Urban Poly Princess

First I met with my visiting teachers following work. Marci shared Pres. Monson's priesthood talk about how people can change. The gospel and the atonement are rooted in the idea that we can all improve, change AND become better. We can and should always be progressing. That is the purpose of life.

Bro. Salmond talked more about how we can become as Zion. We talked about how Satan laughed while the Savior wept. It reminds me of my dad. I remember him teaching this section of the Pearl of Great Price when I was a Young Adult after my mission. We focused a lot on why the Savior would weep. We didn't even discuss Satan laughing. He also laughs in 3 Nephi 9:6.

It reminds me of the Thomas family from my mission. The part member family was awesome. I was serving in Cameron Park and was so frustrated because my companion had to go home because she had a tail-bone that hadn't healed correctly. It hurt her to stand, sit, AND lay down. She couldn't hold ANY position without severe pain. When she went home I worked by getting RS sisters to go on splits with me. I went to meet with the father for his 4th? discussion. At the door he told me I was always welcome in their home BUT that he didn't want to take the discussions anymore.

I snapped and started crying. I'm sure it freaked him out. It freaked me out. He told me the gospel was probably true but that he wasn't going to pay tithing because he couldn't afford it and he didn't believe in it enough to even try living the law. He was a policeman with I think 5 daughters with the oldest around 12. I was so sad that he made that choice. I was extra-sensitive because I spent almost a month without a companion. I called the office everyday and the senior sister missionary who worked there with her husband actually told me she didn't know when I'd get my companion. I didn't get her until the  next transfer when my greenie Sister Treadwell told me I needed to let her do more and that she was sick of hearing how great I was from all the members. I think I got used to being alone and without a companion. We were transferred to Fair Oaks together for another 4 months. I was in Cameron Park for  about 6.

Wow!!! Major mission memories right there. I loooved my mission. Another thing that annoyed me with Mindie last night is she said how she was used to cleaning places like that nightmare house we cleaned because of her mission. I told her I served my mission too in Sacramento AND I didn't have to clean anything like that and she was all shocked. I told them how this one member home I was in I asked to use the bathroom and it was so bad I couldn't use it. I ended up using the one at the Burger King we saw when we drove away. I told her I served a mission the FIRST time I met her when David drove us to the Bountiful temple. Chicka puhleeze!!!