Wendy's on date!!

Last Pday trip to Chelan for a Zone pday of Scatterball!

Hi everyone!

This week has been a little crazy!  Earlier this week we talked to a lady who started crying at the doorstep because she hates God for taking away her mother.  She let off her struggles to us and then later let out all of her stress on us with why she can't believe that someone would murder her mother and God wouldn't punish him... she slammed the door, but it's okay.  We prayed for her that night!  

Then we met Ricardo, who we talked to about scriptures and he started quoting off like 10 scriptures from the Bible by memorization!  I think I know what I'll be doing this week for studies... 

Tuesday we did some solid knocking and we have found at least 6 referrals we've given to the English sisters! They've given us two this week and we are contacting them tonight!

Wednesday, everything went downhill.  Hermana Alcocer and I became sick with some kind of stomach bug, and she continued to be sick all week.  We received permission from Sister Lewis, our mission president's wife to stay home and rest.  While she was continuing to be sick, I did some more phone OYM's to past investigators and potentials in our area book, which we had at least 12 pages of... we started on them about two weeks ago and only got through maybe 6 or 7 pages, but this day I finished all of the lists.  It was a miracle, and we received 3 return appointments with people and moved a lot of people to the future/potential list. 

Thursday was a mess, but we were able to continue making return appointments with our fall-throughs.  This week we've been having members drop off food to us, which has been easier for them and easier for us, since we've been a bit sick.  We were staying home for dinner and only I ate, while Hermana Alcocer was in bed.  She woke up and she said she had a dream that Wendy was waiting for us.  We followed the spirit and went and visited her.  She was home!  We taught her the Plan of Salvation, which made so much more sense to her this time.  We were so happy she understood more!  She has started to understand more and more of what we are teaching her.  And by the title, you can see we have her on date for August 1st!  But we also received news from her mother that she will be undergoing an extreme surgery on August 4th.  We are praying for her every day, and we have faith she will be better after her surgery. 

Enjoying the sun and the rain!

Friday we had interviews with President and Sister Lewis.  Holy Canoli, do I love them!  They are such a sweet couple and we have loved having them in our mission so far!  We had to cancel an appointment with a potential because of a HUGE accident on the highway outside of her house. 

Then on Saturday we had Zone Training Meeting, which was focused on Our Purpose!  We got some sweet trainings from our District Leaders and our Zone Leaders.  It was a blast!  Then after we left, we grabbed some lunch and headed to Wendy's.  Unfortunately she wasn't home, but we were able to talk with her Mom about coming to church.  She and her family are afraid of attending the English ward, but once we explained more about our Spanish group we are starting, she got really excited and offered her help to get people to come to church.  She kept expressing her love for Wendy, and for us to be helping her.  We are so extremely happy to help their family come back to church.  Wendy's two older less active sisters attended this week, and we also said farewell to our 3rd counselor in the bishopric of the Spanish ward, and he's been set to be the Spanish Ward's Bishop across the river at a different chapel!  There's a lot more exciting news for our area, which I will only be able to announce in about 2 weeks.  Our stake presidency has super exciting plans for our area we can't wait to tell everyone!

I hope you all are safe and well, Love you all!

Only UP from 104... WILL WILL WILL

President and Sister Ware

Hey everyone!  What a WEEK!

Como... Wow. It just flew by! And by the title... It's been 104 degrees... all week. This week should cool off though. So, from the beginning!

Last week as I mentioned it was my privilege to say goodbye to President Ware.  I couldn't have been a more happy missionary to serve beside him and to be able to connect with him so well.  It was a hard goodbye, but he made me promise I would visit him after my mission.. of course! 

But this past week was insane.  Nothing was happening, and what more could happen than a companionship not getting along... and I'm not gonna lie, it killed me to see that we work so well together, and we couldn't even get along.  We have been neck to neck for the past week, and we finally decided to turn in early with permission from our DL so we both returned to the house to take a break.  I can say that I have never prayed so hard to feel the spirit. I finished as soon as she finished and came out of the next room.  I've never felt the spirit so strongly with a companion.  We sat and talked about what we both could do better, and we decided to ask our DL for some blessings.  We drove to the most west church building to meet them, and we both received some absolutely amazing blessings.  I can truly say that I've never felt more united as a companionship after receiving direct counsel from the Lord.  She and are back in business!

We've also had the privilege to meet President and Sister Lewis.  They both served missions in Switzerland and in Africa.  We heard some amazing mission stories from them both.  They promised that if we promise ourselves and continue to work hard, we will start to see the buds of the fruits of our labors.

Then later during the week, I received a SWEET 4th of July package from my Sister-in-law, Aimee.  Thank you Aimee!  We partied it up on the 4th after returning home at 6 pm as directed on holidays.   We had sweet plans to hang out, do whatever, and then we both clunked out before 10:30... yeah, it was insane. 

Orchards for... Days.. and days. and days...

We had a lesson with Wendy this week!  We brought a member who has a little brother with the exact same problems as her with medical and down syndrome affects.  She got so excited and begged for Kelly to come back with us, and we promised we would!  We had plans to put her on date this week, but we didn't quite get to it.  She kept becoming fascinated with how we all had the same pamphlet in our hands, and every single same page. it was the cutest thing ever!  She also tends to get distracted during our lessons, but she WILL progress. She WILL get baptized. 

We attended Church yesterday receiving no confirmation of any one attending.  No less actives, no Wendy.  Well, Wendy's family are all mostly less active, and they ALL SHOWED UP!  But not Wendy, she was sick.  But Jessica, her older sister asked Sister Alcocer if she could translate her testimony for her.  She gladly went up and translated her testimony with a full heart and some tears. 

We've also found 5 new investigators this week!  Two solid couples who are golden, and one older woman named Marisella.  We have return appointments this week and are so excited to get started with our new pool!

We are extremely excited and ready for a new week.  We've also moved in with some different members this week during the Shurtz's daughter's wedding and we will be staying at the Lacy's for two months.  You may still send mail to my Lyle address, but please see my new mission address in Yakima, listed below this post.

Love you all!  The Atonement is real, Christ in the reason for the season! 

Quail egg

Elders and Sisters,

Please inform all your friends and family of our mission address so it doesn’t have to be forwarded from Kennewick.

The label should read as follows:

Your Name

Washington Yakima Mission

1006 S. 16^th Ave.

Yakima, WA 98902-4260

Keep up the good work!!!

Elder Steve Call

Referral Manager

Summer's Coming...

Howdy Ya'll!

This week has been amazing!  I received Hermana Alcocer on Wednesday night, and we returned to our house to help her unpack.  We had plans to go to a meeting in Kennewick the next day, but we received some late news that it was canceled for the second transfer I've been asked to attend.  Merp, not too fun, but it's been a blast teaching a ton of lessons with Hermana Alcocer.  She is from Redlands, California and she's native Spanish. She and I fit like puzzle pieces, we have already grown some strong testimonies of why we are both put together this transfer. 

We had an awesome lesson with Miguel this past week on Friday, and he seems to be struggling with believing the whole Restoration.  We have plans to bring a member to teach him this week and get him on date to be baptized.  We are extremely excited!  We have Wendy on date for July 3rd, and she is amazing!  She's 15 years old and she has down-syndrome.  She and her family, (she has a less active mother and 2 sisters) moved here a few years ago from El Salvador. (Salvadorian spanish is FAST)  We've received special permission from our mission president to teach her and help her become baptized.  She and her family are excited to see her grow more in the church.  She has taken a little longer to understand the gospel, but she has great faith to become baptized.  We've taught two lessons and we have a member present lesson with her on Wednesday.  Not every person with a syndrome has to become baptized unless they have a desire to.  She is very excited each time we come over, she's sure been a light to us for the past few weeks!  We are looking for more members to come out with us.  That's been a struggle lately, but we sure are excited to find more people.

Another great blessing that has come since transfers is that we have four new investigators, two in Orondo about 45 minutes away. and two here in East Wenatchee.  Angelita and Elizabeth in Orondo are very curious and we left them English and Spanish Book of Mormons the first time we visited them a few weeks ago, and we had a sweet lesson with them on Saturday night.  We've set up return appointments to visit Carmina and Juan who are both also interested.  Juan's interested in the Plan of Salvation, and Carmina is interested in prophets.  We are extremely excited and have set some sweet new goals for this week!  We even found old progress records while cleaning and we've planned to visit some of them.

 

That's all for now, Gotta go shopping!  Love you all and hope you have a great week!

OH!  Other great news, I have a new Sister-In-Law! :)

Congrats to my brother Brady and Lindsay on getting married this past weekend!

Members gave us a watermelon this past week!