The Week with Four Missionaries

On this Week's Episode of Sister Cale in Columbus-Sister Cale and
Sister Brown completed their time with their prospective missionaries
Sister Oviatt and Sister Edwards, Sister Cale snaked the drains in the
apartment (GROSS), the Sisters got to help clean out a garage (and
Sister Cale got an etch a sketch (which are from Ohio, who knew?)),
they finally found Golden Bears, and they got to go running with
Sister Morgan.

Hello Loves!

So I have a sticky note with notes about all the amazing things that
happened this past week and all the funny things...and it's totally in
my apartment. So that's pretty cool. You'd think that I'd learn to pay
better attention to what I'm doing and not forget to bring my planner
with me out to work. I guess it's a good thing that our planners are
going to be on the iPads starting next Monday.

Awesome things that happened this last week in no particular order
because time has become something that my life doesn't always appear
to be bound by and like I said, I forgot my sequential order sticky
note.

On Thursday we gave our prospective missionaries the assignment to
plan and prepare to take the lead in teaching Judy about the Life and
Ministry of Jesus Christ. Initially they were both pretty scared and
you could tell that they might even be more vocally resistant if it
wouldn't seem grumpy to do so. It was amazing to see the lesson that
they came up with and the spirit with which they taught. I was so
proud of them. And it was very tender to see Judy interacting with
them in a such a positive way (Judy is always awesome though, and
that's why we knew we could have the girls teach her).

We had a mini-Zone Conference on Wednesday where we got to gather
together and practice teaching using the Digital Pamphlets and
contacting using Mormon Messages. I know I say this all the time, but
there is such a special spirit and power when we get to gather
together as missionaries and work on increasing our abilities to do
the Lord's work more effectively.

Yesterday Dan had his baptismal interview and we got to experience one
of the sweet moments of agency as opposed to the frustration we
frequently experience as missionaries regarding the choices of others.
We waited out in the hall like nervous parents while he was in his
interview and were relieved when he came out and said that he had
failed (he's such a tease. I feel like he and Dad would get along
brilliantly). His baptism is going to be this Saturday and I'm excited
to get it all pulled together so I don't have to be stressed out about
it anymore. Another funny Dan story from this week happened on Tuesday
when we went to teach him about missionary work. We were ready to
start the lesson and I was going to ask a question about what he
thought he could do to be a missionary with his family and friends and
just couldn't seem to formulate the words. Eventually he said, "Dear,
I think you need to go to the temple to clear your mind." Fact. I do
need to go to the temple, so I think I'll do that Thursday this week.

One of my favorite things that happened this week was that we got to
go running with Sister Morgan on Friday morning. We had dinner and FHE
with their family on Monday night and she mentioned that she used to
go running with Sister Mathis and Sister Schauers a few times a week
while they were here if we were ever interested. I had initially
planned not to worry about it until after the prospective missionaries
were gone, but Sister Oviatt really wanted to go running with Sister
Morgan. I'm so grateful that that we important to her because I think
it was really good for me to have that pressure to make things happen.
I know it was good for me to have someone call out stop and go for the
intervals. I was so sore after, but I also felt the way one can only
feel after finishing a run. We're excited to get to go with her again
Wednesday morning.

Other highlights of the week include another stop at Ollie's Ice Cream
(we had to take the prospective missionaries), getting Monica's
wedding announcement-seriously super cute picture, and seeing
fireflies for the first time in my life. Sister Edwards will be going
to BYU in the fall and she said that she wouldn't trade fireflies for
even mountains...while I like fireflies, I think I would trade them
for mountains, though the ideal would obviously be fireflies and
mountains. We matched with the minis on Thursday and all wore
blue-pictures to follow.

Well friends, like Dan said, I need to clear my mind at the temple and
I don't much remember any other the major things that happened this
week. Sorry. I know that's kind of lame. It was a good week and we're
glad to be back to just arranging things for two missionaries to work.

The Church is True, Life is Good, God's in Charge, and Satan Hates you.

Love,

Jessica