Email April 28, 2014

Hey Peeps! So this week was pretty fantastic as always haha. I said this last week but watch the "Because of Him" video! If you haven't seen it watch it, if you have already seen it watch it again! Sister Mickelsen and I have made tons of excuses to watch it over and over again haha it's pretty much the best thing in the world. Anyway on Wednesday we were looking on the map to see which streets we should go to and we both felt Waldorf St. so we went there and every person we talked to was interested so we have some pretty good potentials now. We met this kid named Prel who is Albanian who was walking home from school and he was very interested with the idea of missionaries. We asked if we could teach him more and he said "Yes, meet me here on the sidewalk, tomorrow after school at 3:06" (haha you have to imagine it with an Albanian accent, we were laughing pretty hard). We went there and brought him the Book Of Mormon in Albanian and he was so surprised that we had it in his language. We get to see him again sometime this week. I've also learned that missionaries are the best stalkers ever! There have been several awkward moments with Sister Mickelsen and I where we sometimes get to their house a little early and so they aren't there so we are looking at our planners to see where to go next and they come home right at that time so it looks like we're waiting for them haha. We also follow people that we like or that the spirit tells us to talk to, so really we're such creepers but we're following Heavenly Father so I guess it's ok right? haha. We also went to the "I'm a Mormon" devotional on Thursday. The mom of a family that Sister Mickelsen taught was telling her conversion story so we went to listen to her. She's Spanish and was really nervous before because she didn't think her English was good enough but she did so good! The spirit was so strong while she was talking and it was really amazing, you could tell she was speaking from the heart. We also were able to see Freddie (the guy that was hiding from us last week) on Saturday. We had a really good lesson on the Restoration with him and he definitely felt the spirit. We told him to try and say 1 kneeling prayer a day and he said "No way, that's way to little, I'm going to say 2 kneeling prayers a day." haha we were like 'alright, that works too, that's great.' This week has been really good, we trying to eat the Easter candy that we have but there is so much! We're trying to eat it fast so we don't have to look at it anymore haha it's becoming an addiction! We were roasting Starbursts on the stove yesterday haha it was pretty great. Anyway hope all of you guys are doing well and I'm getting pretty excited to call you guys soon, it seems like I just barely called you from the airport. Ahhhh time... I can't keep up with it. It feels like March and April didn't even exist, but I guess that's what happens to a missionary right? haha sorry I'm rambling, anyway have a great week and I'll talk to you guys later! Love you and the gospel's true! Sister Gordon