> On Sep 5, 2019, at 3:59 PM, Sheri Tait <sheri@7taits.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone! Thanks for all the birthday wishes! This week has been really great!
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> On Wednesday night we had a few Elders sleep over and Thursday morning Elder Bonny and I got to wake up at 4:30 to take the first Elder to the airport. After we got him sent off we went back home and rested until the next Elder needed to leave, we took him to the airport and sent him off. It was sad to see them go, I felt like a missionary mom sending my sons off haha! We continued sending and receiving missionaries throughout the day so we were back and forth between Little Ceasars and the bus station. Eventually we got everyone sent off safely and were able to have a lesson with a lady we recently started teaching. She has many questions so the lesson had a wide variety of principles, but we tried to keep it simple and it worked out well. Later we got to have dinner with our Bishop and got to correlate with him and then had a lesson with a new couple later that night!
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> Friday was a whole lot of planning for us and getting everything figured out for this transfer. That night we tried to stop by this couple we are teaching. We had been out of contact for a few days and unable to reach them. The buzzer for their apartment doesn't work and we haven't been able to reach them over the phone, so we had no way to contact them. We had been praying to get in contact with them all day. We showed up to their apartment and we talked to this guy outside who was very uninterested, but as he was walking away he offered to let us in the building. That was a big surprise, because people here never let us into apartment buildings. We were able to go in and knock on the apartment of the people we are teaching. They let us in and we were able to sit down and talk with them for awhile and get back in contact!
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> We did a big service on Saturday to fix the deck of a sister in the ward. It was a lot of fun, except for when we got attacked by hornets - haha good times! Later, we had a lesson with Barbara one of the ladies we are teaching. She told us her experience about how she was having a horrible day and was about to slip back into her old habits after years of being clean, and she decided to pick up the Book of Mormon and started to read. She said after that she was able to feel good for the first time that day and she received the strength to resist temptation. So cool! Later that night we also had a lesson with Remi and Angelina, a family we are teaching. Next time we go we have someone skyping in that speaks Swahili so it will be a lot easier for them to understand!
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> Sunday was good! We had church, did some finding, had a lesson and sorted through 30 boxes of pass along cards that just got delivered to us for the zone. That took awhile, but it's good to have it done!
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> Yesterday we had our calls with all the district leaders and then our call with President Low. We were also able to go help clean the yard of a family that just cut down a giant tree. We were there for a couple hours and only made a small dent, but we plan to go back later this week to finish off the tree. Later we had a lesson with a guy we are teaching named Joel, he has a really good understanding of the Bible and believes the same things as we do just from reading the Bible. He is excited to read the Book of Mormon to answer some other questions he has. We finished the night by stopping at Dairy Queen for some blizzards!
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> Another great week! This transfer is a couple weeks longer than normal so we should be able to get a long of good work done! Have a great week and don't forget to pray!
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> Love,
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> Elder Tait
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