Such a Wonderful Week in Pittsboro!

This is Sister Hunt and I with Sister Moon after we were done raking :)

Last Monday we spent some time shopping and looking at shoes. That night we were SO blessed to having Family Home Evening with the Moon family and our investigator Sarah! We had dinner together too. The Moon's have 3 children, Mariah who is 16, Kendra who is 14, and Brandon who is 13. They are just amazing! The children kept us very entertained during dinner with sharing lots of fun stories from school and from Girl's Camp and Trek and things. It was fun for Sarah to understand a little more about the youth activities and programs in the Church. After that we watched the 20 minute long Restoration video about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. We had a really good conversation afterwards. It was so great! Sarah is so amazing and so are the Moons!

 

The next day, Tuesday, we deep clean day for all missionaries. We spend as much time during the day that we need to REALLY clean our apartments and we even ended up rearranging all the furniture. It was good :) That afternoon we had an appointment set up with Sarah to help do some service. We helped carry her Christmas decorations back upstairs. After that we had a really good discussion about the organization of the church. Everything from Branch Presidents and Bishops, to Stake Presidents, on up to the First Presidency and the Prophet. She asks such great questions! Unfortunately she was out of town this weekend so she didn't get a chance to come to church with us, but hopefully she will come next week.
 

Wednesday we spent most of the day with the Browns, a less active couple. They do not come to church because of heath reasons, but they are the nicest people with the strongest testimonies of the gospel. We had Sister Feaster, a member of the branch, with us because she is Sister Brown's Visiting Teacher and they have known each other for years. It was so great to be able to get to know them better and spend some time with them. Usually we only see them every couple of months, but so far we've been seeing them every couple of weeks! We are going to go over this Saturday again for a visit and hopefully to help with some yard work or something. Sister Brown is a famous chef, especially for her sushi and has her own book and everything. She is half Japanese and half Korean. Needless to say she cooked for us and sent us home with a lot of food! None of it sushi haha. She made a 22 pound turkey, stuffing, fried rice, and kiosas, which are kinda like pot-stickers or dumplings. We have been eating lots of that this week and finally have finished off all the food she gave us.

 

Thursday was pretty decent weather, so we decided to do some tracting on our way to and from the library. We met this really nice man named Benny who was walking down the same street we were. He was smoking when we started talking to him and he told us he was on his way to the store to buy a beer. We set up an appointment to talk to him a little more a couple hours later. We ended up walking around town and talking to him, but he is very not interested and just kept talking about how people shouldn't rewrite the bible. No matter how many times we explained that that is NOT what the Book of Mormon is, he didn't really listen. But we made a new friend.

 

Friday was a day of miracles as well! We had Zone Conference from 9-3 and then we were able to get a hold of an investigator named Janice who we haven't been able to meet with in months! We were able to go to her home and help her move some stuff around in the garage and clean it out. Pretty much everything that can happen to her has. She has been having a lot of health problems and she was just fired on top of all that. She is so great! Hopefully we will be able to see her again this week. She didn't come to church this week because she was really sick on Sunday morning.
 

Saturday we had a very busy day too. We had an appointment in the morning with Sister Butler and Sister Hargett, a new branch missionary, came with us. After that Sister Hargett took us to lunch and we got to know her a little better. From there we ran to go see Dawn and help her around the house. We were going to have dinner with a family that night in the branch, but he got the flu so she ended up buying us food for dinner and dropping it off at our apartment. People must think that sister missionaries eat as much as elders do.... because we got SO much food this week! We are being well taken care of.

Sunday the Moons invited us over for lunch after church and we got to spend some more time with them. They are one of the very few members that actually live in Pittsboro and not 10-20 minutes away.
 

Yesterday, Monday, the weather was up to around 70. It was SO nice! We went for a bike ride and then we went over to the Moon's again to rake up some leaves and do some yard work. We raked, and raked, and raked for about 2 hours, and they were working for 2 hours before we got there, and there are STILL leaves on the ground!!! We filled 32 big bags with all the leaves we raked and we stopped when we ran out of bags. It was fun though and the time went really fast. After raking we went to the Parrish's for dinner and had Family Home Evening with them.



Some of the bags we filled with leaves and the Moon family at their finest with Sister Hunt :)

I love it here in Pittsboro and especially working with Sister Hunt. She is so amazing and I love her to death!

 

Hope y'all have a great week! I love you so much and I am so grateful to have each and every one of you in my life. <3

Love,
Sister Shurtz