Look at that! Blessings of the Lord. I have not hit a deer and become that "set of missionaries" yet. Better yet, we have not had to drag a hit deer home and eat it so that's a win. Although we did eat some venison Grandma Rekow pulled out of the freezer from who knows when and it tasted not too shabby. It was funny, we were walking upstairs to our room and Sister Payne whispered, we have to start eating more, we'll have left overs until we finish it. Ha, she's right but we got through the rabbit and are now on a ground beef with shredded carrot and maple syrup mixture. It actually tastes pretty darn good. Just the texture is a little unique. Man I miss cilantro....
BUT, tender blessing of the Lord, we get fed most every night and 3 of the dinners incorporated cilantro. God does love me. In the small and simple ways.
Ha but in all seriousness it's been a good week. It felt long and short all at the same time. We are spending a lot of time in the car driving and meeting people and haven't had a ton of time to find new investigators so our focus will be finding through members which is the ideal way anyways, it's just harder because as the members say, you can only refer the same neighbor so many times. Such is the problem when you have a town of 500. But our other ward Shawano has some really cool investigators that I am excited to keep teaching.
Oh the other adventure of this area is I think everybody is mostly remarried to someone new so it's hard to keep track of how everyone is related. I told Sam this but we asked a member if sister so-and-so was his mother...nope....totally his ex wife. They had a good laugh about it... Ha we also love working with both Bishops. There was a youth activity that had both wards combined and playing dodgeball and there was Bishop, in his work dress slacks and suspenders whipping a ball around at his loved youth. We were debating on jumping in the game with our skirts on bit nixed the idea when we realized I was in gumboots. Those kids can throw! They all love fastpitch here so it's been fun to connect with the youth that way. And the Shawano bishops wife is a Speech Therapist!
We spend a lot of time in a little place called Bowler that has a lot of sweet women who are less active either due to health or whatever so we have been teaching there on Saturdays. One of my favourite lessons this week was role playing the Restoration to a women named Pat who has some serious health problems and can't come to church but she loves the missionaries and the gospel. She pretended to be an investigator and critiqued us as we taught. It was a lot of fun, the spirit was strong and it taught both Sister Payne and I a lot about really listening and responding by the spirit.
That's been the goal this week, to really listen to the spirit. We get to hear an apostle speak this coming March as a mission and in preparation we have been doing little mini challenges this week. The next one is memorizing a paragraph from our blessings and looking for ways to apply it in being a better missionary.
Shoot we have to head to the Laundromat and finish laundry but know that I love you and pray for the deer....
Sister Cook, staying warm I promise!
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