! That day we had a water heater changed, so that was important. Then we left to go have a meeting with M and her family along with the Delisis Elders. Her husband was leaving to go back to his country (they don't live together) and we wanted to say our goodbyes. This meeting was so fun and she fed us this amazing rice dish, so delicious! We took a "family" photo all together before leaving. M always says she has 5 children, " Y, Arutynova, Jensen, Anderson, and Layton (all missionaries last names) are my children, we are family. "Not separate" She is so cute!  Than Sunday happened and oh my gosh was it exhausting. This day was when general conference was offered in Georgian, and I watched the whole thing in Georgian. my brain has never been so fried in my entire life. I tried focusing but they were speaking so fast, even for the older missionaries it was hard. I wrote down a million words to look up later, but a lot of them don't exist. I passed out for lunch hour, cause I literally couldn't think anymore. That was the week, today we are going with all the sister to a small town called მცხეტა. Super excited!

Spiritual though: So one of the talks in general conference I really liked. He talked about the immediate goodness of God. That talk really resonated with me because I have seen that not only before mission, but on my mission, and I have seen that with my investigator. M wanted a Priestood blessing since she has been really stressed in the last couple days. She had a really important interview that could govern the rest of her life. We told her about priesthood blessing and she took the offer. On Saturday she talked about how light she felt after the blessing and how she wasn't as nervous for the interview anymore. Her importance of the interview didn't change and her situation didn't change, but she did. She felt better and I got to see first hand the immediate goodness of God. I know that the immediate goodness of God is real and I know that anyone can feel it just takes a prayer and a plea to our Father in Heaven. 

Til next time!

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