Ready for another week-of-adventures report?? :) I love the mission! I witness so many miracles every single day.
This week I had the longest streak away from our apartment. We spent five days in Connecticut.Five days with four roommates (English and Spanish Sisters) in a teeny little apartment. At least we love each other! :D So Thursday we took off for Trumbull, Connecticut. That's the farthest drive we have in the mission. If you remember, not too long ago we went there to train the youth on how to give tours!
We got there and set up the whole shebang. The Trumbull Chapel looked fantastic with all eight of our displays around the building. That night was a big scout night. For some reason I was expecting the PVC to be a pretty backdrop for their event, but it was incredibly successful! Scouts and their parents accepted our invitation to tour the building and watch the videos! We gave a lot of tours. It's incredible to give tours and to testify of the truths in the videos. I was so happy!
We kept the displays up for the scheduled Open House the next day. The Trumbull Elders and Sisters had talked it up so much and invited everyone under the sun! Again, I was worried, because we've seen really slow open houses when there isn't much foot traffic in the area, but these missionaries had worked so hard, and their efforts paid off. Investigators, less-actives, non-members and members alike came through for the entire four hour block. We were so busy! Allof the missionaries were giving tours! It was incredible. I wish I could take each of you through on a tour so that you'd understand what it's like!
We took all of the displays down that night and re-packed the Spaceship. After another night in that teeny apartment, and then we got up extra early for a detour! See, we had promised Ashford we'd get over to their chapel for a baptism. So we drove another 3 hour round trip to bring 2 displays to the event. It was a beautiful baptism. We don't go to many 8-year-old baptisms, but it was fun. The girl was so sweet. The mother had specific Mormon Messages she wanted us to play while her daughter was getting dressed, so we quickly downloaded them, and of COURSE had some more opposition and technical difficulties during our air time. Sheesh. But it worked out.
We drove back to the New Haven stake, but to their stake center to set up for Stake Conference! We had underestimated how long it would take, so we frantically ran around, trying to get everything set up in time. I tell you, I'm getting really good at speed set-up. :) We finally figured everything out, and even sang in the choir for Saturday night stake conference!
Sunday stake conference! Everything seemed to go wrong! None of our electronics were working. I don't know how we made it through the day. It was truly a series of tender mercies. We were so tired, but somehow all of our tours were successful, and everything seemed to work last second. We even talked to a bunch of Bishops and Stake Presidents who want to book us directly now!
Stayed through another Restoration Fireside. I'll never get tired of that. :) But I was getting sick and so exhausted, so by the end of the night I was dreading taking everything down and loading it. Thankfully, tons of wonderful missionaries rushed to our aid, and we were packed and back at the sisters' apartment in no time!
We drove home today. Which took out a bunch of time for our P-day, which is why I'm emailing you so late. We got to extend our P-day time. But I have to book it now!!! Wish I could have given you more details!
I love you all!
Love,
Sister Merkley
MBM PVC Missionary
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