Yaa teeh!
This week has been fantastic!!!!! So after I emailed you on Monday we went of a hike into a canyon that had some old indian ruins in it. We did that for about 3 to 4 hours. After we all got back to our vehicles one of the sisters realized she had lost her keys. So we said a quick prayer and headed back out to find them. After about an hour, plus many more prayers, they were found. Talk about a faith building experience! After that we had an appointment with an actual investigator, Jamie. (I say actual investigator because most of the people we meet with are less active or inactive members.) She is one AMAZING individual. She is progressing so well and wants to get married with her boy friend who she is living with. We are so excited for her!
On Tuesday we meet with a woman who is inactive, Fila, she is a great person but she has some hard feelings toward the church to say the least. While we were in talking with her though, her husbands dog knocked over our bikes and ripped up our nice bike seats and put several bite marks into our helmets. It actually took me a couple of minutes to find my helmet. Haha! Oh what interesting stuff. :D That night we went out and visited more of the 1st ward with the ward mission leader, Bro. Redd, and a ward missionary, Bro. Nakai. We meet with Jermaine has this crazy cool mo hawk, he to is a fighter like Bro Ford and occasionally comes and works out with us in the morning. We also meet with a 9 year old girl, Laikyn, who is by far on of the most intelligent young people I've ever meet.
Wednesday we went and tracked for the first time... oh joy. Haha! It's not so bad once you get used to it but it takes some getting used to. :D We also meet and read the Book of Mormon with a couple, Benny and Shiloh, who are progressing very well. They've started coming back to church! :D :D :D They are doing great and have great questions when they don't understand stuff that they read on their own. Shiloh actually thanked me for something I said the last time we had meet before this which I didn't even realize that I had said, talk about being a tool in the Lord's hand to touch someone else, WOW!
On Thursday, we had District Meeting where we learned about how to react when people don't follow through with their commitments. After District Meeting we went out to our Branch in White Mesa, the Ute reservation, and contacted some people there. We then went down to Montezuma Creek so Elder Edwards could conduct a baptism interview. I was happy though because we'd gotten mail that day. Picture this when we get mail, especially for young women :) we LITERALLY go skipping up and down the street into the house yelling the entire time. :D After we got back from Montezuma Creek we went to a members house in the 1st ward, Bro. Glover, because he has agreed to teach us Navajo!!!!!!!!! We learned how to sing "I'm a child of God" FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!! Yaa Teeh is a greeting in Navajo literally meaning "It's Good".
Friday we did a work out with Bro Ford called "Murph" It went like this; a mile run followed by 300 squats (a squat consisted of your backside touching a 25 lbs medicine ball) 200 push ups 100 pull ups and another 1 mile run. My legs are still sore today 3/25. It was crazy awesome! We had a weekly planning meeting and got to visit with the less active family of Jason and Heidi. We read the Book of Mormon with them. Jason is a straight up cow boy. It's so cool! He has the old old cowboy hat and the pants inside the cowboy boots and he is an AMAZING stale maker!!!! OH... MY ... GOODNESS.... He is good! We also got to meet with Jamie again and go over the Plan of Salvation, she is really progressing well.
Saturday we just went around to all of our Less actives and investigators and see if we could help them in any way. We got a referral for a lady who could use some help with some yard work. We went and talked with her and found out her son is a Navy Corpsman who works with Marines. We talked about him for quite a while, he's about ready to retire from it, he's coming up on his 20 year mark. We learned that he's been on 5 deployments one of which was to Falouja. (I don't know how to spell but it was a MAJOR battle in the Iraqi Freedom campaign) We also got to go and learn more Navajo with Bro. Glover! I love learning Navajo even though it is a REALLY hard language to learn.
Sunday Elder Edwards and I had to give talks about missionary work in 1st ward. They went well. We got to meet with Benny and Shiloh again, they are really coming a long way. I'm so glad I get to be apart of it. They are really amazing people with REALLY amazing stories!
So that's been my week! I love it here and am excited to continue to serve!!!!
Question for you guys to think about and write to me about, what is the REAL reason we come to earth? :D The answer is something really interesting that most people don't think about. :D
Until next week,
Elder Chipman
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